producer: busta rhymes, korn

guests: jay-dee, q-tip, dj scratch

If I have to introduce this man, then you have some serious researching to do. For real. So I wont. But I will talk a little about the events that kept this album anticipated or not. It depends on how much you like the last Tribe albums.

"The Love Movement" is not as wack as everybody said it was. If you let it grow on you, you will start to enjoy it. You will not cherish it like the early Tribe albums, but you will not hide it shamefully from your friends coming by the house. You might even sneak it in your car stereo. And the passengers will enjoy it too, if they don't realize that it's the Tribe. Cause the stakes for them is so high, they were destined to fail. And stakes are high for Q-Tip's first solo offering too. And what he decided to do was to ignore what was expected from him, and just do something else. And that's like Tupac not contradict himself, the Beatnuts not killing anybody, El-P inviting us to dance or show our bling-blings, it's like the Hot Boys saying they are broke or Lil Kim saying, she's not into sex after all. It wont happen. But here it did happen. Q-Tip was like: "yo, if I have a whole album to feel good on, why don't I just do that? I know, I'm this academic Abstract, but damn, I enjoy myself too, I wanna have a darn good time with this". Yeah, why not? Q-Tip seems to be pleased with himself, happy (again that word), just liking to be on something, liking what he's doing with this album. Smiling. And so he flows, he parties, he bounces, he flosses grins, you just feel him being comfortable rhyming over these tracks. And you yourself feel comfortable to get up from your chair and do a little leg bending, whistling along and 'aaayooo' shouting.

The album is actually very continuing, as in, it flows effortlessly from one track to the other, without really releasing us from our vibing, during any if so short little break. And that's what the albums seems to be like: effortless. Not as in 'damn, I don't wanna work no more, let's put some throwaways on the album', but more like 'hey, I enjoy myself so much, this is so fun, it's not even hard or a drag no more'. And that's the happy factor again.

While some of the beats seem guiding, next level ish, if you listen closely, you will see, that they are just like the bouncy, party-ish tracks, Tribe used to do, but on this album with a 'this is now'-twist to 'em. Just think of tracks like "Oh My God", "Award Tour", "Scenario", "Check The Rhime", to name a few, are some party tracks right there, without blatantly being jiggy. And so are the tracks on here. Like the dope first song "Wait Up". This could have been on "Midnight Marauder", what doesn't mean it sounds old today.

Same goes for "Breathe And Stop", that has the hand clapping going. On "Let's Ride" Phife seems to be peaking around the corner, and you want to urge him to drop a rhyme too. "Things You Do" is nice too, so is the hidden jazzyness of "All In". And only the 8th is the first track you are somehow tempted to skip. And tragically the 9th too, a unnecessary latino-ish guitar makes this song flop. But "Vivrant Thing" is fast to save the album. While this track might take four to seven times until you like it, after that you will "just move your little thing / move it around and shake your little thing".

The Busta Rhymes featured track "N.T." is cool too, with a strong piano sample, while Tip is profiling lyrically over the track, with an exception to his mostly feel good lyrics of the others. What makes the beat sound more contemporary are the twisted basslines, little sparkles and tickles here and there, like in the beginning of "End Of Time" feat. Korn, that only starts to suck, as the guitars enter the track. But once again, the autobiographic hidden track saves the album, to leave a final, and really good impression.