Amoeba Music

By Paul Glanting

             Having created some of Hip Hop music’s most memorable and intelligent anthems, A Tribe Called Quest is one of the genre’s few groups who can be called “beloved.” Representing perhaps the pinnacle of Hip Hop’s Golden Age, the crew composed of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and occasionally Jarobi, provided a clever and pacifistic alternative to the gangster rap which was steadily gaining popularity in the early ‘90’s. Along with the rest of the progressive Native Tongues collective, A Tribe Called Quest sought not only to subdue the violence within Hip-Hop, through the usage of unique and... Read More

Genre:

Hip Hop

City Of Origin:

Queens, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

1988