all the j. dilla retrospection got me listening to this again, and while it might not be on the level of the previous three albums, i can't really figure out why it seems to inspire reactions like the one in the allmusic review?
"get a hold" stands up to anything they've done, and the tip & phife dynamic is maybe slightly less zany and quotable than on low end or marauders, but still solid.
someone educate me please!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:55 (three years ago)
I wasn't crazy about it at the time -- it sounded enervated -- but I've been listening to it again the last decade and hear its influence. "The Hop," "The Pressure," "Get a Hold" -- jams.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:57 (three years ago)
i have a feeling that by '96 the hyper-technical tribe called quest kind of flow was passé in the era of pac and biggie and their more commanding modes
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:01 (three years ago)
yeah i dunno, it seemed like the knives were out for it for some reason, but it's a good record
though i have never thought of tribe as "hyper technical" i see them as more conversational
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:05 (three years ago)
"hyper" was an exaggeration, but i always thought of the native tongues guys (especially de la) as technicians
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:08 (three years ago)
Biggie was probably the best technician of the entire 90s, but I understand if that wasn't always the appeal
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:10 (three years ago)
phife and tip's particular patter def feels to me more of an artifact of an earlier era, maybe technical precision isn't the thing that separates the '88-'93 era from the rest of the '90s
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:16 (three years ago)
If anything, the ATCQ aesthetic was absolutely booming in 1996. The Fugees had one of the biggest albums of the year!
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:24 (three years ago)
Q-Tip produced tracks on Mobb Deep's The Infamous the previous summer.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:24 (three years ago)
nevertheless, the album debuted and peaked at #1 on momentum
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:25 (three years ago)
fugees were much more melodic and less insular. there were other parts of their thing that captured the public imagination more than the tribe aesthetic imo
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:34 (three years ago)