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It's the Tribe, Y'all!

I'm definitely looking forward to this although it really is just one part of a larger 90's hip hop documentary that needs to be made. I'd love to see a Ken Burns-like treatment to the rise of hip hop, the growth of gangster rap and then the response from groups like Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, and De La Soul. I hope this film (like my desired doc) goes more into the backstory, the problems with the label, touring, the fall of sampling, and then the phase of the career which De La occassionally complained about (and a complaint featured in Spike Lee's Mo Better Blues) - when a majority of their shows became white people. My main fear is that this documentary, like most hip hop docs, focuses too much on the beefs and in-fighting and not the bigger picture and how the music itself evolved.

Still, this looks pretty interesting.


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