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Sep 29, 2020 · 2. Electric Relaxation (1993) “Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized / With your black hair and your fat-ass thighs / Street poetry is my everyday / But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way”. Not just one of ATCQ’s best tracks, this ode to females is one of the best tracks in Hip Hop, PERIOD. A masterpiece. 1.
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- "Electric Relaxation" Midnight Marauders (1993) "Electric Relaxation" is as close as the group got to creating a perfect song — a song that, 30 years later, continues to sound better with every listen.
- "Bonita Applebum" People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990) Flipping the Roy Ayers-produced "Daylight" — a chef's kiss-worthy groove that appeared on RAMP's only group project — Tip went solo for this enduring slice of bliss.
- "Award Tour" feat. Trugoy the Dove. Midnight Marauders (1993) Forever the hip-hop scientist, Tip long studied how sound can affect crowds. As he tells it, upon seeing a club crowd react to the bassline of Jade's hit single "Don't Walk Away," he knew he needed to sample it.
- "Check the Rhime" The Low End Theory (1991) This single was a coming-out party for Phife, setting the stage for how he came to be revered for the rest of his career.
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- “Check the Rhime” “Check the Rhime” is the most predictable top choice for a Best Tribe Called Quest Songs list, but it’s also a sensible one.
- “Electric Relaxation” The Tribe’s second big hit from from Midnight Marauders was a lesson in minimalism, building itself around a chirping riff that had become hip-hop’s most immediately recognizable.
- “Jazz (We’ve Got)” One of The Low End Theory’s core missions is showing the natural connection between hip-hop and jazz.
- “Scenario” A Tribe Called Quest albums each have their own ambition, but they’re all ultimately hip-hop projects at their core.
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- “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”
- “Bonita Applebum”
- “Can I Kick It
- “If The Papes Come” Feat. Afrika Baby Bam
- “Excursions”
- “Check The Rhime”
- “Jazz
- “Buggin’ Out”
- “Scenario” Feat. Leaders of The New School
While Q-Tip had been smoothly making the rounds on Jungle Brothers and De La Soul albums, this all-star posse cut marked the debut appearance of Phife Dawg, combining the talents of both A Tribe Called Quest MCs on one track for the first time. “We was in the studio and just wanted to invite some people on there,” De La Soul’s Dave told Brian Colem...
Though he dubbed himself “The Abstract,” Q-Tip had a natural storyteller’s gift for concrete lyrical detail from the jump. With a loping beat from the Chamber Brothers’ “Funky” setting just the right lazy and comic tone, he precisely describes every aspect of an ill-fated road trip: the four-foot-high sombrero that Pedro wears, the ’74 Dodge Dart, ...
“This is the song that truly birthed the idea of neo-soul,” Questlove told Rolling Stone US of People’s Instinctive’s second single. “It was the coolest love song hip-hop has ever offered us.” On the 1990 track, Q-Tip blends the sultry guitars of soul-jazz group RAMP’s “Daylight” with the vocals and sitar of Rotary Connection’s “Memory Band” for a ...
A Tribe Called Quest rode the smooth Herbie Flowers bass line on Lou Reed’s 1972 hit “Walk on the Wild Side” to their biggest U.K. hit ever. While the song boosted their profile, it didn’t help their bank accounts nearly as much. Said Phife at a London concert in 2011, “Lou Reed, instead of saying no altogether, he was like, ‘Yeah, nice! Give me th...
The quintessential A Tribe Called Quest B-side, “If the Papes Come” was the non-LP companion to “Can I Kick It.” Borrowing pieces of Slick Rick, Lou Donaldson and some spaced-out dialogue from Axis: Bold as Loveby Jimi Hendrix, this track would have a life far beyond flipside status: Listen and imagine where hits like Digable Planets’ “Rebirth of S...
The opening track of the jazz-flecked The Low End Theory was one of hip-hop’s great statements of purpose, with the crew connecting musical dots between different eras of radical music. Q-Tip took a 6/8 hard-bop lick from Jazz Messengers bassist Mickey Bass and flipped it until it bounced along in hip-hop’s funky 4/4. Tribe sample O.G. hip-hop pion...
On the first single from ATCQ’s seminal The Low End Theory, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg reminisce about their pre-fame days as teenagers spitting in ciphers on Linden Boulevard in the Jamaica neighbourhood of Queens. A slightly accelerated looped rhythm from Minnie Riperton’s “Baby, This Love I Have” sets a casual, laid-back mood, with Phife spitting vers...
The lovely cool-out vibes of “Jazz (We Got)” stem from a tantalising collaboration between ATCQ and Pete Rock that never came to fruition. One of the potential backing tracks was a Pete Rock arrangement of Jimmy McGriff’s “Green Dolphin Street.” “Pete had come up with that beat, but the song we were going to do never materialised,” Q-Tip told Brian...
Those familiar with the video for “Jazz (We Got)” — see above — will recall that the song abruptly ends at the 3:30 mark. Phife Dawg then says, “Yo, check this out,” and the black-and-white A-side shifts into the primary coloured B-side, “Buggin’ Out.” “Microphone check, one-two, what is this?” rhymes the five-foot assassin with the ruffneck busine...
This was the song that kickstarted a brief yet glorious era of rah-rah fast rap: Tribe and Leaders of the New School chanting “so what’s so what’s so what’s the scenario” at the top of their lungs, and then blasting us with one killer verse after another. Phife Dawg was the leadoff batter who sparked the session, and his line “bust a nut inside you...
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A Tribe Called Quest's best songs within the last 20 years excluding appearances.20. Stressed Out ft. Faith Evans & Consequence19. Excursions18. Lyrics To Go...
