A Tribe Called Quest’s “We Got It From Here…..” CD Preview/Review Link

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……In comparison to their pedestrian (and likely obligatory) 1998 release, ironically entitled The Love Movement, We Got It crackles with energy and inspiration. Phife’s pitch mellowed with age, but his familiar cadence won’t be denied, matching Q-Tip rhyme for rhyme on the urgent opener, “The Space Program” and rolling into Jamaican patois on the blistering rebel yell, “We The People.” The beats and samples are woven together with aplomb, taking obscure and unexpected soundbites, bars and verses and sprinkling them over thunderous beats and erratic scratches: how many living performers have the abstract mindset it takes to isolate an Elton John verse—-“You’re gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound”—-loop it and sprawl it across a banging beat (“Solid Wall of Sound”)? No. One. Q-Tip’s creative process, much like his vinyl collection, is both nebulous and sophisticated.

Hearing this dynamic duo together again would have been enough for most, but ATCQ turned their final set into a star-studded one: Andre 3000’s syrupy drawl opens the frenetic “Kids,” Busta Rhymes is back with the ruckus on “Dis Generation” and Kendrick Lamar is featured in “Conrad Tokyo” and Q’-Tip’s cousin, Consequence, holds his own with Talib Qweli and everyone’s favorite madman, Kanye West on the seething “Killing Season.”

It wouldn’t be a proper Quest release without the cerebral wordplay and melodic midtempos, which We Got It also delivers: the heady “Melatonin” is about the need for chill, “Enough”….(please CLICK HERE to read the full-length review at soultracks.com)

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