A Tribe Called Quest ANTHOLOGY Vinyl

A Tribe Called Quest: Phife, Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Jarobi. Additional personnel: Faith Evans (vocals); Trugoy, Leaders Of The New School, Charlie Brown, Dinco D., Busta Rhymes (rap vocals). Producers: A Tribe Called Quest, Hoods, Q-Tip, The Ummah. Includes liner notes by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds. Digitally remastered by Tom Coyne (1999, Sterling Sound). Emerging on the cusp of the '90s, Tribe quickly became that decade's hip-hop icons. While Phife, Q-Tip, and Ali displayed unquestionable lyrical skills, they possessed a social consciousness that eschewed thuggish gangsta sensibilities, more concerned with communication than "street" bravado. ANTHOLOGY opens with "Check the Rhime" from Tribe's masterful second album, THE LOW END THEORY. A quintessential Tribe cut, it features the trademark conversational interaction between Phife and Q-Tip, and observations that tell much about the group's philosophy, as Phife declares "I'm far from a bully, and I ain't a punk" and Q-Tip observes that