A Tribe Called Quest - We Can Get Down

[crankshaft]

Both the low end theory and midnight marauders are 10/10 albums

[brycedominique]

This is my favorite song by them. Q-Tip’s part just makes me fall in love with him.

[macdabluepanther]

One of the best albums of any genre ever made!!

[spoonforleg]

This one stands out on an already perfect album. That beat is something special.

[joemcgonagle]

2023 been jammin this 30 years. Still hot

[hassansway]

30 yrs later and i still can't believe how insane this is

[willanderson]

Best group and best album ever... You can play both sides over and over again!

[tinatseyi]

Congratulations if you made it here for the first time…..someone else recommended me to listen to this album….my music taste completely changed ever since

[cryptnymussec]

"We Can Get Down" - What a great track for gaming. I love this with Battlefield 3 (yes, I play it still, 8 years later. Multiplayer is hanging on!) The beat fills you with nostalgia. A deep longing to go back in time.

I envision my childhood home from the 90s in West Phoenix. Solid beat for reminiscing.

Track Rating: A, E, I, O, U.... AND SOMETIMES, Y...

Joking.

Actual Rating: 9.5/10

[deniscalik]

2:40 still getting goosebumbs over and over again

[jessereamer]

I remember I was in college in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1994, and I used to listen to this album, smoking weed in between my studies. Those were the days for sure!!!

[majik]

0:48 "Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop"
Still too true.

[blakebarr]

This has to be their most under rated songs

[yung_andre]

Been awhile but Everytime I come back it's a pleasant experience

[Alessandro]

Classic hip hop album. Long Live A.T.C.Q

[us-americanwarcriminal]

[Hook]
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
Check it!
[Verse 1: Phife Dawg]
I'm not your average MC with the Joe Schmoe flow
If you don't know me by now, you'll never know
Stepping on my critics, beating on my foes
The plan is to stay focused, only then I can grow
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop
Crushing competition like Italians on grapes
My rhymes styles be blending like a Ron G tape
My man where ya going, you can't escape
When the Tribe is in the house that means nobody is safe
How can a reverend preach, when a rev can't define
The music of our youth from 1979
We rap by what we see, meaning reality
From people busting caps and like Mandela being free
Not every MC be with the negativity
We have a slew of rappers pushing positivity
Hip hop will never die yo, it's all about the rap
So Mayor Barry smoking crack, let's preach about that
The trash you talk won't matter, that old bogus chatter
The more that you condemn us, it only makes us phatter
When I talk, I know I'm talking for Hip Hoppers all around
You know you love the sound, we gets down
[Hook]
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
We can get down, we can we can get down
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
Check it!

[Verse 2: Q-Tip]
I'm the cherry on the top of yo ice cream
I'm the mystic thought inside your dream
Listen to the way we pulsate the jam
I'm the nigga here with the mic in hand
Styles that we present are just a few
To do away with you and your hum drum crew
This is '93 and the shit is real
Black people unite and put down your steel
Ladies make a forum on your sexual drive
Devote it to your lover and make it thrive
The rhythm's in F, I'm a hip hop body
Release my energy with the force of a shotty
Standing on the wall with my Polo on
Talking to the girl with the Liz Claiborne
Keep the poetry in my black knapsack
Got my Timbo hooves and my Doublemint pack
Hit the city streets to enhance my soul
I can kick a rhyme over ill drum rolls
With a kick, snare, kicks and high hat
Skilled in the trade of that old boom bap
I can do a trick with the opposite breed
I used to down 40s and smoke grade weed
Now, I'm doing shows with half loot down
Now it's time for me to take ya uptown
[Hook]
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
It's like that man, it's like this, Shaheed!

Shaheed:(scratching)(until end)
Rakim: "Why waste time on the microphone"

[konami]

I got this album on vinyl more than 25 years ago and it still sounds fresh AF.

[bloodtypeaudio]

That head knoddin, back in the day biz....love

[djerratic]

just here reminiscing and getting my hip hop cleansing from 2020 trap garbage. Phife said it here "Hip Hop will never die yo!"

[vondbee]

Their 1st 2 albums r Perfect. 82 baby here, they were soo refreshin.