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 Jazz rap
Length 3:36
Label Jive Records
Producer(s) A Tribe Called Quest
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.

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