Here's some more of my favourites from my collectionLove all of the Slave album covers too the disco era artwork was always interesting!"Got a freaky, freaky, freaky, freaky flow control the mic like Fidel Castro"more vinyl love and more MotownGrace Jones albums are also always amazing think I have nearly everything she did on wax one of my favourite artists and visually spellbinding to this dayA Tribe Called Quest with arguably the greatest rap album of all time-and an iconic cover!An always interesting artist with a crazy assed cover!One of the best DJ's ever to visit Jam was Jazzy Jeff, a good guy too this was some record from back in the day"It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from goin under"Public Enemy delivered one of great albums of all time back in 88,...
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The supremes,
Jeru the damaja,
a tribe called quest,
public enemy,
ramsey lewis,
vinyl love,
roy ayers,
slave,
grace jones,
jazzy jeff and the fresh prince,
grandmaster flash
"Extremity in rhythm, yeah that's what you heard.So just clean outyour ears and just check the...
Another classic (and of course one of the best ever hip-hop samples bang in the middle by Tribe and co)some...
"Then cool out to the music cuz it makes ya feel serene"Best ever use of "Expansions" and they had lyrics to go!"this jazz contains a new format".......This is one of the best ever defenses of hip-hop for me, "think rap is a fad you must be mad..rap brings back old r&b and if ...we did not people would have forgot..we stand up for the music we live and play"100% DOPEA Touch of...
"My man Ron Carter is on the bass, yeah my man Ron Carter yes he on the bass!"It's 20 years since i wrote down on a bit of paper for my old lade who was heading to London, a brand new album was out"A T...ribe Called Quest-Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of rhythm"She got it too!The rest is historyThis, from the second album, was on heavy rotation in my late teens! My love of jazz grew during this eraMy man Ron Carter was on the fucking bass as the greatest hip-hop crew of them all took it deeper than ever-also check for Vinja Mojica on backing...
One of my all time favourites and sampled by many. Find it on my collections mix free download here Loads of great versions includingAl Jarreau versionA Tribe called Quest with Dilla on the boardsand of course Pepe...
the whole track is dope really but..."My rhymes styles be blendin like a Ron G tapeMy man where ya goin? You can't escapeWhen the Tribe is in the house, that means nobody is safeHow can a reverend preach, when a rev can't defineThe music of our youth from 1979We rap about what we see, meaning realityFrom people bustin caps and like Mandela bein freeNot every MC be with the negativityWe have a slew of rappers pushin positivityHip hop will never die yo, it's all about the rapSo Marion Barry smokin crack, let's preach about thatThe trash you talk won't matter, that old bogus chatterThe more that you condemn us, it only makes us phatterWhen I talk, I know I'm talkin for hip-hoppers all aroundYou know you love the sound, we gets...
Happy Birthday us!and the originalHypnotic give...
One of my favourite singers and and a gem from an under-rated album that A Tribe Called Quest rinsed out more than once ("Inside My Love" formed the crucial sample on "Lyrics to Go"). An amazing voice (one of the greatest vocal ranges) and indeed an amazing career, sadly cut short by breast cancer, at the age of only 31. Minnie became a spokesperson for Breast Cancer and helped educate many on the illness before her death. Stevie Wonder, for whom she sang backing vocals with on "Ordinary Pain", was one of the last people to visit her and she was listening to a recording he made her her as she died. The story of the iconic album cover is impressive too (find it on youtube), but the really impressive legacy of Minnie Riperton is her amazing...
sampled by A Tribe Called Quest this is one of the great under-rated summer tracks...
Rap lyric of the day! Dedicated to J Dilla (RIP) and A Tribe Called Quest"We livin this cuz it's deep in our bonesA Tribe Called Quest with this hip hop jonesSo sit and analyze the lyrical sprayCuz all it really is is word...
More Tribe action from a great album too-even Diplo has got in on the act with Brew Barrymore but of course it is "Electric Relaxation" which is the one here (been hammering non stop since 1993!) The original is amazing I'm sure all the heads will know it.Tribe (posted before)DiploLoads of other great versions...
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electric relaxation,
Ronnie Foster,
brew barrymore,
Mystic Brew,
Diplo,
jam,
jazz,
soul,
hip-hop,
stevie g,
a tribe called quest
Forgot to do one earlier--the backbone of "Award Tour" but more importantly a killer in it's own rightand of...
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pavilion,
free la funk,
we gettin' down,
award tour,
Weldon Irvine,
ahmad jamal,
jazz,
Cork,
soul,
hip-hop,
stevie g,
a tribe called quest