People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A good rap album with a clear and understandable voice.

As far as debut albums go, this one is up there. So many classic Tribe singles, and it really establishes some of the West Coast hip hop and rap of the era. This was the first album in the three album streak of exceptionalness.

RAP crap

Didn't do it for me...

Mais um álbum de Rap, desta vez ouço pela primeira vez uma tribo que tem como nome procura (tradução livre, possivelmente não seja a mais adequada). Como é possível concluir, eu nutro um certo desgosto por Rap, mas estes senhores conseguem calar algumas das minhas críticas, vamos a elas então. O que eu crítico no género em questão? O instrumental repetitivo, a interpretação vocal, as letras que usam vocabulário questionável. Este álbum em duas coisas surpreendeu-me pela positiva, os instrumentais mesmo que repetitivos tinha muitos instrumentos de sopro que adicionavam uma camada de complexidade que muito acrescenta a música. A interpretação vocal parece mais contida e séria com um individuo muito eloquente a falar, mesmo que por vezes sejam coisas muito parvas. No geral foi um álbum que se ouviu relativamente bem e até agradável, padece dos restantes males do rap que faz desinteressar-me do mesmo, mas após tantos álbuns maus que ouvi este é claramente dos melhores. Assim terei de atribuir um 6 a esta coletânea de cantigas destacando o I Left my Waller en el Segundo. Nota 5/10 08/01/2025

Love Tribe, OG shit. Highlights: Luck of Lucien, Footprints, Bonita Applebum, (Pubic Enemy is about crabs haha), Can I kick it. 5 stars

Original hip hop. Laid back.

Very nice. Chilled out. Very influential, very funky. Will need to listen again. 3.5.

Good samples and flow, mellow and smart

Good album for their debut. Later albums achieved more. Great samples

Smooth jazz and clean rhymes. Nice listen but can't Imagine seeking it out do listen to it again. Also, Delux edition 😑

Already listened

Didn't like this quite as much as I thought I would, think award tour is my favorite from them. Still a very enjoyable and influential rap album. think Footprints samples Sir Duke??? Saved: Footprints, Can I Kick It?

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Push It Along (despite the intro/outro), Luck of Lucien, After Hours, Footprints, I Left My Wallet in El Segundo, Pubic Enemy, Can I Kick It?, Mr. Muhammad, Ham 'N' Eggs, Description of a Fool Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: A very good album. I don't think it ever transcends into a classic album, but it's a very good and very consistent album. All of the songs are good and have good vibes, but I couldn't round up this 4.5 to a 5 despite the amount of songs I saved.

all day vibe

Good stuff. I liked it.

Not bad.

foundational and better than I expected for some playful moody non-swearing old school rap

Brilliant ! Really enjoyed listening to this, gonna have to give it ****

Yeah not bad

When you sample a song you don’t always necessarily improve on the original but I suppose you do create something new. This album was wholly of its time and enjoyable for me listening today.

the beats and flows are so smooth. a lot of rap from this era sounds dated to me but this just sounds classic. i think the back end is a little weaker, but overall a great album 9/10

Tough one. Didn't dislike it but don't think I'd listen to it again so...

Teraz to mnie pikerka pozytywnie zaskoczyla, nie sadzilem ze ATCQ pojawi sie na tak wystakowanej liscie i to w dodatku debiutanckim albumersem, chociaz z drugiej strony, to nie jest glupi pomysl wybrac akurat peoples instinctive travels and the paths of the rythm, jako przedstawienie tworczosci tribowej, bo zakladam ze jednak zaden inny albumik sie nie pojawi, niestety, bo jako debuitancki album slychac na nim najwiecej kreatywnej wolnosci, bo plyta wydana byla przez jive, ktore raczej jest kojarzone z popowymi wydaniami, no i swiezym ksieciem, kolejnym czynnikiem ktore z pewnoscia mialo wplyw na brzmienie plyty bylo studio calliope, w ktorym obok tribersow tworzyli junglowi bracia, czy chocby prince paul razem z stetsasonic, ktory pojawia sie nawet goscinnie na traku rhythm, ale najwazniejsza jest chemia miedzy czlonakami ekipy, a tutaj ukazuje sie ona przede wszystkim jako koperacja miedzy qtipem i phifem, czyli duetem lirycznym ktory rozumie sie bez slow i konczy jeden drugiemu linijki, jeden z najlepszych duetow na majku w historii murzynskiej piesni rapowanej, a jak w dobrej historii, to tlem bedzie tutaj przyjazn od malego i wspolne dorastanie, jada jada, chociaz ta plyta jest bardziej przychylna dla qtipa, jesli chodzi o podzial linijek, ktory wedlug mego odczucia wynosi 4:1 po stronie Q, co do kolejnych czlonkow to za produkcje odpowiedzialny jest dj muhammad, czyli polaczenie perfekcyjnosci w masteringu, skillsow djskich i instyntku samplowego, bo jest to album opierajacy sie glownie na brzmieniu zlotej ery jazzu, choc potrafia sie pojawic bardziej funkowe zapetlenia, czy nawet cos bardziej rokowego, nie mozna takze zapominac o szadolowym czlonku, czyli panu bialym jarobim, ktory chociaz nie rapuje i pojawia sie jako wodzirej i jest osoba ktora przedstawia bande na openingowym push it along, ale ktory takze mial swoj udzial w tekstach, zwlaszcza na najwiekszych hitach plyty, czyli i felt my wallet in el segundo czy can i kick it, a jesli juz przy liryce, to plyta jest mocno zwiazana z tak zwanym pozytywnym rapowaniem i jest utrzymany w klimacie de la soulowego 3 stopy wysoko i jeszcze wzlatuje, wiec milosc, pokoj i mlodosc, a jak mlodosc to robienie glupot, a to wszystko przedstawione z humorkiem i inteligentnym samokrytycznym spojrzeniem na samego siebie, im wiecej wiesz o plycie tym trudniej jest zapisac jakas notke, bo o kazdym traku mozesz napisac osobna note, ale przynajmniej na plejke nie bedzie problemu, bo z 14 trakow albumu 6 znalazlo sie na niej wczesniej, wiec na dokladke otwierajacy push it along i polowa jest, oby wiecej takich pozycji

7/10. Very solid album throughout, I especially liked the guest appearance of a chorus of frogs.

groovy

Rap suave, no tan intenso como otros tipos, algunos inicios de canciones con covers de otras canciones. No es mi estilo favorito, pero se deja escuchar este disco

Hypnotic, jazzy and understated...or boring, longwinded and energy-sapping? I honestly couldn't tell you, and it might be all these things and more. Sometimes the music sounds a little flimsy, but the rhymes are, on occasion, fabulous. So why are they often delivered in a monotone? A frustrating experience.

push it along/luck of lucien are a great 1-2 combo. its very much lyricist as a story teller and the poetry is nice. Pubic Enemy I could do without

I can get the importance of this album, but it's not so good to me. Just ok!

I am not really into rap or hip-hop, but the album was quite good.

Good storytelling and immaculate beats. Gets a bit long by the end. 9

Classic

Well, I listened to the intro to the tracks, with direct steals from The Beatles (La Marseillaise) and Stevie Wonder, then Take A Walk On The Wild Side. But each track turned into the same old boring, repetitious nonsense! Intellectual property?

I thought this was a cool album. I don’t think I enjoyed it as much as the other album of theirs that I’ve gotten, but it’s not too far off. It’s the same sort of thing though, the music would be fun to just jam to and as a non rap fan I actually could dig what they were putting down. Fun record. Favorite tracks: “Luck of Lucien,” “Can I Kick It?,” and “Youthful Expression”

I was disappointed with this one, I was expecting quite a bit more about from a band that I enjoyed the first album of so much

Significantly better than the average rap album.

Can I kick it?

i love their jazz influenced production. they know how to put a record together. this is about a 3.7 for me so i'll give it a 4

Love Tribe, I like the next few albums more though, feel like they were still finding their way with this one. Regardless, it's another 4.5 (5) stars.

Meh

Ni tan peor como otros

Don’t hold me to this as I’ve never fully delved into the dude’s music, but every time I hear Q-Tip I think to myself, “That’s it. That’s my favorite voice in hip-hop.” Something about the ease of his delivery is so pleasant to my delicate white ears. Anywho, I enjoyed this. And I don’t want no ham & eggs, ‘cause they’re high in cholesterol (except yes, I do).

4

I hadn't heard of this band yet I recognised some of the songs. Enjoyed most of it!

Fantastic beats. 6/10

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is the debut studio album by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released on April 10, 1990[1] on Jive Records. The album's laid back production encompassed a diverse range of samples which functioned as a template for the group's unorthodox lyrics. A Tribe Called Quest formed in Queens, New York, in 1985.[6] After establishing a friendship with hip-hop act Jungle Brothers, both groups formed a collective dubbed Native Tongues, which also included De La Soul People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm has been described as "a celebration of bohemia, psychedelia and vagabondia",[11] as well as "laid back"

Well put together, again, very unpretentious. You could see how it inspired a whole genre and how there were no expectations so they were able to experiment and make it their own.

One of their many masterpieces.

Absolute fire. I could probably jam this all day.

Qué mi calificación no nos engañe: me gustó mucho. Pero tengo que ser fiel a mi método, y no es como que nomás por una rola se quede de ser un discazo, hay varias que están mñe.

No pues la neta no conectó, si a caso una rolilla.

Tribe is really good, just not my jam

Fun, funky, deep, catchy. Love all the samples. Hardly notice the length.

Fun!

Solid r&b album. Pretty simple rap cadence throughout but no mumbling so I enjoyed it. Also not a sex/drugs album.

Not my favorite ATCQ joint, but still an ATCQ joint.

Not really my thing.

This is such a great classic hip hop album. Obviously Can I Kick It is a banger but Push It Along is just as high on my bangerometer.

Always left wondering whether I love the song because the opening few bars remind me of a the original sampled song and kick my enjoyment neurons off. Nonetheless enjoyed this

2.9

Tribe never lets me down

Me likey.

not my regular jam, but understandable lyrics and interesting, layered music in a laid-back style

Hip Hop und Rap... was kann das schon werden? Witzig! Und überraschend! Kein Schimpfen oder schlüpfriger Lobgesang an eine „thicc biatch“. Dafür eine witzige Geschichte, wie er seinen Geldbeutel in einem Restaurant vergisst. Relatable! Der Beat ist entspannend und wenn ich wollte, konnte ich den Rap überhören. Teilweise gab es sogar groovy Melodien. Quasi das beste, was man aus Rap rausholen kann.

Much of this list has been listening to albums that are predecessors to other good music. This album makes me sad for what has become of rap and hip hop. This album is really good.

Groovy, despite being over 30 years old the beats are still choice. If I have one complaint, this album is very, very Q-Tip heavy (think Phife only got like 2 verses?). It inspired a lot of my favorite rappers, it's nice to hear this album still held up. Favorite tracks: "Can I Kick It?", "Luck of Lucien"

Not sure how I feel about it, so it gets a 3.

Everything you want from a hip hop album… chilled beats and amazing rhymes!