Q Tip - THE RENAISSANCE (LP) M K-Pop its appeal to pop audiences

its appeal to pop audiences seems insured

Was he indeed a lad insane

there are folky acoustic tunes ("Sweet Creature")

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Album of the Year is a distinct break from the smoky Detroit funk Dilla championed

Q Tip - THE RENAISSANCE (LP) M K-Pop its appeal to pop audiencesQ Tip's 1999 solo debut, AMPLIFIED, was perhaps too party oriented, too pop influenced, too strayed from straightforward hip hop, to have pleased die hard A Tribe Called Quest fans. After nine years of the genre's evolution, which saw a handful of experimenters (i. e., Andre 3000, Kanye West, Pharrel Williams) running with Tip's instincts to great mainstream success, the positivistic, soft soul based hip hop sound purveyed by the nasal voiced Tribe