{"id":467,"date":"2013-01-18T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-01-18T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T09:45:24","slug":"song-of-the-week-scenario-by-a-tribe-called-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Scenario&#8221; by A Tribe Called Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go, yo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrhHH3_t218\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t listen to all that much hip hop in 1991, but A Tribe Called Quest is the sort of group that makes you stand up and listen, regardless of what you think your musical tastes are.\u00a0 &#8220;Scenario&#8221; has a great let&#8217;s all join in chorus, and the rapping between Phife Dawg and Q-Tip, plus the Busta Rhymes cameo, jaunts along infectuously.\u00a0 Lyrically they mix silliness and a thoughtful agenda.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s not forget the music, though: where Public Enemy piled up the samples so they often can&#8217;t be distinguished, creating a kind of hip hop version of the wall of sound, A Tribe Called Quest&#8217;s music is spare and spacious: there&#8217;s a lot of room to breathe in there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Scenario%22%20by%20A%20Tribe%20Called%20Quest\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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