Bleep

Sony’s Certified imprint continues its 50 years of hip hop celebration with a steady reissue stream of classics in an effort to make a roadmap of hip hop influence. Remastered and reimagined for this new age, this campaign shines a light on the artful through-line between hip hop’s many phases while also bringing beloved titles back to wax, often for the first time in quite a while. The latest entry in the series is A Tribe Called Quest’s reflective 1999 greatest hits collection The Anthology. Thought at the time to be the closing chapter in Tribe’s storied history, The Anthology gives plenty airtime to one of the sharpest runs in pop music of any stripe, while also pointing towards a future without the group via the inclusion of ‘The Vivrant Thing’, Q-Tip’s debut solo single. Sequenced by theme and sound over chronology, The Anthology gives you every side of Tribe in equal measure.