July 5, 2026
Top 5 ATCQ Songs: Scenario, Check the Rhime, We The People & More
Mike Joseph and Garrett Gonzales make their case for the Top 5 A Tribe Called Quest songs of all time — and the debate is real.
The ATCQ catalog is deep enough that leaving a song off the list hurts. In this episode, Mike and Garrett each defend their picks across the full catalog — from the immortal posse cut "Scenario" and the call-and-response perfection of "Check the Rhime" to the politically charged "We The People," the infectious energy of "Buggin' Out," the criminally underrated "Find a Way," and more.
Every pick gets a case made for it. Not everyone agrees. That's the point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: back with the top five tribe called Quest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to the previous episode, we dug deep on the origin story on the discography, on the history of a tribe called Quest through the lens of the love movement and it brought me back and I'm so happy to talk about my favorite songs with Mike here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Mike, before we actually tackle it, you know, sometimes we do rock with
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not really any bad songs that you hear a lot, you know, and I guess the the only thing that made me think of this upcoming song is because there are two versions of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this isn't a rock with its stop at it because we both rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is which one do you favor the scenario original album cut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or the remix version, which I remember being kind of hard to find for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't find it for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was pre-streaming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was only available on like a limited edition version of the Love Movement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, or, you know, you had to dig around and find a 12 inch single right, but yeah, I mean, now it's on streaming everywhere, but for a long time, it was really, really hard to find a copy of that remix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, either remix is so dope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, I think, more like traditionally hard core than a lot of stuff tribe usually did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got more energy, but it's such like a dope record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's got so many like great one liners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is, I don't know, man, scenario remixes is it for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I think I lean towards the first one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's because I know the versus better because they're pretty much more and it's like it's more like digestible comfort food to me, but yeah, they're both so, so good and I wonder like
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's got to be more versions of this song, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's got to be like versus the cutout or different ways of maybe putting the people in different spots.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I mean, it's like ultimate like posse cut man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I remember reading it might have been like the ego trip book of rap lists or something like that where they actually talk about other versions of the scenario with like different people wrapping on it and I think there's a version with like Chris Lighty wrapping on it there's, you know, yeah, so I think they had to do some cutting and paste and to make that work Chris Lighty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's just get into it because you know, I was thinking about like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I may have a hard time with this one, but I have like a very select number of like upper upper tier trib songs for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then a lot of songs are in the like really damn good, but I save like my hierarchy for great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be the one that leads my top five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your number five?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my number five, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is this a true number five or did I just want to be like democratic and have a piece of have a song from the last album on the list?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we the people ended up being my number five and I remember, you know, uh, the week that Trump got elected, they were the musical guests on Saturday night like, uh, a Saturday night live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the film.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They should tell host did right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, become out, tip does his verse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they roll like a big like backdrop of five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: like drops down and then, you know, his recorded verse comes on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's such like a poignant moment and that's such a great, like, it just kind of captured exactly where everybody's head was at, like, kind of after that moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just such a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they were, they saw the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, these are dudes at that time, probably in the mid 40s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: being able to understand culture and where things are, where things are going, understanding the past and doing it in such a nuanced way where the junseers or, you know, the younger folks,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't really, like, point out, like, oh, these guys are old or oh, these guys are past their part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you could, like, they were in the pocket and you everything about that performance, everything about that song is so right on the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the flaw in this thing, that should have been an anthem for the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why it wasn't, I don't know maybe it didn't catch on as much as maybe it caught on with us, but that is the exact song I think about when I think about that timeframe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it is number four for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So number five for me is from the love moment, the love movement, the lead single, find a way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is bullshit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way this album is not like a plus and it wasn't a plus it wasn't a plus But that song as a first single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh my god, I was seeing this awesome and yeah, I still love that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I still love it You know just like T. She did Martin and that that is that resonates right because I'm like
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a martin fan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a I'm one of the bigger martin fans that I know you were all you have the biggest martin fan that I know and then Q tip drops that line and I'm like, see he knows me know I'm now I don't know how teach you Campbell felt about that right seems like she and Martin are on very good terms right now by the way, so you know Martin himself may have had some.
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[SPEAKER_00]: negative moments around that time frame, but it's like they're, they're all good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've minted their fences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's number four for you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number four was hot sex, which is on the boomerang soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just like it's it's
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the lyrics have nothing to do with the chorus, which has nothing to do with anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, but it's just a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Five to verse is insane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, you're like, it's just so many one-liners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a, it's a vibe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that movie is 92.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When would they have recorded that, you think?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in the low end theory timeframe, I think it was recorded after I think it was recorded, you know, probably early 92.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably recorded specifically for the soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, my number four was either people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what's your number three?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, lost my page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number three is midnight, which is the first collaboration,
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[SPEAKER_01]: appearance of Raphael Siddiqu on a tribe record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe he plays bass or he plays guitar both possibly, um, but like I have a very distinct memory of
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[SPEAKER_01]: like late 93 after that album came out just like walking the streets in the York hearing that song and Q-tip is so descriptive and he's just kind of like detailing being out in streets in the York City like late at night seeing you know a kid play basketball like challenging him to a game cops messing with people like all the stuff like it's just so descriptive and again just kind of puts me in a time in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah that song is dope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah it is a
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we talked about Q-tips kind of foray into single start-up on the last episode, and I was, you know, it is stuff like that to where you kind of wonder like if you, if you just take Q-tip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and he creates tribe-like records for himself and you pull away everybody else and maybe you add them as, you know, secondary voices, but it is the focus is on him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could, could he have done
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[SPEAKER_00]: done stuff like that to further his solo crew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he's not even interested.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he doesn't want to, you know, to copy that sound, because that sound is distinct for that group, but, you know, there are some songs where I'm like, nobody else is necessary on this thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's just, he does this thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you add, you add other things because it is a group, but he, he's like, it's kind of his song, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, and again, like that's kind of the first album like Benita and and else the gun to our basically q-tip solo records, so it's not like he couldn't do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think ultimately the chemistry between him and five is what made low end and men that were rather so special.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a little unfortunate that five never got his bona fides when it came to being able to branch out like I think a solo album Q tip put out a solo album or helped put out a solo album after five's pastor after if any had a solo album out when he was alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, he did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, okay, don't think he's on streaming anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's, it's nice, like I'd like hearing his voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say it's a great album, but it's, it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's the same spirit of five is, is, is there in those albums too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and you also take solo tracks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, tip had midnight, but five had eight million stories, which is a great, like, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so they could have, they were capable of making good solo records, but together they weren't like, it's like separate, they were great together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had this, we had a short discussion about Mace on the Brandy episode that we did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if Mace could just guess star on songs, he would have been amazing, but then you put a solo album for him and you're like, okay, like you can see the limitations of this dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Five didn't really get that chance to, you know, to do it, like, it's almost seems unfair that, you know, he wasn't able to do something outside of the group, like, but also he didn't, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a time frame when the group was was disbanded, where maybe he did have some time, but he was dealing with his health and all that stuff as well, and it just didn't get the proper focus, I guess, or whatever, was maybe he didn't want to do it, also.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There, who knows?
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, my number three is scenario, and we, you like the remix, I'm going to go with the original cut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when that song, when I first heard that song, my mind was blown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not sure you would know better than me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like what is known as kind of like the first real like posicut, like collaborative, like throwing tons of voices at, you know, at one song, trading versus and such.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the first I would say is the first real well known one is probably the symphony, which is, you know, was on a Marley Mall record, but it's, you know, big daddy came and cool G rap and Craig G. And I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was really the first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, like, buddy came out of that and buddies, you know, daylight and tribe and jungle and Moni love and Queen Latifa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there were a couple that kind of like set up scenario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: scenario is hard as this though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just letting loose and like it made guys who I like I didn't really follow some of these guys after this song, but I imagine it's like a bunch of dudes best first ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it's everybody bringing their A game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your number two?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on number two is electric relaxation just that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
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[SPEAKER_01]: to run a foster, I missed you for just a name of the song, but just the sample is so chill and sets a mood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The verse is a great, you know, it's, I love tip kind of working gay and I have you weak in the knees and you can hardly speak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like very of it's time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's one of those songs that's like, I remember putting it on a mixed CD for somebody, and they were like, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: like they thought the lyrics were kind of, uh, um, I don't know what the word is I'm looking for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They thought they were kind of juvenile or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm like, you know, here's two dudes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, they're early 20s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to talk to a girl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're not super mature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the lyrics are kind of immature, but they're also like charming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like he's like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, being aggressive, it's not too live crew.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're trying to be, it is charming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I could see that perspective, uh, if you are, and, and, and, okay, I would say, in our episode, we talked about how Q tip specifically got Ron Carter to play on the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Ron Carter was like, I'm not gonna play on a song where you guys are cousin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so cute to have like, nope, that's not who we are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're very focused.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're talking about real stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of like them being playful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you look at them in this specific way, you could sort, I could see why you would think it was juvenile, but like you said,
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are young dudes who are being played and worthy and trying to make people smile, listening to a song, to listen to the word play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it's a brilliant song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see some of what that person was saying though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But let me hit it from the background.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I won't catch a hurty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so afraid of catching on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got seen this furniture is like, the dopest line ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For those who don't know, Seaman's furniture is a New York City institution.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's still around, but they were a furniture store that ran a lot of commercials in New York City in the 80s and 90s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, tip or five rather was being really, really local.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I heard that, the first time I heard that, I was just like, oh my god, I can't believe you said that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just like a classic classic line and a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: According to Wikipedia,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was founded in 1933, and it went to funk in 2005.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, RIP seems furniture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what's interesting about sexual in UNDO lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think some people feel some kind of way about them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For whatever reason, like if you say, what is like the best hip-hop line of all time, I think people would stay away from sexual lines, but some of the sexual innuendo, or like that, word play, where,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you can kind of take two different meanings from stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like me, that's like the genesis of clever bars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the people who had issues with that stuff or people who are ashamed or uncomfortable with their sexuality.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I, you know, not to play arm tier side colleges, colleges here, but, you know, if, if you can't see the humor and that stuff, you can't see like the warmth and things like that, then, you know, you're not hitting it right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that might not be the first song that I play for them maybe not, but for an adult and someone who's
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[SPEAKER_00]: loves the idea of like the wordplay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be one of the first songs I play for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's also time in place because that song came out in 1993 and a lot of the references in it that song are very, very 1993.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I just realize this, and I will apologize that my top three is actually from a low end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The low and theory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's fair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so number two for me is check the rhyme and it's because
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the first song that I attached to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was jump off for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I've never heard anything like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's both of those dudes together, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the first time I ever heard it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the idea that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Q tip and five together are trading, you know, versus and stuff and I was like man how cohesive is this like it's not the chemistry chemistry is on 100 man these guys feel like brothers is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know these dudes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be friends with these guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a real
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so my number one was scenario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't decide on the original version or the remix, so I just bunched them together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is kind of like the overall number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, again, just the energy of both of those songs is so like so fun, so like upbeat, so energetic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, just, you know, great song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm wondering, did they invent the
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[SPEAKER_00]: when did that remix come out i don't even remember hearing it until a little bit later like i i'm sure i'm i i don't i mean i don't know if it was a few months later or i mean like the album came out September 91 like that remix came out in like March April 92 yeah yeah yeah all right my number one
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[SPEAKER_00]: There, this is because of five, by the way, bugging out is my favorite tribe called Quest Song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what's so funny?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember my buddy back in the day, his name is Rick Corbol.
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[SPEAKER_00]: White dude, like he, his music interest, like, went all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Metallica, some hip hop, you know, he didn't like all hip hop, but he likes some hip hop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would recite five rhymes on this song constantly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like to me back then, I was like, yeah, five is cool, but like Q tip is the man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's like the guy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then when he was, he would just tell me he's like, I get it, but five is dope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like do not like this, what this dude is saying makes the song, like he creates all of the goodness in this song, like you need to pay attention to five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so at that point,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I like fight, like I have nothing against fight, like I love the guy, but it's cute tip and then I started to listen to this song a little more and it then became my favorite song because of five dog and I think it wraps up kind of our our two episodes very well because you know we talked about five being a little bit of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: If Q-tip is the originator and the director and the script of what tribe call quest is, like, five is like, the heart and soul at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he shows that a lot in this song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just, and the video's crazy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: With his eyes bugging out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who will he eyes?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, microphone check.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One, two, what is this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, like, in that documentary,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What like he's like he's like what is this like it was he that that got him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and he it like he says he's like look he's like I am a Sun of a tribe called Quest like I could not do what I did without these guys right I don't know I don't I mean I don't know if Q tip would say I am your father, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: just you know they they it without tribe a lot of the the way that music turns out doesn't happen that same one that's absolutely true men and you know I said it during the episode we did on the album like you know from tribe and bob power and you know the collaborators that they have like that all leads into Erica and Jill and the roots
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[SPEAKER_01]: and dilla and common and like all that stuff and like tribe kind of sits at the top of that hill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like if you look back on it, it's just amazing like everything that has come after them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: J. Cole for row, like you know, all that stuff, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna we're gonna do our daily episode at some point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll probably save it to just kind of space it out more towards the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that one's coming as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When we get to these artists that have like a a pretty big catalog, it does take me a little while to get through, you know, just listening to everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to get back to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for a lot of a lot of time, like daylight, just was not available on streaming right now they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think some of that stuff is some of their songs had to be reended a little bit because of samples and so yeah, but yeah, I'm excited to go through that because.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not as familiar with their early stuff as I am with like the grind date and and that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, I know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I know the grind date.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to go back and go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to listen from the start is going to be a fun experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're done here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for hanging out with us on on our week of of Tribe call Quest and we'll be back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for Mike.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am double G. We will see you when we see you piece.
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[SPEAKER_00]: back with the top five tribe called Quest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you listen to the previous episode, we dug deep on the origin story on the discography, on the history of a tribe called Quest through the lens of the love movement and it brought me back and I'm so happy to talk about my favorite songs with Mike here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Mike, before we actually tackle it, you know, sometimes we do rock with
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not really any bad songs that you hear a lot, you know, and I guess the the only thing that made me think of this upcoming song is because there are two versions of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this isn't a rock with its stop at it because we both rock with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is which one do you favor the scenario original album cut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or the remix version, which I remember being kind of hard to find for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't find it for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was pre-streaming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was only available on like a limited edition version of the Love Movement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, or, you know, you had to dig around and find a 12 inch single right, but yeah, I mean, now it's on streaming everywhere, but for a long time, it was really, really hard to find a copy of that remix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, either remix is so dope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, I think, more like traditionally hard core than a lot of stuff tribe usually did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got more energy, but it's such like a dope record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's got so many like great one liners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is, I don't know, man, scenario remixes is it for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I think I lean towards the first one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's because I know the versus better because they're pretty much more and it's like it's more like digestible comfort food to me, but yeah, they're both so, so good and I wonder like
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's got to be more versions of this song, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's got to be like versus the cutout or different ways of maybe putting the people in different spots.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I mean, it's like ultimate like posse cut man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I remember reading it might have been like the ego trip book of rap lists or something like that where they actually talk about other versions of the scenario with like different people wrapping on it and I think there's a version with like Chris Lighty wrapping on it there's, you know, yeah, so I think they had to do some cutting and paste and to make that work Chris Lighty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's just get into it because you know, I was thinking about like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I may have a hard time with this one, but I have like a very select number of like upper upper tier trib songs for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then a lot of songs are in the like really damn good, but I save like my hierarchy for great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be the one that leads my top five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your number five?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my number five, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is this a true number five or did I just want to be like democratic and have a piece of have a song from the last album on the list?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we the people ended up being my number five and I remember, you know, uh, the week that Trump got elected, they were the musical guests on Saturday night like, uh, a Saturday night live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the film.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They should tell host did right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, become out, tip does his verse.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they roll like a big like backdrop of five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: like drops down and then, you know, his recorded verse comes on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's such like a poignant moment and that's such a great, like, it just kind of captured exactly where everybody's head was at, like, kind of after that moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just such a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they were, they saw the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, these are dudes at that time, probably in the mid 40s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: being able to understand culture and where things are, where things are going, understanding the past and doing it in such a nuanced way where the junseers or, you know, the younger folks,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't really, like, point out, like, oh, these guys are old or oh, these guys are past their part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you could, like, they were in the pocket and you everything about that performance, everything about that song is so right on the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the flaw in this thing, that should have been an anthem for the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why it wasn't, I don't know maybe it didn't catch on as much as maybe it caught on with us, but that is the exact song I think about when I think about that timeframe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it is number four for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So number five for me is from the love moment, the love movement, the lead single, find a way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is bullshit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way this album is not like a plus and it wasn't a plus it wasn't a plus But that song as a first single.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh my god, I was seeing this awesome and yeah, I still love that song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I still love it You know just like T. She did Martin and that that is that resonates right because I'm like
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a martin fan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a I'm one of the bigger martin fans that I know you were all you have the biggest martin fan that I know and then Q tip drops that line and I'm like, see he knows me know I'm now I don't know how teach you Campbell felt about that right seems like she and Martin are on very good terms right now by the way, so you know Martin himself may have had some.
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[SPEAKER_00]: negative moments around that time frame, but it's like they're, they're all good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've minted their fences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's number four for you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number four was hot sex, which is on the boomerang soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not in the movie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just like it's it's
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the lyrics have nothing to do with the chorus, which has nothing to do with anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, but it's just a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Five to verse is insane.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, you're like, it's just so many one-liners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a, it's a vibe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that movie is 92.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When would they have recorded that, you think?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in the low end theory timeframe, I think it was recorded after I think it was recorded, you know, probably early 92.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably recorded specifically for the soundtrack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, my number four was either people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what's your number three?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, lost my page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My number three is midnight, which is the first collaboration,
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[SPEAKER_01]: appearance of Raphael Siddiqu on a tribe record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe he plays bass or he plays guitar both possibly, um, but like I have a very distinct memory of
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[SPEAKER_01]: like late 93 after that album came out just like walking the streets in the York hearing that song and Q-tip is so descriptive and he's just kind of like detailing being out in streets in the York City like late at night seeing you know a kid play basketball like challenging him to a game cops messing with people like all the stuff like it's just so descriptive and again just kind of puts me in a time in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah that song is dope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah it is a
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we talked about Q-tips kind of foray into single start-up on the last episode, and I was, you know, it is stuff like that to where you kind of wonder like if you, if you just take Q-tip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and he creates tribe-like records for himself and you pull away everybody else and maybe you add them as, you know, secondary voices, but it is the focus is on him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could, could he have done
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[SPEAKER_00]: done stuff like that to further his solo crew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he's not even interested.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he doesn't want to, you know, to copy that sound, because that sound is distinct for that group, but, you know, there are some songs where I'm like, nobody else is necessary on this thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's just, he does this thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you add, you add other things because it is a group, but he, he's like, it's kind of his song, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, and again, like that's kind of the first album like Benita and and else the gun to our basically q-tip solo records, so it's not like he couldn't do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think ultimately the chemistry between him and five is what made low end and men that were rather so special.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a little unfortunate that five never got his bona fides when it came to being able to branch out like I think a solo album Q tip put out a solo album or helped put out a solo album after five's pastor after if any had a solo album out when he was alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, he did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, okay, don't think he's on streaming anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's, it's nice, like I'd like hearing his voice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say it's a great album, but it's, it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's the same spirit of five is, is, is there in those albums too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and you also take solo tracks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, tip had midnight, but five had eight million stories, which is a great, like, it's a fun song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so they could have, they were capable of making good solo records, but together they weren't like, it's like separate, they were great together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had this, we had a short discussion about Mace on the Brandy episode that we did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if Mace could just guess star on songs, he would have been amazing, but then you put a solo album for him and you're like, okay, like you can see the limitations of this dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Five didn't really get that chance to, you know, to do it, like, it's almost seems unfair that, you know, he wasn't able to do something outside of the group, like, but also he didn't, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a time frame when the group was was disbanded, where maybe he did have some time, but he was dealing with his health and all that stuff as well, and it just didn't get the proper focus, I guess, or whatever, was maybe he didn't want to do it, also.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There, who knows?
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, my number three is scenario, and we, you like the remix, I'm going to go with the original cut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when that song, when I first heard that song, my mind was blown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not sure you would know better than me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like what is known as kind of like the first real like posicut, like collaborative, like throwing tons of voices at, you know, at one song, trading versus and such.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the first I would say is the first real well known one is probably the symphony, which is, you know, was on a Marley Mall record, but it's, you know, big daddy came and cool G rap and Craig G. And I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was really the first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, like, buddy came out of that and buddies, you know, daylight and tribe and jungle and Moni love and Queen Latifa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there were a couple that kind of like set up scenario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: scenario is hard as this though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just letting loose and like it made guys who I like I didn't really follow some of these guys after this song, but I imagine it's like a bunch of dudes best first ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it's everybody bringing their A game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your number two?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on number two is electric relaxation just that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
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[SPEAKER_01]: to run a foster, I missed you for just a name of the song, but just the sample is so chill and sets a mood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The verse is a great, you know, it's, I love tip kind of working gay and I have you weak in the knees and you can hardly speak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like very of it's time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's one of those songs that's like, I remember putting it on a mixed CD for somebody, and they were like, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: like they thought the lyrics were kind of, uh, um, I don't know what the word is I'm looking for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They thought they were kind of juvenile or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm like, you know, here's two dudes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, they're early 20s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to talk to a girl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're not super mature.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the lyrics are kind of immature, but they're also like charming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like he's like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, being aggressive, it's not too live crew.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're trying to be, it is charming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I could see that perspective, uh, if you are, and, and, and, okay, I would say, in our episode, we talked about how Q tip specifically got Ron Carter to play on the album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Ron Carter was like, I'm not gonna play on a song where you guys are cousin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so cute to have like, nope, that's not who we are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're very focused.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're talking about real stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of like them being playful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you look at them in this specific way, you could sort, I could see why you would think it was juvenile, but like you said,
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are young dudes who are being played and worthy and trying to make people smile, listening to a song, to listen to the word play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it's a brilliant song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see some of what that person was saying though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But let me hit it from the background.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I won't catch a hurty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so afraid of catching on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got seen this furniture is like, the dopest line ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For those who don't know, Seaman's furniture is a New York City institution.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's still around, but they were a furniture store that ran a lot of commercials in New York City in the 80s and 90s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, tip or five rather was being really, really local.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I heard that, the first time I heard that, I was just like, oh my god, I can't believe you said that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just like a classic classic line and a great song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: According to Wikipedia,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was founded in 1933, and it went to funk in 2005.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, RIP seems furniture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what's interesting about sexual in UNDO lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think some people feel some kind of way about them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For whatever reason, like if you say, what is like the best hip-hop line of all time, I think people would stay away from sexual lines, but some of the sexual innuendo, or like that, word play, where,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you can kind of take two different meanings from stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like me, that's like the genesis of clever bars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the people who had issues with that stuff or people who are ashamed or uncomfortable with their sexuality.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I, you know, not to play arm tier side colleges, colleges here, but, you know, if, if you can't see the humor and that stuff, you can't see like the warmth and things like that, then, you know, you're not hitting it right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that might not be the first song that I play for them maybe not, but for an adult and someone who's
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[SPEAKER_00]: loves the idea of like the wordplay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be one of the first songs I play for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's also time in place because that song came out in 1993 and a lot of the references in it that song are very, very 1993.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I just realize this, and I will apologize that my top three is actually from a low end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The low and theory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's fair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so number two for me is check the rhyme and it's because
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like the first song that I attached to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was jump off for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I've never heard anything like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's both of those dudes together, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the first time I ever heard it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the idea that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Q tip and five together are trading, you know, versus and stuff and I was like man how cohesive is this like it's not the chemistry chemistry is on 100 man these guys feel like brothers is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know these dudes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be friends with these guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a real
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so my number one was scenario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't decide on the original version or the remix, so I just bunched them together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is kind of like the overall number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, again, just the energy of both of those songs is so like so fun, so like upbeat, so energetic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, just, you know, great song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm wondering, did they invent the
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[SPEAKER_00]: when did that remix come out i don't even remember hearing it until a little bit later like i i'm sure i'm i i don't i mean i don't know if it was a few months later or i mean like the album came out September 91 like that remix came out in like March April 92 yeah yeah yeah all right my number one
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[SPEAKER_00]: There, this is because of five, by the way, bugging out is my favorite tribe called Quest Song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what's so funny?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember my buddy back in the day, his name is Rick Corbol.
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[SPEAKER_00]: White dude, like he, his music interest, like, went all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Metallica, some hip hop, you know, he didn't like all hip hop, but he likes some hip hop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would recite five rhymes on this song constantly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like to me back then, I was like, yeah, five is cool, but like Q tip is the man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's like the guy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then when he was, he would just tell me he's like, I get it, but five is dope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like do not like this, what this dude is saying makes the song, like he creates all of the goodness in this song, like you need to pay attention to five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so at that point,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I like fight, like I have nothing against fight, like I love the guy, but it's cute tip and then I started to listen to this song a little more and it then became my favorite song because of five dog and I think it wraps up kind of our our two episodes very well because you know we talked about five being a little bit of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: If Q-tip is the originator and the director and the script of what tribe call quest is, like, five is like, the heart and soul at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he shows that a lot in this song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just, and the video's crazy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: With his eyes bugging out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who will he eyes?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, microphone check.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One, two, what is this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like, like, in that documentary,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What like he's like he's like what is this like it was he that that got him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and he it like he says he's like look he's like I am a Sun of a tribe called Quest like I could not do what I did without these guys right I don't know I don't I mean I don't know if Q tip would say I am your father, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: just you know they they it without tribe a lot of the the way that music turns out doesn't happen that same one that's absolutely true men and you know I said it during the episode we did on the album like you know from tribe and bob power and you know the collaborators that they have like that all leads into Erica and Jill and the roots
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[SPEAKER_01]: and dilla and common and like all that stuff and like tribe kind of sits at the top of that hill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like if you look back on it, it's just amazing like everything that has come after them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: J. Cole for row, like you know, all that stuff, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna we're gonna do our daily episode at some point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll probably save it to just kind of space it out more towards the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that one's coming as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When we get to these artists that have like a a pretty big catalog, it does take me a little while to get through, you know, just listening to everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to get back to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for a lot of a lot of time, like daylight, just was not available on streaming right now they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think some of that stuff is some of their songs had to be reended a little bit because of samples and so yeah, but yeah, I'm excited to go through that because.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not as familiar with their early stuff as I am with like the grind date and and that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, I know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I know the grind date.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to go back and go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to listen from the start is going to be a fun experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're done here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for hanging out with us on on our week of of Tribe call Quest and we'll be back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for Mike.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am double G. We will see you when we see you piece.