We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
On their final album, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi rekindle a chemistry that endeared them to hip-hop fans worldwide. Filled with exploratory instrumental beds, creative samples, supple rhyming, and serious knock, it passes the headphone and car stereo test. “Kids…” is like a rap nerd’s fever dream, Andre 3000 and Q-Tip slaying bars. Phife—who passed away in March 2016—is the album’s scion, his roughneck style and biting humor shining through on “Black Spasmodic” and “Whateva Will Be.” “We the People” and “The Killing Season” (featuring Kanye West) show ATCQ’s ability to move minds as well as butts. *We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service* is not a wake or a comeback—it’s an extended visit with a long-missed friend, and a mic-dropping reminder of Tribe’s importance and influence.
A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth (and final) album was a rumor for 18 years. It’s here, and against many odds, it reinvigorates the group’s discography without resting on nostalgia.
A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth (and final) album was a rumor for 18 years. It’s here, and against many odds, it reinvigorates the group’s discography without resting on nostalgia.
It’s hard not to feel a flood of gratitude for the mere existence of this record. Over the course of five albums and eight years, A Tribe Called Quest accomplished effortlessly and consistently what few others could do once. It’s an impossible ideal: ill and smart; funny and dumb; each sample pulled from some…
It’s hard not to feel a flood of gratitude for the mere existence of this record. Over the course of five albums and eight years, A Tribe Called Quest accomplished effortlessly and consistently what few others could do once. It’s an impossible ideal: ill and smart; funny and dumb; each sample pulled from some…
Both a reunion and a tribute, the pioneering hip hop group go out in style on their final album, "We Got It From Here..."
Both a reunion and a tribute, the pioneering hip hop group go out in style on their final album, "We Got It From Here..."
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Read our review of A Tribe Called Quest's vital comeback LP 'We Got It From Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service.'
Read our review of A Tribe Called Quest's vital comeback LP 'We Got It From Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service.'
Three decades after forming, A Tribe Called Quest use collaboration to create another timeless record, backed by lyrical content that belongs in today’s troubled times.
Three decades after forming, A Tribe Called Quest use collaboration to create another timeless record, backed by lyrical content that belongs in today’s troubled times.
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There is no hip-hop lover on earth who can truthfully say they haven't been touched by A Tribe Called Quest. They have been the quiet mainst...
There is no hip-hop lover on earth who can truthfully say they haven't been touched by A Tribe Called Quest. They have been the quiet mainst...
18 years since the release of ‘The Love Movement’, legendary rhythm prophets A Tribe Called Quest have released their sixth and final album.
18 years since the release of ‘The Love Movement’, legendary rhythm prophets A Tribe Called Quest have released their sixth and final album.
Recorded before Phife Dawg’s death, the rappers’ first album since 1998 stays loyal to the values they have long espoused
Recorded before Phife Dawg’s death, the rappers’ first album since 1998 stays loyal to the values they have long espoused