Q-Tip talks becoming a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee

Q-Tip sits with DeMarco Morgan to discuss “A Tribe Called Quest’s” influence on hip-hop, the impact of the late phife dawg, and the meaning of joining the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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[@kotaani2934]

I still play their music a few times a week. Geniuses

[@xamccormick]

A Tribe called Quest 4ever

[@stephencalderon7527]

I stopped playing their music back in 2015. Fu c q tip. He blocked me on their atcq page when I was 16 because I was just fanning out on their comment section.

[@ALo-yv2pj]

@@stephencalderon7527😂

[@LiveHipHop93]

@@stephencalderon7527 😂

[@Spoog84]

I very happy atcq is finally getting in the rock and roll hall of fame , rip phife he'll be there in spirit 🙏

[@Regalman]

Q-Tip and Tribe Called Quest is an early pioneer of Jazz Hop, this is well deserved

[@mikemike384]

Actually it was Stetasonic

[@mikemike384]

Song, Talking all that Jazz

[@ocampbell1954]

@@mikemike384 He didn't say was the only. Many people contributed to that included Dj Premier

[@WawaMarvel]

I was so sad phife passed. I went to the street renaming in linden. My favorite group by far. I be outside some days in a tribe shirt and the tribe vans sneakers .

[@KardiFan2000]

Word! I wear my Tribe "low end" Vans a lot too.

[@melbrown2295]

Broke my heart when Phife went. 💔

[@JonRatliff65]

Petition for Low End Theory to be immortalized in the Library of Congress. Q is a living legend for both words and production. I hope he gets some of the accolades he deserves.

[@dn30001]

Low End Theory or Midnight Maruaders...anyone of those would do nicely

[@KardiFan2000]

@@JonRatliff65 A quick Google search shows that Low End Theory was selected for preservation in Library of Congress in 2022. Now it's time for us to petition Midnight Marauders to be there alongside it.

[@JonRatliff65]

@@KardiFan2000 I didn’t know that; Thank you for telling me. That is next on the Agenda then.

[@dmonk2545]

Wurrrrrrd

[@trevorjames4619]

@@KardiFan2000 right next to illmatic

[@ALo-yv2pj]

Q-Tip just produced a whole album for LL Cool J and he sounds better than ever, it's crazy and well deserved.

[@yYungSean]

Fans sleep on Q Tip’s production, ‘Shook Ones’ all time classic

[@KardiFan2000]

@@yYungSean He didn't do "Shook Ones"... although he contributed greatly to The Infamous album.

[@Prodbykayyyso]

Shout to the Goat Q- Tip and ATCQ bro amazing group still play their music to this day despite being from a new generation, a testament to their abilities to make classics

[@tron_carter]

7 times outta 10, we listen to our music at night.

[@keithprice1950]

...In this case, we maraud for ears

[@SSPSoundz]

Thus spawn the title of this program...

[@lucadoemar]

​@@SSPSoundzmidnight. marauders.

[@dunkley7776]

Midnight Marauders 😭

[@wc7338]

I listen to Tribe every morning while getting ready for work. I'm so glad they are getting this recognition. 🖤❤️💚

[@jillianbaker8442]

Me too every day i Listen to Tribe

[@kincamell2]

I am so grateful that I saw De La Soul and Phife in 2014 . Peace to Native Tounge.

[@j.collins231]

Timeless music. I don't even know why, but I listen to all of Midnight Marauders on every flight I've taken since 1997.

[@MrBmick79]

my favoriteTribe album. I still listen to it once a week at least.

[@ocampbell1954]

It's relaxing, instrumental, and minimalist. It's meant to be listen to on headphones. That' classic NY boom bap sound.

[@soulbro7614]

​@@ocampbell1954❤

[@LJsmith-gw8xk]

Cuz its a top 10 album of all time

[@tilbon]

Gotta be a perfect flight album! I respect that so much

[@samwest1097]

Phife said he don’t need the statues and all. But I wish he was here for this RIP

[@abelabera8502]

The evolution of Q-Tip continues… we will see him as the Quincy, Steve, of hip hop when it’s all set and done. One of the greatest yet humble artist in this ego filled industry . This puts a smile to my face. Tribe forever.🫡

[@LTee313]

I was introduced to hip hop during this time , Public Enemy , Tribe etc and this is what influenced my young mind at the time

[@MROCARINA]

A Tribe Called Quest, my favorite hip hop group. 😎👍🏾

[@brettthomas6327]

Q-Tip is truly a musical genius

[@jasondawson92]

A tip was Kendrick before Kendrick his rhymes schemes etc

[@smokey5100]

Long overdue and well deserved 💯

[@Godslight1970s]

Congratulations Q-Tip!! And I love this look on you 🫶🏾

[@lucadoemar]

qtip hasn't aged since the 90s😮 that cut looks amazing

[@Jblah]

He looks raggedy af. Him and jayz got the same suplier lmao 😂

[@MrDavis...42]

A true blessing for ATCQ and this fan.🙏🏾

[@renderuntocaesarwhatiscaes2300]

He’s made some awesome music genius some would even say. I get chills thinking about Q Tip actually being on the chorus for nas’s 5 mic first album where only one rapper actually guess appears on that would be AZ. Q Tip did the course for one love. Like he has decades of music he’s made or been around and it’s been all time great.

[@TheEmeraldCity]

He also produced it

[@trevorjames4619]

You could say Pete rock as well was a guest.

[@photoradio14]

Man about time! Well deserved, greatest group of all time.

[@cynthiamartinez2106]

I'm a Triber for life...and infinity. I miss these days of Hip Hop, but I'm sooo happy I've experienced this love of music.

[@MuiltiLightRider]

Q-Tip is like the coolest guy in hip-hop. Always humble and a super creative mind

[@MrJd74100]

Hip hop legend

[@interdimensionalartistry287]

Congratulations Q Tip, well deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Fame. 😎💪

[@darianbroomfield8361]

Man this is great this is a great win for the true hip hop heads and the real hip hop emcees and culture congratulations q-tip tribe called quest forever rest in peace phife dawg ✊🏿✊🏿

[@malinaonyach8564]

They should of already been in the hall of fame.Qtip looking so good 💯.

[@hesterwalker671]

"A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, WILL ALWAYS BE LEGENDARY RAP GROUP, FROM THE 1990'S ERA"!! Q-TIP, YOU ARE A GENIUS AND LEGENDARY LYRICIST AND THE BEST RAP GROUP THAT ADD SOME JAZZ MUSIC TO RAP WITH. "ICONIC, LEGENDARY LYRICIST"!! PHIFE, WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, REST IN POWER.🌄🌄🌄🌇🏘️🏡🏠☕📰🗞️📖📚📝📝📖📝🎬🎬📽️📹🎥📺📺🏈🏈🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🎤🎙️📻🎧🎧🎤🎹🎷🎺🥁💙💙💙💙💙💙⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏🙏✝️✝️🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@jmckdekalb316]

Probably after Tribe, it’s De La Soul, Queen Latifah, and Jungle Brothers

[@MsJgre]

Love to Phif. God bless his soul.

[@ichooseme4life]

This is dope. Still on my playlist. Memories from college days. Can't believe Phife has been gone 8 years. RIP

[@aarondelacruz5798]

One of my favorite groups of all time

[@dakritic]

It’s about time!

[@Ra-nv4nr]

Not nearly three decades ago. It's been over three decades! Congrats to one of the greatest ever!🎉

[@bcdakid414]

I was literally thinking that probably nearly 4 decades ago

[@m.worthy]

*"KEEP BOUNCING"*

[@michaeldonovan3959]

So modest for being the most influential, conscious, creative group of their era. The music is immortal. Plus jazz legends as sidemen on their albums.

[@The_SuperNatural803]

He said he wrote Bonita Applebum in 1980!?! 😮

[@rashodlewis2918]

🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@KardiFan2000]

I think he meant '85 (he has said this in the past)....weird that he said '80 here.

[@GetInTouchTV]

ICON. makes me feel proud to be from queens.

[@myrlinebastien3574]

One of my favorite hip hop group ever! So underated! Super happy for them!

[@D_A_Marv]

Nostalgia, music ain’t the same. Congratulations to ATCQ

[@diggingthegreats]

LEGEND

[@archieizhellboye]

#Qtip look like he still in his early 30's man geeeeez... that's the energy 35 yrs later... full respect

[@aaronnickey6119]

Well deserved! One of the great Hip Hop Groups!!

[@sonwestsaladaemaheustyle3469]

He sounds like a little child. He so humble person, super simple that’s super good ❤.

[@dre7sus]

Long overdue.. Iconic group 👑👑👑👑💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🕊️🥁🎹🎤🎤🎤🖋️🖋️🖋️

[@jclark21218]

watching this got me a little teary-eyed. the first Tribe album i ever got, once i was able to make my own money, was Beats Rhymes and Life on cassette. Stressed out had me in such a chokehold when i first heard it. I became an instant fan. of course, as i got older, I discovered earlier material and then Q-tip's solo stuff and his features and it's been no looking back since. What a time to be alive. I'm so happy that they were inducted, along with many of the other favorites that also were inducted as well. So many of us that laid the foundation and worked tirelessly in our craft. Chaka should've been in yearssssssss ago.

[@SS-ii6nz]

Fantastic on receiving the recognition and achievements to be placed in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Congratulations to The Tribe Called Quest ❤😅😊 🎶 🎵 Hip Hop Forever 🕺 💃

[@AKAT1980]

It's about damn time.✊🏾 RIP to the 5 Footer and Plug 2.

[@amoneylabamba]

Well deserved!! One of the greatest hip hop groups ever!!!! classic and timeless music!

[@sirve6028]

alot of the artist still havent gone beyond them a tribe de la and wutang my all time favorites

[@chinemeremudoh3732]

"I'll never let a statue tell me how nice I am.." (Phife) Dude was a real one from way back. Rest in Power, Dawg. Congrats on your induction ATCQ!

[@WeMatter247]

…. Well deserved 🙏🏾

[@phillipbrown2318]

Qtip is a Superb producer he did an amazing job of producing ll cool j album.

[@user-od2qx3mc4q]

Well deserved, Qtip is without a doubt one of the best producers ever in hip hop. Also the illest voice in hip hop.

[@NoTrueYachtsman]

Top 5 rapper of all time for me

[@GoldGollum]

Their albums especially Midnight Marauders hold an inestimable value for me… it accompanied me through rough times… when in the face of deep struggles and darkness, I only had this album and the positive notes and voices of these guys… it made some of my days brighter and gave me some good vibes and helped bettering my mood and anxiety. In my eyes, this induction is more than deserved. A Tribe Called Quest is a memorable and unforgettable part of modern music and thus Hip Hop history.

[@alexmajors565]

Vamos!!!!! One of the greatest!!!!

[@ericruffin6716]

Award Tour was a TRACK 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@JUSREEL1978]

Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders were the basis for my teenage years 😅

[@MajorTheGiinius]

Miss you Phife 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@APTTMH07]

This man is really beautiful, inside and out.

[@pendulumdistinction2494]

An absolute gift! A Tribe Called Quest continues to evolve minds, trends, art, creativity, and enhance the possibilities with Human Beings. Another form of magic through expression.

[@Januaryaquarian75]

Phife is one of the dopest rappers that ever did it!! RIP 😢

[@astroknight2828]

Well deserved.They all came a long way.Q-Tip was always an idol i patterned myself with.Good vibes and high enthusiasm while being themselves and nobody else.Pretty much,one of the first hip-hop albums i bought.Without them and GangStarr,i wouldn't care about hip-hop as much as i did back then.

[@gnarwhal7562]

Ngl, I thought this was T-Pain when I first clicked 😂 Congrats to Q-Tip tho, one of my all time favourite hip-hop producers. His recent work on LL's new album really elevated the material

[@B_ready4671]

The memories of dancing to Award Tour in the McDonald's drive thru when I worked the window as teenager, I wld tell the guys to turn it up just I so I cld dance..this induction well ovr due and well deserved❤

[@matthewrobinson6297]

The best ever….thank u, 🙏🏽

[@kelllzzzkellzz4910]

I was one of those kids growing up in New York City that had been surrounded by all kinds of influences from the many different members of my family,to every community I was living in by moving to different neighborhoods and boroughs,reading tons of books and listening to all kinds of music. Growing up with mixed ethnic heritage at face value I was seen and categorized as a black male because of the appearance of my skin color but having been raised with the knowledge of my ancestors I never found anyone who had mixed heritage like me until I moved to The Bronx. I was one of those eclectic kids,braids in my hair,wearing indigenous jewelry due to my tribal heritage,dressing differently than others and always in my own universe and never looking for a place to fit in because I was just being myself,I knew the drug dealers,the street gangs,the criminals and my ability to open up their minds made them accept me. When ATCQ came out it was like looking in a mirror and seeing people like me..that whole movement of De La,Jungle Brothers..people who were just being themselves gave me the confidence to break away from that stereotype of a ghetto black boy that was told he wouldn’t live to make it past 18 years old..well I’m 52 this December Tribe being inducted is well deserved and beyond overdue..they contributed to so much influence on letting us “weird kids” be just exactly who we are meant to be.

[@Michael_Page]

The Low End Theory was the first CD I ever bought. Seeing the direction mainstream rap went, I'm glad A Tribe Called Quest is getting this honor.

[@RexGarvin-oq3ev]

There Should Be A Hip Hop Rap "Hall Of Fame" In New York. We Have To Redo The Script. Hip Hop Rap Culture Is A Culture Of Its Own. Its Not R&B, Heavy Metal, Jazz,Funk Or Rock,It's Hip Hop. The Music Industry Did A Mental Cultural Dysfunctional Job On The Consumer And Audience Member.

[@brownin329]

There is...

[@makyeah]

Tribe was inclusive. Tribe was not exclusionary like you.

[@marcusb.1482]

It’s coming

[@blackice3395]

😢 the group that made me fall in love with hip-hop

[@Shysta30]

Well deserved ATCQ

[@ChamP10nk1ng]

Now this guy DESERVES it for his legendary participation in ATCQ 👍 Not no cringy Jay Flee, Diddy, Kendra, or Kanye & thier poop-a-scoop music.

[@Flush75]

ATCQ. 1993/94. You just had to be there. Nothing else like it.

[@jillianbaker8442]

PERIOD

[@dmonk2545]

TRIBE. A class all by itself. Peace to the brothers. Rest in beats Phife, congrats.

[@yommish]

Q-Tip is still an underrated producer. It goes Pete Rock, Premier, Large Pro, RZA, Q-Tip, etc… no question he’s in there with the best East Coast producers of that late/post-golden era (89-94)-arguably the best era. Congrats to all of Tribe, in the physical and spiritual, for being recognized by the people who love your music.

[@chickenandbones]

He looks amazing 🔥

[@AaronJ-yd9hn]

Dope 🫡

[@walterarchie5388]

Q tip and a tribe called quest deserve it I wish phife dawg was here to see it

[@Colt19]

Bout damn time.. well deserved

[@wills2140]

1:15 r. i. p. Phife Dawg "...you on point Phife? All da time Tip..." - may his memory be a blessing

[@davibaby89]

Phenomenal short interview. Phife Dawg 4 eva yo

[@diegobalut9923]

Always playing the tribe everywhere at anytime, classics ❤

[@robertsessoms]

He created so many beats

[@AlexHandmaster]

*Stolen

[@pazdimas1684]

Phife 🥳 ✨✨

[@godsson149]

Tribe was always super dope to me.💯🦁

[@hassanbey1]

Tribe the group that made me want to b hip hop.. at a time when gangsta rap was prevailing they were the opposite and for peace

[@PeacefulGreyhound-gp3tc]

Phife was one of the greatest to ever grace the mike r.i.p.

[@adriansmith4064]

RIP Phife Dawg 🕊🙏🏾

[@cogitoergosum951]

Very happy for the Tribe! One day, the Knights of the Soundtable will enter the Hall.

[@iluvmyboba]

Quest, Baby!!! Rest in Peace, Phife Dawg.

[@Mrmapleleaffan13]

ATCQ into the rock and roll hall of fame let’s go

Q-Tip & Phife 🙏🏾🕊️ & Ali & Jarobi & A, E, I, O, U...and sometimes Y.

[@stephaniebazuaye1792]

Congratulations qtip

[@Testify087]

Still got my signed Tribe Records and now theyre in the rock and roll hall of fame wow

[@KingCap81]

That boy look like pac man Jones in the thumbnail 😅😅

[@YoshiBugatti]

😂😂😂😂

[@HannibalLector-e8y]

"brand new truck, butter soft seat/four point something with a low ride something" 🗣️💥

[@cecebranch6464]

Period the 🐐 🫶🏽👏🏽❤️❤️

[@littlefinger5199]

We the people is a masterpiece!! The entire album is a masterpiece!