Calling Card
Q-Tip and Phife were smart, humorous rappers living in Queens. They met in high school, and then also befriended the guys from the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul. They wanted to call themselves Qu...
Music
Innovative sampling and mixing is one of the great legacies of A Tribe Called Quest. Although People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is sometimes considered a mere precursor to the l...
Songwriting
They may be wrapped up in signifyin', but when A Tribe Called Quest makes a joke, it's not usually a cheap one.They like to have fun, lyrically and in performance, but little that they do is about...