Intermission and The Ummah
Midnight Marauders remains A Tribe Called Quest's highest selling album, with sales of over three million units. The album's success allowed the group a greater financial freedom and the members took a short break before the recording of their next album began. Q-Tip produced stellar tracks for other artists including "One Love" for Nas, "Illusions (Remix)" for Cypress Hill, and three tracks on the Mobb Deep album The Infamous. He also went through a religious awakening and converted to Islam. Tragedy would strike when an improperly disposed cigarette at a house party escalated into a full-blown fire, burning down his home, vast record collection and many works in progress. Phife, who rapped on "Oh My God" that he owned "more condoms than TLC", made cameo appearances on that group's hugely successful album, Crazy Sexy Cool, in 1994. He would also marry his fiancee and relocate to Atlanta, Georgia. Ali Shaheed Muhammad worked on outside projects with artists such as D'Angelo ("Brown
More about A Tribe Called Quest (From Wikipedia)
History
Q-Tip and Phife were childhood friends and had grown up together in St. Albans, Queens. The pair first met Muhammad in Murray Bergtraum High School. Initially, Q-Tip had been performing read more...
People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm
In less than a year, and under the management of DJ Red Alert, the group released their first single, "Description Of A Fool", to a lukewarm reception, and without a music video read more...
The Low End Theory
Following People's Instinctive Travels, the group continued to gather a loyal fan base through touring and guest appearances such as on De La Soul's "A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"". read more...
Midnight Marauders
Trugoy (also known Dave of De La Soul), appeared on the refrain of "Award Tour", the group's lead single from their third album Midnight Marauders, released on November 9, 1993. read more...
Intermission And The Ummah
Midnight Marauders remains A Tribe Called Quest's highest selling album, with sales of over three million units. The album's success allowed the group a greater financial freedom read more...
Beats, Rhymes And Life
Beats, Rhymes and Life, the group's fourth album, was released during the turbulent East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry, which engulfed many rappers from both coasts and even some read more...
The Love Movement And Split
Prior to the unveiling of The Love Movement, the group announced that it would be their last album together. Fans were surprised, as the breakdown had been kept discreet. In an interview read more...
Solo Ventures
Under the management of Violator, Q-Tip launched a briefly successful solo career, which saw two sizable hits ("Vivrant Thing", and "Breathe And Stop"), and the Gold-certified album, read more...
Reunion
The group first reunited on November 13th, 2004, headlining the Rock the Bells concert held in the Angels Stadium parking lot in Anaheim, CA. This was the night that Ol' Dirty Bastard read more...
A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip-hop group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamal Fareed), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer read more...