Listen to the final A Tribe Called Quest album.

You Can Now Stream the Final A Tribe Called Quest Album, Which Includes a Song About Donald Trump

You Can Now Stream the Final A Tribe Called Quest Album, Which Includes a Song About Donald Trump

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Nov. 11 2016 2:36 PM

You Can Now Stream the Final A Tribe Called Quest Album, Which Includes a Song About Donald Trump

Jarobi White, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed
We Got It from Here … Thank You 4 Your Service is Tribe’s first album in 18 years.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s new album, their first in 18 years, has been made available for streaming in its entirety. Featuring the group’s late member Phife Dawg as well as the elusive Jarobi White, along with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the collaboration—titled We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service—was first hinted at in August before being confirmed by Q-Tip in October. It will be A Tribe Called Quest’s final album.

Details on the track listing were kept mostly hidden, with promotion for the album emerging via word of mouth as well as the much-hyped SNL appearance slated for this Saturday night. But in addition to the presence of Phife Dawg and other collaborators like Busta Rhymes and Elton John, We Got It From Here has been rumored to include some pointed commentary on the ascendancy of Donald Trump.

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“Funny thing is, we wrote a lot about Trump, about what’s going on, kind of foretelling this shit,” White told Vanity Fair earlier this week. “Especially Phife … he had a crystal ball or some shit.” And with this streaming release, we can now hear the album’s final song, “The Donald,” which takes the president-elect head on. As hip-hop begins to respond to Tuesday night’s shocking result, this makes for an appropriately defiant start.

You can stream the entire album below, via Spotify, or here via Apple Music, or purchase it via iTunes.