A Tribe Called Quest‘s previous album, The Low End Theory, promised more than it delivered, and it delivered a lot. What it promised was a whole new era of hip-hop. Fully assimilated now, jazz in rap ...

On this day in Hip Hop history A Tribe Called Quest Released their third studio album Midnight Marauders. As the group’s most popular work, this album marked the height of Hip Hop’s Afrocentric/hippie ...

On the 30th anniversary of two classic hip-hop albums, theGrio examines how A Tribe Called Quest’s “Midnight Marauders” and Wu-Tang Clan’s “Enter the Wu-Tang” helped validate sample-based music. One ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Some years ago, I remember coming across author and poet Hanif ...

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Athletes retire; artists die. On March 22, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor – the funky diabetic – finally lost his career-spanning fight with diabetes at the age of 45. What started as a strain on his ...

This article originally appeared in the December 1993 issue of SPIN. A Tribe Called Quest‘s previous album, The Low End Theory, promised more than it delivered, and it delivered a lot. What it ...

On this day in Hip Hop history A Tribe Called Quest Released their third studio album Midnight Marauders. As the group’s most popular work, this album marked the height of Hip Hop’s Afrocentric/hippie ...

One of the biggest lies told in Black music history is that sampling is easy. Far too many critics have pushed the rhetoric that it takes little skill to take a piece of recorded music and loop it to ...