Sample Breakdown: A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour

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[thegroove]

Love the old skool way of sampling. Finding the right loops is where its at to get the vibe going. A lot of 80s early 90s hip hop is like magic.

[blakebarr]

I will never understand how they were so good at layering smples

[octaviusprice]

The crazy thing about it is the same colors that they use inside the video or on their album 🤯

[BlackDrac]

Tip had the hardest drums out of any producer in the 90s. In addition to Tribe he had Crooklyn Dodgers beat, Nas One Love and World is Yours Remix

[im_OfficialYS]

3 different songs combined wow. but can you do Mathematics by Mos Def, produced by DJ Premier pls?

[s.j_mk]

I love how you use the Tribe’s colors (yellow red and green) to highlight the clips

[CurrentRapCurrents]

Q-Tip doin his do. King of Hip Hop jazz samples. Single-handedly changed hip hops 90s trajectory.

[TedTrembinski]

These visuals are incredible!! My new favorite channel!!!

[blaqdiva]

I love the way they choose good songs to sample. Finding correct loops to fit and stuff. 💜

[christurbiville]

how am I just now finding out about Tracklib! this track has vibes for days

[AGtheGEEK]

I’m definitely digging these beat break down videos….. please make more
thank you

[kdigga]

You forgot the song “Olinga” by Milt Jackson

[funksonatra]

I remember getting the limited promo album for tower records. “Left my wallet in ES”…it was a green color album. Crazy dope experience from that point on. The production team, although Q did majority of the production, a lot of those records are timeless. Beats I’d put up against some of the top 10 ever…and that’s a lot of hiphop…lyrics, what can I say. The gold standard of being emcees Phife and Q were. Glad to have seen the dope transition over the decades! Rest in Paradise PDog! Salute to the whole ATCQ!

[lowlowseesee]

damn no wonder this track grooves so hard, each sample has percussion deep down any there for syncopation

[antonmoshkounian]

You forgot Tribe sampling the bassline from the song “Don’t Walk Away” by Jade. I wonder how these things get missed by such a big corporate company like Tracklib since the bassline is so integral to Award Tour. The missing samples are too important. Great song either way.

[bennycgul]

Such a classic wow this is so cool!! This is why original hip hop was so amazing!!

[charliebarks]

So cool to hear how long he waited in the Weldon Irvine track to find the section he picked. Seems like a no-brainer to us in retrospect but there are plenty of dope parts before that so the patience tells me he actually listened to the whole song, likely the whole record

[GoodxJ]

Amazing! Tribe are masters of sampling and even inspired the spark of genius that would become Mr Kanye West!!! 🙏🏻✌️👍😁🔥

[Xaviphoenix]

YESSSS!!! :) anyone else get the “a-ha” moment when everything comes together? :)

[kiqxand]

Brooo whooo in the world thumbed this DOWN ?! LOOOLLLL

This is absolutely phenomenal and particularly valuable to those of us who grew up with this masterpiece of a song.

Award Tour is amongst the greatest and purest hiphop songs ever created.

God bless the Tribe