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The platinum-selling album, a follow-up to the group's big commercial breakthrough album 1986's Raising Hell, featured some of the group's classics like "Run's House", "Beats to the Rhyme", and a cover of The Monkees's "Mary, Mary".
The hook of the song ("Whose house?/Run's House") is quoted by Loki in the Kevin Smith film Dogma. [1]The song is also featured in Smith's film Chasing Amy. [2] The hook has also been adapted into the catchphrase of American professional wrestler Swerve Strickland, who presents a call and response to the crowd: When he asks "Whose house?", the audience responds with "Swerve's house". [3]
Beats, Rhymes and Life is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Released on July 30, 1996, by Jive Records , it followed three years after the highly regarded and successful Midnight Marauders .
Despite not selling as well as its predecessor, the album boasted several strong singles, including: "Run's House", "Beats to the Rhyme", and "Mary Mary". Though at the time considered a disappointing follow-up to the blockbuster Raising Hell, the album has grown in stature.
Athens hip hop artist and talk show host Danny "Therealist" White performs with the Shaky Leg Trio during a Beats, Rhymes and Life open mic show at Hendershot's in Athens in 2023.
Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison walks readers through the accented beats of rhyming ballad stanzas in this week's column.
Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even children who struggle in learning to read can achieve success in learning ...
The style that Hollywood created and his partner introduced to the hip hop set quickly became the standard. Before that time, most MC rhymes, based on radio DJs, consisted of short patters that were disconnected thematically; they were separate unto themselves. But by using song lyrics, Hollywood gave his rhyme an inherent flow and theme.