Check the Rhime

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"Check the Rhime"
Single by A Tribe Called Quest
from the album The Low End Theory
B-side	"Skypager"
Released	September 9, 1991
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	3:36
Label	Jive Records
Songwriter(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
A Tribe Called Quest singles chronology
"Can I Kick It?" (1991) "Check the Rhime" (1991) "Jazz (We've Got)" (1991)
Audio sample
Menu 0:00 Check the Rhime file help

"Check the Rhime" is the first single from A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory.^[1] It peaked at 59 on Billboard on November 16, 1991.^[2]

Samples used[]

• Average White Band - Love Your Life
• Minnie Riperton - Baby This Love I Have

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 St. Albans, Queens in front of a large crowd. The cleaners featured in the video is still at the corner of 192nd St. & Linden Blvd. in St. Albans.

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