A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service

There has been a repress of this in 2023. Sellers have listed it under the 2017 version but there was another pressing in 2018 with a different matrix / run out. Can anyone that has a 2023 pressing advise what the matrix / run out details are for the 2023 pressing please?

Quite a great pressing! One of the best hip hop albums to come out in the last ten years. There were some hairline
scratches on a few of the sides but it did not seem to effect playback.

Striking Hip Hop Gold After the Rush Had Ended Decades Ago

You know there's a serious release in music when, on the Friday it was released, everyone in my office that listens to music was going from office to office telling them to immediately start streaming A Tribe Called Quest's latest and final album. ATCQ's sound has remained untainted, despite a major shift in hip hop theme since they released their last studio album at the close of the 'golden age of hip hop' in the late 90's. Time was to their advantage: keeping their original sound, combined with 18 more years for music to develop for them to sample and tenured artists to collaborate with yields their final, but brilliant wave before hopping on the retirement train.

There's something to be said about the guest list on this album. The realization that you're listening to hip hop while organically having Jack White play guitar in the background of a couple tracks, Elton John singing, and André 3000, Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli laying down verses is like genre barricades of music being lowered in the greater good of fulfilling the need for authentic, timeless music, not rushed-to-release albums. It's an appropriate time to say "this album came out of no where" when it's been 18 years since ATCQ has released studio work, but what a phenomenal, grin-inducing surprise.

I can't wait to see what other artists are inspired by this release, and mold their perception of hip hop as a result of ATCQ's decades of work reiterated with this release. I'll be citing this album as a great gateway album to getting into hip hop as a whole, along with Mos Def's Black on Both Sides, Illmatic by Nas, and Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full. I hope this opens up the door to newer hip hop fans who listened to this most likely because it's their newest release, but find out about ATCQ's history and look back at their earlier albums during the true 'golden age of hip hop'. These albums are the work that made them so coveted and revered. Links below to some of their earlier work that rivals this release.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders

Disc 2 of this European pressing with the hype sticker is terrible, lots of surface noise on the right channel on both sides. Disc 1 sounds OK, lots of marks on both records though. Avoid! Go for the US pressing it's got to be better than this one. UPDATE: Received a replacement European copy from Juno that didn't have the hype sticker on the front and it looks and sounds great.

My copy has pops in some songs and there is no scratch neither dust on the vinyl. Anyone has the same problems? I love the design and the sleeves here but mine was a bad pressing. Its still enjoyable but not a perfect experience. It cost me 18€, don't pay more, look in other stores some prices on discogs are way too high.

Love this album, the pressing does not do it justice unfortunately... My disc 1 had a few significant pops on both sides. Sound overall is a little flat. And as mentioned by other reviewers, they didn't seem to care much about the packaging :/

Great album! I love how ATCQ evolved their sound musically but still stay true to their rap style and lyric poetry. Also enjoy the guest rappers on this album. Makes it sound like a record of that time (2016) and let's you remember those hip-hop artists that were trending and relevant at that time (again 2016). Rest in peace Phife Dawg! You became the statue to let those know how talented you were!

Happy to have it but I agree with most comments - it's the most uneventful special release ever.

Black sabbath have nothing to do with song number 2

Sounds okay... A tad quiet, bass can be muddy at times, and mine came with a pretty big scratch. It doesn't affect play, but still an issue. And no gatefold? For $30 CAD I expected a little more.