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Happy 50th birthday to my musical hero @QtipTheAbstract. This man’s harmonic and rhythmic sensibilities shaped my ear. The type of chords I like are because of Tip and Tribe. And nuance, subtlety, the shadows between dark, vibey, intelligent, and fun party shit. 
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This is a Q-Tip appreciation thread.
Lyrics To Go. The 3 bar loop. Minnie Ripperton’s high note that sounds like an eerie synth string. The cadence. This is perfection. https://music.apple.com/us/album/lyrics-to-go/265670545?i=265670742">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Lyrics To Go. The 3 bar loop. Minnie Ripperton’s high note that sounds like an eerie synth string. The cadence. This is perfection. https://music.apple.com/us/album/lyrics-to-go/265670545?i=265670742">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Q-Tip the producer. The notorious record digger. The CRACKING SNARES. Has anyone ever figured out the sample for Crooklyn? I don’t think so, right? https://music.apple.com/us/album/crooklyn-feat-buck-shot-special-ed-master-ace-crooklyn/1434903233?i=1434903249">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Amplified was my shit, the whole album. Let’s Ride is a perfect song. A jam about cars, a jam about music, the crazy subtlety of the drum groove. https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-ride/279722147?i=279722167">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Janet. And hey, no disrespect to the gods JJ & TL, but we know who really produced this track. Word to the Ummah. https://music.apple.com/us/album/got-til-its-gone/723390477?i=723390690">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
My favorite Ummah remix. I hope all the younger Dilla fans know that Tip is single-handedly the reason why the word has Jay Dee music. https://music.apple.com/us/album/sometimes-feat-q-tip-ummah-remix/1443620714?i=1443620922">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Let’s take it to Deee Lite. One of the greatest songs of all time, and it features both tip and Bootsy, I mean.... https://music.apple.com/us/album/groove-is-in-the-heart/72794068?i=72793857">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Q-Tip the remixer again. Craig Mack remix is slept on, he brought a jazzy groove but kept it hard hitting. https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-down-feat-q-tip-remix-feat-q-tip/450040063?i=450040099">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
More of that hard shit. A lot of people don’t know how much Kamaal shaped Mobb Deep’s The Infamous. The amount of songs he mixed on there, beyond his credits. But as far as credited songs, this one is https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😙" title="Kissing face with smiling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Kissing face with smiling eyes">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👌🏼" title="Ok hand (medium light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Ok hand (medium light skin tone)"> https://music.apple.com/us/album/drink-away-the-pain-situations-feat-q-tip/255342338?i=255344755">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I gotta put Bonita, right? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍑" title="Peach" aria-label="Emoji: Peach"> https://music.apple.com/us/album/bonita-applebum/266768420?i=266768447">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Q-Tip & Busta “wild hot”. Before this went on the Rhyme & Reason soundtrack there was a while label of it. Matter of fact, around this time (97-ish, post Beats Rhymes & Life) there was a couple of Q-Tip white labels circulating. https://youtu.be/wi0SqsZfRrY ">https://youtu.be/wi0SqsZfR...
(By the way Tip’s opening lines in Wild Hot are sooo fire: “I be the all eye seeing, the MC’ing human being, soon to be in your museum”) https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire">
Hold Tight. The roll call. “D’Angelo play your piano, Jay Dee flip another beat for me, hold tight with Baatin and my n*gga T3, Bussa Bus watch out for who you trust, Ali Shaheed it’s your blood that I bleed, yes Phife for you I would give my life.” https://music.apple.com/us/album/hold-tight-feat-q-tip/1159991240?i=1159993164">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
The friendship with the Beasties was so cool. The story goes that Tip would go to their studio (G-Son) and shoot hoops with them, and Get It Together was a freestyle, just horsing around. He didn’t know it was an actual song lol. https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-it-together-2009-remaster/724899844?i=724900898">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Kamaal & Saadiq, another perfect team. Raphael Saadiq was originally supposed to be part of the Ummah too. https://music.apple.com/us/album/wefight-welove-feat-raphael-saadiq/1445859394?i=1445859628">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Alright, back to Tribe, let’s go to their most controversial album which I will 100% defend any day of the week. I was gonna go to one of my personal fav album cuts like Pad & Pen or The Love, but.... I just have to go with Find A Way. That sample!!! https://music.apple.com/us/album/find-a-way/254660972?i=254661166">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I will also defend Beats Rhymes & Life all day. This is my favorite joint on it (the depth!) and it’s a solo Abstract record. https://music.apple.com/us/album/get-a-hold/254976948?i=254977038">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
By the way, you guys know Tip produced Apache “Gangsta Bitch”, right? https://music.apple.com/us/album/gangsta-bitch/1413986230?i=1413987818">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
Can’t forget One Love, One Love, One Love, One Love. https://music.apple.com/us/album/one-love/662324135?i=662324544">https://music.apple.com/us/album/...
I could seriously do this all day (and I don’t feel bad about flooding your timelines https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">), but I’m gonna end this thread with this interview which I watched in full yesterday. Shout out @chairmanmaonyc. Happy birthday Kamaal thank you for shaping my life. https://youtu.be/8RWctL6Pk6A ">https://youtu.be/8RWctL6Pk...
