Tribe weren't the first to blend jazz loops with intricate rhyme schemes, but they did it better than most of their predecessors, and in a style which future geniuses were eager to steal. Take Kanye, who nicks Tribe's boho boom-bap lilt on his classic “Through the Wire”, or J. Cole, whose “Forbidden Fruit” directly quotes “Electric Relaxation” from 1993's Midnight Marauders. And the daughter Outkast didn't mean to make cry in “Ms. Jackson”? That might as well be “Bonita Applebum”.