Was it all good just a month ago? When ol’ boy was still a joke to most of y’all and, more than anything, everybody just wanted it all to be over? Far, far better days.
It was only a month ago, though, that Q-Tip posted a note, handwritten in marker, to officially announce that A Tribe Called Quest were coming out with a new album—after a spate of rumors from André 3000 and LA Reid—and this after a break long enough that, if it had been a person, they’d be old enough to vote (and be heartbroken afterward).
And it might be total irresponsible bullshit, this idea that oh well, at least terrible times provoke great art, but this unexpected reunion of one of the genre’s most beloved and influential crews came not just right on time, but with a timing eerie enough to underline how necessary it is right now.