Q-Tip

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Q-Tip took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce that he’s dedicating the next episode of his Beats 1 show “Abstract Radio” to his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s and dementia. “This weekend on Abstract Radio, I’ll be doing a special show dedicated to my mother,” he said in a video. “It’s her birthday on Dec. 9. Shouts out […]

Q-Tip is headed to college – as an instructor. A Tribe Called Quest’s frontman is teaming up with journalist Ashley Kahn to teach a course at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute Of Recorded Music In The Tisch School of the Arts, according to the school’s website. https://twitter.com/QtipTheAbstract/status/982411012870754304 The seven-class curriculum will “explore the underappreciated […]

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has named Q-Tip the artistic director and advisor-at-large of its new Hip-Hop Culture Council. In a video introducing the council, the influential rapper and A Tribe Called Quest member talked about his goals as director. “With hip-hop constantly changing and evolving, it is easy to forget the history and legacy […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest is blasting the Grammys in an angry video for failing to recognize the band’s final album with a nomination. The rapper-producer tells off the organization and calls it “corny” in an expletive-filled rant posted Tuesday on Instagram. Q-Tip says that Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix […]

18 years after The Love Movement was released, A Tribe Called Quest is finally reuniting to release its final album. The iconic Queens rap group announced the new project with a handwritten note penned in black and gold marker by Q-Tip. The album is due on November 11. https://twitter.com/ATCQ/status/791813869047996416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw According to the letter, the group was inspired to get back into […]

Reid also confirmed the project was completed before Phife's death in March, so he will be featured on the project and so will the group's "sometimes Y" member, Jarobi.

The rapper known as Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor) whose was known for his witty punchlines in the iconic rap group A Tribe Called Quest, died Wednesday at the age of 45. Rolling Stone reports: While the cause of death has yet to be announced, Taylor had had health issues for years, undergoing a kidney transplant in 2008 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hip hop is heading to the Kennedy Center — this time, to stay. Fresh off last year’s critically acclaimed performance by Kendrick Lamar with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday that veteran rapper and producer Q-Tip will join the institution as its artistic director for […]

Q-Tip made history on this week.

Iggy Azalea is finally answering critics back over her claims she lacks the education in hip-hop. Over the weekend, hip-hop legend Q-Tip gave the Australian…

Iggy Azalea has been catching it from all sides lately. Last week, the “Black Widow” rapper’s rival Azealia Banks snatched her edges in an interview accusing…