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Get a hold is still as good or better singularly as any tribe record ever made.
Plus it is tip's best solo submissions nd eclispses Mr icognito, as a strictly solo tip moment.
The problem that hurt tribe was tip and ghostwriting but no one will say it.
Tip started faking jax, that it held true to tip.
ushering in the visual degrading era of black women.
Disguised as artistic tna and he was faking jax at any and every turn, in the sales spike era.

nikkaz blaming dilla like consequence was ever nice and then act and absolve tip from employing cons.
When it was glaringly obvious.
Why nikkaz won't diss tip and damn near all of native tongues except pos, Dave, maseo is beyond me.
Part of the reason the culture was so weak is.
The main nikka supposed to be protecting it was faking jax.

To the point, tip selling out.
Gave license to all his stans on some toy shyt that sprung up in 1993, when tribe went mainstream and nikkaz front like tribe never was on sellout shyt but they were.
Mm is the gateway sellout native tongues album.
That on some sneak shyt, the toys and fans grasped on to as some seal of fake approval but I was never fooled.
Especially when the drawing envelope for let, was so long.
That I know those new fans did not even have scenario or even a remix existed.
Then, deflected onto and erroneously,...
Blaming dilla who really actually kept it real and had to pick up slack because of the disaster to tip's collection of records.
The same type of loss that plagued why the Wu did not continue drawing in the manner they were at that point as well.
Except at least the Wu kept it way more cultural and real than tip did.

nikkaz be giving tip all types of passes and now he blatantly does shyt that would never be accepted from him.
[like okay we know busta will go anywhere regardless of admin. Yet this is tip, tho. So, it makes no sense and we can't give passes. When, this shyt is obvious]
If, tip was judged accurately and nikkaz did not have a sellout pass constructed for that nikka.
Tip was a scourge, breh.

Art Barr

Started skimming after you said MM was a gateway sellout album... you wild as shyt for that.

BRL was just a mistake. Half of it was good and the rest had no business making the final cut... Dilla's production was eh, Tip's production wasn't much greater, Consequence being on half the album was blaaaah, Phife didn't seem to be interested... IMO the best beat on the album was by Rashad Smith ("The Hop")
 

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Tribe is my favorite group of all time. I stan for them 100%. I remember the day my dad handed me the Low End Theory and told me to listen to it and the rest was history. My dream is for Good Music to do a tour and have Kanye bring out Jarobi Shaheed and Phife with Tip out there and have them do a set in NYC. I need to see these guys perform once before I die. And :dead: at being put off by NT by listening to De La. Lol you shouldve never continued with them, and went to Jungle and Brand Nubian.

Are you a prophet:ohhh::ohhh::ohhh: their supposedly last show was with Kanye at the MSG:ohhh: Did you get to see them?
 

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Tribe is probably the least lyrical dopest shyt of all time. The vibe that all these wack boring non-gangster "regular guy" rappers have been trying and failing to pull off for the past 12 years came from Tribe...

It was fun but still a little bit raw...
That what regular guy rappers miss these days. You need some edge to your rhymes.

Having said that ...

Tribe is the GOAT group to me ever better than Outkast and Wu Tang.
 

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That what regular guy rappers miss these days. You need some edge to your rhymes.

Having said that ...

Tribe is the GOAT group to me ever better than Outkast and Wu Tang.
Not only that Tribe was fun. You look at rappers like Cole and Kendrick these days and theres nothing fun about them at all. Tribe just made dope ass music that was good for any occasion.
 

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Not only that Tribe was fun. You look at rappers like Cole and Kendrick these days and theres nothing fun about them at all. Tribe just made dope ass music that was good for any occasion.
Very true everyone is trying to be something instead of just being themselves that's why it's no fun. No one is one way all the time and everyone if they are being real has moments of just relaxing and having fun.
 
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lol I'll have to give it another shot. It just had a lot of little odds and ends and skits. Like an in-joke

Picture me putting this on



Me: :dame::jbhmm::dwillhuh:

lol tbh...i had the tape back in the day and had not heard that or even knew it existed until two years ago...it does have a lot of in jokes and the tape came with a comic book that basically illustrated the skits but the songs...hey love, pease pourige, ooddle of ooo's, saturdays(which has good remix with the native tongue family on it) etc...its my fav album from them...i wasn't feeling 3 feet when it first came out but I gave it a spin again a few years later and was like "yooo this is crazy"...
 

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listening to ATCQ discography should be a requirement for all hip-hop fans. some of the best music EVER:wow:

Not only that Tribe was fun. You look at rappers like Cole and Kendrick these days and theres nothing fun about them at all. Tribe just made dope ass music that was good for any occasion.

you had me at tribe was fun and you can play them at any occasion, but nothing fun about cole and Kendrick? :dahell:
 
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