We Got It From Hereã¢â⦠Thank You 4 Your Service Album Art
| We Got It from Here... Thanks 4 Your Service | ||||
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| Studio album by A Tribe Chosen Quest | ||||
| Released | November 11, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2015–2016 | |||
| Studio | The AbLab in New Jersey | |||
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| Length | sixty:xx | |||
| Characterization | Epic | |||
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| A Tribe Called Quest chronology | ||||
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We Got Information technology from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (stylised as We got it from Here... Give thanks You lot 4 Your service ) is the sixth and final studio album past American hip hop grouping A Tribe Called Quest. Information technology was released on November eleven, 2016, by Epic Records.
The album was recorded at the AbLab, the New Jersey habitation studio of group member Q-Tip. The recording featured invitee appearances from André 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Jack White, Elton John, Kanye West, Anderson .Paak, Talib Kweli, Effect, and Busta Rhymes. It was one of the last recorded appearances of grouping fellow member Phife Dawg, who died in March 2016 from complications with diabetes.
We Got It from Hither... became A Tribe Called Quest's second album to chart atop the Billboard 200. It was too a widespread critical success, being named by many music publications every bit one of 2016's ten all-time albums. The following twelvemonth, the album was certified Gold past the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having sold at least 500,000 anthology-equivalent units.
Background [edit]
Afterward The Love Motility, A Tribe Called Quest split up upward due to human relationship issues between group members, effectively rendering The Dearest Move as the supposed concluding album. For years, Tribe denied that any new material was recorded, or fifty-fifty planned, although they reunited briefly to play several shows during Kanye Westward's Yeezus Tour in 2013. On November 13, 2015, the group performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the aforementioned night of the Paris attacks. Feeling "charged", the group put bated their differences, and decided to record the anthology in secrecy.[5] Group member Q-Tip said that considering of The Tonight Bear witness appearance, "I knew if nosotros were connecting with that kind of energy in a performance, it would be piece of cake to go dorsum to the studio." Phife Dawg'southward mother said her son "idea they might be able to make a five-song EP and that would be it. He never idea they'd accept enough for a whole album."[six]
Recording and production [edit]
The album was recorded for virtually a year at Q-Tip's abode studio, the AbLab in New Jersey; the name was derived from "Abstruse", 1 of the rapper'southward monikers. The studio had been designed with his longtime engineer Blair Wells every bit a "dream project" that "took years to consummate", co-ordinate to Consequence, the rapper's cousin.[half dozen] The studio was stored with analog recording equipment, including preamplifiers used on recordings done by Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, and the Ramones, also as a tape recorder that once belonged to Frank Zappa.[6]
Q-Tip and Phife Dawg spent four months together working on the album;[6] group member and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad was unable to co-produce with Q-Tip, as he was producing the Luke Cage soundtrack with Adrian Younge at the fourth dimension.[seven] Q-Tip and Phife Dawg talked extensively about adhering to but not being express by their grouping's musical roots. "We knew we had to keep the thread simply besides push it forwards", Q-Tip later on said. "With the beats, he was e'er quick to exist like thumbs-up, thumbs-downwards. He was commonly correct dead on." In the early stages of making the album, Q-Tip drew inspiration from the rock records of the Stooges and Iggy Pop. "I just love it", he later on said. "I think you tin can hear the stone in our record too."[six]
Phife Dawg traveled to New Jersey past plane from his habitation, where he was receiving dialysis treatment three times a week for diabetes. The residue of his time was spent staying at a hotel near Q-Tip's domicile with his manager Dion "Rasta Root" Liverpool and recording the anthology during the evening. As Liverpool recalled, "every evening he'd become downward to the firm, and he and Tip would spend hours in there vibing and coming up with lines. Seeing them together in the studio joking, coming upwardly with ideas, disagreeing, vibing, and trading vocals, information technology was pretty incredible. It was similar watching a unicorn." Q-Tip later said he felt similar they were "kids over again". On March 22, 2016, Phife Dawg died at his home from complications with diabetes. Q-Tip went on to finish the album.[half-dozen]
The album'due south production was credited to Q-Tip, with Wells given co-producer credit.[8] [ix] Scratching credits on the album are attributed to DJ Scratch.[8] The recording featured guest contributions from André 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Jack White, Elton John, Kanye West, Anderson .Paak, Talib Kweli, and A Tribe Chosen Quest's near frequent collaborators Upshot and Busta Rhymes.[ten] [5] [xi] [12] The album'south title had been chosen by Phife Dawg, and although the other members did not sympathize its meaning, they kept information technology in place later on his death.[5] Q-Tip has stated that information technology is the group'south final album.[13]
Release and sales [edit]
We Got Information technology from Here… Thank You lot iv Your Service was released by Ballsy Records on November 11, 2016.[14] The following day, A Tribe Chosen Quest appeared every bit the musical invitee on the sketch comedy testify Saturday Night Alive, where they performed "We the People...." and "The Space Program".[6] On November twenty, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning 135,000 album-equivalent units, with 112,000 of that effigy beingness pure album sales. It became A Tribe Called Quest's 2d number one album, and their start since 1996, marking the longest time between number one albums for a hip hop act.[15] On May 22, 2017, it was certified Gilded by the Recording Industry Clan of America (RIAA), indicating sales of at least 500,000 album-equivalent units. With this, all of the group'southward studio albums accept received an RIAA certification.[xvi]
Disquisitional reception [edit]
| Amass scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.iv/10[17] |
| Metacritic | 91/100[fourteen] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [7] |
| The A.Five. Guild | B+[18] |
| Amusement Weekly | B+[19] |
| The Guardian |  [xx] |
| The Independent | [21] |
| The Irish Times | [22] |
| Pitchfork | 9.0/10[23] |
| Tape Collector | [24] |
| Rolling Stone | [25] |
| Vice (Expert Witness) | A+[26] |
We Got It from Here... Thank Yous 4 Your Service was met with widespread disquisitional acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an boilerplate score of 91, based on 26 reviews;[14] information technology was the yr's best-reviewed hip hop album and fourth best-reviewed album overall, according to the website.[27]
Reviewing the anthology for Amusement Weekly in Nov 2016, Ray Rahman said the album "vividly demonstrate[south] the group's unassailable greatness and continued relevance".[19] Christopher R. Weingarten of Rolling Stone believed that "in both delivery and content", A Tribe Called Quest "maintain the mental attitude of the Bohemian everydude funkonauts that inspired Kanye W, Andre 3000 and Kendrick Lamar (who all appear here)".[25] In Spin, Brian Josephs praised how the group "worked with the understanding that black music at its finest conversed with ancestry while pointing toward futurity possibilities in resistance confronting the racist forces that run parallel."[28] Co-ordinate to Michael Madden from Effect of Sound, the album exhibits "the archetype Tribe sound: a warm and crisp confluence of East Coast hip-hop, jazz, and more, all mixed and mastered impeccably",[2] while Clayton Purdom of The A.V. Club believed the music had more in common with Q-Tip'south 2008 solo album The Renaissance than with the group'south previous work; he chosen We Got It from Hither... "a sinuous sound collage pulling much more from '90s and '00s R&B than it does Native Tongues boom-bap".[eighteen]
Veteran critic Robert Christgau hailed the album equally a "triumph" in his review for Vice, writing that the tape "represents both their bond and the conscious black humanism they felt sure the nation was ready for ... urging us to beloved each other as much as we can every bit we achieve a happiness it's our duty to reaccess if nosotros're to boxing as all we can exist."[26] He rated it an A-plus. He later said he "rashly awarded that class in the wake of Donald Trump's electoral coup", merely nevertheless went on to name it as the tenth best album of the decade.[29] In The Observer, Kitty Empire wrote that "every bit the album enters its final tertiary, some focus is lost, but the starting time two-thirds take no prisoners either lyrically or musically."[xxx]
Accolades [edit]
At the finish of 2016, We Got It from Hither... was named 1 of the year's best albums by music publications; according to Metacritic, it was the eighth most ranked record on critics' tiptop-ten lists. 4 critics named it the best album of 2016, including Annie Mac from BBC Radio 1. It was ranked third by Complex; 4th by Billboard, Paste, Q, Camber Mag, and Spin; fifth by Clash; sixth by The Independent and State; seventh past Pitchfork; 8th by Fact; and tenth past Esquire.[31] New York Times chief critic Jon Pareles ranked We Got It from Here... third on his own twelvemonth-finish list.[32] Christgau named it 2016'due south best anthology in his ballot for The Village Vox 's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll[33] and after the tenth best anthology of the 2010s in a decade-end list.[29] Pitchfork ranked Nosotros Got It from Here... at number 44 on its decade-end list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s".[34]
Track listing [edit]
- All tracks produced by Q-Tip and co-produced past Blair Wells.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length |
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| 1. | "The Space Program" |
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| 5:twoscore |
| 2. | "We the People...." |
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| 2:52 |
| 3. | "Whateva Will Be" |
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| ii:52 |
| 4. | "Solid Wall of Sound" |
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| three:43 |
| 5. | "Dis Generation" |
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| 3:33 |
| 6. | "Kids..." |
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| iii:48 |
| seven. | "Melatonin" |
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| 4:44 |
| 8. | "Enough!!" |
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| 3:xx |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | Length |
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| nine. | "Mobius" |
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| 2:51 |
| x. | "Black Spasmodic" |
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| 3:03 |
| 11. | "The Killing Season" |
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| 2:43 |
| 12. | "Lost Somebody" |
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| 4:eighteen |
| xiii. | "Movin Backwards" |
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| 4:41 |
| xiv. | "Conrad Tokyo" |
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| three:31 |
| 15. | "Ego" |
| Q-Tip | three:17 |
| 16. | "The Donald" | Fareed |
| five:22 |
| Full length: | 60:20 | |||
Sample credits [edit]
- "The Infinite Plan" contains samples from the films Willie Dynamite and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- "We the People...." contains a sample of "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath.[8]
- "Whateva Will Be" contains samples of "Promised Land" past Nairobi Sisters.[8]
- "Solid Wall of Sound" contains a sample of "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John.[8]
- "Dis Generation" contains samples of "Pass the Dutchie" past Musical Youth and "Ruido de magia" by Invisible.[8]
- "Mobius" contains a portion of the limerick "Prologue" by Gentle Giant, written past Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Phillip Shulman and Raymond Shulman.[viii]
- "Lost Somebody" contains a sample of "Halleluhwah" past Can.[eight]
- "Movin Backwards" contains a sample of "The Bear upon of Your Lips" by The Emotions.[eight]
- "Ego" contains a sample of "Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, two Mixed Choirs and Orchestra" by György Ligeti.[35]
Personnel [edit]
Credits are adapted from the anthology's liner notes.[36]
A Tribe Chosen Quest [edit]
- Q-Tip – vocals (tracks 1–13, 15, 16), bass (tracks 2, iv, 6, viii–13, fifteen, 16), drums (tracks ane, 3, 4, vi, 7, thirteen), keyboards (tracks 2, five, eleven), pulsate programming (tracks two, 5, 7, fourteen)
- Phife – vocals (tracks 1–five, x, fourteen, 16)
- Jarobi White – vocals (tracks i, 3, 5, 8, eleven–xiii)
Boosted musicians [edit]
- Marsha Ambrosius – vocals (track 7)
- André 3000 – vocals (rails 6)
- Casey Benjamin – keyboards (tracks ii, 6, 13), Fender Rhodes (tracks seven), organ (runway 9), pianoforte (track 15)
- Kris Bowers – piano (track 12)
- Busta Rhymes – vocals (tracks iv, five, 9, sixteen)
- Katia Buck – vocals (tracks 12, 16)
- Louis Cato – bass (tracks 1, 15), guitar (tracks eleven, 16), additional bass (track vii)
- Mark Colenburg – additional drums (runway seven)
- Effect – vocals (track three, 9, ten, 11)
- Masayuki "BIGYUKI" Hirano – keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 6, eight, nine, 11, 16), synthesizer (track 7)
- Elton John – vocals (rails 4), piano (rail 4)
- Talib Kweli – vocals (track xi)
- Kendrick Lamar – vocals (runway 14)
- Anderson .Paak – vocals (track thirteen)
- Chris Parks – guitar (track 12)
- Chris Sholar – guitar (tracks 1, 7, 12, 13, xv), acoustic guitar (runway ix)
- Yebba (Abbey Smith) – vocals (track vii)
- George "DJ Scratch" Spivey – scratches (tracks 8, 15, 16)
- Thaddaeus Tribbett – bass (rails seven)
- Blair Wells – guitar (rail 9)
- Kanye Due west – vocals (track 11)
- Jack White – guitar (tracks xv, xvi), vocals (runway 4), audio-visual guitar (track 4)
Production [edit]
- A Tribe Called Quest – executive production
- Q-Tip – production, recording, mixing
- Blair Wells – co-product, recording, mixing
- Gloria Kaba – banana engineer
- Dave Kennedy – mixing (tracks i, ii, 4, 6–8, 12)
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Jeremy Lubsey – mastering assistant
- Michael Starita – additional vocal recording (rail 5)
- Laura Gonzalez – assistant engineer (track 5)
- Robert Kirby – assistant engineer (track 5)
Release [edit]
- Tracey Waples – production consultation
- Thom Skarzynski – product manager
- Richard Prince – anthology cover design
- Anita Marisa Boriboon – artistic director, album packaging art direction, pattern
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
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External links [edit]
- We Got It from Here... Thank you 4 Your Service at Discogs (list of releases)
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