Review: A Tribe Called Quest Make Urgent Return on ‘We Got It From Here …’ Group’s long-awaited comeback LP features timely election-year truths, poignant homages to late MC Phife Dawg Republicans Stopped It After 30 SecondsL.A. The biggest complaint is the one thing they couldn’t control: The entire thing feels like it needs a whole lot more of Phife Dawg’s scrappy humor, personality and playful back-and-forth.
Jarobi—are on point all the time, picking up each other's couplets and passing microphones like hot potatoes.         For most hip-hop fans, what’s considered the genre’s “Golden Age†came to an end at some point in the late nineties or early part of the twenty-first century. For the first time in their career, the entire group appears to be at their peak, exuding a well-earned effortlessness. We Got It from Here could’ve been a self-referential nostalgia piece, a militant call to arms, or a Tribe and Friends-style fame flex, but it transcends such shallow concerns. !,” the vocals of Ms Jck (of undersung alt-R&B progenitors J*Davey) are treated like source material, woven into the musical bed. On the lascivious “Enough! All us niggas not goin’,” before Q-Tip nimbly takes over with “Reputation ain’t glowin’, reparations ain’t flowin’/If you find yourself stuck in a creek, you better start rowin’.” The song plays with a sci-fi framing—“There ain't no space program for niggas/Yo, you stuck here, nigga”—yet it’s not about an imaginary future, but right now. A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth (and final) album was a rumor for 18 years. Reviewer Johnathon1069 November 30th 2016. Reviewer Rating.
As it turns out, We got it… is a triumphant defying of such expectations. We got it from Here proves that he was right. There are layered, echoing, melodic sonic manipulations and restrained uses of Many of the songs here hearken back to off-kilter and underexposed gems of days past (see: Tribe’s “There’s no overriding story that easily presents itself—no vocal guide a la
Entire books can be written about how the sound, identity, location, phrasing, technical innards and even purpose of rap music has changed since Technically, Q-Tip is in a particular school of awesomely stubborn Nineties MCs who only let their flows grow more complex, internally knotty and speedy with age; as opposed to the Jay Z route of always trying to understand what makes modern rap tick. Login to Rate. Thank You 4 Your Service (2016) Epic. This $50 Webcam Streams HD Video, Has Stereo Mics and Corrects Your Lighting Automatically Dave Grohl Accepts 10-Year-Old Drummer’s Virtual Drum-Off ChallengeRon Jeremy Charged With 20 More Counts of Sexual AssaultWisconsin’s Governor Called a Special Session on Police Reform. It’s here, and against many odds, it reinvigorates the group’s discography without resting on nostalgia.Alluded to constantly via rumors and unfounded hopes, a forthcoming Tribe album seemed like wishful thinking for years.
Q-Tip has long been quietly regarded as one of hip-hop’s most thoughtful and inventive producers, and this album is full of accomplished flourishes.
Thank You 4 Your Service.' On “A decade and a half ago, while working on his (erroneously shelved, then belatedly released) sophomore album Q-Tip has long been quietly regarded as one of hip-hop’s most thoughtful and inventive producers, and this album is full of accomplished flourishes. We want to hear from you! This is a review for the final album from A Tribe Called Quest. Even if Ali Shaheed Muhammad is listed nowhere on the credits, the act’s three MC’s—the abstract Q-Tip, the ruffneck Phife, and the often M.I.A. Prosecutors Charge Two Men With Robbery, Hate Crime in Attack on Transgender Women “Imagine if this shit was really talkin’ about space, dude,” Q-Tip raps, unveiling the entire song as a metaphor for gentrification, perhaps even forecasting the showdown over The timeliness of this album can’t be understated, nor could it have been predicted.