Gummy Soul, the mad scientists behind the Fela Soul mash-up, blow our collective minds with this ingenious mash-up of The Pharcyde and A Tribe called…

Last weekend at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Busta Rhymes reunited withLeaders Of The New School and was joined by A Tribe Called Quest to perform the all-time great posse cut “Scenario.” As pointed out by my boy Meka of 2DopeBoyz, “This is quite possibly the first time all of them have done this song since that appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show damn near two decades […]

Busta Rhymes made sure that he pulled out all of the stops for his headlining performance at the 2012 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. In a spirit…

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Harlem has a legacy for keeping things classy, but for the crowd at the Marian Anderson Theater on Friday, March 2nd Uptown had a more…

The MHMS speaks with actor/director Michael Rapport about his new documentary, “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest.”

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On the Valentines Day episode of Chris Rock‘s HBO talk show in 1997, D’Angelo performed with an all-star band including Raphael Saadiq, ?uestlove of The Roots, Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest and the late Chalmers “Spanky” Alford. The quintet, which was unofficially known as Linwood Rose, performed D’Angelo’s hit single “Lady.”

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The Grammys honored hip-hop the 35-plus year journey of hip-hop on Thursday night at “Word Revolution: A Celebration of the Evolution of Hip-Hop.” Naughty By Nature and Phife of A Tribe Called Quest were among the performers at the event which was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

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“How you gonna take my hot line and make it a hot song like I ain’t posed to come and step on that sh*t like King Kong” spits a fierce Busta Rhymes on the remix of “Roman’s Revenge.” For all the young people out there, the “line” Bussa Buss is referring to is the “rah rah, […]

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The break-up of A Tribe Called Quest in 1998 was truly the end of an era.

T.I.’s album cover for King Uncaged features the ATL rapper seated next to a lion, drawing an obvious parallel between the recently-released-from-jail rapper and the king of the jungle, as well as a fleeting nod to a classic 70’s soul album from Minnie Riperton.