Kamaal Ibn John Fareed , better known by his stage name Q-Tip , is an American rapper, singers, actors, record producers and DJs. He began his musical career as part of the critically acclaimed East Coast hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. John Bush of AllMusic called him "the best rapper/producer in hip-hop history," while the About.com editor placed him # 17 in the Top 25 Hip-Hop Producer list, and placed it # 38 on our Top 50 MC Time list. In 2012, The Source rated it # 20 in the list of 50 Lyricists of All Time.
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Initial and personal life
Q-Tip was born Jonathan William Davis on 10 April 1970 in Harlem. His father came from Montserrat, the English region of the eastern Caribbean, and his mother was an African American from Alabama. His sister, Gwen, is five and a half years older than him. He is a cousin of Consequences, which stands out in Beats, Rhymes and Life. According to DNA analysis, it is derived, in particular, from the Guinea-Bissau Jola people. He moved to St. Albans, Queens as a child. She attended Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, New York.
He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed. As referenced in the song "Check the Rhime", he mostly lives around Linden Boulevard. According to Fareed, he was named the stage by Posdnous of De La Soul, which he used instead of his first name, MC Love Child.
He also said that Q in Q-Tip means Queens and he is often referred to as Tip. In 1999 a South rapper known as TIP signed a contract with Arista Records, but shortened his name to T.I. to avoid confusion with the Q-Tip on the label-then. Throughout his career, he also calls himself The Abstract . He said that one of the main people in his life who inspired him was his childhood friend, Mohammed Sead. Q-Tip has lived in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and Edgewater nearby.
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Careers
A Tribe Called Quest
In 1985, Q-Tip, along with Phife Dawg's friends, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White, founded the critically acclaimed hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. The band signed a contract with Jive Records and released five studio albums during the initial run, splitting up in 1998.
Tribe Called Quest reunited in 2006 and played in limited numbers. All original lineup members returned for the 2006 group, including Q-Tip and occasional Jarobi member. In 2016, shortly before the death of Phife Dawg, A Tribe Called Quest recorded their sixth album, releasing it in November of the same year.
Solo Career
Di luar A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip mengetuk jalur 1990 yang sangat sukses "Groove Is in the Heart" oleh Deee-Lite, lagu 1994 Beastie Boys "Get It Together", lagu Mad Skillz tahun 1995 "Extra Abstract Skillz" , 2000 Slum Village track "Hold Tight", dan 2005 The Chemical Brothers melacak "Galvanize".
After the outbreak of the Tribe in 1998, Q-Tip pursued a solo career. Her first solo single, "Vivrant Thing" and "Breathe and Stop", were far more pop-oriented than anything she had done in A Tribe Called Quest, like her solo LP debut for Arista Records, Amplified , released in 1999. Pitchfork noted about changes in tenor, commenting, "Abstract storytellers and social critics have been replaced by MCs that are barely recognizable and obsessed with sex."
The release of his 2002 follow-up, Kamaal/The Abstract , was delayed despite being critically acclaimed and issuing catalog numbers; Arista believes that it has no commercial appeal. Finally leaked onto the Internet, and the promotional copy distribution caused several publications to run album reviews. The album was finally released on September 15, 2009, on Battery Records after being kept for seven years.
Following his work at Kamaal/The Abstract , Q-Tip was featured on R.E.M. 2004 Around the Sun , with rap on "The Outsiders". Earlier in 2007, Q-Tip signed a new solo deal with Universal Motown Records. In 2008, Q-Tip appeared on the first album DJ/Static Artist producer Spell My Right Name , on the "Stop, Look, & Listen" song with Styles P and Termanology.
Her third album The Renaissance was released on November 4, 2008, through Universal Motown and was nominated for Best Rap Album at Grammy 2010.
Q-Tip is one of the producer groups brought by Kanye West to work on the fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . She appeared in 2010 on Mark Ronson's album, Record Collection , on the song titled "Bang Bang Bang" with MNDR, for the released video. For Kanye West's collaborative album Kanye West and Jay-Z Watch Out of the Throne The Abstract & amp; The Dragon on December 12, 2013. He is currently working on his fourth studio album The Last Zulu .
In March 2016, Q-Tip was appointed as Kennedy Center's first artistic director for hip-hop culture, which curated a series of hip-hop programs for performing arts centers.
Production
As a producer, Q-Tip is a self-proclaimed "self-proclaimed perfectionist" and is known for its innovative and experimental production, "leading the jazz-based hip-hop revolution during the 90s." He mainly produced the first three albums titled A Tribe Called Quest, with some help from members of Ali Shaheed Muhammad's group, and with the exception of contributions from Skeff Anselm ("Show Business", "All Fair" and "8 Million Stories") and Professor ("Keep It Rollin '"). Q-Tip performs production work as part of the Ummah production company, along with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and the late Slum J Dilla Village member. Ummah â € <â € Outside his work with the Tribe, Q-Tip was produced for artists like Apache ("Gangsta Bitch", from Apache Is not Shit, 1993), Run-D.M.C. ("Come on Everybody", from Down with the King, 1993), Crooklyn Dodgers ("Crooklyn", from Crooklyn, Vol. 1, 1994), Nas (" One Love ", from Illmatic , 1994), Mobb Deep (" Release the Goods "," Increasing Temperature ", and" Drinking Pain (Situation) , 1995) and R & amp; B Mariah Carey ("Honey", from Butterfly , 1997) and Whitney Houston ("Good", from Whitney: The Greatest Hit , 2000). He also produced some remixes in the mid-1990s, including "The World Is Yours" by Nas, "Temperature's Rising" by Mobb Deep, "Illusions" by Cypress Hill, and "Get Down" by Craig Mack. Q-Tip co-produced jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's 2003 release Heartcore . She has been involved in production for Phife Dawg, Beyoncà ©, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, RZA, Wale, Asher Roth, Esperanza Spalding, Chiddy Bang, Pusha T, Melanie Fiona, Mark Ronson, Busta Rhymes, D'Angelo , Questlove, Kanye West, John Legend, and Roc Marciano. On February 7, 1998, a fire broke out at the Q-Tip home recording studio, completely destroying it; among the items destroyed in the blaze are the entire collection of recordings, consisting of nearly 20,000 records, and a computer containing many unreleased songs. He called the fire "symbolic", because he had no notes to sample, but still had a desire to make music. The following year, he began searching for musicians for live bands, taking drum lessons from Omar Hakim, learning bel canto, and taking piano lessons from Weldon Irvine, which he took for the single Tribe "Award Tour". Q-Tip has since rebuilt its record collection, which now consists of about 9,000 records.
Community work
On March 18, 2013, Q-Tip is a Special Guest of Honor for the Ethnic Understanding Foundation at Def Jam Recordings' creator's home, Russell Simmons, who serves as Chairman of the Foundation. Q-Tip was invited by Ali Naqvi's friend, who is the Foundation Superintendent for Ethnic Understanding and Chair of the MindShare Ventational Group in New York City. Q-Tip accepted this invitation to become a Special Guest of Honor, to become one of the most successful artists and musical producers in the world.
DJ works
Q-Tip regularly acts as DJ, especially at the Santos Party House where he hosts the weekly residency called Open. At the Paper magazine 2008 Nightlife Awards, OPEN is named "Best DJ Night".
Beginning in 2015, Q-Tip has hosted a radio show at Apple Music's Beats 1 station called Abstract Radio , named after its alternative professional name. The point is "... rather than just following any stream, what's popular... to try [not] to figure out how to bridge many of the gaps and bring them into a single, good musical voice."
Discography
- 1999: Reinforced
- 2008: Renaissance
- 2009: Kamaal/The Abstract
- TBA: The Last Zulu
Moviesography
- 1993: Poetic Justice
- 1995: A Love Affair
- 1996: The Crazy Lazy Day Movie
- 1997: He's All That Important
- 1997: A Love Affair 2
- 1998: Let's Have a Good Party Time!
- 1998: The Thomas Club Movie
- 1999: Love Goggles
- 1999: Suck it!
- 2000: Disappeared Story
- 2001: Prison Song
- 2002: Brown Sugar
- 2004: He Hates Me
- 2008: Cadillac Records
- 2010: Holy Rollers
Awards and nominations
- MTV Video Music Awards
- 2000, Best Hip-Hop Video: "Vivrant Thing", Candidate
- Grammy Awards
References
External links
- Official website
- Discography Q-Tip Discogs
- KD-Tips on IMDb
- Official A Tribune Website
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