There is the time before, and there is the time after A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ). That’s how influential the group consisting of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and at times Jarobi White, ...
With socially conscious lyrics, infectious boom-bap rhythms and jazz loops, A Tribe Called Quest’s 90s ‘backpack rap’ has stayed fresh until the Trump era ...
On this date 30 years ago, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm was officially certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, a ...
A Tribe Called Quest had the vision for “The Low End Theory.” The engineer Bob Power helped piece it together.
He helped pioneer a newly complex approach to sampling in rap music, including on A Tribe Called Quest’s influential 1991 album “The Low End Theory.” ...