Episode 3: "We The People" - The Grand Return Of A Tribe Called Quest
Update: 2016-11-15
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Special guests Daniel Reed and Wayne Boothe join in to discuss the return of A Tribe Called Quest, and their new album, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. In the third episode of The Connect, we touch upon:
- the surrealism of a Tribe reunion LP in the 21st century, 18 years after their supposed final album, The Love Movement
- the SNL appearance alongside Dave Chappelle
- the post-Trump musical landscape and Tribe's prophetic, urgent subject matter
- Q-Tip's leadership, solo career, and legacy
- Toure's New York Times feature on the group
- the extended Tribe family: Consequence, Busta Rhymes and J Dilla
- Natives Tongues and their spiritual successors, The Soulquarians and Kanye West
- new collaborators, including Andre 3000, Anderson Paak, Kendrick Lamar, Jack White, and Elton John
- chemistry vs. history, sampling vs. live instrumentation, nostalgia vs. growth
- the surrealism of a Tribe reunion LP in the 21st century, 18 years after their supposed final album, The Love Movement
- the SNL appearance alongside Dave Chappelle
- the post-Trump musical landscape and Tribe's prophetic, urgent subject matter
- Q-Tip's leadership, solo career, and legacy
- Toure's New York Times feature on the group
- the extended Tribe family: Consequence, Busta Rhymes and J Dilla
- Natives Tongues and their spiritual successors, The Soulquarians and Kanye West
- new collaborators, including Andre 3000, Anderson Paak, Kendrick Lamar, Jack White, and Elton John
- chemistry vs. history, sampling vs. live instrumentation, nostalgia vs. growth
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