To hip-hop devotees, however, A Tribe Called Quest are among the most significant bands of the decade, whose influence and importance outlived the brief Native Tongues era. Like their contemporaries De La Soul, they embodied a short-lived era of “conscious” rap: both groups were part of a collective called Native Tongues, which preached Afrocentric positivity in the teeth of hip-hop’s burgeoning penchant for violence and nihilism. T o most British listeners, A Tribe Called Quest are the New York rap quartet behind the languid “Walk on the Wild Side”-sampling “Can I Kick It?”, one of the few early 90s hip-hop hits you can still expect to hear on oldies radio stations otherwise concerned with rock music or soul.
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