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Members
Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis)
Phife (Malik Taylor)
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Consequence (Beats, Rhymes And Life Only)

See Also: Lucy Pearl

Singles
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Vinyl E.P.
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? (US 12")

Also Featured On...
Miri Ben-Ari - The Pulling Strings Mixtape (Consequence)
Miri Ben-Ari - The Hip-Hop Violinist (Consequence)
The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business (Q-Tip)
Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Q-Tip)
Boomerang
Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang (Q-Tip)
Common - Uncommon Classics
Common - One Day It'll All Make Sense (Q-Tip)
George Clinton - Greatest Funkin' Hits (Q-Tip)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising (Q-Tip)
DJ Khaled - Listennn The Album (Consequence)
DMX - Here We Go Again (Promo) (Q-Tip)
Faith Evans - Remixes, Unreleased & Featured
Get On The Bus
GLC - Hood Celebrity (Consequence)
Heavy D & The Boyz - Peaceful Journey (Q-Tip)
Heavy D And The Boyz - Nuttin' But Love (Q-Tip)
Heavy D - Heavy (Q-Tip)
High School High
Hi-Tek - Hi-Technology²: The Chip (Q-Tip)
Hip-Hop Docktrine Two: The Official Boondock Mixtape Disc 1ne
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Q-Tip)
Talib Kweli - Kweli-Confidential (Q-Tip)
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Mix CD (Consequence)
Large Professor - 1st Class (Q-Tip)
A Low Down Dirty Shame (Q-Tip)
Lyricist Lounge Vol. 2 (Q-Tip & Consequence)
Mad Skillz - From Where??? (Q-Tip)
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Men In Black
Mint Condition - The Collection (1991-1998) (Phife)
Mint Condition - E-Life (Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
Mobb Deep - The Infamous (Q-Tip)
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides (Q-Tip)
Mos Def - The Dangerous Mix (Q-Tip)
Mos Def - Mos Definite (Q-Tip)
MTV Party To Go Vol. 6
MTV Party To Go Platinum Mix
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (Q-Tip)
The PJs (Q-Tip)
- The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Single) (Q-Tip)
Rhyme & Reason
Ride (Phife)
The Rugrats Movie (Phife)
Save The Last Dance (Q-Tip)
Shaquille O'Neal - Shaq Diesel (Phife)
The Show
Slick Rick - The Art Of Storytelling (Q-Tip)
Slam (Q-Tip)
Soundbombing II (Q-Tip)
Soundbombing III (Q-Tip)
Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right (The Album) (Q-Tip & Consequence)
Thug Radio Mixtape 14: Ridin' (Q-Tip)
Thug Radio Mixtape 19: Gonna Make A Change (Q-Tip)
TLC - CrazySexyCool (Phife)
Tony Touch - Mic Construction (Consequence)
Tupac - The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Q-Tip)
Violator The Album (Q-Tip)
Violator - V3: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Promo
Kanye West - Freshman Adjustment (Consequence)
Kanye West - I'm Good (Consequence)
Kanye West - The Lost Tapes (Consequence)
Kanye West - College Dropout Advance (Consequence)
Kanye West - College Dropout (Consequence)
Kanye West - Late Registration (Consequence)
Stevie Wonder - So What The Fuss (Single) (Q-Tip)

Bio from All Music Guide
Without question the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s, A Tribe Called Quest jump-started and perfected the hip-hop alternative to hardcore and gangsta rap. In essence, they abandoned the macho posturing rap music had been constructed upon, and focused instead on abstract philosophy and message tracks. The "sucka MC" theme had never been completely ignored in hip-hop, but Tribe confronted numerous black issues — date rape, use of the word nigger, the trials and tribulations of the rap industry — all of which overpowered the occasional game of the dozens. Just as powerful musically, Quest built upon De La Soul's jazz-rap revolution, basing tracks around laid-back samples instead of the played-out James Brown-fests which many rappers had made a cottage industry by the late '80s. Comprised of Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Phife, A Tribe Called Quest debuted in 1989 and released their debut album one year later. Second album The Low End Theory was, quite simply, the most consistent and flowing hip-hop album ever recorded, though the trio moved closer to their harder contemporaries on 1993's Midnight Marauders. A spot on the 1993 Lollapalooza Tour showed their influence with the alternative crowd — always a bedrock of A Tribe Called Quest's support — but the group kept it real on 1996's Beats, Rhymes and Life, a dedication to the streets and the hip-hop underground.

A Tribe Called Quest was formed in 1988, though both Q-Tip (b. Jonathan Davis) and Phife (b. Malik Taylor) had grown up together in Queens. Q-Tip met DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad while at high school and, after being named by the Jungle Brothers (who attended the same school), the trio began performing. A Tribe Called Quest's recording debut came in August 1989, when their single, "Description of a Fool," appeared on a tiny area label (though Q-Tip had previously guested on several tracks from De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising and later appeared on Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart").

Signed to Jive Records by 1989, A Tribe Called Quest released their first album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, one year later. Much like De La Soul, Tribe looked more to jazz as well as '70s rock for their sample base — "Can I Kick It?" plundered Lou Reed's classic "Walk on the Wild Side" and made it viable in a hip-hop context. No matter how solid their debut was, second album The Low End Theory outdid all expectations and has held up as perhaps the best hip-hop LP of all time.

The Low End Theory had included several tracks with props to hip-hop friends, and A Tribe Called Quest cemented their support of the rap community with 1993's Midnight Marauders. The album cover and booklet insert included the faces of more than 50 rappers — including obvious choices such as De La Soul and the Jungle Brothers — as well as mild surprises like the Beastie Boys, Ice-T, and Heavy D. Though impossible to trump Low End's brilliance, the LP offered several classics (including Tribe's most infectious single to date, "Award Tour") and a harder sound than the first two albums. During the summer of 1994, A Tribe Called Quest toured as the obligatory rap act on the Lollapalooza Festival lineup, and spent a quiet 1995, marked only by several production jobs for Q-Tip. Returning in 1996 with their fourth LP, Beats, Rhymes and Life, Tribe showed signs of wear; it was a good album, but proved less striking than The Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders. While touring in support of 1998's The Love Movement, the group announced their impending breakup. — John Bush

Q-Tip's Bio from All Music Guide
The longtime MC with pioneering alternative hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest, rapper Q-Tip was born Jonathan Davis in New York City on November 20, 1970. While a student at the Murray Bergtraum High School for Business Careers, he co-founded A Tribe Called Quest with fellow students Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Phife (Malik Taylor) in 1988; the following year, Q-Tip guested on De La Soul's groundbreaking 3 Feet High And Rising LP, with the two groups forever linked through their association with the "Native Tongues" collective. Tribe's debut single "Description of a Fool" appeared in the summer of 1989, and after signing to Jive Records, the trio issued their debut LP People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm a year later. With their fiercely intelligent, socially progressive lyrics and brilliant fusion of rap and jazz, the group emerged as one of the most popular and influential in all of hip-hop, producing such classic LPs as 1991's The The Low End Theory and 1993's Midnight Marauders before disbanding in 1998. Q-Tip then mounted a solo career with the 1999 release of Amplified. — Jason Ankeny

Phife's Bio from All Music Guide
As part of the pioneering rap group A Tribe Called Quest and its extended Native Tongues family, Phife Dawg helped to usher in a whole new style of intelligent hip-hop. Born Malik Taylor, Phife grew up in Queens, NY, where he spent his childhood writing poetry and eventually rapping at school and in his neighborhood whenever the opportunity was available. Along with high-school classmates Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife founded ATCQ, whose legendary decade-long career ended in 1998 with The Love Movement. The Atlanta-based Phife began flexing his new freedom in 1999 with Bend Ova, the first single with his new U.K.-based label, Groove Attack. A full-length titled Ventilation: Da LP, including appearances from Phife's alter ego, Mutty Ranks, was released the following year. - Wade Kergan

Consequence' Bio from All Music Guide
Introduced to hip-hop audiences in 1996 with his appearance on A Tribe Called Quest's album Beats, Rhymes And Life (a opportunity in part made possible by the fact that Q-Tip was his cousin), rapper Consequence was forced to move from label to label after Tribe's breakup in 1998, even recording a full-length album for Elektra that was later shelved. However, he managed to keep his name out in public by issuing multiple mixtapes, including 2004's Take 'Em to the Cleaners, which was hosted by Kanye West (who he had met in 2002 through mutual friend and producer 88 Keys; Consequence also appeared on West's debut, The College Dropout) and featured Talib Kweli, Common, Little Brother, and John Legend, among others. In 2005 he signed to West's G.O.O.D. Music label and began working on his record, which was planned for release the following year. In the meantime he put together A Tribe Called Quence: 1995-2004, which traced the history of his musical career and included remixes and previously unreleased songs. The release of his solo debut, Don't Quit Your Day Job, was pushed back to 2007, but Consequence kept busy by opening for labelmate Legend during his 2006 Once Again tour. - Marisa Brown

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