+ Dwele - Feels So Good
+ 2000 Black - Simple Sacrifice
+ Kid Sublime - Something About Your Love Ft. Nicky Guiland
+ J. Rawls - Digital Funky
+ D’Angelo - Spanish Joint
+ Full Crate - Robin, Micha & Noah
+ ?? - ??
+ Aaron Jerome - Reason To Ft. Katherine De Boer
+ Ben Westbeech - So Good Today
+ Mos Def - Umi Says
+ Minus 8 - Starlight
+ ?? - ??
+ Saint Germain - Latin Note
+ Byron & Onra - Mr. Suave
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The Ummah was a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and the late Jay Dee. Occasional members included Raphael Saadiq, and D’Angelo. In addition to producing the entirety of A Tribe Called Quest’s fourth and fifth albums, The Ummah provided backing tracks for a notable array of hip hop and R&B artists, including Busta Rhymes, Whitney Houston, Keith Murray, Brand New Heavies, Janet Jackson, and Jon B. The group was so named because two of its members (Tip and Ali) are devout Muslims. The word “ummah” is Arabic for “community” or “brotherhood”. Thanks to The Backpack Enthousiast.
1. Madvillain - Butter King Jewels
2. Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino
3. James Pants - Rhythm Track 4
4. Devon - Turnups
5. Professor Ojo - Stepping Off
6. Bullion - Long Promised
7. Kona Triangle - 6
8. Jay Electronica - Posers
9. Nancy Sinatra - Friday’s Child
10. Koushik - Ew
11. Ichiro - 20080815
12. Blu & Exile - Live @ SOB’s 7-13-08*
13. Madlib - Raw Tranquility Pt. 3
14. Yao - Reef
15. Boards of Canada - Trapped
16. Cornelius - Fantasma
17. Johh Mo - Bleep
18. Bobbi Humphrey - San Francisco Lights
19. J Dilla - Star 69 (Kutmah edit)
20. Stark Reality - Say Brother
21. The Jones - Something Stupid edit
22. Planet Lunch - Gramma’s Batch
23. Dd/Mm/Yyyy - So Cold
24. The Mad Lads - Get Out of My Life Woman
25. Al Green - Back Up Train
26. Ghostface - Iron’s Theme (Conclusion)
27. Hubert Daviz - Falling
28. Freedom Power - Privacy
29. Magnum - Natural Juices
30. Dam-Funk - Gangsta’s Touch (I Can’t Hide It)
31. Afta-1 - Love Suite
32. Isaac Hayes - A House Full of Girls
33. D’Angelo - Africa
34. Sun Ra - Friendly Love II
35. Bob Dylan - The Man In Me
36. Bad Medicine - Trespasser
37. The Aggrovators - The Big Apple
38. Declaime - 2MC or Not 2MC (instrumental)
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+ Foreign Exchange - Title Theme
+ Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (Remix)
+ DJ Spinna - Dillagence Ft. PhontÈ
+ Oddisee - All Because she’s Gone Ft. PhontÈ
+ Big Tone - What’s up (Intimacy) Ft. Dwele
+ G&D (Georgia & Dudley) - All 4 U
+ Jazz Liberatorz - Fort Green Place
+ Les Nubians - Makeda (DJ Spinna Remix)
+ Hocus Pocus - You Ft. Mr. J. Meideros
+ Strange Fruit Project - Makin’ My Way
+ Little Brother - The Way You Do
+ Pete Rock - No Tears Ft. Leela James
+ J Dilla - Ghetto Love Ft. Truth Hurts
+ Cesar Comanche - The Gift
+ Slum Village - Count The Ways Ft. Dwele
+ D’Angelo - Brown Sugar (Alternate Version)
+ Kid Sublime - Satisfaction Ft. Lesdeal
+ The Pharcyde - She Said (Jay Dee Remix)
+ Jill Scott - Love Rain
+ Noreaga - Married to Marijuana
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It’s frankly weird that an artist like Q-Tip, with his long and succesfull history, innovation and sheer quality should end up without a label after the fiasco that arose from releasing his frankly brilliant and highly bootlegged Kamal The Abstract album that there you go. So here is a Q-Tip album, not a finished bells and whistles album but a mixtape that basically follows up on the kind of material he was doing as Kamal. It’s excellent, a mixture of Ummah style neo abstract jazz-funk pieces, old school Tribe called quest beat, boom bip and the intelligence you expect from Q-Tip.
It’s grown up hip hop with an ear for the richness of black music - jazz funk and psychedelic rock all feature heavily in the music, with high quality artists, such as Andre 3000, Busta Rhymes, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and others. Get it on WarpMart.