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The Love Movement
Tribe's last album--they announced their breakup just prior to its release--has all of the problems of Midnight Marauders and Beats, Rhymes, and Life: they're just not People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm or The Low End Theory, Tribe's first two releases. That said, so what? Late-era Tribe is still a force to be reckoned with, even if it's not as much fun or doesn't have all the possibilities of Phife Dog, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's early work. The Love Movement's backing tracks recall previous releases but tend to be subtler--and therefore less than memorable--and a few of the tracks here are almost indistinguishable from one another. Q-Tip and Phife Dog bust out with few catch phrases (the exception is "Give Me," on which they rhyme "Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD--naw, we ain't none of them"); overall, they sound more mature than ever before. Are they really? At times, yes, and it seems that maturity is one of hip-hop's few unforgivable sins. --Randy Silver
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Tracks| 1 | Start It Up | | 2 | Find A Way | | 3 | Da Booty | | 4 | Steppin' It Up | | 5 | Like It Like That | | 6 | Common Ground (Get It Goin' On) | | 7 | 4 Moms | | 8 | His Name Is Mutty Ranks | | 9 | Give Me | | 10 | Pad & Pen | | 11 | Busta's Lament | | 12 | Hot 4 U | | 13 | Against The World | | 14 | The Love | | 15 | Rock Rock Y'All | | 16 | Scenario (Remix) | | 17 | Money Maker | | 18 | Hot Sex | | 19 | Oh My God (Remix) | | 20 | Jazz (We've Got) (Re-Recording Radio) | | 21 | One Two S**t |
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