Low End Theory

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I’m new to collecting vinyl and my gf bought me this record and I’m wondering if anyone could date it based on the outer sleeve writing or anything like that. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He credited the group, saying, "Until that point, when people used samples on records, it was pretty much one loop that played throughout. In addition, the group was praised for its "departure towards a live instrumental sound" and for using "jazz-infused samples with fat hardcore beats. Tribe represented freedom, and some 30 years after 'The Low End Theory,' it’s still a sonic marvel and one of the best hip-hop albums of all-time.

A quarter century later, The Low End Theory is as ubiquitous to the language of modern jazz as Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme, its seamless fusion of beats and bop providing the seeds for future greats .Second studio album from the trio of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad originally released in 1991 is considered one of the best hip-hop albums of all time. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 154 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; in a revised 2012 list, it was ranked at number 153, and in 2020, it moved up to number 43. Five of the 7-inch records are housed in custom picture sleeves that form the iconic album cover along with 3 replicas of the original 12-inch singles that were released. VG/EX means that the item's sleeve is in Very Good condition and the disc is in Excellent condition. A 1991 landscape-changing release from the pioneering hip-hop group, The Low End Theory embraced a minimalist approach and set the tables for the alternate rap movement that followed.

is harder-edged, darker, and, in terms of its adherence to established hip hop codes, actually a little bit conservative .Q-Tip's actually been spreading word about his upcoming solo album, The Renaissance, for a bit now (samples an Obama speech! The album is credited with establishing "the musical, cultural, and historical link between hip-hop and jazz", [62] and is regarded as a "successful fusion of opposites: the complex musical textures of jazz and the straightforward boom-bap of rap. Recording sessions for the second album began when sessions from People's Instinctive Travels kept creatively flowing.

The album is noted for its use of the double bass, "crisp" and "live-sounding" drum programming, and "deftly placed samples or electric keyboards. The trio also takes on the rap game with a pair of hard-hitting tracks: "Rap Promoter" and "Show Business," the latter a lyrical soundclash with Q-Tip and Phife plus Brand Nubian's Diamond D, Lord Jamar, and Sadat X. 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. Producer Pete Rock created the original beat for the second single, "Jazz (We've Got)", before it was recreated by Q-Tip, who credited Rock in the outro of the song.Moore is VMP’s Hip-Hop Director and a music journalist who’s covered jazz, soul and hip-hop at The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Nation, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork and elsewhere.