ATCQ: It's certain things that I feel like I had to get off my chest. I've always wanted my voice to be heard, but for whatever reason there was a lot of player hating going on.
ATCQ: A lot of different rappers are trying to do their thing independent nowadays. Everything just pulls them away for the moment. In a minute, everybody's going to be independent.
ATCQ: They want to hear the Mos Defs, the Gangstarrs, people like that. They don't want to hear nobody talk about Range Rovers and ice and all that sh*t. They use Range Rovers and Benzes for cabs out there, they don't care about that. That's backwards to them.
ATCQ: I just always easily some it up like this, life is a cycle. When we came out it was all about afrocentricity and people started to overdo that. Then it got into the whole criminal vibe, and then it got into the party vibe. So it's going to come back around. It's like a clock, it's going to come back around.
ATCQ: I can't speak for everybody else, but for me, I felt like it was a must to do [after] the whole Jam Master Jay thing. That just brought everything to the forefront for me.
Q-Tip's singles and appearances include; "Got 'til It's Gone" (Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell), "Get Involved" featuring Raphael Saadiq, "Breathe and Stop", "Vivrant Thing", "Let's Ride", "Galvanize" (The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip), "For The Nasty" featuring Busta Rhymes, "Like That" (Black Eyed Peas featuring Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, and Cee-Lo.
Tip makes an appearance on Busta Rhymes latest album "The Big Bang" on two songs; "Get You Some" and "You Can't Hold A Torch".
In 2004 Tip signed a new solo deal with Motown Records.
Q-Tip appeared in the movies "Poetic Justice" (1993), "Disappearing Acts" (2000), "Prison Song" (2001), and "She Hate Me" (2004).
Q-Tip has made guest appearances on songs by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, The Roots, Busta Rhymes, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, De La Soul, Raphael Saadiq, Deee-Lite, the Beastie Boys and T.I.
Q-Tip is the former leader of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest.
Q-Tip converted to Islam in the mid-1990s.
ATCQ reunited in 2004 and played a limited number of spots.
ATCQ album 'The Low end Theory' is considered one of the best and most important albums in Hip Hop up to this date.
ATCQ signed to Jive Records.
There has been rumors of the the group getting back together. Their recent appearance was a post-Grammy concert in 2005.
Following The Love Movement, the group disbanded.
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