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A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group that was formed in 1985, and was composed of MC/producer Q-Tip, MC Phife Dawg aka Phife Diggy (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album in 1991. He continued to contribute to the band sporadically before rejoining for their 2006 reunion. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Many of their songs, such as "Bonita Applebum", "Can I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Scenario", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electric Relaxation" are regarded as classics. The group released five albums between 1990 and 1998 and disbanded in 1998. In 2006, the group reunited and toured the US. The group is regarded as pioneers of alternative hip hop music, having helped to pave the way for many innovative artists. John Bush of AllMusic called them "the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s,"〔(allmusic ((( A Tribe Called Quest > Biography ))) )〕 while the editors of About.com ranked them #4 on their list of the "25 Best Rap Groups of All Time." In 2005, A Tribe Called Quest received a Special Achievement Award at the ''Billboard'' R&B Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. In 2007, the group was formally honored at the 4th VH1 Hip Hop Honors. ==Beginnings== Q-Tip and Phife Dawg were childhood friends who grew up together in Queens, New York. Initially, Q-Tip performed as a solo artist (MC Love Child), occasionally teaming up with Muhammad as a rapper/DJ duo. While the duo frequently made demos with Phife (as Crush Connection), Phife only became a full member once Jarobi joined. The group's final name was coined in 1988 by the Jungle Brothers, who attended the same high school as Q-Tip and Muhammad.〔 Q-Tip made two separate appearances on the Jungle Brothers' debut album, ''Straight Out the Jungle'', the songs "Black Is Black" and "The Promo". In early 1989 the group signed a demo deal with Geffen Records and produced a five song demo, which included later album tracks "Description Of A Fool", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" and "Can I Kick It?". Geffen decided against offering the group a recording contract and the group was granted permission to shop for a deal elsewhere. After receiving lucrative offers for multi-album deals from a variety of labels, the group opted for a modest deal offered by Jive Records. Jive Records was then known as an independent rap label that specialized in, and owed its success to, building careers of artists like Boogie Down Productions and Too Short. One of the sparks of the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry occurred "at the ''Source Magazine'' music awards when Tupac pushed A Tribe Called Quest from the stage." 〔Walton, B. (1996, Sep 25). TUPAC SHAKUR: Victim or villain? Washington Informer Retrieved from http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/368019434?accountid=8360〕 It was later found that this apparent act of disrespect was accidental.〔http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.21065/title.busta-rhymes-recalls-tupac-accidentally-dissing-a-tribe-called-quest〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Tribe Called Quest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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