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unusual facts about A Tribe Called Quest



Dominic Hawken

In the 1990s, he worked with a number of leading DJs including Danny Rampling and Boilerhouse Boys to record a number of UK hit records, including Can I Kick It by A Tribe Called Quest.

Fugees discography

! scope="row" "Rumble in the Jungle"
(featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes and John Forté)

Jack Wilkins

Wilkins' cover of the Freddie Hubbard standard "Red Clay", from his 1973 album Windows, was sampled by the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest on the song Sucka Nigga, on their 1993 album Midnight Marauders and also by Chance the Rapper on the song NaNa, off his 2013 mixtape Acid Rap.

Kool DJ Red Alert

Red, who is of Antiguan heritage, also had a small hip hop management company in the late 1980s called Red Alert Productions, which managed the careers of Native Tongues acts such as the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Monie Love.

Never Yet Contested

Taking inspiration from artists such as Busta Rhymes, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots, Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, Rakim, Nas, The Notorious B.I.G., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, Never Yet Contested has developed a music style that blends multiple genres.

Shola Ama

The project saw her working with the record producers Fred Jerkins III, Stargate, Shaun Labelle, Full Crew, D-Influence Productions and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (formerly of A Tribe Called Quest).

Soul by the Pound

The chorus of "Thump Mix" contains vocal samples from Q-Tip's verse in "Jazz (We've Got)" by A Tribe Called Quest, Redman's in "Tonight's Da Night" and Grand Puba's in "Check It Out."

Universal Zulu Nation

From the late 1980s, at the height of the Afrocentric movement in hip hop (when artists such as KRS-One, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, the Native Tongues, and Rakim hit success), the movement seemed to be incorporating many doctrines from the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earths, and the Nuwaubians.


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Jarobi White

He was honored along with the rest of A Tribe Called Quest in VH1's fourth annual Hip Hop Honors ceremony.

The Ummah

Although A Tribe Called Quest since formed somewhat of a reunion, releasing "ICU (Doin' It)" in 2003, the possibility of the group once again using the Ummah name for future productions seems unlikely, especially since member Jay Dee's death on February 10, 2006, from complications of Lupus.