Crew

Recorded for Beats, Rhymes and Life in 1995–1996, with The Ummah shaping the album’s production. The track was part of the group’s mid-1990s move toward a sparser, more reflective sound. It appeared on A Tribe Called Quest’s fourth album, Beats, Rhymes and Life, released by Jive in 1996. Critics singled it out as one of the album’s standout cuts for its tense, introspective mood. The track remains one of the album’s better-remembered deep cuts and is still noted in retrospectives on the record. Its dark, minimalist feel is often cited as representative of the group’s later-period sound.