The 100 Greatest Native Tongues Songs
By Complex Magazine | Dec 15, 2010 | 1:23 pm | Permalink
#39. A Tribe Called Quest "Luck of Lucien"
Year: 1990
Produced By: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Album: A Tribe Called Quest
Label: Jive
"Push It Along" is a smooth, optimistic album opener, but People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm really takes off with "Luck of Lucien." The reworking of Billy Brooks' "40 Days" into a funky, engaging account of the immigrant experience in NYC proves that Tribe were intent on expanding not only rap's sonic palette (which at the time drew mostly from the James Brown catalog), but its subject matter as well. The song is based on Lucien Revolucien, a Native Tongue affiliate and rap artist in his own right; he does the ad-libs on this track, produced songs for Beatnuts and Kurious, and released his own material as well.
Rel December 15th, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Wait no God lives through, are you serious.
R. Poole December 15th, 2010 at 12:59 PM
ha-ha... remember PM Dawn thought they were dissin' them with this?
Eloh December 15th, 2010 at 01:14 PM
Ya'll should post a download link.It is Christmas you know!
joe December 15th, 2010 at 01:47 PM
my mental is excelling cause i dabble in the books
seymour glass December 15th, 2010 at 02:48 PM
Little low. Jimbrowski for president.
ox December 15th, 2010 at 06:50 PM
#63 used to be my joint...bumped it in the whip constantly...that is an example of a hip-hop song that is perfected, stripped down beats and rhymes....crazy
FTW December 15th, 2010 at 07:46 PM
I don't care who you are—if you were even remotely curious about the process of producing hip-hop music, your mind was blown the second you realized that Tribe had turned Minnie Ripperton's whistle-pitch vocals into an instrument ^^^^^ This.
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:38 PM
Greatest Complex List EVER
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:40 PM
the greatest complex list ever created.
Slick Savage December 16th, 2010 at 03:31 AM
Simply classic... But yo, WTF iz,"Subbups, subbups..."???