Check the Rhime
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| "Check the Rhime" | ||||
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| Single by A Tribe Called Quest | ||||
| from the album The Low End Theory | ||||
| B-side | "Skypager" | |||
| Released | September 9, 1991 | |||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 3:36 | |||
| Label | Jive Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Kamaal Fareed, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Onnie McIntyre, Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Hamish Stuart, Malik Taylor, Leon Ware | |||
| Producer(s) | A Tribe Called Quest | |||
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"Check the Rhime" is the first single from A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory.[1] It peaked at 59 on Billboard on November 16, 1991.[2]
In popular culture
"Check the Rhime" is also often used as bumper music for The Jim Rome Show and The Scott Van Pelt Show.
Music video
The music video, directed by Jim Swaffield, starts out in front of houses and moves to a cleaners store where the group performs on the roof, in Queens, New York in front of a large crowd. The cleaners featured in the video is still at the corner of 192nd & Linden Blvd in St. Albans, Queens.
References
- ^ Seidman 7/27/2013, Lacey. "VH1 ALBUM-VERSARIES: A Tribe Called Quest Reminisces About The Low End Theory At 20 (PART II of II)". VH1 News. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "A Tribe Called Quest". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
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Categories:
- 1991 singles
- A Tribe Called Quest songs
- Billboard Hot Rap Songs number-one singles
- 1991 songs
- Jive Records singles
- Song recordings produced by Q-Tip (musician)
- Songs written by Q-Tip (musician)
- Songs written by Ali Shaheed Muhammad
- Songs written by Richard Rudolph
- Songs written by Leon Ware
- Songs written by Phife Dawg