Q-Tip - Amplified [Clean]

Just over a year after A Tribe Called Quest issued its final album, the group's nominal frontman Q-tip issued his debut solo album, Amplified. For Tribe fans able to get over the fact that Q-tip isn't trading off on rhymes with Phife Dog and Ali as usual, Amplified is an excellent work, almost up to the same level as the group's underrated final Jive album, The Love Movement. The sound here is very similar to The Love Movement, obviously no coincidence since production credits throughout go to Jay Dee and Q-tip for The Ummah, the same combo that produced most of A Tribe Called Quest's material. Read More