Artist: TRIBE CALLED QUEST</br>genre: Rap?? Hip-Hop</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 24-SEP-1991</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>No Description Available<br>No Track Information Available<br><b>Media Type: </b>CD<br><b>Artist: </b>TRIBE CALLED QUEST<br><b>Title: </b>LOW END THEORY<br><b>Street Release Date: </b>09/24/1991<br><Domestic or Import: </b>Domestic<br><b>Genre: </b>RAP/HIP HOP</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>De La Soul are remembered as the premier Native Tongues posse?? those rappers who got low-key?? self-consciously thoughtful?? and jazzy in the face of gangsta's hardcore threats. But A Tribe Called Quest may have been even stronger?? especially on their excellent second album?? the bass-thumping?? heavily jazz-sampled <I>The Low End Theory</I>. According to the opening "ons??"rapper Q-Tip's old man says the disc's jazz-rap "reminded him of bebop??"and Q calls himself "prominent like Shakespeare." But if Charlie Parker had ever written poetic couplets and backed them with funky-drummer and Ron Carter-on-bass grooves this irresistible?? he might have been as big as the Bard and Brother James combined. <I>--David Cantwell</I></br>>manity i