But they were certainly the first to feature a bonafide giant of the craft such as double-bass legend Ron Carter on a song like “Verses From The Abstract”. Tribe were not the first hip-hop act to sample a jazz record. However, for anyone who was raised on The L.E.T., be it first, second or third hand, it was the quintessential gateway drug into the art form and its infinite universe of classic recordings comprising its genetic makeup. They were trailblazers of a modern hip-hop generation not obsessed with violence.”-Jameio Brownįor the lay people who rocked this record back in the day, chances are the fact that every one of these songs features at least one jazz sample was of minimal concern.
“Tribe influenced a generation of young people who had never really been exposed to jazz. But the funny thing is, while we were all wilding out to such faves as “Buggin’ Out”, “Check the Rhime”, “Everything Is Fair” and, undoubtedly the epic, epic posse cut “Scenario” that closes out the album, everyone who spent a significant amount of time with The Low End Theory was receiving a serious education in jazz appreciation, whether they knew it or not. Those perfect, soulful grooves crafted by Ali Shaheed Muhammad for MC’s Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Jarobi White to drop science over, establishing rhythms so quintessentially aligned with each of their highly distinctive flows.Īlmost none of us rolling around in the fall of 1991 were listening to much jazz, at least in my immediate circle of friends. What was it that made this most important Tribe LP sound so nice in a booming system? Well, those beats, of course.
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