Thirty years later, A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory remains a stellar execution of hip-hop methodology.
These 25 Chemical Brothers songs are some of the most explosive, head-bobbing, ass-shaking anthems in electronic music history.
While the trivia value may feel tremendous, only One9’s interviews with Nas, his father, and his brother, manage to make the doc legitimately moving—a history lesson in popular culture.
However enticing the movie itself may be, the commercialism of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby has been oppressive, to say the least.
Michael Rapaport’s film is as much a “Where are they now?” as a “Why did they matter in the first place?”
It helps that the track sounds as quick and clever as Santi herself.
Kevin Asch so thoroughly enmeshes one in his Hasidic Brooklyn milieu that his film initially counterbalances its plot’s banality by focusing on particulars.
On The Renaissance, Q-Tip’s beats glimmer with a sort of Foreign Exchange by way of Large Professor brightness.
Spike, get a clue.
Hip-hop veteran Q-Tip’s second solo offering is a far cry from the slick beats and sticatto rhymes of 1999’s Amplified.