Culte ! Le titre Scenario est extrait du deuxième album d’A Tribe Called Quest intitulé The Low End Theory et sorti en 1991. On y croise les membres des Leaders of the New School, mais aussi Spike Lee, De La Soul, les Brand Nubian et Redman.

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C’est en fait un bon nombre des Native Tongues qui étaient présents lors de l’enregistrement de ce morceau, dont voici une prise originale (avec les L.O.N.S., De La Soul et Black Sheep).

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Quelques mots de DJ Johnny Juice à propos de la toute première prise :

A Tribe Called Quest was doing ‘Scenario’. It was me, Dinco, Busta, Jarobi was there – everybody was in that motherfucker – Dres from Black Sheep was there, both of ‘em, Chris Lighty, Mase and Pos from De La, all them motherfuckers rhymed on ‘Scenario’. Everybody rhymed on it but Q-Tip, and the best motherfucker on that shit was Posdnuos. He fuckin’ destroyed it, and he ain’t even like the beat! And after he finished rhyming, everybody went back and rewrote their rhymes!
We was at Unique Studio, that motherfucker finished rhyming, he came out and goes, ‘That shit was wack.’ That’s what Pos said. In the middle of his shit, everybody was like, ‘Damn, yo!’ That’s how nice that shit was. He made ‘em turn off all the samples, ‘cos they had like 15 samples in there. They had an ‘Engine Number 9′ sample, that shit by Wilson Pickett, they had four or five samples on there that came on for different people, and Pos didn’t like none of ‘em so he just rhymed to the drums, and that motherfucker destroyed it. That shit wasn’t even close.

À l’occasion des VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2007, qui rendaient notamment hommage aux Tribe Called Quest, Common, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco et Busta Rhymes ont interprété un petit medley Bonita Applebum / Scenario, à voir ici.