The recorded debut of A Tribe Called Quest followed later in 1989 with "Description of a Fool," issued on Jive. The next year, he was featured De La Soul's "Buddy," and a version of that track, dubbed "Buddy ," added Phife to the mix. Q-Tip was heard first on the Jungle Brothers' 1988 album Straight Out the Jungle. The rapper/producer and DJ/producer duo eventually became a quartet with the addition of Q-Tip's childhood friend Phife Dawg (born Malik Taylor) and neighbor slash part-time member Jarobi (short for Jarobi White). We Got It from Here.Thank You 4 Your Service (2016), their final LP, became their second number one album months after the death of founding member Phife Dawg.Īlthough it wasn't until 1988 that they became known as A Tribe Called Quest - named by peers the Jungle Brothers - the group started to take shape three years earlier, with Queens native Q-Tip (born Jonathan Davis) and high school classmate Ali Shaheed Muhammad (a Brooklynite) recording demo material with pause-tape beats. Six years after their 1998 split, they reconvened onstage and continued to occasionally tour into the 2010s.
The group's first five albums, highlighted by the all-platinum run of The Low End Theory (1991), Midnight Marauders (1993), and Beats, Rhymes and Life (1996), added up to one of the decade's most vital artist discographies, rap or otherwise. Just as creative and powerful as producers, Tribe helped create new paths for hip-hop with visionary and inventive sampling from previously unutilized '60s and '70s jazz recordings, among other styles ranging from bossa nova to prog rock, and even collaborated with some of the players whose names were listed in the liner notes they scoured.
Along with their brothers and sisters in the Native Tongues - a crew that also included the Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Monie Love, and Black Sheep - Tribe struck a natural balance between ruminative and carefree lyrical content, examining personal and deep societal issues without forgetting to have a good time. A Tribe Called Quest were without question one of the most progressive and crucial rap groups of the 1990s.
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