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Beats, Rhymes & Life review

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Watch Q-Tip and Kanye Perform at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival

Kanye West recently stopped by the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival to hop onstage with his longtime hero and frequent collaborator Q-Tip. The two raged through a very spirited rendition of the fan favorite “Award Tour” from A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders. Apparently not satisfied with the crowd’s reaction to West’s presence, the former Tribe MC refused to let the song continue until the crowd’s enthusiasm matched his own. Let’s just say the bar was set pretty high....  read more

Watch the Trailer for A Tribe Called Quest's Documentary

A Tribe Called Quest is getting the documentary treatment with the film Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, in theaters this summer....  read more

Seven Sundance Documentaries We're Looking Forward To

At a festival that can be as risk-taking (and—dare we say—esoteric) as Sundance, a documentary can be a lot safer bet than a narrative film. After all, if nothing else you actually did get a peek into real life events, right? And as 2010 vividly showed, sometimes the cinematic heights scaled by documentaries are every bit as impressive as those scaled by their narrative brethren. Here are seven we're especially looking forward to this year.  read more

Mobbed Up: Hip-Hop's Eight Best Posse Cuts

The best times are always better when you’ve got friends to share them with. That’s true of almost everything, and it’s doubly, triply true of hip-hop. There’s even a specific word for getting your crew together on a song in the rap world—the posse cut, where four or more rappers trade verses in a song. Now granted, DJ Khaled has made a living by clowning on this most respectable of traditions, but that hardly means that every other posse cut is all about shrieking “We the best!” For your consideration then: the eight best posse cuts that totally aren’t by...  read more

Tribe, Lauryn Hill, Snoop, DJ Premier Added to Rock the Bells Lineup

It’s been 17 years since Snoop (Doggy) Dogg released his breakthrough album, Doggystyle, but now a whole new generation will get to experience jams like “Gin and Juice” and “Doggy Dogg World” when he performs the album in its entirety at the 2010 Rock The Bells Festival....  read more

Q-Tip to School Musicians on the Entertainment Business in New Book, Industry Rules

Veteran rapper Q-Tip has announced plans to pen a book for the Ballentine imprint that will detail the ins and outs of the entertainment business, according to AllHipHop.com. The co-founder of A Tribe Called Quest will release Industry Rules in correspondence with the 20th anniversary of ATCQ's debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. ...  read more

Back To Middle School: My 20 Favorite Rap Songs Circa 1991

I graduated from elementary school in June of 1990. Almost immediately after, my Dad—who worked for Digital Computers—switched from manufacturing to sales, and my family moved from Marlboro, Mass., to Alpharetta, Ga. I'd already gotten into a little bit of rap music while I was still in New England, listening to more poppy stuff like DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Tone Loc, Young MC, LL Cool J, and even a little Digital Underground. But when I got to Georgia and started at Taylor Road Middle School (which I attended from August 1990 to June 1993), I met some new...  read more

Q-Tip to Release Album in Sept. Following Eight-Year Delay

Q-Tip might want to adopt a line from LL Cool J as his new motto: "Don't call it a comeback; I've been here for years." Eight years, in fact, have passed since the former A Tribe Called Quest MC produced the nine tracks that make up Kamaal The Abstract, to be released Sept. 15 on Battery Records. ...  read more

Q-Tip: The Renaissance

Back when he was rockin’ the mic for A Tribe Called Quest...  read more