Liner Notes | A Tribe Called Quest's Check The Rhime

Hip Hop Taught Me Everything

In this episode Kris and Devin discuss Check The Rhime, the first single from A Tribe Called Quest's classic The Low End Theory. They get into how the project changed the landscape of sampling, Phife coming into his own, and how a classmate stealing Kris's art in high school might have contributed to him writing Tribe off after their first album. 

They answer the impossible question: Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders, and we find out their picks for the most ridiculous exaggeration they've heard from a rapper. 

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