Slum Village has long been a staple of the underground rap world. Their music, inventive but reverent, spread from Detroit like wildfire and has proved durable over the years, even as what it means to be 'underground' oscillated wildly. Their latest effort, Yes!, is...
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders, the seminal group's third album and one of the most iconic albums in hip-hop history. Unleashed the same day as the Wu-Tang Clan's debut Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, it represented the other side of New York hip-hop in the early 1990s, and cemented Tribe as one of the best hip-hop artists out.
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XXL's Shaheem Reid gets the inside stories behind Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day," Geto Boys' "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" and A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario"...
“The fact that [Tribe] couldn’t get it together as friends is a little sad," The De La Soul MC told XXL, . “But I mean at end of the day … if you aint gonna be together, why do it just to be doin’ it"...