How far must you go to gain respect?…ummmm

If any of you pine for the golden age of Hip Hop as I do (for a 76’er like me that would be around the time of our first “black” president Bill Clinton’s first 100 days), you could do none better than pay homage to the cool brother with the laid back silver tongue, spitting verses from a handbook collabo of nietsche and krs-one. He keeps it like that, because he likes it like that. We’re talking about the Abstract aka Q-tip.

Everyone ate up ATCQ’s repertoire of soulful beats and conscious verses, Phife with his point-guard flow (if you don’t know him by now, you’ll never know), Ali Shaheed Muhammad had us doing calisthenics to the boom bap of pre-neo-soul-post-hip-hop flavor, and Tip brought in that silky smooth flow that got the ladies hot and the brothers wanna smoke a spliff or two.

It is with great pleasure that I recommend a wonderfully pure mixtape by the brother J. Period, king of the unorthodox documentarian style mix. He goes through the entire catalog of the Q-Tip’s best verses, layered with samples and beats from all over the spectrum, as well as throwing in some exclusive remixes (Excursions 2009 with De La is heavenly), and a few jewels of behind-the-scenes flavor from the man himself.

It has been close to two decades since the first ATCQ album dropped, and for all y’all that haven’t peeped Q-Tip’s new joint The Renaissance (another instant classic), I suggest you ‘check your clock, your demise is coming up and I want yo man to watch!’

My advice to you, is to listen to this mixtape and educate your dumb ass!

(props to Meelanee for the rec)

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