A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service [Full Album Preview]
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New 2016 - Remastered - 432 Hz - Lossless - Flac - 1.411 kBit/s - CDQ - HD - High Quality - Hip-Hop - The first album in 18 years from exploratory, jazz-traveling rap heroes A Tribe Called Quest effortlessly chronicles the chaotic crescendo of the 2016 election: a warning of "mass un-blackening," dark-humored crooning about intolerance ("Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways") and perceptive words about the media's culpability in everything ("Why y'all cool with the fuckery/Trump and the SNL hilarity/Troublesome times, kid, no times for comedy"). The whole album ends with late rapper Phife Dawg taking the nickname "the Donald" back from our oncoming bigot-in-chief. Recorded well before the election, it serves as the hands-down best musical release valve the confused and angry segment of America has gotten since Election Day. As Q-Tip says in "Melatonin": "The world is crazy and I cannot sleep." In addition, the band itself was rocked to their foundation earlier this year when Phife, the group's "high-strung voice," passed away at age 45. The shadow of his death is the other overarching theme of We Got It From Here, the remaining members paying honor on multiple songs, most poignantly when de facto leader Q-Tip spins a nearly verse-long tribute, delivering a rap as Phife himself on "Black Spasmodic." Buy the album: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/we-got-it-from-here...-thank/id1173106678?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 It's important to check the vibe throughout. Entire books can be written about how the sound, identity, location, phrasing, technical innards and even purpose of rap music has changed since A Tribe Called Quest's last album, The Love Movement, in 1998. But Tribe, in both delivery and content, maintain the attitude of the Bohemian everydude funkonauts that inspired Kanye West, Andre 3000 and Kendrick Lamar (who all appear here). Lyrically, they're still popping the bubbles of hip-hop fantasy ("Kids …") and examining their egos instead of inflating them ("Ego"). 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. To anyone who grew up loving Big Daddy Kane or Kool G. Rap, Q-Tip is in that small field of fortysomething rappers (Andre 3000, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Lauryn Hill) who decided the only way to move forward was go ludicrously speedy, not infectious with the slow-mo. His rhymes are absolute stuntman level at times: On opening track "The Space Program" he spills, "We about our business, we not quitters, not bullshitters, we deliver/We go-getters, don’t be bitter 'cause we not just niggas." The usually more elusive MC Jarobi brings his hard-rhyming A-game too, and longtime associates like Busta Rhymes and Consequence play berserk supporting roles. A record rooted in anxiety and mourning, We Got It From Here remains musically as dark and electrically relaxed as 1996's Beats, Rhymes and Life and 1998's The Love Movement. With help from visionary producer J Dilla, those critically mixed, commercially sturdy records were moody, muted, experimental, deeply funky and remarkably prescient, but ultimately unable to wrangle the proper amount of attention in the shiny-suit era. We Got It From Here checks in with similarly off-kilter but undeniably grooving beats. Tribe utilize the Dilla innovation of letting samples clash at odd angles; they let a copy of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" skip endlessly until the real John pops in for a guest spot, and the drum beat to "Lost Somebody," one of the album's Phife tributes, doubles up and separates from itself like a Steve Reich phasing experiment before abruptly slamming into total silence. In a contemporary move, Tribe abandon the Nineties hip-hop format and allow for modern musical and melodic sprawl, like a guitar solo from Jack White, a psychedelic keyboard detour or a spiraling verse from Anderson Paak. One of the most timeless rap groups ever has returned with a record that doesn't sound like 1996, but doesn't sound like 2016 either. Become a Patron for recommendations and song downloads: https://patreon.com/hiphopuniverse Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiphopuniverseyoutube/ 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHyUeMEXRfZ0IkJonLYyqqA Tracklist: 1. The Space Program 2. We The People…. 3. Whateva Will Be 4. Solid Wall of Sound 5. Dis Generation 6. Kids… 7. Melatonin 8. Enough!! 9. Mobius 10. Black Spasmodic 11. The Killing Season 12. Lost Somebody 13. Movin Backwards 14. Conrad Tokyo 15. Ego 16. The Donald
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This album is like a fucking drug. Cant stop listening to it.
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I'm not a hip hop fan, but this is glorious
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I need this album where can I get it
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A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. REST IN POWER, LOVE AND HARMONY "MALIK 'PHIFE DAWG' TAYLOR"!!!
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This is an album that you can play every track and bump too. love track 3 on cd 1.
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Can't believe Phife was only living 5-10 mins from me the last few years when he passed away. Phife > Qtip
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Kids...and Ego.........
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Excellent!!
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Straight fya, from beginning to end #classic
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Ahh this is hot!
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THI ALBUM IS. AN 11!!!!!
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#DisGeneration !!!
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Instant classic <3 <3 ! RIP PHIFEEE !!
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i know what to ask for christmas present !!! on vinyl please :)...
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album is super dope!i grew up with this group my favorite hip hop group of alltimes! thank god! for this album reall hiphop!
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I haven't been this excited about an album since 2000
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I'm happy real Hiphop still exist! I heard Talib kweli is on this album...is Kendrick..What's the features?
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Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dope LP!! I luv real hip hop..
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They have to go down as if not the best one of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME
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