September 24, 1991, Was a Huge Day in Music SINCE Two Highly Celebrated Albums Were Introduced to the World: Nirvana’s Disgustand a tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory. SEE, Every Legendary Musician or Group has an album that marks their greatness, an album where all the moving parts connectly after trial, erro, and experimentation.
For tribe, that album is The Low End Theory. Swimmes that their debut lp, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm isn’t brilliant, Because it is, as it CAPTATES The Group’s Youthful Passion For Music Making, As Well As Their SEMING Desire to Separate Sonically from Their Contemporaries.
The Low End Theory COULD ALSO BE CALLED One of the Most Sonically Cohsive LPS in Rap HistorySince Song Melts Into The Other and at the End, Listeners Are Left Standing in a Gorgeous River of Sound, Complete with Obscure Jazz Samples, Huge Sounding Drums, and Though-Provoking rhymes.
For these reasons, ranking all of it it songs is difficult, but we were still able to play off, so let’s get into it.
14th
Everything is fair
Things Move a mile a minute in the Big City and in New York City a Mile A Second, Which Q-Tip Raps About on This Dazzling Track. He details the action of a Woman who successFully keeps pace with the City After she gets seduced by fame and celebrity.
Plus, No Matter How Hard City Life Can Be, The Woman, WHO Q-TIP SEEMS TO LOVE, KEEPS UP Appeanance by guiling in a mercedes-benz.
But just like a lot of tribe’s songs, if one chooses to solely hon in the musicic as opposed to the story, they’ll be swept up by type Genius sampleing. On this one, he use Functionelic’s Let’s take to the People, Which is backed by His signature Knock-You-Over-the-Head Drums.
In 1991, in Between People USSING PAY PHONES AND CELL PHONES, PAGERS WERE ALL The RAVE, SO TRIBE MAKING A SONBOUT SAY COULDN’T BE MORE TIMELY. “Do you know the importance of a skypager?” ASSS Q-TIP right before the Muddy Bassline Kicks in.
Both tip and phife exploin to the listener why it was essential to the Own a skypager in 1991, suggesting one coulud Miss Money and Dating Opportunities if the Device Wasn’t Purchased. That’s the Thing About Tribe. They’re offen consider ahead of their time, not just music, but in recagating Budding trends and “skypager” is a perfect example of that.
12
What?
One of Q-Tip’s Strong Qualities as a Songwriter Is His ability to infuse humor in songs without Making Sound Sound or Overly COMEDIClike on the track “What?”
He’s crafts an amusige-sunding beat to the cut, while nansing a bunch of the Questions. The Concept SEEMED TO SPARK The Idea for Common and Yasiin Bey’s 2000 Collaboral Cut, “The Questions.”
Type of Superman Fans and Those Who Love the 1950s Sitcom The honeymooners with his lines. “What’s Clark Kent with A Telephone Booth? / What is a Liquor if it ain’t 80 Profe?
Around the time that The Low End Theory was released, the Music industry still didn’t fully cutting that hip-hop was a vable art form, and there wasn’t a tremendous amout of the Respect for Rap Acts.
It wasn’t just record Labels, eather. Oftentime, Show Promotiters Woldn’t Take Rappers Serious, Which Led to All Kinds of Problems Wohen to Fork Over Payment.
A TRIBE CALLED QUSTER MUST’VE HAD Their Fair Share of Mistreatment, Becusee “Rap Promoter” Serves as a Warning to show organizers that’d’d better have the Money Together, if Not, the Group Wauldn’t Come to the Venue.
If anyding, The song brought the problem of shady show promoters to the forefrontWhich Postsibly Made It Harder for Thall to Take Advantage of Rappers.
10
Show Business
It seames that a tribe calmed queues always had a love-hatredship with the music business, as well as their label, jive records, so they felt it necessary to warn those looking to get signed.
Bringing Brand Nubian’s Lord Jamar and Sadat X, as well as rapper-producer Diamond d, along for the ride, the men aspiring artists to think and hard about to be in the music business. Q-Tip Warns About Money-Hungry Groupies, and Jamar Tells the Common Story of Artists Huge Songs But Still Broke.
Meanwhile, Phife’s Verse is About Artists Who Lack Propper rap skills but Still get prioritized by Record Labels Becouse of their Commercial Appeal, and Sadat Raps About Finicky Fans Who Love You One Day and Thick You Next.
THEN DIAMOND D CLOSES THINGS OUT BY EXPLAINING HOW EVERYTHING HAS TO COME TOGETTER PERFECTLY FOR AN ARTIST TO SUCCEED. SO, if you’d Rather Not Read Books Like Don Passman’s All you need them Known About the Music Business To Learn the Rap Industry, Just List to “Show Business” Insa.
9
Vibes and stuff
“Vibes and Stuff” is a suitable name for this head-nodder, as it is fare from a concept song, Because type and phiffe don’t strick to a single Subject. Instead, Their vertes are Similar to what’s known as a rap cypherWhere Each rapper is given a moment to shine and express what is on their mind.
The song has a vibey, caarefree fael to it, and it is like and phife are freestyling in Certain Parts, like the type to be think of what to say Next. “Think of Gotta, I think of Gotta, I Think I Gotta Scream,” he Says before Continuing.
There’s something about that bell sounds that plays throughout the track as well. IT’S almost hypnotizing and makes your surroundings vanish, allowing you to immerse your sailf in the warm, Invitation Sounds that Much More.
8
Infamous Date RAPE
First off, IT’S important to state, while The song “Infamous Date Rape” has aged well over the years, its title hasn’tand if Made Today, The Group Might Name the Album’s Eighth Track Something Else. Still, the cut is more than pleasing to the ear due to it Thick and cozy basin, which nestles you like your favorite sweaters dural time.
The Balance BetWeen Tip and Phiffe’s Words, The Hard-Hitting Drums, and Pleasant Sounding Baseline, Can’t Only Be Chalked Up to Q-Tip’s Production, But Also Engineer Extraordinaire, Bob Power, Who’s JUST AS Important to A TRIBE CALLED QEST AS ITS MEMBERS.
Power is a master at Sound Layingnor he extracts the best Qualities of samples and live instrumentation, so he should also be praised for this musical achievement.
7
Verses from the abstract
It COULD BE SAID THAT A TRIBE CALLED QUEST TAUGHT A LOT OF GROUPS WITH TWO RAPPERS HOW TO EQUALLY SHINE ON AN ALBUMnor they were Among the first to have each mc have one solo song on an lp.
That brings us to one of Q-Tip’s Cuts, “Verses from the Abstract,” Featuring Legendary Jazz Bassist, Ron Carter and Singer Vinia Mojica, who offened with the native tongues, the rap collective that includes tribe, de la Sir.
Type use his vertes to talk smack, joke around, and brag a little bit, while dysplaying oodles of charisma. His Words and Flow Oza With Charm, Which Helps to Make the Sophisticated Musical Arrangement Accessible to the Everyday Music Fan.
6
Excuctions
It could be the brief history on rap music that q-tip gits over the art blakey-sampled bassline, or it is worth having with the drums seaming to fall from the Sky and Come Crashing at the 30-Second Mark.
Or Possybly, “Excursions” is one of the album’s best songs Because iT’s the first track, and we know we’re to spend with The Low End Theory for the Next 48 minutes or so.
For Those who Remember Hearing the song for the first time as they played the album, they probably felt as i did: that TRIBE BEGAN A NEW MUSICAL CHAPTER BY UPPING THEIR SOUND after People’s Instinctive, and we were in for a tasty Treat, one that to be noourish and entertain at the Same time.
“Back in the days when i was a teenager / before i had the status, and before i had a pager / you coulud the abstract listening to hip-hop / my pops use to say, it reminded Him of be-bop, ‘q-tip spits, and once hearing that.
5
Butter
What Makes The Low End Theory Tribe’s Best Album –Yes, Better Than Midnight Marauders—Partially has to do with phiffe being gioven the chance to full shine for the first time, Because he did Contribute to their debut But Only a Small Bit.
But that would change on Low End And “Butter,” His solo cut, showed many of us for first time he was a lyrical force.
Over A Midnight-Colored Baseline, A Cascading Keyboard, and Drums Thick and Prominent Enough To Anger Your Neighbor, Phife Tolls A About His Playboy Ways in High School Wen It Came to Women. That’s unil he met FLO, someone who put a stop to his player ways, and had HIM wondering if he was in love.
But by the end of the song, before phifeLY OFFICIALLY FALLS Over Heels, he gets back to his love-and-leave-‘m wayys, sting that has more game than the company parcers.
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