For some reason rappers have an awful tendency to lose their minds or make bad music once they reach a certain point in their careers. However, every now and then you find an exception. With the unreleased 2001 Kamaal The Abstract album ready to finally drop, a tour with The Knux, Pac-Div and The Cool Kids, DJ shows on the side, and a non-exploitive Michael Jackson birthday tribute this weekend, its safe to say Q-Tip is both sane and very busy.
In the midst of all the chaos that makes up his schedule, Tip found time to kick it with Complex and watch some videos on YouTube, just like you and your friends do. Only our friend is Q-Tip and neither of us were high. Read on for Q’s commentary on his visit from Tupac on the set of Poetic Justice, Michael Jackson’s short film Ghost, and his favorite politician, Mike Bloomberg…
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A Tribe Called Quest x Jordan: Choose your own response. [Sneaker News]
Oh jeez. Apple might be in trouble over the whole “Covering up Steve Jobs’ health thingy“. [Crunch Gear]
Vans Vault = always stepping it up. Check some of the cooler styles coming out for Fall (August ‘09). [Mash Kulture]
We’re not sure if this is Style or Design news, since Brittney Spears has no sense of either, but we thought you might like to know that she’s been offered a $14M book deal. What was that whole PROGRESS thing again? Fuck. [Gawker]
Eastpack is officially moving up. After the Raf Simons collabs, look for Rick Owens to drop a collection. Fancy! [High Snobiety]
The new Gourmet stuff is sick. Not sure how they let this leak, but it’s only lo res, so no biggie. [Hypebeast]
Okay, so it’s Tuesday and it hasn’t even occurred to you to go CD shopping, huh? You probably downloaded the latest T.I. album for free and thought, “Hmm, if this was better I’d think about investing the time to illegally downloading that Big Kuntry album too.” Truth is, hip hop wasn’t always this depressing.
In fact, 10 years ago, on September 29, 1998, members of the Complex staff stood on line at Tower Records because hip hop was sofa king hot that there were 5 highly anticipated albums from marquee acts all dropping at the same time and we had to have them all. It was like Kanye and 50’s totally totally hetero gladiator showdown last year, except even more manly. In honor of the anniversary, we decided to take a look back at the 5 landmark albums and see how they’ve held up a decade later…
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Despite Lupe Fiasco’s claim that he didn’t listen to A Tribe Called Quest growing up, his latest single “Paris, Tokyo” is laced with the laid-back, jazzy sound that’s usually associated with the Native Tongues crew. And in an unlikely twist, rumor has it that Lupe and former Tribe frontman Q-Tip also have a remix of “Paris, Tokyo” in the works. We hope it’s true. After the jump, watch Cool Young Lu transform into an international playboy in the new video.
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