As reported by Pitchfork, on October 19th, at the annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, A Tribe Called Quest was honored by Dave Chappelle, who inducted the legendary group with Q-Tip, Jarobi White, and the late Phife Dawg’s parents accepting the honor. Notably absent was Ali Shaheed Muhammad. After Chappelle paid tribute to their legacy and influence, a video featuring André 3000, Mike D, and Questlove discussing the group's imprint on music and popular culture was shown. Following this, a medley of Tribe classics was performed by De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, the Roots, Queen Latifah, Common, and Spliff Star.
Q-Tip, in his speech, emphasized the group's journey, stating, “What’s more rock and roll than the blues? But just like our predecessors, we had to find spaces on the outskirts of cities and towns, from a southern sun house off Robert Johnson Crossroads to a transformed room in a hood tenement on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. The need to express burns in us with an art-fueled determination. A spark. The spark that embers within many of us in this room, and the spark that burned within the four of us boys in 1985 in New York City.”
The tribute performance began with Queen Latifah performing “Can I Kick It?”, and included appearances by Black Thought, De La Soul’s Posdnous, and Common. Busta Rhymes also delivered a fusion of the original and the remix of Tribe’s 1992 hit “Scenario.”
A Tribe Called Quest made a significant impact in Hip-Hop, releasing three highly acclaimed albums in just three years: People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm (1990), The Low End Theory (1991), and Midnight Marauders (1993). The latter two albums achieved platinum status in 1995, while People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm went gold in 1996.
Tribe received multiple Grammy nominations between 1997 and 2012. In 2017 they received the award for Best International Group at the Brit Awards, among other achievements.
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