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A Tribe Called Quest
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A Tribe Called Quest in 1990

Origin

Queens, New York, U.S.

Genres

Hip hop, alternative hip hop, jazz rap

Years active

1989-1998, 2006-2013, 2015-2017

Labels

Jive

Associated acts

Busta Rhymes, Consequence, De La Soul, J Dilla, Jungle Brothers, Kid Hood, Large Professor, Leaders of the New School, Native Tongues, Science of Sound, The Ummah

Past members

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group from Queens, New York. Formed in 1989, the group consisted of MC/producer Q-Tip, MC Phife Dawg, DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad and hypeman Jarobi White. Along with Jungle Brothers and De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse and experienced the most success out of all of the artists to emerge from that collective. A Tribe Called Quest are regarded as iconic pioneers of both alternative hip hop music and jazz rap and have paved the way for many innovative artists. White left the group in 1991 and it functioned as a trio for most of its existence until his rejoining in 2015.

The group released five albums from 1990 until its first disbandment in 1998. The group sporadically reunited and toured together, although they never released or recorded music together after 1998's The Love Movement, except for their 2003 feature on Erkyah Badu's song, ICU (Doin' It). The group made a prominent reunion in 2015 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and they decided to record one final album. Phife Dawg passed away due to diabetes in early 2016, but the remaining group members finished the album, We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, and released it in late 2016.

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