Product Overview
While most of the players in the jazz-rap movement never quite escaped the pasted-on qualities of their vintage samples, with The Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest created one of the closest and most brilliant fusions of jazz atmosphere and hip-hop attitude ever recorded. The rapping by Q-Tip and Phife Dawg could be the smoothest of any rap record ever heard; the pair are so in tune with each other, they sound like flip sides of the same personality, fluidly trading off on rhymes, with the former earning his nickname (the Abstract) and Phife concerning himself with the more concrete issues of being young, gifted, and black.
Tracklist:
A1 Excursions
A2 Buggin' Out
A3 Rap Promoter
A4 Butter
B1 Verses From The Abstract
B2 Show Business
B3 Vibes And Stuff
C1 The Infamous Date Rape
C2 Check The Rhime
C3 Everything Is Fair
D1 Jazz (We've Got)
D2 Skypager
D3 What?
D4 Scenario