Tribe did more than fuse hip-hop with jazz -- in the way their voices weaved into their beats and around their deeply chilled islands of jeep funk, their hip-hop was itself a kind of jazz. They also kept it hilariously real: On the lesser-known track "Peace, Prosperity and Paper," Q-Tip comes clean about his financial aspirations by declaring that, as to money, "I want the mass amount/That the Sesame Street Dracula can't count."

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PAT BLASHILL

(Posted: Jun 24, 2003)