Rolling Stone — 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 go... more info

Stereogum — Q-Tip debuted an unreleased Kendrick Lamar collaboration called "Want U 2 Want" on his Beats 1 show Abstract Radio last night, MissInfo reports. "New Kendrick featuring Q-Tip coming up ... not really new, but whatever," Tip said before spinning the t... more info

USA Today Music — The rapper-producer, who's a member of ATCQ and an artistic director at the Kennedy Center, shared an expletive-laden rant.             more info

Stereogum — This year's Grammy nominations are surprisingly decent, but one notable omission is A Tribe Called Quest's instant-classic farewell album, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service . Group ringleader Q-Tip is pretty pissed off about it, too, e... more info

Stereogum — LL Cool J played a set at The Meadows festival in Queens, New York City yesterday. The Queens-born rapper brought out fellow Queens rappers Q-Tip and Jarobi White of A Tribe Called Quest for a rendition of Tribe's "Award Tour" from 1993's Midnight Ma... more info

Stereogum — Although Q-Tip has teased the possibility of another "incarnation" of A Tribe Called Quest, it's hard to imagine how the group could go on without Phife Dawg, and they've said that their recent shows in support of last year's shockingly good We Got ... more info

Stereogum — The best part of Michael Rapaport’s 2011 A Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life wasn’t the inspiring story of the Queens rap greats first coming together in high school or the unflinching depiction of the internal tensions that eve... more info

AllHipHop — AFTER THE SUCCESS OF 'PRETTY GIRLS LIKE TRAP MUSIC,' CHAINZ IS ALREADY ON TO THE NEXT ONE more info

New York Times — Jason Moran will return as the artistic director for jazz, focusing on cross-disciplinary presentations and spotlighting the Washington jazz scene. more info

AllHipHop — GET HEALTHY Q-TIP! READ MORE! more info