Q-Tip
“Microphone check one, two, what is this? / The five-foot assassin with the roughneck business.”
The Abstract not only produced the upright-bass jazz-rap blueprint of A Tribe Called Quest and co-produced tracks on Nas's 'Illmatic' and Mobb Deep's 'The Infamous', he delivered some of the most effortless, swinging conversational verses ever recorded.
RHYME DENSITY
92
MULTIES
91
STORYTELLING
96
PUNCHLINES
92
FLOW POCKET
100
VERIFIED FREESTYLES & CLASSIC 16s (1)
Cypher Session • The Low End Theory (Jive Records) (1991)
'Scenario' — Native Tongues & Leaders of the New School Posse Cut
“Here we go, yo, here we go, yo / So what, so what, so what's the scenario?”