All three of these men had something to do with the best hip hop record records that came out in the early 90s. Hearing Jarobi show his talents with evitAN is a testament that if he didn't leave Tribe Called Quest to become a chef as documented in Michael Rappaport's Tribe Called Quest documentary, then Tip and Phife wouldn't have ended everything so uninspired.
evitaN's single shares something Johan Santana pitching the Mets first no-hitter two weeks back. They both represent the ability to transcend mediocity and be as good as you were in your prime. And that's how you know you're relevant. Dres proves he still got that smooth and all over the place flow that made the first Black Sheep record such a classic. And Jarobi's verse is a chill down the spine of the listener who wondered what Jarobi would have been like on all those early Tribe Called Quest records. Needless to say, he could have easily spit rhymes just as good as any guest who appeared on The Low End Theory or the Midnight Marauder record. It's a shame, at least to a young man in his early thirties whose devotion to hip hop was solidified by in part to Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory back in his junior high days, that Jarobi split. And that's why evitaN, when they put out something like "3 Kings" or their other video that dealt with the Occupy Wall Street movement, show us hip hop veterans can still make relavent music, reflecting why the hip hop being made now that gets downloaded or bought by kids now is shallow, corporate crap.
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