Stressed Out

Recorded for A Tribe Called Quest’s fourth album, Beats, Rhymes and Life, with guest vocals from Faith Evans and Consequence and production by The Ummah. AllMusic lists Battery Studios and Museummansion as the recording locations for the original Jive single release. It was the second single from Beats, Rhymes and Life and one of the album’s key post-release singles on Jive. The track paired the group with Faith Evans, giving the single a polished R&B crossover profile within the group’s mid-1990s output. The track has remained one of the group’s better-known later singles and has continued to attract remixes, covers, and samples. WhoSampled lists multiple later songs that sampled it and one cover version, showing its continued circulation beyond the original release.