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The Native Tongues were a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and jazz-influenced beats.
Native Tongues es un colectivo de hip hop de finales de los años 1980 y principios de los 1990 conocido por su mentalidad positiva, sus esperanzadoras letras afrocéntricas y por ser pioneros en el uso de un ecléctico sampling y de beats muy influidos por el jazz.
The Native Tongues shifted the myopic perspectives of what people believed hip-hop could, would and should be; their influence encouraged hip-hop to expand, shift and impact the mainstream pop world. The collective's legacy remains as a reminder to ignore narrow-minded criticisms of hip-hop culture (and sound) as a single narrative.
25 de may. de 2013 · The Native Tongues are hip-hop nerds to the fullest. Their songs are inundated with references to old-school tracks, with some even lifting and reshaping entire lines and choruses: "It's...
5 de jul. de 2013 · The image of Jungle Brothers looking unabashedly goofy while rhyming about Afrocentric medallions and the difficulties of urban life in the late ’80s is characteristic of the movement they spawned:...
8 de ago. de 2023 · Having navigated the tricky transition from teenage nonconformists to hip-hop elder statespeople, various Native Tongues surrounded Posdnuos onstage at Webster Hall that night in March—the loose assemblage’s legacy now firmly cemented in the culture’s history.
19 de ene. de 2023 · The Native Tongues represent an expansion within hip hop - a new musical sub-genre with a new focus. It’s an incredibly influential period of music history.
