A Tribe Called Quest

rap group (MC, DJ, production) · Queens, New York

American hip-hop group whose The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991) is the centerpiece of this entry: an album built on jazz samples, with bassist Ron Carter as a guest. Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis), Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor) and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad wrote most of it.

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Styles

• Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz

Landmark tracks

• Jazz (We've Got) (1991)
• Excursions (1991)
• Verses from the Abstract (1991)
• Check the Rhime (1991)
• Scenario (1991)

Sources

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