Tribe follows their critically acclaimed sophomore album, The Low End Theory with yet another critically acclaimed effort with their third album, Midnight Marauders.This classic album was released. The hip-hop personalities on the cover are: Afrika Bambaataa AMG Ant Banks Awesome Two Beastie Boys (Mike D, Adrock, MCA) Black Moon Busta Rhymes Casual Chi Ali Chuck D The Cold.
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The week of Puff Daddy's 24th birthday, the would-be mogul ended up on his first album cover. Xavc codec. In late 1993, before Bad Boy Records ever released a single, and No Way Out was a distant dream, Sean Combs appeared on the outer artwork to A Tribe Called Quest's third album, Midnight Marauders. It would be the first of many times that the executive/artist ended up on a platinum LP. By the late '90s, Puff's relationship with Tribe may have sounded strange to fans watching the diverging sounds of Native Tongues and Bad Boy. In an artwork montage that included Beastie Boys, Too Short, Black Moon, Ice-T, De La Soul, Large Professor, Grandmaster Flash, Busta Rhymes, and others, there was Puff'.
Speaking with Funkmaster Flex to promote his Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story documentary, Puffy addresses a lot of things not found in the typical Combs interview. His Tribe ties are one of them.
At 1:13:00, Flex asks this year's highest paid entertainer (per Forbes) if he was an attendee at 1980s Manhattan clubs like Latin Quarter and Union Square. 'I would go and meet [DJ] Red Alert at Union Square. Like, I was trying to carry Red Alert's crates. [The same with] Chuck Chillout. Whatever I could do to get in the game. I was there from the beginning! I don't know…if the [Brooklyn street gang] Decepticons would've got a record and they would've told me to go steal some Polo off of somebody, I may have did that! I was down for whatever to get in the game. If you look…remember that [A] Tribe Called Quest [Midnight Marauders] album cover with all the faces on there? I'm on there! I didn't even have a record. I didn't even have a job!…It didn't make no sense; we're not from the same neighborhood. It was just that I was always in the right place. That day they was havin' a photoshoot for the album, somehow I was there. [Laughs]' 'That definitely was Chris Lighty. Chris knew those moves to make. I met Chris when there was a brawl at M.K.'s. [at a Queen Latifah party]. That was the first time me and [Chris Lighty] met; we was fighting [together] shoulder-to-shoulder.'
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At 34:00, Flex presses Puff about putting Biggie's verse first on Craig Mack's 'Flava In Ya Ear (Remix).' Claiming that changed the trends of remixing, Flex asks Puff if that caused problems with the veteran Long Island, New York MC. Puff simply says, 'To be honest, I'm not sure. ‘Cause at that time, Bad Boy was more of a dictatorship than a democracy. I'm just bein' honest [laughing], you know what I'm sayin'?' Flex runs through the remix guests. 'That's when I managed LL [Cool J] for two weeks. I did—I managed LL for like two weeks. I did Phenomenon.' Puff Daddy is credited as that 1997 platinum LP's executive producer. 'I did like that whole album, the whole nine. And he went Queens on me, and disappeared. He just disappeared, like, ‘I don't want you to manage me no more. I don't agree. I just want to do [something else].' Flex admits that he upset Uncle L by mentioning his Bad Boy affiliation in the mid-'90s. Puff continues, 'Yo, he used to pick me up at my house. The doorbell would ring. I'd have to peak out and [look], even though it was me. I'd like, ‘Yo, LL is driving me around in the Rolls [Royce]. I'm buggin'.'…just the time of us driving around the city, just the jewels that he dropped. Me and him stayed close. He got a star at Hollywood [Boulevard] a year ago, and I presented him the star. He asked me to present it for him.'
Notably, LL was managed by the aforementioned Chris Lighty before and after his stint with Diddy.
Elsewhere in the hour-plus interview, Puffy reveals that he first met former girlfriend Jennifer Lopez when both were in high school. He credits onetime rival Death Row Records with outdoing Bad Boy's plaques. He also claims that those holding the copyrights to 1975 Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier film Let's Do It Again prevented The Notorious B.I.G. Desitvforum indian tv shows. from using the name 'Biggie Smalls' as his stage name, not Uptown Records. He thanks JAY-Z for appearing in his Apple-backed doc', despite a Tidal rivalry.
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A Tribe Called Quest‘s third, classic album, Midnight Marauders Www atoz songs com free download. , is now 20 years old. Almost as iconic as the LP's sounds is its album cover that featured a who's who of music industry artists and execs. Now we get a detailed explanation of its creation.
The homies at The Smoking Section caught up with Nick Gamma, who was the art director at Jive Records that designed the cover. Turns out one of the original ideas didn't pan out.
Reports The Smoking Section:
TSS: How much say did Tribe have in designing the cover compared to your team, and where did you all agree and differ in what it should include?
NG: Q-Tip was the mastermind behind the visuals of all of the Quest albums. I believe he had even designed the circle logo with the stick figures in it. His first idea for Midnight Marauders was to have a bed in a loft in which you could see the skyline of NYC out of the window. Blue light would be emanating from the window on to a beautiful woman on the bed. She would be wearing headphones listening to music. He also wanted her hand on her crotch. That's where the label rejected the idea.
The next idea was very challenging. Q-Tip wanted to have the striped lady walking in front of the Flatiron building at night. She would have headphone jacks coming out of her head. The connected headphones would then be worn by a large group of people following behind her. She would be like the pied piper of Hip-Hop. We actually went out to the Flatiron around midnight in the freezing cold to shoot this. As we were standing on top of a cargo van, with the photographer shooting, it started to snow. When we went back and reviewed the contact sheets it was very apparent that the idea just didn't work. With today's technology it would be a lot easier to have created the scene as Q-Tip envisioned it.
The album as it appears today was our version of the piped piper idea. This direction seemed like it made sense and was doable. Quest was on board and we then proceeded to start to shoot everyone.
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Speaking with Funkmaster Flex to promote his Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story documentary, Puffy addresses a lot of things not found in the typical Combs interview. His Tribe ties are one of them.
At 1:13:00, Flex asks this year's highest paid entertainer (per Forbes) if he was an attendee at 1980s Manhattan clubs like Latin Quarter and Union Square. 'I would go and meet [DJ] Red Alert at Union Square. Like, I was trying to carry Red Alert's crates. [The same with] Chuck Chillout. Whatever I could do to get in the game. I was there from the beginning! I don't know…if the [Brooklyn street gang] Decepticons would've got a record and they would've told me to go steal some Polo off of somebody, I may have did that! I was down for whatever to get in the game. If you look…remember that [A] Tribe Called Quest [Midnight Marauders] album cover with all the faces on there? I'm on there! I didn't even have a record. I didn't even have a job!…It didn't make no sense; we're not from the same neighborhood. It was just that I was always in the right place. That day they was havin' a photoshoot for the album, somehow I was there. [Laughs]' 'That definitely was Chris Lighty. Chris knew those moves to make. I met Chris when there was a brawl at M.K.'s. [at a Queen Latifah party]. That was the first time me and [Chris Lighty] met; we was fighting [together] shoulder-to-shoulder.'
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At 34:00, Flex presses Puff about putting Biggie's verse first on Craig Mack's 'Flava In Ya Ear (Remix).' Claiming that changed the trends of remixing, Flex asks Puff if that caused problems with the veteran Long Island, New York MC. Puff simply says, 'To be honest, I'm not sure. ‘Cause at that time, Bad Boy was more of a dictatorship than a democracy. I'm just bein' honest [laughing], you know what I'm sayin'?' Flex runs through the remix guests. 'That's when I managed LL [Cool J] for two weeks. I did—I managed LL for like two weeks. I did Phenomenon.' Puff Daddy is credited as that 1997 platinum LP's executive producer. 'I did like that whole album, the whole nine. And he went Queens on me, and disappeared. He just disappeared, like, ‘I don't want you to manage me no more. I don't agree. I just want to do [something else].' Flex admits that he upset Uncle L by mentioning his Bad Boy affiliation in the mid-'90s. Puff continues, 'Yo, he used to pick me up at my house. The doorbell would ring. I'd have to peak out and [look], even though it was me. I'd like, ‘Yo, LL is driving me around in the Rolls [Royce]. I'm buggin'.'…just the time of us driving around the city, just the jewels that he dropped. Me and him stayed close. He got a star at Hollywood [Boulevard] a year ago, and I presented him the star. He asked me to present it for him.'
Notably, LL was managed by the aforementioned Chris Lighty before and after his stint with Diddy.
Elsewhere in the hour-plus interview, Puffy reveals that he first met former girlfriend Jennifer Lopez when both were in high school. He credits onetime rival Death Row Records with outdoing Bad Boy's plaques. He also claims that those holding the copyrights to 1975 Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier film Let's Do It Again prevented The Notorious B.I.G. Desitvforum indian tv shows. from using the name 'Biggie Smalls' as his stage name, not Uptown Records. He thanks JAY-Z for appearing in his Apple-backed doc', despite a Tidal rivalry.
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A Tribe Called Quest‘s third, classic album, Midnight Marauders Www atoz songs com free download. , is now 20 years old. Almost as iconic as the LP's sounds is its album cover that featured a who's who of music industry artists and execs. Now we get a detailed explanation of its creation.
The homies at The Smoking Section caught up with Nick Gamma, who was the art director at Jive Records that designed the cover. Turns out one of the original ideas didn't pan out.
Reports The Smoking Section:
TSS: How much say did Tribe have in designing the cover compared to your team, and where did you all agree and differ in what it should include?
NG: Q-Tip was the mastermind behind the visuals of all of the Quest albums. I believe he had even designed the circle logo with the stick figures in it. His first idea for Midnight Marauders was to have a bed in a loft in which you could see the skyline of NYC out of the window. Blue light would be emanating from the window on to a beautiful woman on the bed. She would be wearing headphones listening to music. He also wanted her hand on her crotch. That's where the label rejected the idea.
The next idea was very challenging. Q-Tip wanted to have the striped lady walking in front of the Flatiron building at night. She would have headphone jacks coming out of her head. The connected headphones would then be worn by a large group of people following behind her. She would be like the pied piper of Hip-Hop. We actually went out to the Flatiron around midnight in the freezing cold to shoot this. As we were standing on top of a cargo van, with the photographer shooting, it started to snow. When we went back and reviewed the contact sheets it was very apparent that the idea just didn't work. With today's technology it would be a lot easier to have created the scene as Q-Tip envisioned it.
The album as it appears today was our version of the piped piper idea. This direction seemed like it made sense and was doable. Quest was on board and we then proceeded to start to shoot everyone.
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Plenty more details are provided that will make any A Tribe Called Quest fan start reminiscing. For example, there is an A Tribe Called Quest font. [Note: WE NEED THAT, SIR.]
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Read the full story over at TSS.
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