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Media Type: CD
Artist: TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Title: LOW END THEORY
Street Release Date: 09/24/1991
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Genre: RAP/HIP HOP | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| September 24, 1991 | | Studio:
| Jive | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 179 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | Excursions | | 2. | Buggin' Out | | 3. | Rap Promoter | | 4. | Butter | | 5. | Verses From the Abstract | | 6. | Show Business - A Tribe Called Quest, Anselm, Skeff | | 7. | Vibes and Stuff | | 8. | The Infamous Date Rape | | 9. | Check the Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest, Ball, Roger | | 10. | Everything Is Fair - A Tribe Called Quest, Anselm, Skeff | | 11. | Jazz (We've Got) | | 12. | Skypager | | 13. | What? | | 14. | Scenario | |
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Soulful, jazzy, funky hip hop, the way it should beJun 30, 2010
You gotta love A Tribe Called Quest. They blend many different genres of music into their hip hop. This is what's great about hip hop: the diversity.
This album is one of my favorites of all time. All the beats are guaranteed to give you a great vibe, and Q-Tip knows exactly how to rhyme over them. Whenever I listen to this album, I find it impossible to stop bobbing my head. It's just so funky and good. All due respect to those who dislike this type of music, but I just don't understand how.
Just get the album and put it in, it'll be hard to not be moving along with the groove.
My favorite tracks: 1. Buggin Out 2. We've Got the Jazz 3. Verses From The Abstract 4. Everything Is Fair 5. Rap Promoter
Classic Tribe from the Good Ole DaysJun 11, 2010
I remember when this CD first came out. I have to admit that I didn't realize at the time what a classic it was going to turn out to be. I really appreciated the lyrics; Tribe Called Quest always had their own style of beats. This CD upped the ante though. Every song is fresh with their distintive sound.. I mean, what can I say about this CD that hasn't already been said. The Low End Theory changed Hip-Hop. It opened up more options for people to talk about. This was probably their best work collectively...
This is definitely a classic...
classicFeb 12, 2010
Hip hop is not easy to get into if you are a Beatle/Progressive Rock/Jazz cat. Forget "good" or "bad"--the up-front beats and rapping as opposed to singing give hip hop a whole different reflex than the music in your heart, soul, ears, and brain.
But at a party in 1993, I heard Low End Theory. Slowly ear grabbed my the saprano sax, softer beats, and that sweet, almost boyish voice, I began to listen--and it didn't hurt when the rapper rapped "Ron Carter" on the bass, as the Miles allumni did a nice little double stop.
Low End Theory is not about big beats or shock. It is rounded like a perfect music orb, light and subtle, inflected with the calm of cool jazz.
Rap fans have no need for a music nerd like me to tell them anything, but if you are a brother or sister in nerdom of mine and want to stick a toe into hip hop, start by sticking it into this low end.
ATCQJan 16, 2010
''It's like butter, it's like butter baby....'' - 'The Low end theory' and P.E's 'Fear of a Black Planet' are the best rap albums to date- you could argue 'The adventures of Slick Rick'/'Long live the Kane' or 'Paid in Full' are up there, but the former classics provide equal and unparalleled measures of style and substance that is rare to achieve in this genre; the ''golden-age'' of rap (1988- 1992) will never be repeated and I'm afraid to say that the music has lost it's way ever since gangsta rap made a mockery of it all- 'talking loud- saying nothin!!'
One of the greats!Jul 14, 2009
One of the greatest rap/hip hop albums of all time, these songs hit the bass and keep the beats pumpin'! Though simplistic at first blush, "Bonita Applebum" ends up being one of the greatest rap/hip hop songs ever made and continues to inspire young artists today.
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