How does this get recommended to me 10 years later? Better late than never, algorithm.

q-tip just did intro,verse,chorus with a needle .. I quit

The fact that he dropped it on-beat the entire time is incredible.

q-tip just made an entire beat just with a fucking record and a record player. fucking legend.

TIP just that old pimp on the corner showing these engineers some ancient Chinese secrets lmao. Love it

Q-Tip must be a beast at that game Operation

*Ye is the only one who's as amazed as I am* Everybody else seen him do this. And Ye in the background just in fkn awe of a master at work. This is more flavor and soul in one 4min video than the rest of the hip hop game has nowadays.

Tip, Ye, and No ID... Nothing can go wrong in that studio.

The lost art of needle dropping

you know Q-tip is stoned as hell

It took 13 years but finally I was ready to experience this ...so says our overlords at YT...I bow to Qtip

I use to do that shit on my mom's turntable back in the 80's countless ass whoopings!!!! and broken needles 😅

Q-Tip mastered the art of looping. He been in the game for a very long time so you know you're in good hands when he creates.

Damn ! This funky song “Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads - 1971” is sick already and TIp experimenting just takes it to the top. 😎

So many legends standing in one room..... My god.

3:03 he nailed that!!!

QTip doesn't get the shine he deserves as a producer...Tip is one of the top producers in hip hop with so many 💣💣💣

10 years later and this video was just recommended. The algorithm has finally deemed me worthy.

Dude conversing, giving dap, and keeping the needle drop on time. Beast mode indeed. 💪🏿

This man is pure Hip Hop. That was the purest thing I've ever seen. God bless Q. Long live the Tribe.

I got chills watching this. I've always watched other artists mention this about him but I never saw a video of him doing this. Here I am Thanksgiving morning in 2019 just seeing this video, smh.

This clip should be in the library of Congress. 💯💯

i knew Qtip was a genius way back in the 80s, but i still come back and watch this every now & then 🤘😎

as long as beat is 100 bpm, each rotation will be 3 beats , so you can dropanyplace and keep on the beat in a 6/8 esque

And Kanye is just standing there like damn.

Q TIP is amazing. this was so soulful. it sounded like something that Madlib would make on purpose. Good stuff. Plus it was a legendary room.

this is the rawest form of djing, before all the serato shit

This is why tip is know as the most underrated rapper producer ever

The reason he can do this is that the song tempo is a multiple of 45rpm so the beats are in the same clock position every time it goes round. Its still really difficult to do, and takes skills.

There are producers, there are DJs, and then there are magicians

"We should do the record like this." No record.

This still slaps in 2023. I would pay actual money to hear a beat based on this

Oh I get it, he cleans out your ears.

Just incase someone wants to know.. the track is Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads

This is actually a really good tutorial video for anyone who wants to mix. I remember my dad going nuts about the needles I wrecked,, He never mentioned the records. Now days you can by 20 needles for the price of a vinyl.

Tip is a real dude, I remember meeting him back in the day at the famous Astor Place Barbar Shop and his complete humility was impressive! A few years later saw LL there too, and he had a straight up I'm really feeling myself look on his face.

"You come along girl what did I do" damn!

The Abstract Poetic doing his thing in the lab...

Tip been a beast with it.. Tip was Kanye b4 Kanye was Kanye...

Nasty and he just playin around so you can imagine if it was an all out effort!

Honor to "Grandwizard Theodore" the inventor of the needle drop, and scratching style!!!! Q Tip did that!

3:18 that uh from Tip gave a glimpse of how he would sound on it.

i seen it 13 years a go the first time, but every year i back to see this king

BRUH, he's sampling Chicken Heads by Bobby Rush! 😮😮👍👌

Q-tip just sitting there with his coat and all on still on, just dropped in, 'bout to leave and does just this... Must be such an honor to be there as one of the witnesses.

the compiling of samples was something that I must say Ski Beatz was AND IS AMAZING for!!! Needledropping was used to speed up the loop process you could literally get a track done in half the time still sound funky and then have enough time to master/mix and do vocals. The compiling of samples to fit were what I loved more then just the loop. When you can take a bit from multiple albums during digging and make something wildly new but the sonics were otherworldly in feel and tone.

I was doing this in '83 when I was like 12. It was just something to do out of boredom I wasn't an aspiring producer or d.j....yet. Interesting that someone else as great as Tip was not only doing it but was obviously using it early in his career as a way to spit rhymes over music. Dope.

We have just witnessed a master at work.

I didn’t even notice Kanye until they put the cam on him😭

I met him once as a kid. he wasnt very nice to me, but I still got love for that Queens Tip!

3:25 *screaming and crying* “YESSSSSSSSSSSS!”

Random algorithm gives me genius from 10 years ago No complaints

Q-Tip is hip-hop all across the board, incredible producer and unique lyricist!!!

Back when Ye was doing real HipHop ☹️

So much positive energy in that studio room makes me want to make a beat ..

So glad to find this after so many years. Used to mess with Reason and Fruity Loops thinking I was so fly...this needle drop technique is insane

He made that beat for Consequence...song is called "The Needle Drop", released earlier this year.

45's are perfect, DJ Swamp came up with the same idea for a 12" inch 33 1/3 record which was skip-proof and pressed these records and this was in 1998, that Bobby Rush 45 Q-tip is playing in this footage is from 1971. when doing this the beat is never off even though the vocals cut in and out randomly because the beats are line up perfectly parallel on every groove. the needle/headshell and tonearm is slightly lifted upwards while the needle is still sitting in the groove at the same time slightly pulled outward so that the needle skips grooves to the previous groove.

Been a fan since 1993. Q-Tip is ridiculously underrated.

This is why i dont let any weed into the studio until after the work is done.

slept on? He's one of the most respected record collectors/beatmakers in Hiphop...he helped produce all of the classic Tribe tracks, and countless others. "slept-on" is not how i'd describe Q-tip, my friend!

Kanye drinking bubble tea geeking out over Q-Tip is one of the best things I've ever seen

theres nothing you can say negative about this right here. This is a Great at work. The Art is what you make it. Q-Tip is Legend.

Create a different feeling with these looos changing the atmosphere of the original song

with no crayon

This is some insane ish!! We don't give producers like him enough credit.

This never gets old...

1:08 The Nazis officially congratulate Q-Tip's contribution to Hip Hop colourised.

i remember doing this in the 90s with a tape recorder and one of those oldschool voicemail boxes machines that kept 30 second clips. but this is legendary.

10 years it took to find us, and it's just what we needed

Kanye respects his OGs and says fuck everybody else

That is the purest form of sampling

Sampling is the best thing I have ever heard.

every single time i watch this, mind is blown, especially from 2:43 onward. talented beyond belief, man. crazy.

I am listening to hip all my life and youtube decided to show me this clip right now.

He and Dilla are interchangeable at 1 & 2 in my book

sucks cause I`ve had this loop in my head for like a fucking week now

I'm honored that I was nicknamed after him. I hope I do an 1/8 of the good that he did for music.

He knows his records by heart, like J Dilla used to!

Ive never seen any1 play loops like that dope, thats be4 MPCs mind blowing

Bro years later I swear that’s my first time seeing NO I.D. Face ever! Q-Tip using the Record player as his personal MPC ! Hella history in one video

AN OLD SCHOOL MASTER RIGHT HERE!!

This is why I Love him!! True essence of hip hop!!

He gave this beat to consequence who absolutely ruined it

Qtip is by far my favorite rapper of all time

This is UN...F@#KIN'...BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!

When I have producer's block I always return to this clip!

Totally 1980's lick right there before two turn tables..this was all I had...but Q is the king of the needle.

All these years later still haven’t seen anyone do something like this and nail it.

If only Phife Dawg got to drop freestyle to this RIP brother

The thing I love about this, is that I was doin' this too and never seent anyone else do it... I just did it because I wanted to try different ways of loopin' sounds... When you don't got much to work with, you make do and just let your self be creative. Some people got that genius creativity and some people don't... And I'm not sayin' that as an ego thing, because it manifests for other people in different ways that I couldn't be creative on... But, speakin' on the music level, if it's in you then it's in you. ONE.

Mans just cut a break wit no mixer and drop the bass line while he smiling in ya face... straight Beast mode! Respect

Watched this like 100 times and still blows my mind 🔥

bruh that is a fucking super power! you know hard it is to track a specific groove in a vinyl... while it's spinning! props to one of the greatest!

Just the raw uncut of black talent. They all became giants!

I saw this on my recommended like 3 years ago and finally found it again after googling like “ needle” “scratching” “studio” “Kanye” “old school”

oh shit. we got the abstract, no id, and kanye

Imagine how different things would be if he never lost his books in the fire

If it wasn't for the internet... Future generations might forget all this.

I’m so happy this footage was captured cuz it’s just so fucking raw