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A Tribe Called Quest, Beats, Rhymes and Life

Audio CD

Disk ID: 399569

Disk length: 51m 20s (15 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1996

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Phony Rappers 3:35
2. Get A Hold 3:35
3. Motivators 3:20
4. Jam 4:38
5. Crew 1:58
6. The Pressure 3:02
7. 1nce Again(feat.Tammy Lucas) 3:49
8. Mind Power 3:55
9. The Hop 3:27
10. Keeping It Moving 3:38
11. Baby Phife's Return 3:18
12. Separate - Together 1:38
13. What Really Goes On 3:23
14. Word Play 2:59
15. Stressed Out 4:56

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Review

Tribe's fourth album, Beats, Rhymes, and Life, should be the awkward one, the album on which the group, growing up, falters a little as it figures out what it's going to do next. It isn't. Marked by a number of changes, both internally (this is the album on which the Ummah production crew takes over, and it also marks Q-Tip's new religious faith) and externally (by 1996 Quest's jazzy approach to hip-hop had fallen out of popular favor), Beats finds Tribe taking it as it comes and handling all of the challenges with flair. It's a slower, steadier album than either People's Instinctive Travels or The Low End Theory, but that's a description, not a complaint; rather, it gives you plenty of time to enjoy jams like "1nce Again." It doesn't hurt that Q-Tip and Phife Dog are feeling the flow here; an inspired pairing with distinctive voices and different strengths, they trade verses with fluid grace. --Randy Silver

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 20s

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 20s

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 21s (+0m 1s)

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 22s (+0m 2s)

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 51m 22s (+0m 2s)

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 52m 25s (+1m 5s)

Beats, Rhymes and Life

Tracks: 16 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 56m 35s (+5m 15s)

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