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A TRIBE CALLED QUEST. WE GOT IT FROM HERE. REVIEW
[/vc_column_text][mpc_image image=”4497″ image_size=”300×300″ image_opacity=”100″ image_inner_border_gap=”0″ effect=”none” image_hover_opacity=”100″][vc_empty_space][mpc_textblock content_width=”100″ font_preset=”mpc_preset_101″ font_color=”#727272″ font_size=”21″ font_line_height=”1.3″ font_transform=”none” font_align=”left”]Can they still kick it? Oh yes they can! Tribe are, in my opinion, one of the top five best hip-hop groups of all time alongside four other groups. Eighteen years since their last album but the time hasn’t slowed them down like an old faithful dog. “Space Program” is the first joint on the platter and gets you open like 6-pack. Dope, dope, dope. The organ lick has hints of “Phoney Rappers” from their ‘96 album.
It carries on strong with the second cut “We The People” with crunchy-drums a la “Bugging Out” and/or “Award Tour”. Q-tip’s verse and flow is ridiculous and Phife hits home with some lyrical lead-pipe cruelty, “So motherfuck your numbers and your statisticians/fuck you know about true competition”. This is the sound of….how shall I put it? Real hip-hop? Well even that materialistic or gangster shit is real to somebody. This right here is the hip-hop We The People were raised on. A well-devised splatter of sounds, shapes and colours that bursts through the speakers and tickle – not assault – your audio receptors. The smorgasbord contains samples and original music to thumb-raising effect, sounding contemporary, futuristic with ingredients that can be traced back to the essence.
This is already shaping up to be a classic. The pianos on “Solid Wall Of Sound” could have easily been pilfered from the crates of Mr. Rock (that’s Pete not Dwayne!). Always good to hear Mr. Rhymes up in the cut. I could mention more cuts but there’s really no point. Tribe have come back correct. Although released at the end of last year maybe they should have waited to the second quarter of 2017 before dropping it. Sounds like the perfect album to soundtrack the approaching summer. In the immortal words of M.O.P “If it’s hot and it’s proper, cop that,”
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