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Jungle Brothers f/ Q-Tip — “Promo No. 2 (Mind Review ‘89)” (Warner Bros, 1989)

Promo number one Q-Tip rocked the fade / promo number two Q-Tip rocks braids.

Are the JBeez the most inexplicably underrated group in hip hop history? Tribe gets entire movies made about them while the fathers of the Native movement don’t even get called up for a slot on the second stage of Rock The Bells.

Well, the answer MAYBE yes, but there are reasons for that. First, Tribe has 3 classics (and yes I’m one of those crazies who thinks all 5 are classics) to the JBz one. Secondly, by the mid 90s the Jungle Brothers had transformed themselves into a rap-drum-n-bass hybrid that emerged simultaneously with the rave scene, while Tribe rode their train into the heights of the Eastcoast-Westcoast fued and rap”s Jiggy era B4 they split. Lastly, Africa Bam’s transformation into an I don’t give a fuck “weird nigga” living in SoCal in the aughts, caused many of his old fans turn on him. So these things mean Tribe’s legacy spanned 3 rap “era’s” and bleed into the conscious of “rap historians” and to be show/venue promoters, while the JBz are in a way confined to a footnote of the Golden Era.

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