DJ M-Rock is once again back. The last time we wrote up about him, he had dropped his Kanye West mix that was pretty dope from beginning to end and allowed you to really hear the range of his mixing, scratching and production styles. Now he's back paying tribute to one of the greatest groups [...]
Much of hip hop from the last decades revolves around accounts of altercation, philandering, and name calling. These are all fascinating themes no doubt - except after being explored in excess. We the audience are now securely aware of how rappers from Brooklyn (purportedly) go hard, the power and confidence summoned from an accompanying handgun, and how crappy will.i.am is. We can recognize a party anthem almost immediately and anticipate a tale of infidelity when a woman rocks the mic. In other words, hip hop has be straight-up boring and rehashed... but, thankfully, not always. Notable exceptions belong to alternative [...]
Tonight, New York audiences get a chance to screen the new Michael Rappaport-directed, A Tribe Called Quest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, but Billboard has just revealed that a nice chunk of the country is also going to get to see the film – which our own Winston Robbins declared as the " best film at Sundance " – for themselves in just a few weeks. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest will be screened for the general public in New York and [...]
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"When you're Asian–this isn't so PC–you can go the 'white way,' or the 'black way,'" Chaz Bundwick explained to writer Nandini Nessa of Brooklyn Bodega , "You always get picked on in school when you're brown and you like 'white people music.' People are so closed-minded about that kind of stuff, but people that try to go both ways are the ones that break the stereotypes." Chaz Bundwick, more widely known as Toro Y Moi, grew up in Colombia, South Carolina, the descent of a Filipino mother and African American father. After speaking with Bundwick over the phone, it [...]
It's time to do another Tribe Called Quest track fro Sample Sundays. I realized that it's these subtle samples that really make Tribe so unique... really it's all in the details. Keep It Moving samples the guitar from Howard Robert's Road Work , Tribe sped it up quite a bit for Keep It Moving, and it almost sounds completely different (even though they didn't manipulate it much). Enjoy! A Tribe Called Quest - Keeping It Moving Download audio file (16-Keeping-It-Moving.mp3) [...]
Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: "Can I Kick It?" by A [...]
I titled this post just assuming anyone landing on it would know that those are A Tribe Called Quest song titles, but for those who don't know: those are A Tribe Called Quest song titles. Ha! Now that the informative portion of this post is out of the way, we'll get to what I do best, the rambling. Last week I had the enjoyable experience of discovering that I own a Tribe 123 that I forgot all about. It is this "Jive Classic Series" 123 with original and remix versions of Scenario, Oh My God, and Jazz [...]
IFRAME Embed for Youtube The last time we posted on Aussie rockers, Skybombers , was when they debuted their video for, " Love Me Like You Used To ", back in October of last year. The band are currently on tour in the US.
O n a random, non-musical (but certainly entertaining) side note, has anyone else noticed the face of Johnny Drama (of Entourage esteem) plastered all over the sides of Los Angeles buildings recently? This is the third "ODRAMA" (which is what it says in black at the bottom) I've seen in the span of only a few weeks, and honestly, considering drama is pretty easily the greatest character ever to have been placed on television, I'm totally down with it. Here's a track too many people have forgotten [...]
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Having avoided the deadly sophomore slump completely, Swedish indie darling Lykke Li has shown on her latest record Wounded Rhymes that she's got more up her sleeve than just catchy dance pop tunes and live covers of classic hip-hop joints . Check out the singer-songwriter's latest video for the track "I Know Places," an appropriate visual accompaniment to a hauntingly beautiful song. "I Know Places (Live on the Moon)"
Q-Tip sat down with Sway and MTV News to let the people know what's really going on with the Tribe Documentary "Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest". I'm a huge Tribe fan, but after watching this I don't think I'm going to pay to watch this documentary. However... I will find the bootleg. Truth.
Sorry for the lack of postings as of late. Just scouring the interweb for some enticing and exciting stuff that I missed over the past few days but there doesn't appear to be too much new in the world of music. When in doubt, go to the classics. Here is a mixed bag of some classic hip hop tracks in my headphones right now. Free mp3: Latyrx - Lady Don't Tek No Free mp3: Pharcyde - Soul Flower (Dogs Bollocks remix) [...]
MP3 (right-click save as) CD (right-click save as) TRACKLISTING. 01. Common Sense - I Used To Love H.E.R. 02. Camp Lo - Luchini 03. Fugees - Fu-Gee-La 04. Fugees - Ready Or Not 05. Ahmad - Back In The Day 06. Luniz - I Got 5 On It 07. Wu-Tang - C.R.E.A.M. 08. Raekwon Ft Wu-Tang - Ice Cream 09. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt II 10. Nas - Half Time 11. Nas [...]
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Odd Future: Official About a week ago, G1ocks told [e]ccentric and I to check out this group's performance on Jimmy Fallon. I had it all loaded up in 720p but he told me to wait a second and to pull up another video to watch first. The clip was A Tribe Called Quest & Leaders of The New School's performance of Scenario on The Aresenio Hall show from 1992. G1ocks then proceeded to explain who the Leaders of The New School were and to pay close attention to Busta Rhymes' performance. So when [...]
Sigh...right...so I was sitting...making the comp...and I kept thinking...man...what would I want the.er...ideal...woman to sound like if I had to describe her musically....and this happened. I feel incredibly fluffy making this and I'll more than likely overcompensate this feeling by making an outlandishly ignorant comp for March. Playlist and shit under the covers. Stop laughing at me. *PBBT!'s SMORGASBORD FEBRUARY 2011 [ DOWNLOAD ]
On this edition of Audiography I perform a sample breakdown. Essentially deconstructing a song and looking at the principle songs that were sampled in its construction. The song featured in this sample breakdown is "Award Tour" by A Tribe Called Quest; the first single released from the band's third album Midnight Marauders . The first song featured is Sly and the Family Stone's "Advice" from their 1966 debut album, A Whole New Thing . A generous portion of urban pop that doesn't necessarily reflect the psychedelic soul of the SatFS that we typically think of, "Advice" [...]
For those of you unfamiliar with the About page here on our quaint little website, the mission statement is included in the introductory paragraph. It reads: " Consequence of Sound ( CoS ) is a New York and Chicago-based online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene." It later goes on to say, "With a committed staff... CoS continues to successfully push its way ahead of the engaging and highly competitive new media market." So from those two excerpts, we hope you gather two things specifically. We here at CoS [...]
This upcoming Thursday, February 10th marks five years since the death of legendary hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla/Jay Dee. Dilla emerged in the mid-1990s at the threshold of some of hip-hop's greatest production. As a member of Slum Village , he produced the group's entire debut album, among albums for some of hip-hop's other iconic names such as Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Common, De La Soul and Busta Rhymes. His last album masterpiece, Donuts, was released 3 days before his death — an instrumental album characterized by brilliant [...]
Way back in the early to late 90s, some things never changed. I, on the other hand, changed plenty. Thats right, my voice changed, my clothes changed... yes, my clothes. Why you ask? Well, I too like many before me and since then dramatically changed the music I listened-to... almost on a year to year basis. So its because of this nostalgia that I thought I'd showcase a few of my favorite songs from each year of high school. I may be blocking out nearly everything else that happened back then, but the music will always have a special place [...]
Here we go... Another Music For Horses post from me. I was thinking of what to put on and it struck me that I've missed an absolutely classic song that should have been in there from the start. A Tribe Called Quest have written some of the best rap I've ever listened to. It's got a sense of humour and a point, not to mention the fact that it's incredibly jazzy. It's Hip Hop the way it should be. And this is not only one of their most popular songs, but one of their highlights. It's not my favourite (I [...]
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