People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - Closing

         This album came as a sweet surprise to my library of hip-hop music. I was building a collection of Kanye West for sure, and a was getting classics from other artists, which consisted of the debuts of Biggie, Nas, and Jay-Z. Ha in fact that was about 90% of the hip-hop music I had. Very little obviously, but that certainly doesn't take away from the importance of the People's LP. It was just such a shift, as I stated before once I heard "Can I Kick It?" I was hooked! A light take on rap that I had never experience before, and now appreciate more than ever. As I fully understand what it means to have a diverse taste in hip-hop, and to appreciate any style that is dope and keeps it real.
          More specific to People's it really is separate from all the other Tribe albums. Being its debute, it was just so fun and kicked such good vibes, even more so than their other albums, while that is hard to say, as all the albums are fun, that is simply a given. Except that People's just even a different sound than later LPs, especailly before the Ummah became involved, more specifially J Dilla. At this point it was just Tip and Ali. Specific tracks that separate People's from the others are "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Mr. Muhammad", and "Can I Kick It?". Really all the tracks would seem odd if placed on the other albums. That is why I found it so necessary to review this particular album, as it would give me a good start to reviewing the Tribe's material.

So what really did stand out to me on this LP?

• The vibe created from the lyrical content, that was consistent throughout the album.
• The Production that brought more funk and jazz into my Hip-Hop.
• The incredibly smooth flow of Quest, and their style of rap. They brought such a unique style to their lyrics and did it without the rapid delivery I had seen beforehand. Which as I stated made me question their skills at first. I'll address the issue on the bottom however.

What was new to me?

• All of the above really. Like I said, this really was just a new experience all together.
• As well as the greater focus on trading lines. As Phife Dawg and Q-Tip do a great job of doing.
• The first album I had that was really a group, everything else was simply single artists with features on their album. The album had not one feature actually! Unless you were to count DJ Cool Red Alert, well he certainly did give "Pubic Enemy" a hell of a lot more value! 

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is a incredible album. 

The most important thing, it has taught me a lesson musically. Which brings me to the style of the rap. Yes, the rap was much different than what I had heard before from anyone. It sounded weak to me, simply because of the speed of the rap, which at that time meant to me that they couldn't flow well like other rappers.As you well know, they flow damn awesome! However at the time of me first getting it, I was quite ignorant of what flow actually was. Yet, since I loved it so much, I learned to really love music for what it is. This was an A Tribe Called Quest album, which had made it so hard to classify it's quality, as I had nothing to compare it to. But that was also the beauty of it! It let me take it for what it was, leaving me uninfluenced by any outside sources. In some cases, People's was the most pure experience musically, while at the closing track, I was the only judge of the album, being it was so obscure and not popular on the net at all. Taught me to except different music qualities, and as long as the music is pure and takes some talent, you should always appreciate it, even if you will never listen to it.

And at this point I almost have all the Quest albums! Just gotta get there last one! Been a long process reviewing this album, could've gone smoother of course.