Monkey Daemon

By much delayed request. “Show Buisness” seems like one of the more “conscious” moments of Tribe’s career, educating misled youth on how to not get took by shiesty record execs. In reality they were just hurt because some TI wouldn’t let them “holler down faggots,” as a K-Mart intern once so artfully put it. Industry rule #4081: ignorance fuels everything. I’ve often theorized that part of the reason Brand Nubian isn’t as revered as the Natives because they were so explicitly anti-gay at points. It’s fun to imagine how Tribe’s legacy might have been rewritten had this track ended up on LET. Would much of their headwrap fanbase, proudly comfortable kicking it with ADAM AND STEVE types, have accepted such hatred? Maybe they should be thanking their label for scrapping this.