Like It Like That

It was recorded for A Tribe Called Quest’s 1998 album The Love Movement, which was cut at New York studios including Sony Music Studios, The Hit Factory, Battery Studios, and River Sound. The track’s original release credits The Ummah as producer, with David Kennedy credited among the engineering staff and the group members credited as writers and performers. “Like It Like That” was the second single from The Love Movement, the group’s final album of the 1990s. It extended the subdued, polished sound associated with The Ummah era and received some college-radio and hip-hop magazine attention, but it did not become a mainstream chart record. The song remains one of the better-known late-period A Tribe Called Quest tracks and is regularly cited in retrospectives on The Love Movement. Its continued presence on reissues and streaming keeps it in circulation as part of the group’s final studio-era statement.