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...legend. As a member of much-beloved A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip contributed to albums like “The Low End Theory” and “Midnight Marauders”—full of loping bass lines, crisp percussion, clever rhymes, and a whole lot of good vibes. Q-Tip was the buttery-smooth, laid-back voice on some of the best tracks that hip-hop has to offer. It has been a long six years since Q-Tip??s last album, 2002’s “Kamaal the Abstract...
...have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip??s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
...have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip??s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
...song itself is standard Brothers’ fare—all drum machines, robotic voice samples, and pulsing synth melody. Q-Tip??s nasal flow complements the track nicely, but it’s nothing remarkable...
...pervasive air of weariness that populates the entire album, a knowledge that the songs are contrived and re-used, but an inability to refrain from the certain clichés that once made R.E.M who they were. Even attempts at originality are completely based in contrivance, such as Q-Tip??s appearance for the motivational portion of track three—and the consequence is another band discovering that radical reinvention might be their only salvation...