Q-Tip: Labor of Love

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BayBOI — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:43:44 GMT

This ni**a is dope. I feel him on how these majors be coming with that handcuffing ish. That's why I love the Bay, we took this independent ish to the next level...that's the way to go when these assecutives be playing hoe games tryna to shelve good quality music.

I'd check for this cat's solo album, but I'd rather here another Tribe album.

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DwayneTheDreamPsychic — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:37:26 GMT

Q-Tip is very wise and intelligent. Hey Q, make a dvd so you can teach some of these other rappers your wisdom.

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babesblingandbooze — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:46:51 GMT

major labels are slowly destroying hip-hop

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Hoodgrown — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:17:28 GMT

@BayBOI

Yeah.. the Bay has always been putting it down. The very first compilation I ever released back in 90(something)... it was the old 4080 Magazine (remember that) that first showed me love.

You guys got a great indie scene over there.

I'll reiterate what I always say, the labels don't give a fuck about music anymore. They're only trying to increase their bottom line. There's no artist development anymore. They don't take chances (in todays climate: Oukast, Fugees, De La Soul and others would have never received a deal because they don't fit the "mold" of what's currently poppin).

The industry was a lot better off when the indies (Profile, Select, Def-Jam (indie at the time), Sleeping Bag, Suave House, Rap-A-Lot, etc) controlled the game. They found originals and weren't concerned with signing copy cats of other artists.

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BayBOI — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:57:08 GMT

@Hoodgrown

Yeah mayne! That 4080 was the lick...I used to read that and watch for young cats on the grind! They had you ine there huh? Thaswassup cutty.

Yeah...I cosign that. The Majors is definitely changing the game and that's why the carbon copies of other ni**a's with their limited social commentary get pushed to the forefront.

Different is better fa'sho. Ima take some time out this week and listen to your ish HG. Go check at Teedra Moses...I know she is R&B...but she speaks on this ish a lil bit in her interview. She is on point on a lot of ish 2.

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anzee11 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:27:18 GMT

What a great interview!

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programmertoproducer — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:46:23 GMT

i wish the game had more conscious,intelligent, backpack rappers.

hip-hop is buried alive underground

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DamuRidah713 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:49:52 GMT

Q-Tip been dope from day one...Im one of the few dudes out of H-town that listens to Hip Hop not rap, hip hop...Tribe Called Quest is in my top 5 all favorites...its good to see he still doin his thing, and I agree record labels are destroyin hip hop, the days of the Tribe, hell the Native tongus period, overall true hip hop, is looooong gone, Cmmon hit on the nose 13 years ago with I used to love her, record labels are putting ANYBODY out these days, hip hop is about flossin and fuckin hoes now, its not about how ill ya skillz are and the love of rippin the mic...You on point Tip... peace and bleesings to ya

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Just Rockwell — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:33:19 GMT

peace 2 A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Jungle Brothers.. I was and still am a fan.

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astronomikl — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:43:34 GMT

This is a really interesting article. I like the fact that he touched on his fire, and the rebuilding of his record collection, also on all of the things that are going on behind the scenes on what he has been working on, and why we havent really heard any new music from him in a while. big ups on this article. I have always been a Q tip fan, and will always be.

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Rdot929 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:04:31 GMT

wheres' phife dawg???

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Hoodgrown — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:10:57 GMT

"Ima take some time out this week and listen to your ish HG. "

That's whats up. I don't rap though.. I produce. I have an album that features Stack Bundles and others that's a free download from my site. I produced it in that 90 NYC style.. but I have a few new projects coming showing different sides to my production.

"Go check at Teedra Moses...I know she is R&B...but she speaks on this ish a lil bit in her interview. She is on point on a lot of ish 2."

Yeah.. i'm already up on her. Definitely feelin her shit and wondering why her first album (which I own) didn't blow...

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MAK™ — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:18:19 GMT

Q-Tip a living legend and active one at that. Hope everything works out for the album to come out. I will cop 3. As i said before Major labels are shitting on hip hop and that why there is no balance in the different types of hip hop. (conscious, street, party etc.) We need variety of music in hip hop on radios and tvs and grammy nominations.... major labels are holding hip hop back...

-mak-

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slimhermano — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:19:07 GMT

Great interview

Yeah, where's Phife???

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MAK™ — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:22:48 GMT

We need more concsious artists such as Lupe, Common & Talib going platinum...

-mak-

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EastOaklandRoy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:28:09 GMT

LONG LIVE

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Polar Bear Grizz — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:29:21 GMT

I'm a big Q-Tip/Tribe called Quest fan. Keep on rockin the Mic Homie!

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one-time — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:37:23 GMT

@Rdot929

Phife has his own solo career, last I read the tribe was gettin back together on Koch records but the deal fell thru and so did the reunion album. Ain't you from Brooklyn? You should know more about him than me cause I'm in OHIO. Phife from Jamaica Queens by way of Trinidad.

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Rdot929 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:22:59 GMT

@one time

me being from BK dont mean i know everything. i'm saying i havent heard Phife in a long time i dont need his BIO i just wanted to know whats dude up to cause to me he was nicer than TIP...Q-tip that is

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XsexS — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:19:26 GMT

great interview... i can't wait for Tip to drop an album... that Kamal the Abstract was hot!!

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ENOT — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:34:30 GMT

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B-Side — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:47:32 GMT

I'm stunned. I thought he had basically retired. I can't believe he was trying to put shit out, and getting jerked around like that. Q-Tip. Q-TIP!! That's why I'm glad I stopped a long time ago...if they can play games with someone like him they would have straight fucked anybody else.

I respect dude for the fact that he still works through all this shit, because I'm sure he could just sit back and collect royalties for the rest of his life. This cat loves hip-hop like 50 loves money.

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One Half of HV — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:39:37 GMT

they fucked ras kass worse@b-side

but yea...q tip is def. ill..new song is fire also

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Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:21:33 GMT

Tip, that's my dude. Much success to ya, regardless of what happens with ur albums.

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Way2Kool — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:30:36 GMT

Just yesterday I had this meeting, and the executives said “this backpack s**t.” I’m like, “Dude! Okay, I may still rock a backpack here and there, but what the f**k does that mean?

It's a damn shame that punk a$$ executives keep dumbing down hip-hop music. Backpack rap? They can miss me with them corny labels. I test black people in my locale by bumping some of that so called BACKPACK RAP--none of them MF's can stop dancing or bobbing their heads when the speakers get to bumpin. Damn white folks messed it up by being the majority at most of the underground MC's shows (LOL).

Peace to Q-Tip but I miss the unit: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST.

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TWON THE DON — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:29:24 GMT

MAN WHAT THE FUCK HAPPEN 2 KRIS KROSS? WHERE R THEY NOW? Q-TIP JUS COME FROM NOWHERE. GO BACK! CAUSE HE AINT GOING NOWHERE IN THIS RAP GAME. THEY WAS HOT ALONG......................................TIME AGO.

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Mr Get Right — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:27:22 GMT

A Tribe Called Quest is one of my favorite all - time groups, they kinda lost me after midnight marauders...but I would really like to see them as a group making more albums...Q Tip, an obviously dope emcee, in my opinion suffers from a lack of direction...not that there is anything wrong with reinventing yourself...but that does, in many cases, confuse your core audience; being that they don't know what to expect from project to project...I was one of those who were thrown off by the "amplified" project, for me, a huge tribe fan, it was too much of a departure from the tribe sound; although in my opinion, tribe as a group began to reach too far towards commercial territory, which caused them to kinda lose me in the first place...I don't care if Tip raps behind a live band or samples...My only pre requisite is that I wanna hear that sh*#...Q tip is more than capable of delivering, and as artists, different is important, but in my opinion, making dope sh*# is more important...speaking of dope ish...check out my tunes...Tip holla at me!

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TOHN007 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:05:50 GMT

All I want for Christmas is a Tribe Called Quest reunion. They were my favorite group of all time until they fell off. The Love Movement album was suspect. OutKast eventually took the #1 spot. Q-Tip and Phife had perfect chemistry. I can only think of a few other groups or rappers whose voices play of eachother as well as theirs did. Red and Meth,Jada and Styles P.

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DJ CHILLWILL — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:55:16 GMT

I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WAS SPECIAL IN THE HIPHOP GAME KEEP DOING YA THING BRO ONE!

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junclassic — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:29:36 GMT

Man, Humility is so underappreciated when you are a legend in this game. Tip, stay up fam. Keep doin it, cause the people need it my dude.

And he from Soufside! Hahahah. Much Respeck

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