Check the Rhime

"Check the Rhime"

Single by A Tribe Called Quest

from the album The Low End Theory

B-side

"Skypager"

Released

1991

Format

digital download, 12" maxi single

Recorded

Summer, 1991

Genre

Alternative hip hop

Length

3:36

A Tribe Called Quest singles chronology

"Can I Kick It?"
(1991)

"Check the Rhime"
(1991)

"Jazz (We've Got)"
(1991)

	Check the Rhime From the Tribe's 2nd album The Low End Theory.
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"Check the Rhime" is the first single from A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory. In 2008, it was ranked number 29 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

In popular culture

"Check the Rhime" is also often used as bumper music for The Jim Rome Show and The Scott Van Pelt Show.

Music video

The music video, directed by Jim Swaffield, starts out in front of houses and moves to a cleaners store where the group performs on the roof, in Queens, New York in front of a large crowd. The cleaners featured in the video is still at the corner of 192nd & Linden Blvd in St. Albans, Queens.

Samples

"Love Your Life" by Average White Band
"Baby, This Love I Have" by Minnie Riperton
"Hydra" by Grover Washington, Jr.
"Fly Like an Eagle" by Steve Miller Band
"The Heat Is On" by Glenn Frey

A Tribe Called Quest

Q-Tip Ali Shaheed Muhammad Phife Dawg Jarobi White

Studio albums	People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm The Low End Theory Midnight Marauders Beats, Rhymes and Life The Love Movement

Compilations	Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller The Anthology Hits, Rarities & Remixes The Lost Tribes The Best of A Tribe Called Quest

Solo albums	Amplified Ventilation: Da LP Shaheedullah and Stereotypes The Renaissance Kamaal/The Abstract

Singles	"Bonita Applebum" "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" "Can I Kick It?" "Check the Rhime" "Jazz (We've Got)" "Scenario" "Hot Sex" "Award Tour" "Electric Relaxation" "Oh My God" "1nce Again" "Stressed Out" "Find a Way" "Like It like That"

See also	Discography Native Tongues The Ummah Soulquarians Lucy Pearl Jay Dee Chris Lighty Bob Power Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

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