Yo Thrilla!!

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Have you ever heard of this group?



They were pretty big back when I was in school. You should check out the film when it drops...you may learn something.

[Bornthrilla]

I'm still trying to figure out how they fell off.

The Love Movement was one of the worst recordings in music history, but they should have been able to come back with way more hit records.

I know Fife has been battling some sickness for a few years now and, as a group, they never really liked to perform live, but I find it hard to believe that the sidekick from the Hawaiian Sophie video is still making records and they aren't.

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Dec 2, 2010 10:04:35 GMT -5 Bornthrilla said:

I'm still trying to figure out how they fell off.

The genre shifted....for the worse. Around the time they were dropping the stink bomb called the Love Movement, the rise of the whole east coast vs. west coast nonsense took place and the industry took that and ran with it...leaving diverse acts such as the Native Tongues out in the cold. And then Puff ushered in the whole bottle popping, Cristal drinking element which was coupled with the emergence of southern hip hop and that was the end of that.

And then of course the internal drama led Q-Tip to drop Vivrant Thing and his later solo album. They still tour though. I saw them here in Baltimore in 2006 and to this date it is the best hip hop concert I have ever attended. They shut it down.

And for the record...De La Soul has the most important catalog out of the Native Tongues which explains their longevity. I think 15 years from now, they along with Outkast (and to a lesser extent the Roots) will be considered the most important groups in hip hop history.

But ATCQ probably has the best three record run of any hip hop group ever and the Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders are among the most timeless records in hip hop.

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Dec 2, 2010 11:17:48 GMT -5 Freeze said:

Dec 2, 2010 10:04:35 GMT -5 Bornthrilla said:

I'm still trying to figure out how they fell off.

The genre shifted....for the worse. Around the time they were dropping the stink bomb called the Love Movement, the rise of the whole east coast vs. west coast nonsense took place and the industry took that and ran with it...leaving diverse acts such as the Native Tongues out in the cold. And then Puff ushered in the whole bottle popping, Cristal drinking element which was coupled with the emergence of southern hip hop and that was the end of that.

And then of course the internal drama led Q-Tip to drop Vivrant Thing and his later solo album. They still tour though. I saw them here in Baltimore in 2006 and to this date it is the best hip hop concert I have ever attended. They shut it down.

And for the record...De La Soul has the most important catalog out of the Native Tongues which explains their longevity. I think 15 years from now, they along with Outkast (and to a lesser extent the Roots) will be considered the most important groups in hip hop history.

But ATCQ probably has the best three record run of any hip hop group ever and the Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders are among the most timeless records in hip hop.

Did some of that internal negativity involve JDilla?

[stateclub]

Dec 2, 2010 10:04:35 GMT -5 Bornthrilla said:

I'm still trying to figure out how they fell off.

The Love Movement was one of the worst recordings in music history, but they should have been able to come back with way more hit records.

I know Fife has been battling some sickness for a few years now and, as a group, they never really liked to perform live, but I find it hard to believe that the sidekick from the Hawaiian Sophie video is still making records and they aren't.

die hard tribe fan here.....

I think that the love movement was a bad album, but I really think the tribe didnt care...they were in a really bad contract, where they had to release one more album. so they put it out quick and dirty....and from reading other interviews with them, they were so frustrated with the record company jerking them around that they kinda just wanted to take a break.

I guess industry rule number four thousand and eighty is real:

record company people are shady.....

[Bornthrilla]

Do yall remember when Q Tip got beat up so bad by members of Wreck N Effect (after he dissed them in a interview), that he had to wear a mask to cover his facial bruises in the Hot Sex On a Platter video.

That is a little known ATCQ fact ...

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Dec 2, 2010 12:14:36 GMT -5 Bornthrilla said:

Do yall remember when Q Tip got beat up so bad by members of Wreck N Effect (after he dissed them in a interview), that he had to wear a mask to cover his facial bruises in the Hot Sex On a Platter video.

That is a little known ATCQ fact ...

They messed up his eye pretty bad in that fight which is why Dave (from De La Soul) is holding his eye in the Award Tour video...also a little known ATCQ fact. ;D

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One of the top ten hip hop videos of ALL time and the BEST crew track of all time in hip hop:

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True story...my junior year in high school, my dad let me and one of my homeboys come stay on campus at A&T with my brother for homecoming. One of the best times ever for me during my high school years. Well Tribe had just dropped The Low End Theory and when I say that everyone was bumping this in their dorm rooms and in their cars on campus...I mean EVERYONE. I'll never forget that.

From the Low End Theory:











These songs (including Scenario) were the soundtrack to A&T's campus during the fall of 1991.

[Bornthrilla]

You know what was a better album than Low End Theory, and it came out around the same time?

Diamond D's Stunts Blunts and Hip Hop.

Probably the most slept on album ever.

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Dec 2, 2010 14:09:37 GMT -5 Bornthrilla said:

You know what was a better album than Low End Theory, and it came out around the same time?

Diamond D's Stunts Blunts and Hip Hop.

Probably the most slept on album ever.

Uhh...no. First of all, those two albums are a year apart. SB&HH came out in 92 I believe. Second of all, Low End Theory is one of the top twenty albums in hip hop history, and as much as I like Diamond D, SB&HH aint touching Tribes second album...no way, no how.

Diamond D, was and is a great producer, but the production that Ali Shaheed and Tip put together for Low End Theory was wayyy ahead of the curb and set up the stage for groups like Digable Planets and the Roots who would also sample rare jazz groves in their recordings.

Now don't get me wrong, Stunts, Blunts, and Hip Hop is indeed a classic album, but it's not an epic record like Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders.

[Bornthrilla]

Sounds like I smell challenge.

Let me see what I can find on youtube tonight.

Hold tight.

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I bought Low End Theory from the FYE at the Crenshaw Mall back in '08 along with Illmatic & Flesh of my Flesh.

[90Aggie]

I think I love all a y'all. ;D

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Did ATCQ ever perform at homecoming or AggieFest?