A Tribe Called Quest 'Beats Rhymes & Life' 20th Anniversary Mixtape mixed by Chris Read

[Deltron]

Today (30th July 2016) marks the 20th Anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest's 4th and penultimate studio album, 'Beats Rhymes & Life'. Produced almost entirely by the Ummah, a production outfit featuring a young J-Dilla, it's rich in samples and displays a bass heavy, more stripped down production sound than previous album. Also heavily featured is Consequence whose career was largely kickstarted by the release. Released 3 years after the group's seminal 'Midnight Marauders' with recording said to have been affected by internal differences in the group, the LP failed to gain the critical acclaim of previous offerings at the time of release, critics suggesting it lacked the chemistry evident on earlier albums. 20 years on however it remains a great listen.

 

[Deltron]

 

[Deltron]

another dope mix

 

[Da_Eggman]

There worst album but had some bangers

 

[mobbinfms]

This was actually the first Tribe album that I bought.

 

[I love Latina women]

chris read does a great job with these mixtapes
he did a wonderful job with the pharcyde's mixtapes for bizarre ride to the pharcyde and labcabincalifornia

 

[Deoji]

i remember buying that album. I was a huge Tribe fan. Had every single and album. Phony Rappers comes on .... we back. Then Get a Hold ....Tribe has done it again. Then it was all eeeeh for the rest of the album. Wordplay was good, tho. I was legit hurt by that album because they had done NO wrong before that.

 

[Rell84shots]

If you don't own this album you've failed at life, Stressed Out is melodic vicodin

 

[We Major]

Stressed Out