Q-Tip

Roundhouse, LondonA man who tours even less frequently than he records, Q-Tip is as enigmatic as he is influential. When he emerged in 1988 as the lead rapper of A Tribe Called Quest, he was merely part of a larger movement: Tribe followed the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul in proving that hip-hop was not all about bragging and boasting, hard times and street crimes. Yet by the time Tribe imploded a decade later, Tip was a rap icon, his voice one of the genre's most distinctive instruments, his ...

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