Q-tip "Amplified " REVISITED
tonyphrone
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When this first came out I think I hated the videos more than the actual music. Then I was at a wedding a couple weeks back and they played "Breathe & Stop" and it sounded so good!Does this hold up? 
Anyone still bump it?oh and "Let's Ride" is also the jam! 
Anyone still bump it?oh and "Let's Ride" is also the jam!
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I played it a lot when it came out. I still spin Vivrant Thing now and again, but I haven't listened to the album end-to-end for years. Apart from the track with the guy from Korn, I thought it was a pretty decent album, though.
Gotta remember to lift the needle before you get to the Korn track, though.
huh? you might have just talked me out of the purchase...
No, it's easily skippable, and it's far from the worst example of its kind.
I can think of no better reason to include someone on your album.
To be fair to Q-Tip, he was hardly the first rapper to jump into bed with Korn.
All that aside though, the track is truly dire.
Lets Ride is a great song, I agree also that this is better than the last Tribe LP.
I ride for this album & the Instramental version on Wax.....str8Lava.
Underatted Banger.
Did it ("the public")?
A lot of longtime Tribe fans did, but then I think he also picked up a lot of first time female fans.
I dunno that this ever sucked. The chorus of disapproval from internerds (although not, one presumes, Lupe Fiasco) over Tip's decision to do a Hype Williams video with lots of booty dancers in it for Vivrant Thing was particularly memorable, albeit for all the wrong reasons. It didn't do the album a whole lot of good, even though Vivrant Thing was the biggest "in tha clubb" record Tip had had since "Award Tour".
Every time I see that cover, I think it's an ad for Oakley sunglasses. Not sure why.
Every time I see that cover, I think it's an ad for Oakley sunglasses. Not sure why.
horrible typography. i think that's why i didn't buy it...
I had no problem w/ it as a Tribe fan. Dudes/Ladies who still see/saw him as a wooden sneaker Bonita Applebum rapper were stuck in the early ninties...IMO. Dude was doin what his contemporaries were doin.
"Buster can do it, why cant I".
And yes it is better than Tribe's last outing. Way more contained IMO.
Yeah.
I was thinking, particularly, of a then-45-year-old coworker who gushed to me that "Vivrant Thing" was her jam--I don't think any previous Tribe record had been among her jams.
She also demanded a "birthday hug" and "birthday mixtape" from me on that same occasion, which kind of weirded out my then-22-year-old self.
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Why do the Dilla stans never mention this record? I think it's some of his best work.
i don't really like q-tip without phife though.. he comes across as too cool for school and a little
What, even the track w/dude from Korn?
Anyway, wasn't there still a fairly vocal "Jaydee ruined Tribe" camp when that record dropped? That might have something to do with it. I agree, though - even though there's a couple of loop-based tracks, most of the beats on it knock every bit as hard as his later-period work.
so it obviously got more than enough spins (as did the final tribe album)
but when i first saw that korn was on the record,
i thought it was an attempt at a crossover.
which was kind of unnecessary since every white person
i know owns at least 1 tribe album.
ive still never hears the full track.
probably the same people that scrounged for mp3s after his his passing.
but i wont get that ball rolling again.
Can someone explain to me what the deal is with Q-Tip's unreleased albums post-Amplified? Are any of them coming out? I heard him interviewed on the Wake Up show awhile back but dude was confusing and couldn't keep it straight.
seriously, wtf? Why did people like Korn again?
I dig the singles on this LP.
Well, I don't think it's any mystery why people who looked and dressed like the members of Korn would like them--the real question is why so many rappers were/are infatuated with such embarassing nu-metal acts.
Most rappers are disconnected from their local rock/metal experience.
Actually, I do have my theories about this. Just as many white kids are drawn to rap artists that represent an extreme caricature of black masculinity--the uberthug--many rappers find extreme whiteboyism engaging, possibly because they view it as representing some form of authenticity. Like how Tommy Lee always seems to be hanging out with rappers.