Can I Kick It?

I was introduced to A Tribe Called Quest in the early 90’s when my brother Matt had first started driving. I’m not really sure how it got introduced to him. The first album we got was “Midnight Marauders”, which to this day is still my all time favorite album of theirs. Soon after we learned they had two more albums before this, so we quickly got caught up to their music. I remember I was like 13 or 14 years old when I came up with this brilliant idea to take my walkman and tape it to my bike so I could pedal around the hood of Live Oak listening to music pretending I was actually driving a car. The walkman I used had a detachable clip, so I taped the clip down so I was able to remove my walkman from my bike. Midnight Marauders was probably the first tape I played while I pedaled around my block to test out my latest idea.

I also remember being on bus rides to away games listening to the Tribe to get mentally hyped up to put in some work on the hardwood. I’ve consistently gone back to their albums throughout my life. The Tribe has been one of my favorite groups. I remember being in high school and giving kids rides home from basketball practice and they would try and make fun of me for listening to Tribe Called Quest instead of “Master P” or some other CRAP! I just turned it up a little louder to filter out their non sense.

This weekend me and my brother Matt hit up Violet Crown Cinema in South Austin to watch “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest” which motivated me to share one of my favorite songs by A Tribe Called Quest with y’all. The documentary was great, I always wondered why they broke up, and this gave you a complete history of how they got started and what’s been happening with them. 

Enjoy™