On “The Hop,” Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rock a steady, cool, and collective flow, touching on classic tribe themes like the struggles of poverty and racism, and of course, the beauty of hip hop itself. It also features one of Phife’s most hard-hitting verses. Rashad Smith puts down a smooth and woozy beat by manipulating a jazz sample from Henry Franklin, while Maseo overlays the scratches on the track. Notably, this is the only track on Beats, Rhymes, & Life to lack production credits from The Ummah entirely, and one of a tiny handful of Tribe tracks not to have any production contr… read more
On “The Hop,” Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rock a steady, cool, and collective flow, touching on classic tribe themes like the struggles of poverty and racis… read more
On “The Hop,” Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rock a steady, cool, and collective flow, touching on classic tribe themes like the struggles of poverty and racism, and of course, the beauty of hip h… read more
A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York, in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and rapper Jarobi White. The group is regarded as a pioneer of alternative hip hop music. In 1991, the group released its jazz-influenced second album, The Low End Theory, regarded for helping shape alternative hip hop in the 1990s. In 1998, the group broke up shortly before releasing its fifth album, The Love Movement, but in 2006, the group's original members reuni… read more
A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York, in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-produ… read more
A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York, in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and rapper Jarobi Wh… read more
