I listened to most of this with my grandfather in Michigan but the CD I bought was missing three tracks and had the rest out of order. All I really remembered about it was "you can get with this..." and the sex stuff. Listening to this the whole way through in order was fucking magnificent. I remember reading ?uestlove saying how most of Native Tongues were a lot less progressive than they thought they were, excepting the self-professed black sheep of the family, and I think he hit the nail pretty much on the head. This is so much more interesting, imaginative, and insightful than anything else I've heard from Native Tongues, and I really like some of Tribe and De La Soul's work. So much of the album is so hedonistic, if not nihilistic, and so openly contemptuous of high-brow progressivism that by the time that when they face social issues head-on more than two-thirds of the way through it's pretty incredible.
Choice cuts: U Mean I'm Not, Similak Child, Black with NV
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