Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip's new mixtape is for the most part, a compilation of classics. And although we hoped it would be all new material, we're not mad at this stroll down memory lane and glimpse into the future of this dynamic Native Tongue duo.
Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes' collaborative mixtape, 'The Abstract and the Dragon,' is hitting the Internet at midnight (Dec. 12), but the duo dropped another track to alleviate fans' thirst for the next few hours.
'Yeezus' may have just dropped, but Kanye West is already on to the next album. The rapper revealed that his next project will be only eight songs long during an interview for an Art Basel event in Miami last night (Dec. 4).
Kanye West is already planning the recording process for his follow-up to 'Yeezus.' The self-described genius is calling on two hip-hop greats to produce the album.
Although Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip's 'Thank You' has received some acclaim throughout the hip-hop community, one question that has been looming: Why do Kanye West and Lil Wayne only inject a few ad-libs? The two do appear in the video for the track, serving as really cool hypemen.
Fresh off tearing down the Barclays Center together during Kanye West's Yeezus tour stop in Brooklyn last night (Nov. 20), Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip have announced a joint mixtape.
The year was 1993. Hip-hop, only about 20 years old, was dipped in gold. It had reached around the world, a long journey from its origins as a culture created by the improvising youth of New York City. On Nov. 9, A Tribe Called Quest -- Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (by this point original member Jarobi had become the "sometimes 'Y'") -- delivered their third studio album, 'Midnight Marauders,’ a defining moment in rap's Golden Era.
Busta Rhymes has released another single from his upcoming 'E.L.E. 2 (Extinction Level Event 2)' and it's a good one. 'Thank You' features fellow old-timer Q-Tip, fellow Cash Money member Lil Wayne and Kanye West, and it's a long way from sounding like '#TwerkIt.'
Talk about bridging the gap. Rapper Q-Tip and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte appear together in Gap’s 2013 Holiday ad campaign. For the initiative, music celebs like Tony Bennett, Kenna, Cyndi Lauper and Billy Porter are enlisted to spread the social media message of #MakeLove.
Even the greatest things have to come to an end at some point. Q-Tip revealed on Twitter that A Tribe Called Quest's final two shows will be openers on the Yeezus tour this November.