Low End Theory

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Chris Rock - Top 25 Albums Archived 2017-08-25 at the Wayback Machine "It's really hard to top this album. Amidst the self-deprecation there was some serious stuff as well with issues of misogyny ('The Infamous Date Rape' and 'Butter') and rap's descent into brutalism ('Rap Promoter', 'Show Business') being addressed. John Bush of AllMusic said the pair's rapping "could be the smoothest of any rap record ever heard", adding that they "are so in tune with each other, they sound like flip sides of the same personality, fluidly trading off on rhymes, with the former earning his nickname (the Abstract) and Phife concerning himself with the more concrete issues of being young, gifted, and black.

One last thing - I think this was possibly mastered and/or mixed differently than the CD copy I have. The Anthology (European/UK) has the same tracklisting as the US versions, albeit that Award Tour was placed as the last track, rather than as track 3. Group member Jarobi White, who previously appeared on People's Instinctive Travels, had verses recorded for The Low End Theory. The 7" collection is housed in a deluxe, fabric-wrapped 45 singles carrying case, with 360-degree original album art and custom inner wrapped ATCQ logo graphics and group photo.From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a senior editor at Bandcamp Daily, where he gave an editorial voice to rising indie musicians. Producer Pete Rock created the original beat for the second single, "Jazz (We've Got)", before it was recreated by Q-Tip, who credited Rock in the outro of the song. This version came packaged in a plain black sleeve with a sticker of the album cover artwork attached. These events created a disillusionment with the music industry among the group, which affected "both material and approach" on The Low End Theory.

The album has also influenced Kanye West, [61] Common, [61] D'Angelo, [61] Jill Scott, [61] Nas, [67] Kendrick Lamar, [65] Logic, [68] Havoc, [26] Madlib, [65] Robert Glasper, [65] and Dr.Second studio album from the trio of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad originally released in 1991 is considered one of the best hip-hop albums of all time. The Low End Theory was one of the first records to fuse hip-hop with the laid-back atmosphere of jazz, particularly bebop and hard bop. They not only reissued all of their classic singles, but all of the albums as 2 LP sets for the best fidelity possible and faithfully reproducing the artwork. Rare import remastered NRP cut issue of this truly dope Hip Hop album feat 'Excursions', 'Verses From The Abstract', 'Jazz' and 'Scenerio'. is harder-edged, darker, and, in terms of its adherence to established hip hop codes, actually a little bit conservative .

I used to own the first two albums on vinyl(including the US promo which supposedly only 500 copies were pressed) and had forgotten about they had shortened the running time of both by omitting tracks. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Botswana British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Micronesia Moldova Monaco Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Kingdom United States Uruguay Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. The album's title, The Low End Theory, referred to both the status of black men in society and bass frequencies in the music, [2] [3] while the album cover featured an altered photograph of a kneeling woman painted in Afrocentric colors.On February 19, 1992, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States, and on February 1, 1995, it was certified platinum by the RIAA, with shipments of one million copies. Not a perfect pressing by any means, some parts did sound a lil distorted at times but overall a very solid repressing! Q-Tip and Phife's posse flows were, by this point, honed to perfection, with most tracks seeing them bounce off each other like some funked-up game of table tennis. The group wanted to begin recording the album shortly after the completion of People's Instinctive Travels, for which they still had to tour and film music videos. The 1993 record features "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)", "Sucka”, “Award Tour” and “Electric Relaxation”.

I have them both on CD and am not interested in making a straight-up nostalgia purchase if it turns out these records sound like complete crap. But you don’t arrive at the perfect nocturnal LP without first releasing a focused work like 'The Low End Theory,' which winnowed the colorful expanse of 'People’s Instinctive Travels' into a seamless listen. A 1991 landscape-changing release from the pioneering hip-hop group, The Low End Theory embraced a minimalist approach and set the tables for the alternate rap movement that followed.

The album cover is regarded as one of the greatest and most iconic in hip-hop history; on a top 50 list by Complex, it was ranked number one. The track "Pubic Enemy" was initially issued as the B-side to 12" version of "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo" and on the CD and cassette. George also credited Q-Tip and Phife Dawg for "trading lines like psychic sparring partners", as they "pause, interject, charm and challenge with understated aplomb. The Low End Theory is regarded for its socially conscious lyrics, which include subjects such as relationships, date rape, the hip-hop industry and consumerism.