How Native Tongues Turned Hip-Hop Into a Family Reunion
Before crews were rivals, they were cousins. Here’s how De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, the Jungle Brothers, and Queen Latifah built the most laid-back empire in Golden Age hip-hop.
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The Native Tongues: How De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Friends Rewrote the Rules of Rap
Long before hip-hop split into charts and camps, a loose family of Queens and Brooklyn rappers proved the genre could be strange, tender, and jazzy all at once. This is the story of the Native Tongues.
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How the Native Tongues Made Hip-Hop Weird, Warm, and Wonderful
While the airwaves filled with hardcore posturing, a loose crew of Long Island and Bronx kids dressed in daisies and dashikis quietly rewired what Golden Age hip-hop could be about.
