A producer, recording engineer and sound mixer, he helped pioneer the early use of sampling in rap music, including on the influential album “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest.

On this day in 1991, Queens lyricists Q-Tip and the late Phife Dawg, alongside DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad, collectively known as A Tribe Called Quest, released their landmark sophomore album The Low End ...

With socially conscious lyrics, infectious boom-bap rhythms and jazz loops, A Tribe Called Quest’s 90s ‘backpack rap’ has stayed fresh until the Trump era ...

When he was a teenager, actor Michael Rapaport loved the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Then again, so did a lot of people. The Queens-born collective—formed in 1991 and made up of rappers Q-Tip, ...

Excursions; Buggin' Out; Rap Promoter; Butter; Verses from the Abstract (featuring Vinia Mojica and Ron Carter); Show Business (featuring Diamond D, Lord Jamar and Sadat X); Vibes and Stuff; The ...

When it comes to experiencing music, our ears tell us only so much. In “Go Ahead in the Rain,” his book about A Tribe Called Quest, poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib recalls the determination ...