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Only a month before Del’s IWMBGWH dropped A Tribe Called Quest surfaced once again in hip-hop scene with the release of their second album The Low End Theory. At this time the Native Tongues' style of doing jazz rap was extremely new and A Tribe Called Quest led the alternative rap scene for a few years together with De La Soul.
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Instead of actually producing, Bilal Ashir probably was referring to the Tony! Toni! Toné! Sons of Soul-single “Leavin'” that sampled ATCQ’s “If the Papes Come”.
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In 1993 Q-Tip appeared with vocal and production credits on Run-D.M.C.’s Down With the King album, on the song “Come On Everybody”. A big difference between this album and earlier Run-D.M.C. albums is that this one featured a bunch of random popular producers who are now regarded as legends, like Q-Tip, Pete Rock, E.P.M.D. and Jermaine Dupri.
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Q-Tip was featured on and produced the “Who Planned It” single by popular dancehall artist Tiger, off his 1993 album Claws of the Cat.
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So I tell my tales from the head, cause they're embedded inside my cells Aceyalone & Mumbles – The Balance
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Aceyalone lays down some amazing wordplay here, playing with multiple homophones:
Like heads or tails but the head usually leads the tail
So I tell my tales from the head cause they’re embedded inside my cells
Just before these lines Acey wondered which one out of two things was going to occur, this choice can be just like flipping a coin: an unknown outcome that can vary. Then, he emphasizes on how animals with tails move, their movement is lead by a head, and followed at the complete end with a tail.
Very similar to how a tail follows a head, a tale also comes from the head. “Embedded inside his (brain) cells” is the tale that he wishes to tell, meaning that the tale in reality does come from his head.
The same emotion, different weight
People love to hate, so I know you know, just how this all relates
It's the posa- and the nega-tive Aceyalone & Mumbles – The Balance
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One could claim that love and hate are essentially the same thing. If you’d be able to express affection in numbers you’d have a completely neutral point, the zero. Either love or hate can be every positive number, and the expressed number of this emotion indicates how much someone loves/hates someone else. Naturally this would work the same way for every negative number, which can also be either love or hate.
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