DJs, lyricists, breakers.....” how can I move the crowd?”

Low end theory
Instinctive travels
3 feet high and rising
De la soul is dead
Midnight Marauders
Buhloone Mind State
Grind Date
...we got it from here

That’s how I rank them.

But Low End Theory changed the sound and landscape of hip hop...and everybody else followed.

“Released on September 24, 1991, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory is the quintessential moment where hip-hop let its jazz muse fly. Others – most notably Gang Starr – had explored fusions between jazz and hip-hop, but Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad evoked a cool bebop ethos that none had achieved before. “


Secondly tribe’s great success led to the demise of native tongue. The jealousy and hate of JBs and de la is what killed everything, because qtip switched engineering studios. He didn’t want any of the native tongue engineers anymore and switched to Chris lightly as management. The rest is history.


“10. The Low End Theory marked the beginning of the end of Native Tongues.
During the recording sessions for The Low End Theory, Q-Tip decided to switch from pioneering New York DJ and Native Tongues mentor Red Alert to Russell Simmons’ Rush Management, with Chris Lighty as their point man. The split opened wounds that never truly healed between Tribe and De La, and on the other side, the innovative, perpetually underrated Jungle Brothers. “Jungle didn’t fuck with us . Everybody was hurt,” Tip told Vibe in a 2007 story”

Tribe is the superior group for so many reasons. This is no fan boy stance.

There is no hip hop list where de la is ahead of tribe.

Example: Tribe had not made an album in decades. They release an album with jarobi and the entire world responded. It’s a pretty decent album, not groundbreaking, but a good release. De la’s recent albums ,not so much.

Problem with De la is that they come off as if they are smarter than their audience. Dope lyricists, but lyrically arrogant.