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...jazzy guitar licks, insistent bass line, sparklingly dissonant piano line, and tight drum beat tell the listener in no uncertain terms that Q-Tip is still an excellent producer. On the closer “Shaka,” the jazzy shades of keyboard strongly evoke A Tribe Called Quest??at least until a squiggly techno-sounding synthesizer riff enters. It’s wonderful how Q-Tip combines disparate musical elements, both past and present, into one cohesive head-nodding unit. Lyrically, Q-Tip is in top form as well. What stands...

Author: By Mark A. Fusunyan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Q-Tip | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Jantzen accomplished his goal, going undefeated in four bouts at 63 kg to claim first over Vision Quest??s Michael Mangrum...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Rookie Wrestler Wins Position at FILAWorld Team Trials in May | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...expect of college teams in the United States. The everybody-can-play rule is in full effect, and games between schools are like friendly scrimmages. College sports fall by the wayside in the global hunt for talent at the youngest of ages. The US is hardly innocent in this quest??one need only think of pre-pubescent Olympic gymnasts, the Freddy Adu craze, and 15-year old swimming phenoms—but both college football and college basketball have somewhat resisted the urge to uncover the Fountain of Youth.Globally, the best soccer players are hunted out well before...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOONER OR TAITER: NCAA in Buenos Aires? Ay Caramba! | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...legitimacy of a once-underground movement, and as a victory for African-American culture. Those skeptical of the street cred of an organization that also manages the National Museum of American History should note the exhibit’s coy subtitle riff on the title of A Tribe Called Quest??s second-worst album. Despite this dubious pedigree—was there no room on exhibit posters for “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm”?—this project affirms the long-overdue recognition of hip-hop?...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inside the Hip-Hop Museum—Look, But Don't Touch | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...notorious example of this phenomenon, A Tribe Called Quest??s debut single “Can I Kick It?” takes Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” relatively unadorned, as its beat. Unsurprisingly, the lines about “colored girls” singing didn’t make the transition, but the laid-back bass line survives amid Afrocentric lyrical nuggets...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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