Jazz (We've Got)
Context
Second single from the album The Low End Theory (1991), this A Tribe Called Quest track illustrates the rapprochement of hip-hop and jazz, which the album helped make known in the early 1990s under the label of jazz rap. Q-Tip rebuilt a beat originally conceived by Pete Rock, whom he thanks at the end of the track.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz. Among the origins and influences of Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Dutch jazz.