Jungle Brothers

And by extension, I also love the Native Tongues.

That was a super group that included the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Leisure New School and Queen Latifah.

And they were really dope.

But Tribe Called Quest was very integral to my exploration of self and music and poetry and rhyming.

it was um you know what that's why right they was on tour with clips last year they was opening for clips oh yeah yeah doing that whole um rollout for um the last album they just dropped yeah i with earth gang i gotta listen to some more they though i'm glad you brought them up Uh, Spence, who you got left, bro? Uh,

I got, um, the foundation of the native tongues, Jungle Brothers.

I feel like everybody talk about tribes.

How the fuck did I not mention them?

That was the opener.

And it's like the Jungle Brothers and like Oceanic was on it.

Yeah, I loved it.

Anyway, so that drove them mad.

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And music used to be so many different sounds of music that we had our taste, right? Because, you know, you had as much as you had N.W.A., you had P.E., you had Tribe, you had The Jungle Brothers.

But then when you think about the Jungle Brothers, that shit was wild too.

Because one of them respectfully named was Baby Africa Bambada.

Don't look him up.

And we love some groups.

We love what we think they stand for, but when we really, really listen, it's not what we really think.

Nah, but artists like the Jungle Brothers, Dayline, Tribe, they not was missing in the hip hop.

And it was a profound privilege to be in the midst of the burgeoning underground movement before it became a galactic cultural force.

I was fortunate enough to befriend artists like A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, and De La Soul, who were part of the Native Tongues movement.

Watching these artists yearn for a connection to their motherland kindled in me a curiosity about mine.

That low-burning flame burst into an inferno when I met nine warriors from Staten Island who crash-landed onto the scene like ninjas and issued the dire warning that Wu-Tang Clan ain't none to fuck with.

I never understand why people don't like this album.

To me, the Jungle Brothers dropped two back-to-back five-mic classics, Beyond This World, Feelin' Alright, Which You Want.

You make me sweat.

B's on a string.

One of the first people in New York to make Chicago-style house music was Todd Terry.

His track with The Jungle Brothers, I'll House You, from 1988, is probably the most well-known hip house track.

I was in my, my crib back in the days, Brighton Beach, and it's just me and my friends in the house.

I'm playing music and making a lot of noise, and my friend, we, they used to come in through the window of my house, not the door.

So it would be dope to see him.

He'd be one night emceeing a hip-hop show with Jungle Brothers, and then he'd be at a strip club emceeing Don't Ask Me How I Know All This.

And that's it.

So it's pretty cool.

We, we, we love to bring in the community and co-curate the show alongside you.

Before the BBC News let's hear it from the longest running hip hop group in the world, New York's Jungle Brothers who have set the tone and really made a way for a lot of the rappers that we, that we know today.

The legendary voices of De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Monie Love, Black Sheep, even the Wu Tang Clan.

If you know, you know, and you know the Jungle Brothers.

Maybe you know the lyrics even to the songs.

Sing along wherever you are: working out, driving, just do it safely.