Core News — “A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is in Annie’s Albums Of The Year, with Q-Tip on the phone. Plus the Power Down Playlist.” Check out other Annie Mac shows in the archive and subscribe to the feed to get ... more info
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It’s been a while since I voted in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll but for whatever reason, I decided to do so this year even though I didn’t have a literal top 10 (just top 8). The way Pazz and Jop works is that your picks are ... more info
Stereogum — Most of us assumed that We Got It From Here… Thanks 4 Your Service, the staggering and enormously satisfying new album from A Tribe Called Quest, would be the group’s last. They did, after all, start recording it before the death of Phife Dawg, a... more info
Stereogum — Busta Rhymes was in top form on A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, and he also recently lent his booming gravitas to “My Shot,” probably the most recognizable song on The Hamilton Mixtape. Now he’s returne... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Kanye West, Beyonce, Solange, Chance the Rapper, Radiohead, Angel Olsen, Frank Ocean, A Tribe Called Quest, Bon Iver, and David Bowie all make multiple appearances.
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Stereogum — A Tribe Called Quest were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. Joined by Busta Rhymes, they performed “Dis Generation” and “We The People…” off of their final album We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service, one of the... more info
Allmusic Blog — Our year-end coverage kicks off with our editors’ list of their favorite albums of 2016, which features both Knowles sisters, as well as Esperanza Spalding, Miranda Lambert, Savages, A Tribe Called Quest and a pair of recently-departed icons. more info