A Tribe Called Quest
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The Brand New Heavies: Rapper's Delight
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 15 August 1992
THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES' new LP is a veritable cornucopia of rap talent. PUSH gets the word on the band that all the other bands ...
De La Soul: Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy); A Tribe Called Quest: Beats, Rhyme and Life (Jive)
Review by Amy Linden, Fi, September 1996
TWO ALBUMS. Two groups. Two release dates. But for all intents and purposes De La Soul's Stakes Is High and A Tribe Called Quest's Beats, ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Storm Warnings
Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 2 February 1991
Besides achieving Top 20 success with their new single, 'Can I Kick It?, A Tribe Called Quest have also been heavily involved with the re-recording ...
A Tribe Called Quest: How The Quest Was Gone
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, September 1998
Say it ain't so! A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, one of the most loved and respected hip-hop bands ever, have bitten the dust. Here, they reveal ...
20 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory Revisited
Retrospective by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 10 October 2011
20 years after it was released and a month before the UK premiere of the Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life, Angus Batey ...
A Tribe Called Quest: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm ***
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1990
INASMUCH AS THE arch and arty New York hip-hop foursome A Tribe Called Quest exudes any enthusiasm at all on its debut album, that enthusiasm ...
The Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Solid Posse: Town And Country Club, London
Live Review by Damon Wise, Sounds, 24 March 1990
BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLE ...
De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, PM Dawn: Wembley Hall, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 October 1991
DIRE STRAITS fans are huddled in masses in the near vicinity, oblivious to the fact that the real revolution is being televised in this makeshift ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Why Are You Being So Treasonable Now?
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 15 December 1990
Our reigning monarch scores as highly on the diss-o-meter as pop rapper Vanilla Ice for hip-hop hotheads A TRIBE CALLED QUEST. But a spot of ...
A Tribe Called Quest return: "You fight for what you love — and you go through hell to get it"
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 17 November 2016
Eighteen years after their last album, the hip-hop legends are back with a record that reunites original members Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jarobi White and ...
Various Artists: Lollapalooza '94, Sam Boyd Stadium University of Nevada Las Vegas July 1,1994
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1994
THE DIFFERENCE between Lollapalooza 1994 and Lollapolooza Past is that this year Perry Farrell and colleagues decided the music being offered couldn't just be loud, ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Quest For Innovation...
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 5 September 1989
Hot new rappers A Tribe Called Quest have set out on a musical and mental journey. Group leader Q-Tip explains. ...
With Wu-Tang Clan and Jurassic 5 touring, why are we hooked on nineties hip hop?
Report and Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 7 June 2013
Hip hop heads often get misty-eyed about the 'golden age' of hip hop. But when was it? The formative years of Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill ...
It's The 'Looza Baby, Why Don't You Kill It?
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994
LOLLAPALOOZA once had the chance to be the greatest rock'n'roll circus the planet had ever seen. But, in spite of the live spectacle of VERVE, ...
The Final Gatherings — A Tribe Called Quest: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1998
In its last LA shows, the influential hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest injects new life into its hit jams. It's a joyous party — ...
A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (Epic)
Review by Michael A. Gonzales, The Wire, January 2017
With their secretly recorded sixth and final album, A Tribe Called Quest address the state of their nation with fury, humour and love. ...
Memoir by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Fader, 30 June 2017
"How would someone young get turned on to jazz, an art form with its most innovative days behind it?" ...
A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, NPR, 11 November 2016
EXPLAINING THE return of A Tribe Called Quest to the pop firmament is nigh impossible without hyperbole, so here goes: Imagine the Beatles had reunited ...
Q-Tip: Amplified (Arista)/A Tribe Called Quest: The Anthology (Jive)
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 15 December 1999
THE GREATEST AESTHETIC lesson to learn from past masters like David Bowie and Madonna is the value of reinvention. ...
Tribal Movement: Hip Hop in 1998
Overview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 2 March 1999
A TRIBE CALLED Quest died for the sins of hip hop in 1998, so the story goes. R.I.P. And roll away the stone. ...
After The Love Is Gone: A Tribe Called Quest
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, October 1998
DRESSED IN A black T-shirt with THE LOVE MOVEMENT emblazoned in silver on the back, baggy jeans, and a blue denim fisherman's cap pulled down ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Questin' Time
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 6 January 1990
THEY TROOP into the hotel foyer. The New Soldiers Of Rap are jet lagged from eight hours on a plane but the assault on Britain ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Hits, Rarities & Remixes
Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2003
THE TIP-OFF TO all of a Tribe Called Quest's considerable talent was the grainy, mischievous curl in rapper Q-Tip's voice: Tribe were abstract imps who ...
A Tribe Called Quest: Beats, Rhymes and Life (Jive)
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, September 1996
LESS INTROVERTED THAN De La Soul and less weird than the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest were always the populists of the Native Tongues ...
see also Lucy Pearl
see also Q-Tip
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