- hip hop, jazz rap, east coast hip hop, boom bap
- 65 min
- 14 tracks
- Jive
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 17, 1990, by Jive Records. After forming the Native Tongues collective and collaborating on several projects, A Tribe Called Quest began recording sessions for People's Instinctive Travels in late 1989 at Calliope Studios with completion reached in early 1990.
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Character
Character-led, spare, warm and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- NME9/10
- Pitchfork10/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- The Source5/5 ★
- Spin4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1Push It Along7:42
- 2Luck of Lucien4:35
- 3After Hours4:39
- 4Footprints4:03
- 5I Left My Wallet in El Segundo4:09
- 6Pubic Enemy3:49
- 7Bonita Applebum3:50
- 8Can I Kick It?4:13
- 9Youthful Expression4:56
- 10Rhythm (Devoted to the Art of Moving Butts)4:02
- 11Mr. Muhammad3:35
- 12Ham ’n’ Eggs5:30
- 13Go Ahead in the Rain3:58
- 14Description of a Fool5:42
14 tracks, 65 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Label
- Jive
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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