I cannot even begin to explain how excited I am for the release of “Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest” at the Ritz 5 on July 22nd. OH.em.gee….ATCQ just makes me so happy. I remember when I first really got into ATCQ, I heard ‘the Love Movement’ and was instantly hooked. I met this dude in college who was a huge ATCQ fan and I think back to sitting in his dorm room for hours copying all the cd’s and live shit he had. I would drive around on nice days with my windows down acting all cool and shit like yea I found a new ATCQ joint. No one cared. Well except for me (and probably dorm room dude, I forget his name).
I’m not a super hip hop mega fan but I am definitely down with the OG ish. All this dumb ass gangsta shit out there today is just ridiculous…but ATCQ was always so real. I wish more kids would look up to these guys rather than the wangsta I’m so gangsta dudes out there on the mics today. I won’t even begin to rant on that influence. The collaboration of ATCQ and De La Soul was pretty much one of the best performances I have ever seen and I wish I could see more artists like this emerge on the hip hop scene.
Anyways, the documentary, directed by Michael Rapaport ((who by the way is effing awesome)) will hopefully capture basically everything I’ve wanted to know about ATCQ since their break up in like ’96 or something. I am totally ecstatic.
Check out the trailer: http://www.sonyclassics.com/beatsrhymesandlife/
Complete Side Note: Did you know that pronunciate is not the proper word for “to pronounce?” It actually is enunciate. I have been pronunciating words for years…what the shit.
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