We The People

Fly Spots, Music, Videos

A Tribe Called Quest’s lead single “We The People” gets the visual treatment. Check it out above, and peep Phife’s newly-erected street sign on Linden Boulevard…

RIP Phife Dawg.

Summatyme Shootout (1996)

Mixtape Memories, Music, The Good Old Days

Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday tape for your listening pleasure, courtesy of the one and only DJ Clue. It’s jam-packed with classics circa ’96 by Jay Z, Nas, Biggie, Wu-Tang Clan and more that many hip-hop heads still have in rotation today. Thanks to the homie DJ E-Feezy for the upload. Listen above and peep the original mixtape artwork with tracklist below.

Redbone

Music

Childish Gambino brings the soul on his latest release “Redbone.”

Connect 4

Music

New Cool Kids single—not mad at this, the beat is fresh.

Promised Land

Music

Nuff respect to Q-Tip for sampling this absolute roots gem on “Whateva Will Be,” my favorite cut off the new A Tribe Called Quest album.

Related: Tribe Lab

Cymande on KCRW

Late Pass, Music, The Good Old Days, Videos

The self-titled Cymande compilation is one of my favorite discs ever. It infiltrated our crew during our early college years, and became the soundtrack to our late teens and twenties. From winter cyphers to summer road trips, it got extended burn throughout—I even sampled one of the songs on my first Stan Ipcus album. And I still listen to it all the time. In fact, I was just talking about them with my boy Matis the other day.

Anyway, pardon the randomness of this post, but last night I came across a couple sweet live Cymande videos from an in-studio session at KCRW earlier this year that I’d like to share. Check them out performing “The Message” up top, and “Bra” below. Enjoy, and watch the full performance HERE.