Boston trio Hot Pink Delorean are always slamming the blogs with quality productions and there's been a lot of justified hype about their big electro house rework of the recent single from A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip. It's a bit more restrained than their usual productions but this is a top grade remix and look out for their debut [...]
Make sure you cop The Renaissance today, one of the best hip hop albums this year! After you do, and you rip the tracks to your iPod, add these bonus tracks and remixes which are not on the retail album… after the jump! Feva (UK Bonus Track) Gettin' Up (Swizz Beatz Remix feat Eve) Gettin' Up (DJ Scratch [...]
Q-Tip - "Move" from Three/21 Films on Vimeo . Video For Q-Tip "Move" The Second Single Off Of "The Renaissance" Due Out On November 4th. Driected By Rik Cordero is an "Homage" To "Rock with You" By Michael Jackson Or Blatant Plagiarism Depending On How You Look At It. I Guess!?..Whatever Move & Rock With Me! Michael Jackson - Rock with you Uploaded by Discodandan
Q-Tip's new album, The Renaissance, is officially in stores tomorrow, but if you're in NY you can head out to FatBeats tonight, get the album, meet Q-Tip and have him sign it! Yet, another reason why I should live in New York. Anyone in NY plan on going? Can someone hook me up with a [...]
If there can truly be a definitive Renaissance-era in hip hop, what would you consider it to be? For this reviewer, the Renaissance in hip hop was from 1991 to 1993 when hip hop was blessed with an undeniable shift in subject matter, style, attitude and appreciation. A rebirth. This was around the time The [...]
Here's a new one from Q-Tip in anticipation of his visit to Austin next month (11/20 ), with The Cool Kids at Stubb's. The jazzy piano-laced "Gettin' Up" comes from The Renaissance , Q's new album that will be released (finally) on November 4 and feature the likes of Common, D'Angelo, Norah Jones, Madlib, and Santogold. I haven't heard much of it yet, but I do like the feel of this track. Sta...
Back by popular demand is our New Music Tuesday, where we highlight Hip Hop and R&B albums that hit stores today. Lots of good stuff coming out today. Of course we know about Q-Tip's The Renaissance. Also released today is Little Brother's re-release of their 2006 mixtape Seperate But Equal (this time without [...]
I would have been completely content with the unofficial video for Q-Tip 's song "Gettin' Up," but The Abstract does us one better with this version. This is some real smooth two step music right here. Q-Tip's album The Renaissance is due out on November 4th. Bonus: Q-Tip spits an a capella at the Pac Div show at Love oin NYC last night. [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqfCCA7NfA 425x...
Aside from being one of the dopest emcees in hip hop, Q-Tip should also be recognized as one of the dopest producers in the genre. Though his work with A Tribe Called Quest was credited to the whole group, Tip was indeed the beat crafter. Later in his career, Tip would also team with the [...]
A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and The Jungle Brothers. They were the principle members of a group of hip hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-naturedly Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and jazz-influenced beats called the Native Tongue Posse. They helped pioneer what we call conscious or alternative hip [...]
I would have been completely content with the unofficial video for Q-Tip's song "Gettin' Up," but The Abstract does us one better with this version. This is some real smooth two step music right here. Q-Tip's album The Renaissance is due out on November 4th.Bonus: Q-Tip spits an a capella at the Pac Div show at Love in NYC last night.[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqfCCA7NfA 425x3...
Yo, I hope you all have enjoyed Foreign Exchange week thus far! As the week comes to a close, we still have one more major article to put up… which should be tomorrow (if Deez finishes it on time…lol). Just kidding, my man. Anyway, I had to post this up for my next highly anticipated hip [...]