“Check the Rhime” is the quintessential and most celebrated hip-hop song for call-and-response rhyme cipher. Q-Tip and Phife Dawg celebrate their middle-class roots from Queens, with Phife delivering one of his most inspired verses.

“Check the Rhime” was released as the lead single for Tribe’s sophomore album The Low End Theory on September 6, 1991, with “Skypager” on the B-side. “Check The Rhime” was ranked #30 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs list and included on The Source’s list of the 100 Best Rap Singles of All Time.