We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
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Kamaal Fareed , Blair Wells |
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We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is the sixth and final studio album by the US hip-hop band A Tribe Called Quest . It was released 18 years after the previous album The Love Movement on November 11, 2016. With the album, the band reached number 1 in the US charts for the first time . Member Phife Dawg died while working on We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service an Diabetes .
History of origin
Despite several temporary alliances, A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ) did not record any new albums for 18 years after their fifth album, The Love Movement (1998). We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service surprisingly came out in 2016 as the sixth and final album by the band. Compared to the original line-up, there was no DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad , who was unable to attend due to lack of time. Most of the music was produced and partly recorded by Q-Tip. Phife Dawg died of diabetes during the recordings. The final song of the album The Donald was dedicated to him. With his death, Jarobi White was much more present compared to previous albums.
The album was created during the US presidential election campaign , in which the later President Donald Trump in particular repeatedly attracted attention through statements interpreted as racist ; the Black Lives Matter movement was also very prominent during this period. This is particularly reflected in the song We the People… , which was released as a single and which addresses racism and homophobia directed against blacks , but also Mexicans . Other songs, such as the opener The Space Program , also deal with racism.
Musically, the album leans heavily on the typical ATCQ sound with elements of soul , jazz and funk , but also with dark electronic sounds that are reminiscent of the band's later albums. The samples come from Black Sabbath , Musical Youth and Can , among others .
We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service was released on Veterans Day . The album cover was designed by Richard Prince .
On March 29, 2018, The Space Program, the last music video of the already broken up band, was released.
Track list
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| 1. | The Space Program | Jarobi White, Kamaal Fareed , Malik Isaak Taylor | 5:41 |
| 2. | We the People ... | William Thomas "Bill" Ward , Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler , John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne , Frank Anthony "Tony" Iommi , Kamaal Fareed, Malik Isaak Taylor | 2:52 |
| 3. | Whateva Will Be (feat. Consequence ) | Dexter Mills , Jarobi White, Kamaal Fareed, Malik Izaak Taylor, Winston Jones | 2:53 |
| 4th | Solid Wall of Sound (feat. Jack White , Elton John & Busta Rhymes ) | Jack White , Kamaal Fareed, Malik Izaak Taylor, Trevor Smith | 3:53 |
| 5. | Dis Generation ( feat.Busta Rhymes ) | Headley Bennett, Damo Suzuki , Fitzroy Simpson, Holger Czukay , Huford Brown, Irmin Schmidt , Jackie Mittoo , Jaki Liebezeit , Jarobi White, Kamaal Fareed, Leroy Sibblis, Lloyd Ferguson, Malik Izaak Taylor, Michael Karoli , Robert Lyn, Trevor Smith | 3:34 |
| 6th | Kids (feat. André 3000 ) | André Lauren Benjamin , Kamaal Fareed | 3:48 |
| 7th | Melatonin (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & Yebba) | Kamaal Fareed, Louis Cato, Marsha Ambrosius , Hirano Masayuki | 4:45 |
| 8th. | Enough !! | Kamaal Fareed | 3:21 |
| 9. | Mobius (feat. Consequence & Busta Rhymes ) | Derek Shulman , Dexter Mills, Kamaal Fareed, Kerry Minnear , Phil Shulman , Ray Shulman , Trevor Smith | 2:52 |
| 10. | Black Spasmodic | Kamaal Fareed, Malik Izaak Taylor | 3:04 |
| 11. | The Killing Season (feat. Consequence , Talib Kweli & Kanye West ) | Dexter Mills, Jarobi White, Kamaal Fareed, Talib Kweli Greene | 2:44 |
| 12. | Lost Somebody (feat. Katia Cadet) | Damo Suzuki, Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Jarobi White, Kamaal Fareed, Michael Karoli | 4:19 |
| 13. | Movin Backwards (feat. Anderson .Paak ) | Brandon Anderson Paak , Kamaal Fareed | 4:42 |
| 14th | Conrad Tokyo (feat. Kendrick Lamar ) | Kamaal Fareed, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth , Malik Izaak Taylor | 3:32 |
| 15th | ego | Jack White, Kamaal Fareed | 3:18 |
| 16. | The Donald ( feat.Busta Rhymes & Katia Cadet) | Kamaal Fareed | 5:22 |
| Overall length: | 60:18 | ||
Guests
The trio Q-Tip, Jarobi and Phife Dawg are accompanied by numerous well-known guests on the album. On Solid Wall of Sound control Jack White guitar and singing, Elton John piano and vocals, longtime collaborator Busta Rhymes rap parts at. The latter can be heard several times on the album. André 3000 raps on kids… ; on The Killing Season occur Kanye West and Talib Kweli on as guests; Phife Dawg raps with Kendrick Lamar on Conrad Tokyo . Jack White plays guitar again on Ego and The Donald . Marsha Ambrosius can be heard as a singer on melatonin . Casey Benjamin plays keyboards , Fender Rhodes , organ and piano on several tracks . Rapper Consequence is featured on four songs (3,9,10,11). In addition, numerous studio musicians contribute vocals and instruments.
reception
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The album received positive reviews throughout.
In an album review in the Spiegel , the album was described as "masterful"; the author attested We Got It from Here ... "political topicality" as well as "presence [of] the sound":
"In their always positivistic, but never belittling or escapism-propagating way, the veterans from New York, who have shrunk to a trio, manage to hit the right note at the right time."
In the music magazine Rolling Stone got We Got It from Here ... four out of five stars. According to Christopher R. Wintergarten, the album is musically reminiscent of J Dilla ; it sounds “not like 1996, but also not like 2016”. The only weakness of the album is the lack of Phife Dawg.
According to Daniel Gerhardt from Die Zeit , We Got It from Here is… “the angry and desolate record of A Tribe Called Quest”, “agitated, aggressive, cynical, paranoid - and always ready to fight”; he emphasizes the political and social expressiveness of the album. It is the first protest album of the Trump era.
In a benevolent review in the Berliner Zeitung , Markus Schneider wrote:
“You can see the bright, jumping, transparent beats and, above all, Q-Tip's nasal tone from the first bar. At the same time, however, the tracks appear closer to the ground, stronger in the fuselage and also sound technically more modern. "
The album was initially rated 4½ out of 5 stars on the music portal Allmusic . It was later upgraded to the highest rating. Reviewer Tim Sendra writes:
"The sheer number of guests, the long wait since their last album, the shifting tides of hip hop - all these factors could have led to We Got It being a disappointment. Amazingly, it turns out to be almost the exact opposite. "
“The number of guests, the long wait since their last album, the changing currents in hip-hop - all of these factors could have led to We Got It disappointing. Amazingly, the opposite happened. "
Based on 26 reviews, Metacritic aggregates a very positive Metascore of 91 out of 100 possible points for We Got It from Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service .
The website Pitchfork selected We Got It from Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service as # 44 of the 200 best albums of the 2010s. Allmusic included it in the compilation of the best albums of the decade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
- ↑ We The People .... Chart History on Billboard.com (accessed May 27, 2020)
- ↑ Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest is dead. Jetzt.de, March 23, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexander Austel: "Doing this album killed him." laut.de , accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ^ A b Daniel Gerhardt: A Tribe Called Quest: The first protest album of the Trump era. Die Zeit , November 15, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Andreas Borcholte: With the tribe against Trump. Der Spiegel , November 15, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Christopher R. Weingarten: Review: A Tribe Called Quest Make Urgent Return on 'We Got It From Here ...' Rolling Stone , November 14, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Markus Schneider: A Tribe Called Quest return after 18 years. Berliner Zeitung , November 24, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Tim Sendra: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service. Allmusic , accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Kris Ex: We got it from Here ... Thank You 4 Your service on Pitchfork.com, accessed February 23, 2018
- ↑ Kitty Empire: We Got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service review - a poignant comeback on TheGuardian.com, accessed on February 23, 2018
- ↑ Davide Bortot: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service on Musikexpress.de, accessed on February 23, 2018
- ↑ Alexander Austel: Review: "Doing this album killed him." on Laut.de, accessed on February 23, 2018
- ↑ Metascore: We Got It From Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service on Metacritic.com, accessed February 23, 2018
- ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s on Pitchfork.com (accessed May 27, 2020)
- ↑ The AllMusic Decade in Review on Allmusic.com (accessed May 27, 2020)