Check the Rhime

"Check the Rhime"
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
A Tribe Called Quest singles chronology
"Can I Kick It?" (1991) "Check the Rhime" (1991) "Jazz (We've Got)" (1991)

	Check the Rhime From the Tribe's 2nd album The Low End Theory.
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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.

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 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.