Check the Rhime
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| 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 | |||
| Label | Jive Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Roger Ball, Malcolm Duncan, Kamaal Fareed, Steve Ferrone, Alan Gorrie, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Onnie McIntyre, Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Hamish Stuart, Malik Taylor, Leon Ware | |||
| Producer(s) | A Tribe Called Quest | |||
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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.
"Check the Rhime" is also often used as bumper music for The Jim Rome Show and The Scott Van Pelt Show.
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.
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