Q-Tip, Shaheed and Phife-Dawg…if you don’t know who they are, I don’t really want to know where you’ve been, because wherever it was, it wasn’t where the party was. Everything about their music just screams “New York”. Their music was at the heart of the “New Jack City” sound. If I have to explain that, you’re too young to understand what I mean. Ask Alexa to do a search for the movie. The “New Jack” sound is a uniquely New York musical art form from the 90’s that fused Hiphop with Jazz. It’s straight up Hiphop, but with horns, saxes, and a hard assed bass line under it (you know, Bass…as in that thing that looks like a giant violin). Weird, right? Not when you hear it. When they say “We’ve Got the Jazz”, they mean that shit. It’s the Jazz that created that hard, edgy East Coast sound that Snoop Dogg and the Cali rappers never quite got.