A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop • United States
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One of the most artistic and popular rap acts of the 1990s, and leaders of the Native Tongues school of thoughtful jazz-inflected hip-hop.
Without question the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s, A Tribe Called Quest jump-started and perfected the hip-hop alternative to hardcore and gangsta rap. In essence, they abandoned the macho posturing rap music had been constructed upon, and focused instead on abstract philosophy and message tracks. The "sucka MC" theme had never been completely ignored in hip-hop, but Tribe confronted numerous black issues -- date rape, use of the word nigger, the trials and tribulations of the rap industry -- all of which overpowered the occasional game of the dozens. Just as powerful musically, Quest built upon De La Soul's jazz-rap revolution, basing tracks around laid-back samples instead of the played-out James Brown fests that many rappers had made a cottage industry by the late '80s.
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The Anthology
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop
1999
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