A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service

link?

>>68985290
getleaks

>>68985267
Completely blew my expectations out of the water. I'm usually wary of comeback albums and because a lot tend to be underwhelming, I was excited but didn't expect anything amazing.

I was wrong. This is perfect fusion of their old jazz rap sound with more modern production. Everyone's flow is on point. Even Consequence manages to pull off some incredible verses on this, after having a lackluster career post-GOOD Music. Kendrick's verse wasn't great though. It was super short and nothing special.

These are just first-listen impressions so these thoughts are pretty scatterbrained right now. But I loved it.

anyone have a link? getleaks isnt working for me

I fucking hate uploaded.to it's the most annoying download site makes me disable my adblock gives me virus popups and shit and then once you finally get to downloading the zip file it decides "48 minutes" is a logical time

I HAVE 10MB DL SPEED WHY SUBJECT ME TO THIS IT IS 2016

so far I like it a bunch

the can sample on lost a friend is fucking phenomenal

http://www118.zippyshare.com/v/jF8TcBMR/file.html pls give me ur most lude pics and gifs of charli xcx in return

>>68987534
surely we can help this man

>>68987482
absolutely

>>68985267
9-10/10

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>>68987534
thanks

"Talk to Joey, Earl, Kendrick, and Cole, gatekeepers of flow
They are extensions of instinctual soul
It's the highest in commodity grade and you could get it today"

The Love Movement is better than this
Wtf

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>>68985267
ATCQ is one of the only groups I truly let my spaghetti fall out for, and I was beyond terrified for this album. I'm sitting here in my low end theory t shirt and i couldn't be happier. Really liking the album so far.

it's a posthumous comeback album. the fact that's it's even OK is astonishing. it's not GOAT but I'm digging it anyway. its been a shit year for hip hop but if I had to give a rap album AOTY it'd be this one

AOTY for sure

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OMFG Tip is going hard in the first track

WOW track #1.. NICE. dubs it gets BNM

>>68985367
this, mostly. just copped it in the sharethread and started the session. almost done at this point.

well exceeded my expectations. truly enjoying this album.

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does The Ego have a sample from The Exorcist buried in there? the creepy background thing?

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>mfw

It's fucking fantastic and I only checked this board out for the first time in maybe years to see if there was an active thread about it. Pretty pathetic that there isn't

>>68994325
it normally would if it wasn't for leonard cohen dying. it's just bad timing

Dis Generation, Movin Backwards, Ego, and The Donald were some of my favourites after first listen

>>68993806
Kinda sounds like the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey when he goes through the wormhole

>>68987482
Do you mean "Lost Somebody"?

Why isn't this thread filled with replies?


It's up on Spotify and Apple Music. Shit is cash.

Idk I'm not nuts about it on first listen. It's not bad but it's not amazing. sitting at about 6-7/10 in my mind, maybe that will change the more I listen to it. That andre track was abysmal tho, biggest disappointment so far.

Really good :^)
I thought "The Donald" was gonna be another shitty anti-trump song but I was pleasantly surprised by the closer. Also the samples on Space Program and fucking insane.

>>68987482
what can song is it from?

I'm loving this already.

Is phife on the album?

>>68997784
yee

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>>68987534
Is this in FLAC? If not I'll provide a FLAC link for ya'll. Also amazing album definite AOTY contender for me, really loving Melatonin.

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>Solid Wall of Sound

>sampling willy wonka in the first track
cheesy as fuck

this shit sucks, i dont know why you guys are deluding yourselves, its nothing like low end or midnight marauders. Its not terrible but its weak as fuck and feels like a cash in

>>68998521
>its nothing like low end or midnight marauders.

You're a fucking moron if you expected that or think anyone else expected that.

>>68998521
It's worse than the two greatest rap albums of all time, what a failure

I thought the album was good but the Yeezy and 3 Stacks features are let downs

busta rhymes is amazing on this

After listening to it once, I'm having a hard time deciding which track I loved the most, but it was a very good. It seemed like a great mix of both the old school hip hop and understandable flow of ATCQ with some more modern production. The samples were also out of this world.

First thoughts - Space Program is the shit, Kanye should just fuck off, Jack White also need to fuck off even more.

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>tfw always need rapgenius when listening to a hip-hop album

>>68998521
jack white shouldn't have played guitar on this

I'm gonna hear it now. Is it as good as The Love Movement mates?

Midnight Marauders > The Low End Theory > We Got it From Here... > People's Instinctive... > Beats, Rhymes and Life > The Love Movement

Agree?

>>68997848
Too true

>>68985267
On my first listen and holy crap Lost Somebody got me good ;_; RIP phife

>>69000048
far better

This is fucking amazing as a comeback album, who would know QTip is 70 years old

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>>69000142
>>69000142
>Midnight Marauders > The Low End Theory
>The Low End Theory > People's instinctive..

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>>69000749
>QTip is 70 years old

This leaves me hungry for a Busta Rhymes renaissance

>>69000959
ELE 2 BOI

Lyrically it's really good but the samples are poor

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>>69001116
what did you just say?

>>69001132
Willy wonka, really innovative

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>>69001142
I liked that :(

Best shit on first listen:

>The Jimi Hendrixish beat on Movin Backwards (I'm assuming this was Jack White)
>The Fender Rhodes solo on Conrad Tokyo
>copious amount of fake Jamaican MCing (classic Phife + Busta)

Only disappointment is Kendrick's verse.

Is Anderson .Paak the best cocksucker in the music industry? How did he manage to get essentially a solo track on the last Tribe album in addition to singing the hook on roughly half of all rap songs released in the last year?

Get a what account then, pleb.

>>69001419
He got signed by Dr Dre

I had the lowest, lowest of expectations for this. Fuck it feels nice to be proven wrong

>>69001739

I agree 100%. From Phife dying and everyone wanting to be respectful to a legend. From the rise of Trump causing old school hip hop dude to want to come out and say something. From TPAB making jazz-rap hot and old school jazz-rap guys wanting to get their due and the industry wanting to give it to them. This was a perfect storm of a 4.8 album that the entire world says, "It's nice that you tried!" like essentially every other rap legend's return.

Instead we get an amazing album. Ali Shaheed Muhammad deserves particular praise for really staying on the game with the beats.

>>69001072
That would be fucking amazing don't get my hopes up like that

Does thismean they hav had a consistantly good discography?

>>69002214

I personally could never get through Beats, Rhymes and Life.

that cover is atrocious and i tend to dislike comebacks so i was gonna pass on this one, but i've read really good things about it so far so i'm gonna download it

you guys better not be shitting me

>>68996982
Halleluwah

>>69002461

It's legitimately good and maintains that ATCQ vibe. Really impressed with the features minus Kanye since it was just a hook. Imo a perfect sendoff.

>>68985367

I was hesitant too, for the same reason. just did my first play-through and decided to hop on here to see if anyone was discussing it.

Phenomenal album.

>>68997784

where have you been, homie?? shits dope, check it out.

>>69000142
People's Instinctive under this new one, what the fuck? I think it's their best. Their first three is another level than the others thought. This new one is good though

hope they reissue their earlier shit in lieu of this

dying to own those records but they're so fucking expensive second hand

>>68989593
More Charli ass please.

>>68999526
Is English your second language or something

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>>68999526
same

man the 320 and FLAC copies are just shitty transcodes from the 256 AAC

>>69003104
>256 AAC

Don't pretend you notice a single difference considering how AAC works

Favorite tracks? I would say The Space Program and Lost Somebody

>>69003128
i'm well aware of how AAC works, that doesn't made the transcodes any less shitty

the copy i'm listening to at least sounds totally choked and muddy

>>69003145
Solid Wall of Sound
Enough!!

>>69000142
Nah.

Midnight Marauders > The Low End Theory > Beats, Rhymes and Life > We Got it From Here > People's Instinctive... > The Love Movement

>>69000142
>>69003603
My serious opinion coming through:

Midnight Marauders = We Got it From Here.... > The Low End Theory > The Love Movement = People's Instinctive > Beats, Rhymes, & Life

>>69001995
Agreed about Ali, man. Dude grand-slammed it.

Idk why everybody hates on People's Instinctive Travels, I think it's one of their best and most abstract works. Yeah, their chemistry may not be as strong as in their later albums, but IMO it has some of the best songs they ever done on it.

>>69001995
>Ali Shaheed Muhammad deserves particular praise for really staying on the game with the beats.

You mean Q-Tip? He's been making great beats for 25 years

>>69001419
he honestly has the perfect voice for rap hooks tho

>>69001419
>>69004630
He's the modern Nate Dogg

>>69002157
Literally being worked on as we speak breh

Ego, Lost Somebody, and The Donald are my favorite tracks so far. Loving the whole thing though

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this is much better than I expected it to be, it might even be rap AOTY

>>69002917
I'll be honest man, that my gf

>>69006344
shit bro i didn't mean to impose.

do u mind if i can watch u guys fuck

damn this is GOOD. very pleasant surprise. i love to hear that q-tip still flows like this.

Phife's voice in the intro of The Space Program was just too much for me, I had to pause it and contemplate it. It hit me that the dude's dead.

>>69002390
i'm the opposite, loved it

>>69006826
Exact same thing happened to me listening to this.

Phife's passing really fucked me up. Tribe was the first hip-hop I ever heard, when I played that Thrasher skating game on PS1. I was too poor to afford Tony Hawk and in retrospect that fact was absolutely what led me to getting into music.

one of the better rap albums this year, and a great way to go out.

f

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>>69007092

>>68995758
this im pretty sure its a 2001 sample

>>69001419
He's Nate dogg reborn appreciate it

>>69004673
>>69007212
word

>>69004518

My favorite of their all their albums. Love all the samples on it and just how old school it feels when listening to it.

On another note, I'm definitely digging this new CD. It's hard to believe that I barely heard about this being an actual thing last week. I never would have ever expected them to release another album (and a good one too at that).

>>68998521
>it's not the same as older albums
>therefore it's bad

wewy lad

Man that was a wild ride. I don't think this is the kind of album that I would be revisiting a lot (like Midnight Marauders/Low End Theory), but man did it make me feel. RIP Phife and thank you ATCQ and co.

>>69003145
>>69003180
both excellent choices. I also liked Conrad Tokyo because Phife goes hard on it

>>68999204
He made sure to bring his a game on this.

The mixing sounds really bad on this album, did they not try and normalize the volumes when mastering?

>>69008885
It's probably just the shitty rip that was posted in the sharethread

>>68997844
that last synth on Melatonin caught me off guard and I love it so much

>>68999204
im glad he cut off the fast-rap act for this

Great album still can bump my head so it did the trick!

>>69001419
Nigga's got a good soothing voice.

Any of you guys went to the pop-up store?
I'm going tomorrow, maybe
Does it have CD's or just vinyls?

TLOP has competition this year... fucking love these tracks.

>>68998521
>it's nothing like LET or MM
that's why it's so good. They stepped away from their old sound but still managed to keep the energy and chemistry from that time

>>68985267

9/10 easily. Beats and flows are on point.

>>69002810
People's Instinctive is poop. Phifer is fucking asleep on it. It's a great first attempt, but it's a fucking stink bomb next to any of their next 3 records.

Beats, Rhymes and Life is excellent. I can't believe people don't like it.

>>68999419

But Jack White providing guitar riffs as part of the beat in an ATCQ album is a-ok in my book tbqh sempai

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Wow that was fucking fantastic, I wasn't too big on Jack White on the album at first but he sold me at the end. Whateva Will Be absolutely blew me away though

AOTY

This is like a 4/10

Everyone head right on b to reddit.

>>69011878

>le contrarian /mu/tant shitpost

KYS my man

>>69012038
Way to out yourself as a redditor.
kys, get back to r/hhh

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>>69011878

Is there a reason why no one's mentioned We the People yet?
My favorite on the album right now by far, do I just have shit taste?

>>69012308

It just came out friend, its taking me a minute to figure out my top 3 and We the People is easily in it.

Was looking for this thread after hearing the album. Was excited for Anderson .Paak to be on this too. Great album

I just happened to go through my favorite artists today to check for new albums I missed and this was an amazing surprise I didn't expect at all

>>69012308
its /mu/, most people on here listen to half the first song then start posting album rankings. The rest of us are too busy listening to it a few times and absorbing it.

This is extremely good for a comeback album. This is up there with Low End Theory.

DL where

>>69012704
usey our fucking eyes it's in the thread

>>68985267
its really good
mm > this album > tlet > br&l > pitatpor > tla

I'm going to be playing Solid Wall of Sound for days on end

>>68985267

I might be the biggest Tribe fan ITT and I was absolutely terrified of listening to this album. They did a really good job of capturing what I love about their music and making it sound fresh. Love this album.

Mediocre as fuck. Doesn't even feel like a tribe album, just feels like a throwaway generic 2010s hip hop album.

>>69014799
Same here

>>69014896
>generic 2010s hip hop
Like you're entitled to think it's a throwaway but how does it sound like something generic from this decade? I'm getting a major mid-2000s vibe from it

I really really love Black Sposmodic and Ego. Best tracks on the album.

Trump supporter here, will the closing track make me nauseous?

>>69015530
It has nothing to do with Trump.

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>Jarobi on killing season

>>69015530
Well it, and every track proceeding it, features a black man on vocals so it could well do.

>>69015530
You may be triggered in We The People tho

>>69015530
we the people is some nig nog TPAB shit, skip that shit

>>69016785
>nig nog TPAB shit

will my wife enjoy it then?

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>jarobi's verse on 1st track

just wish phife had more stuff recorded

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>>69016605

>>69016785
>nig nog TPAB shit

Why do you even listen to rap?

>>69016808
is your wife a gibsmedat nigger who feels the whitey is keeping her down? If so she would probably like it.

>>69016830
because rap is great, I just think this album is shit and theres a fuckton of better albums that have come out this year.

>>69016834
no but my wife is white and enjoys meeting up with her male black friends

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This new A Tribe Called Quest record, it's NOT GOOD.

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>>69000142
>>69004233
>Beats, Rhymes and Life that low

>>69016874
>Implying that he won't praise it for the second track alone

>>69016981
>implying he'll even give it a proper review

>>69016874
This will be Anthony's 10 for 2016
Screen Cap this

>>69017175
lol no

>ATCQ thread
>everyone is sleeping on Ego, aka the song with the best lyrics, hook, and samples.
Do people even finish the album before posting?

>>69017390
>my opinion has not yet been validated in this thread so let me state it as fact so I can bait anons into responding

>>69017175
lol yes

>>69017417
lol samefag

>>69017336
every single song will appeal to him, and speak to him like TPAB did last year.

>>68985267
Listening to it right now. Really enjoying it so far. Only really know The Low End Theory by them.

First and last tracks are the best ones for sure

>>69018287
if you like those two, you should listen to Midnight Marauders, it's pretty much tied in quality with TLET, at least in my opinion

>>69018371
I thought We The People was amazing, albeit maybe a little too politically charged for some people on here.

I hope it's the one they do on SNL tonight. Would be very appropriate.

>>68989758

Get out bro

Beautiful album. I hope it gets the acclaim it deserves..

>>69017175
>>69016874
This has pro-black anti-trump shit.

Fantano eats that up for breakfast. Guaranteed 9. Screenshot this.

>>68996750
I was incredibly surprised when that song had nothing to do with Donald Trump

>>68998856
Kanye's hook is embarrassing, should've have been cut.

>>68985267
I have a feeling people will be turned off by this because it's very different from every other Tribe album. It's more agressive, unlike the laid-back sound of their earlier albums. It's very good and one of the top contenders for AOTY, not as good as Midnight Marauders but I wasn't expecting that. It's especially good considering how shit comeback albums usually are.

>>69019099
>TLM isn't a classic
Pleb

Having given some time to listen to this album a few times and sit on it, I can say for sure that it's an album I enjoyed and will come back to. That said, it's not a perfect album by any means.

Kids... is just straight up not a good track. Mobius, while a nice throwback track that goes hard (especially once Busta jumps in on the second verse), it doesn't bring enough that's new to the table compositionally or sonically to make it stand out on its own. Black Spasmodic is probably the track I'm still on the fence about. I'm leaning on it here being one of my less favorite tracks, but it could grow on me. There's something very The Last Poets about the very monotone refrain on the track, which I do enjoy, but the constant skipping and the very jumpy, unchanging beat don't work in its favor for me, personally.

There are some genuinely fantastic tracks on this album though. I keep coming back to Melatonin in particular. Other favorites are Ego, Conrad Tokyo, and The Space Program. Lost Somebody and Movin Backwards were also high points.

All in all, its definitely a welcome return (and goodbye) for one of hip hop's greatest groups. It's not my album of the year, or even the best rap album of the year, but it's still a very solid 8.5 to an 8.75 out of 10 for me.

Do you think that Pitchfork will score it high?

>>69016978
It's good, but you can't say it's better than any of their other albums. Can you?

The Love Movement is huuugely underrated, IMO. It was the funner, more positive counterpart to BR&L where the dudes just did not seem as connected as the are.

i love how everybody really feels like a group here, it's rare to hear people trading bars like they do on this album nowadays. Really gives the whole album a sort of communal friendly atmosphere.

Only listened to Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory, but MM is my favorite hip hop album.

Just finished the first disc and gotta run some errands before disc two, but this has been GREAT so far.

2016 has kicked ass for new music, guys

>>69017175

not experimental enough

it sounds too "normal"/traditional, it's not like DG or TPAB

>>69018414
Niggas in the hood living in a FISH BOOWL

gentrified the hood now its not a SHIT HOOOLE

wow we're getting a chapelles show reunion tonight guys