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The Native Tongues is a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric
Afrocentrism

Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity is a world view that emphasizes the importance of African people in culture, philosophy, and history. The roots of Afrocentrism lay in a reaction to the repression of Black people throughout the Western world in the 19th century and as a backlash against the scientific racism of the period, which tended t...
 lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling
Sampling

Sampling may refer to:*Sampling , converting a continuous signal into a discrete signal*Sampling , re-using portions of sound recordings in a piece...
 and later jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
-influenced beats. The collective was also closely tied to the Universal Zulu Nation
Universal Zulu Nation

The Universal Zulu Nation is an "international hip hop culture awareness" group formed and headed by hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Originally known simply as "The Organization", it arose in the 1970s as reformed New York City street gang members began to organize cultural events for youth, combining local dance and music movements into wh...
. Its principal members are the Jungle Brothers
Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip-hop music group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house music producer....
, De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
, and A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
.

New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
-based Native Tongues crew was a collective of like-minded hip hop artists who would help bring abstract and open-minded lyricism that addressed a range of topics, from spirituality and modern living to race, sex, and just having fun - to the mainstream.






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The Native Tongues is a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric
Afrocentrism

Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity is a world view that emphasizes the importance of African people in culture, philosophy, and history. The roots of Afrocentrism lay in a reaction to the repression of Black people throughout the Western world in the 19th century and as a backlash against the scientific racism of the period, which tended t...
 lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling
Sampling

Sampling may refer to:*Sampling , converting a continuous signal into a discrete signal*Sampling , re-using portions of sound recordings in a piece...
 and later jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
-influenced beats. The collective was also closely tied to the Universal Zulu Nation
Universal Zulu Nation

The Universal Zulu Nation is an "international hip hop culture awareness" group formed and headed by hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Originally known simply as "The Organization", it arose in the 1970s as reformed New York City street gang members began to organize cultural events for youth, combining local dance and music movements into wh...
. Its principal members are the Jungle Brothers
Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip-hop music group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house music producer....
, De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
, and A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
.

History

The New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
-based Native Tongues crew was a collective of like-minded hip hop artists who would help bring abstract and open-minded lyricism that addressed a range of topics, from spirituality and modern living to race, sex, and just having fun - to the mainstream. Together with the use of eclectic samples that would take on an increasingly jazzy sound, they would be pioneers of so-called conscious hip hop
Conscious hip hop

Conscious hip hop or socially conscious hip-hop is a form of hip hop that focuses on social issues. It is not necessarily overtly political, but it discusses social issues and conflicts....
, alternative hip-hop, and jazz rap
Jazz rap

Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentricity, and general Political positivism....
.

Fostered by Kool DJ Red Alert
DJ Red Alert

DJ Red Alert Harlem, New York) is a disc Jockey on WRKS, and has been recognized as a hip-hop pioneer. Red Alert has been noted for breaking in such acts and artists as A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, and Black Sheep ....
, the success of the Jungle Brothers
Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip-hop music group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house music producer....
 would pave the way for De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
 and A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
; together, these three groups would form the core of the posse and continue the spirit of Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an United States Disc jockey from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip hop music throughout the 1980s....
 and the Zulu Nation
Universal Zulu Nation

The Universal Zulu Nation is an "international hip hop culture awareness" group formed and headed by hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Originally known simply as "The Organization", it arose in the 1970s as reformed New York City street gang members began to organize cultural events for youth, combining local dance and music movements into wh...
. By 1989 they had been joined by Leaders of the New School
Leaders of the New School

The Leaders of the New School were an United States hip hop music crew composed of Uniondale, New York natives Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Busta Rhymes and Cut Monitor Milo, Busta Rhymes' cousin....
, Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...
 and the UK's Monie Love
Monie Love

Simone Wilson or Simone Gooden known by her stage name Monie Love, is a female, England rapping and former radio personality in the United States of America....
, and soon by the Black Sheep
Black Sheep (hip hop group)

Black Sheep is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean. The duo are native New Yorkers but met as teenagers in North Carolina where both of their families relocated....
 & Chi-Ali. Collectively, the members of the Native Tongues Posse had a huge effect on the style and trends of hip hop during its most important period, the golden age of the late 1980s–early 1990s. A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
 and De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
's albums of this time are considered among the best and most important in the hip hop genre.

The song "Scenario" was the final track on the Tribe Called Quest album The Low End Theory and featured the fledging Leaders of the New School
Leaders of the New School

The Leaders of the New School were an United States hip hop music crew composed of Uniondale, New York natives Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Busta Rhymes and Cut Monitor Milo, Busta Rhymes' cousin....
—Dinco D, Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes

Trevor Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes , is a Grammy Award-nominated Jamaican?United States rapping, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes after watching him perform....
, and Charlie Brown. This track simultaneously introduced and legitimized the concept of a new school in hip-hop music, and is arguably the most notable and significant single song of the era.

While featuring an extensive discography, the collaborations of the Native Tongues have been fairly limited: the collective never recorded anything under that name, and the number of notable posse cut
Posse cut

A posse cut is a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rapping.Posse cuts are arguably the original form of the hip hop track; in hip hop's infancy, tracks would more often than not take the form of a freestyle rap cypher, where one rapper would deliver a usually mostly improvisation verse bef...
s can be counted on one hand. The various groups grew distant with time, and, by 1993, De La Soul's Trugoy The Dove
David Jude Jolicoeur

David Jude Jolicoeur , also known under the stage name Trugoy the Dove, is a rapper, music producer, and one third of groundbreaking hip hop Trio De La Soul....
 proclaimed, "That native shit is dead." The collective would, however, reunite in 1998 for the Jungle Brothers’ "How Ya Want It We Got It (Native Tongues Remix)"; collaborators in this period, such as Common
Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. , better known by his stage name Common , is an United States rapper and actor.Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant underground following into the late 90s, after which he gained notable mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians....
 and Mos Def
Mos Def

Dante Terrell Smith , is an American MC and actor known by the stage name Mos Def. Mos Def started his hip hop music career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul....
, could be seen as latter-day additions to the crew.

There are several collectives today—with overlapping membership—that can be seen as the spiritual heirs to the Native Tongues crew: the Spitkicker crew (founded by De La Soul's Trugoy and Posdnuos in 2000), the Okayplayer
Okayplayer

Okayplayer.com is an online Hip hop music and alternative music website and community. The group was co-founded by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson as a loose musical collective in 1987, and evolved into an online community in 1999....
s, and the Soulquarians
Soulquarians

The Soulquarians was a neo soul-informed hip hop music musical collective with members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Richmond, Virginia, Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, and Oakland, California....
. Chris Lighty—a member of the Native Tongues-affiliated street crew the Violators, who began his career carrying records for Zulu Nation DJs and later as the Jungle Brothers' roadie—now runs the successful Violator Management
Violator Management

Violator is a company, record label, marketing group, multi-media entertainment conglomerate and a Sports & Music Management group. founded and run by Chris Lighty....
 company, which represents Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip, among other high-profile clients. It has influenced many other artists in the music industry.

Members


Founding members

  • Jungle Brothers
    Jungle Brothers

    The Jungle Brothers are an American hip-hop music group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house music producer....
     (Mike Gee, Afrika Baby Bam, and DJ Sammy B)
  • De La Soul
    De La Soul

    De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
     (Posdnous
    Kelvin Mercer

    Kelvin Mercer is a rapping, record producer, and one-third of the hip hop trio , De La Soul. He is known more famously by his nickname Posdnuos, or simply Pos....
    , Trugoy
    David Jude Jolicoeur

    David Jude Jolicoeur , also known under the stage name Trugoy the Dove, is a rapper, music producer, and one third of groundbreaking hip hop Trio De La Soul....
    , and Maseo
    Vincent Mason

    Vincent Mason , is a rapper, music producer, Disc jockey, and one third of groundbreaking hip hop Trio , De La Soul. He is also known as Mase....
    )
  • A Tribe Called Quest
    A Tribe Called Quest

    A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
     (Q-Tip
    Q-Tip (rapper)

    Q-Tip , is an American hip hop music artist, singer, and occasional actor from Queens, New York City, perhaps best known as the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest....
    , Phife Dawg
    Phife Dawg

    Phife Dawg , also known as the Five Foot Assassin and The Five Footer because he stands at 5 ft 3 , is a Trinidadian-United States rapper, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip & Ali Shaheed Muhammad ....
    , Ali Shaheed Muhammad
    Ali Shaheed Muhammad

    Ali Shaheed Muhammad is an United States hip-hop DJ who enjoyed moderate fame as a member of A Tribe Called Quest.With Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, the group released five albums from 1990 to 1998....
    , and Jarobi White
    Jarobi White

    Jarobi White is an United States hip-hop artist, and one of the four original members of A Tribe Called Quest....
    )


Other flagship members

  • Monie Love
    Monie Love

    Simone Wilson or Simone Gooden known by her stage name Monie Love, is a female, England rapping and former radio personality in the United States of America....
  • Queen Latifah
    Queen Latifah

    Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...
    (short lived NT member)
  • Chi-Ali (citation needed)
  • Black Sheep (Dres and Mista Lawnge)
  • Fu-Schnickens
    Fu-Schnickens

    The Fu-Schnickens were an American hip-hop music trio. Similar to Das EFX for their cartoonish lyrics and near-constant allusions to pop culture staples, and they were the first Hip Hop artists/groups to ever to rap in backwards fashion....
     (Poc Fu, Chip Fu, M.O.C.)


Later additions (c. 1989-1998)

  • Da Bush Babees
    Da Bush Babees

    Da Bush Babees is a group of underground hip-hop artists loosely affiliated with the Native Tongues. The members of the group are Babe-B-Face Kaos , Mister Man and Y-Tee....
  • Mos Def
    Mos Def

    Dante Terrell Smith , is an American MC and actor known by the stage name Mos Def. Mos Def started his hip hop music career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul....
  • Talib Kweli
    Talib Kweli

    Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an United States MC from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the best-known and critically, if not commercially, successful rappers in alternative hip hop....
  • Truth Enola
  • Common
    Common (rapper)

    Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. , better known by his stage name Common , is an United States rapper and actor.Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant underground following into the late 90s, after which he gained notable mainstream success through his work with the Soulquarians....
  • Lucien Revolucien
    Lucien Revolucien

    Lucien Revolucien, also known as Lucien M'B and Papalu, is a French rap artist who was influential in the hip-hop movement in France in the 1990s....
  • Punchline & Wordsworth


Peripheral members/Affiliates

  • Vinia Mojica
    Vinia Mojica

    Vinia Mojica is a singer from Queens, New York City, best known for her collaborations with the Native Tongues Posse collective and other hip hop music artists....
  • Shortie No Mass
    Shortie No Mass

    Shortie No Mass is an African-American rapper from Philadelphia. She was discovered by De La Soul and heavily featured on their third album, 1993's Buhloone Mindstate....
  • Leaders of the New School
    Leaders of the New School

    The Leaders of the New School were an United States hip hop music crew composed of Uniondale, New York natives Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Busta Rhymes and Cut Monitor Milo, Busta Rhymes' cousin....
     (Busta Rhymes, Charlie Brown aka C Boogie Brown, Dinco D and Cut Monitor Milo)
  • Prince Paul
    Prince Paul

    Paul Huston, better known by the stage name Prince Paul, is an United States disc jockey and Hip hop music record producer....
  • Kool DJ Red Alert
    DJ Red Alert

    DJ Red Alert Harlem, New York) is a disc Jockey on WRKS, and has been recognized as a hip-hop pioneer. Red Alert has been noted for breaking in such acts and artists as A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, and Black Sheep ....
  • The Beatnuts
    The Beatnuts

    The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop music group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les....


Collaborations

Collaborations involving the original members, those that could be considered true Native Tongues "posse cut
Posse cut

A posse cut is a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rapping.Posse cuts are arguably the original form of the hip hop track; in hip hop's infancy, tracks would more often than not take the form of a freestyle rap cypher, where one rapper would deliver a usually mostly improvisation verse bef...
s", are in bold. Note that this list is incomplete.

1988
  • "Black is Black" by Jungle Brothers feat. Q-Tip, from Straight out the Jungle
    Straight Out the Jungle

    Straight out the Jungle is the debut album from Hip hop music group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the rap crew Native Tongues Posse, later featuring popular artists like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep ....
  • "The Promo" by Jungle Brothers feat. Q-Tip, from Straight out the Jungle


1989
  • "Buddy
    Buddy (song)

    "Buddy" is the third single released by De La Soul from their album 3 Feet High and Rising. It is, like much of the De La Soul catalogue, unavailable on Apple's iTunes service....
    " by De La Soul featuring Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip, from 3 Feet High and Rising
    3 Feet High and Rising

    3 Feet High and Rising is the influential debut album from American hip hop music trio De La Soul, released in 1989.The album marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties....
  • "Description" De La Soul featuring Q-Tip and Prince Paul, from 3 Feet High and Rising
  • "Buddy (Native Tongues Decision)" by De La Soul featuring Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Monie Love, and Queen Latifah, from "Buddy" 12-inch single
  • "Brainwashed Follower" by De La Soul feat. Chi-Ali, from "Me Myself and I
    Me Myself and I (De La Soul song)

    "Me Myself and I" is a single by De La Soul, released in 1989.It established the group's characteristic style of combining hip hop with humor and social commentary....
    " 12-inch single
  • "The Mack Daddy On The Left" by De La Soul feat. Chi-Ali, from "Say No Go
    Say No Go

    "Say No Go" is a single by De La Soul from their influential 1989 album 3 Feet High and Rising. It reached number 18 in the UK charts.The song is a cautionary tale about the use of Psychoactive drug, in particular "base" ; a topic they would tackle on their follow up album, De La Soul Is Dead, albeit from...
    " 12-inch single
  • "Acknowledge Your Own History" by Jungle Brothers featuring Vinia Mojica, from Done by the Forces of Nature
    Done by the Forces of Nature

    Done By the Forces of Nature is the second album by the Jungle Brothers, released during November 1989 on Warner Bros. Records. Though the Jungle Brothers have not been remembered as well as chronologically similar alternative groups like De La Soul and Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature was extremely influential in its time...
  • "Done by the Forces of Nature" by Jungle Brothers feat. Jungle DJ Towa Toha
    Towa Tei

    is a Japanese-born DJ of Korean descent. He moved to New York City in the late 1980s to be an art student, but soon dropped out as he became involved in the New York City club scene....
    , from Done by the Forces of Nature
  • "Doin' Our Own Dang" by Jungle Brothers feat. De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Q-Tip and Monie Love, from Done by the Forces of Nature
  • "Mama Gave Birth to the Soul Children" by Queen Latifah featuring De La Soul, from All Hail the Queen
    All Hail the Queen

    All Hail the Queen is the debut album by alternative hip hop artist Queen Latifah, released in November 1989 on Tommy Boy Records. The album was unusually successful for a hip hop record at the time, buoyed by the single "Wrath of My Madness"....
  • "Ladies First" by Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love, from All Hail The Queen


1990
  • "Swiney Swiney" by Monie Love featuring De La Soul, from Down to Earth


1991
  • "Verses From The Abstract" by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Vinia Mojica, from The Low End Theory
    The Low End Theory

    The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz sampling , the album includes guests Brand Nubian , Diamond D and Leaders of the...
  • "Scenario" by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Leaders of the New School, from The Low End Theory
  • (The Original Version of Scenario featured De La Soul and Black Sheep as well as Leaders of the New School)
  • "Come on Down" by Big Daddy Kane
    Big Daddy Kane

    Antonio Hardy , better known by his stage name, Big Daddy Kane, is an African-American rapper. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group, the Juice Crew....
     feat. Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, from Prince of Darkness
    Prince of Darkness (Big Daddy Kane album)

    Prince of Darkness is the fourth album by rapper Big Daddy Kane, released in late 1991 on Cold Chillin' Records. The album received harsh reviews and is widely considered to be his worst effort....
  • "La Menage" by Black Sheep
    Black Sheep (hip hop group)

    Black Sheep is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean. The duo are native New Yorkers but met as teenagers in North Carolina where both of their families relocated....
     featuring Q-Tip, from A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
    A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (album)

    A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is the debut album from Native Tongues Posse affiliate Black Sheep . The album became one of the most popular and acclaimed alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s....
  • "Pass The 40" by Black Sheep
    Black Sheep (hip hop group)

    Black Sheep is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean. The duo are native New Yorkers but met as teenagers in North Carolina where both of their families relocated....
     featuring Chi Ali
    Chi Ali

    Chi Ali Griffith professionally known as Chi-Ali is an American rapper, best known musically for his album The Fabulous Chi-Ali which he recorded at the age of 14....
    , Jim Jones, Chris Lighty, and Dave Gossett, from A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
  • "A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"" by De La Soul featuring Q-Tip and Vinia Mojica, from De La Soul is Dead
    De La Soul Is Dead

    De La Soul Is Dead is De La Soul's second full-length album, released in 1991 . The album was produced by Prince Paul, whose work on 3 Feet High and Rising was highly praised by music critics....
  • "Fanatic Of The B Word" by De La Soul featuring Dres and Mike G, from De La Soul is Dead
  • "What Yo Life Can Truly Be" by De La Soul featuring A Tribe Called Quest (Including Jarobi) and Black Sheep, available on the "A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays" vinyl single.


1992
  • "Scenario (Remix)" by A Tribe Called Quest feat. Kid Hood and Leaders Of The New School, from "Scenario" 12" single
  • "Let The Horns Blow" by Chi Ali
    Chi Ali

    Chi Ali Griffith professionally known as Chi-Ali is an American rapper, best known musically for his album The Fabulous Chi-Ali which he recorded at the age of 14....
     feat. Dres, Dove, Fashion and Phife Dawg, from The Fabulous Chi-Ali


1993
  • "Award Tour
    Award Tour

    "Award Tour" is a song by A Tribe Called Quest, released as the first single from their third album Midnight Marauders.The B-Side of the single is a slightly differed version of Midnight Marauders track "The Chase, Pt....
    " by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Trugoy, from Midnight Marauders
    Midnight Marauders

    Midnight Marauders is the third album by hip hop music group A Tribe Called Quest, released November 9, 1993 on Jive Records....
  • "Oh My God
    Oh My God (A Tribe Called Quest song)

    "Oh My God" was the third single from A Tribe Called Quest's third album Midnight Marauders. It contains a sample of "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" by Kool and the Gang and features Busta Rhymes on the chorus....
    " by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Busta Rhymes, from Midnight Marauders
  • "One-Two Shit" by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Busta Rhymes, from "Oh My God" 12-inch single
  • "Roll wit tha Flava" by The Flavor Unit MCs
    Flavor Unit

    The Flavor Unit is a crew of rappers and DJs from New York City and Northern New Jersey. It is now known as the Unit. The original version of the crew centered around producer DJ Mark the 45 King....
     feat. Treach
    Treach

    Treach is the stage name of Anthony Criss , an United States rapper and actor. He is best known as the lead rapper of the hip hop music Band Naughty by Nature....
    , Chip-Fu, Freddie Foxxx
    Freddie Foxxx

    Freddie Foxxx, also known as Bumpy Knuckles, Biography Foxxx released his first Gramophone record, Freddie Foxxx Is Here in through MCA Records....
    , Queen Latifah, Heavy D, D-Nice
    D-Nice

    D-Nice is the stage name of beatboxing, rapping, music producer and photography Derrick Jones , who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop music group Boogie Down Productions....
    , and Dres, from Roll Wit Tha Flavor
  • "En Focus" by De La Soul featuring Shorty No Mass, and Dres, from Buhloone Mind State
  • "I Am I Be" by De La Soul featuring Busta Rhymes, Chip Fu, Dres, Fred Wesley
    Fred Wesley

    Fred Wesley is an United States jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.Wesley was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of a high school teacher and big band leader....
    , Maceo Parker
    Maceo Parker

    Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto saxophone, tenor saxophone and baritone saxophones....
    , Melvin Parker
    Melvin Parker

    Melvin Parker is a drummer, brother of saxophonist Maceo Parker and was an important member of James Brown 's band. Parker's drumming style was a major ingredient in James Brown's funk music innovations in the late 1960s....
    , Pee Wee Ellis
    Pee Wee Ellis

    Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis is an United States saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was an important member of James Brown's band in the 1960s and appeared on many of Brown's most notable recordings....
    , and Rodney Jones
    Rodney Jones

    Rodney Jones is an United States poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award....
    , from Buhloone Mind State


1994
  • "Sh. Fe. MC's" by De La Soul featuring A Tribe Called Quest, from Clear Lake Auditorium EP


1996
  • "Ill Vibe" by Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip, from The Coming
    The Coming

    The Coming is the first solo album released by former Leaders of the New School member, Busta Rhymes, in 1996 by Elektra Records. The Coming features rapping from Leaders of the New School members Milo In De Dance, Charlie Brown and Dinco D as well as many future Flipmode Squad members....
  • "3 MC's" by da Bush Babees featuring Q-Tip, from Gravity
    Gravity (Bush Babees album)

    Gravity is the acclaimed second album from Hip hop music group Da Bush Babees. The crew got help from a number of fellow Native Tongues members, including The Ummah, Mos Def and De La Soul's Posdnous....
  • "S.O.S." by da Bush Babees featuring Mos Def (prod. by Ali Shaheed Muhammad), from Gravity
  • "Love Song" by da Bush Babees featuring Mos Def (prod. by Posdnous), from Gravity
  • "Flashlight (Remix)" by George Clinton
    George Clinton (funk musician)

    George Clinton is an United States musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the musical bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981....
     featuring Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes & Ol Dirty Bastard, from Greatest Funkin' Hits
  • "Out For The Cash (Remix)" by DJ Honda
    DJ Honda

    is a Japanese people Hip hop music DJ/turntablist....
     feat. Fat Joe
    Fat Joe

    Joseph Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an United States rapper. He is of Puerto Rican people and Cuban people descent and is signed to Imperial Records....
    , the Beatnuts, and Common


1997
  • "Wild Hot" by A Tribe Called Quest * Busta Rhymes, from Rhyme & Reason Soundtrack
  • "Big-Brother Beat" by De La Soul featuring Mos Def, from Stakes Is High
    Stakes Is High

    Stakes Is High is De La Soul fourth full-length album, released during the summer of 1996. The album received mostly strong reviews but little commercial success....
  • "Stakes is High (Remix)" De La Soul featuring Truth Enola and Mos Def, from "Itzsoweezee (HOT)
    Itzsoweezee (HOT)

    "Itzsoweezee " is a song by De La Soul and the second single to be released from their fourth album, Stakes Is High, which was released in 1996....
    " 12-inch single
  • "Rumble in the Jungle" by The Fugees
    The Fugees

    The Fugees were a critically-acclaimed New Jersey hip hop music group that rose to fame in the mid-1990s, whose repertoire included elements of soul music and Caribbean music, particularly reggae....
     featuring John Forté
    John Forté

    John Fort? is a Rapping, Record producer, and convicted drug dealer. Fort? was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. He won a full scholarship to study violin at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1993....
    , A Tribe Called Quest, and Busta Rhymes, from When We Were Kings
    When We Were Kings

    When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous The Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaire on October 30, 1974....
     Soundtrack
  • "How Ya Want It We Got It (Native Tongues Remix)" by Jungle Brothers featuring Q-Tip and De La Soul, from Raw Deluxe


1998
  • "Steppin' It Up" by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman, from The Love Movement
    The Love Movement

    The Love Movement is a 1998 album by hip hop music group A Tribe Called Quest. It was the group's fifth and final album of original material....
  • "Rock Rock, Y'all" by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Punch, Jane Doe, Words
    Wordsworth (rapper)

    'Wordsworth' is an underground hip hop music MC from Brooklyn, best known for his freestyle rap.Wordsworth grew up in Brooklyn. A graduate of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Wordsworth recorded with his partner Punchline on A Tribe Called Quest's The Love Movement and on Mos Def and Talib Kweli's Black Star '...
    , and Mos Def, from The Love Movement
  • "K.O.S. (Determination)" by Black Star
    Black Star (hip hop group)

    Black Star is a rap group formed by MCs Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Affiliated with the group is DJ Hi-Tek, who formed producer/MC duo Reflection Eternal with Kweli for the album Train of Thought and produced a portion of Black Star ....
     featuring Vinia Mojica, from Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
    Black Star (album)

    Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star is an album-length collaboration of rapper Talib Kweli and Mos Def. The album was released on August 26, 1998, to critical acclaim....
  • "Body Rock" by Mos Def, Tash
    Tash (rapper)

    Rico Smith, better known by his stage name Tash, is an United States rapping. He is most known for his work as a member of West Coast hip hop hip hop music group, Tha Alkaholiks alongside J-Ro and E-Swift....
     & Q-Tip, from Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
    Lyricist Lounge, Volume One

    Lyricist Lounge, Volume One is the first installment of Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series, based on the Lyricist Lounge showcases in New York....


1999
  • "Do it Now" by Mos Def featuring Busta Rhymes, from Black On Both Sides
    Black on Both Sides

    Black on Both Sides is a hip hop album by Mos Def, released on October 12, 1999 . Intended as a return to the roots of hip hop music, the album was hailed as a classic soon after its release, and went on to ship Gold album in sales....
  • "The Truth" by Pharoahe Monch
    Pharoahe Monch

    Troy Donald Jamerson, better known as Pharoahe Monch, is an American rapper. He is known for his complex delivery, internal and Feminine rhyme rhyme schemes....
     featuring Common and Talib Kweli, from Internal Affairs
  • "It's Going Down" by Dres featuring Chi-Ali and Droop Dog, from Sure Shot Redemption
  • "Slam Pit" by the Beatnuts
    The Beatnuts

    The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop music group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les....
     featuring Common and Cuban Link
    Cuban Link

    Felix Avila Delgado , known by stage name Cuban Link, is a rapper best known for his former membership in the group Terror Squad, his friendship with Latin rapper Big Pun, and his problems with rapper Fat Joe....
    , from A Musical Massacre
  • "Vivrant Thang (Remix)" by Q-Tip featuring Busta Rhymes & Missy Elliott
    Missy Elliott

    Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American rapping, singing, songwriter, and record producer. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, including one double platinum ....
  • "N.T." by Q-Tip featuring Busta Rhymes, from Amplified


2000
  • "I.C. Y'All" by De La Soul featuring Busta Rhymes, from Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump
    Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump

    Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump is De La Soul's fifth full-length album, released in 2000....
  • "What's That? (¿Que Eso?)" by Tony Touch
    Tony Touch

    Tony Touch , also known as Tony Toca, is an United States Hip hop music Disc Jockey Microphone Controller, B-boy and record producer....
     featuring Mos Def and De La Soul, from The Piece Maker
  • "The Questions" by Common featuring Mos Def & Monie Love, from Like Water for Chocolate
  • "One for Love Part 1" by Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Posdnuos, Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap
    Kool G Rap

    Nathaniel Wilson , better known by his stage name Kool G Rap, is an United States hardcore rapper from the Corona, Queens section of Queens, New York....
    , Rah Digga
    Rah Digga

    Rah Digga is an United States rapping. Well known as a long time member of the Flipmode Squad, a hip hop music group led by Busta Rhymes, she parted ways amicably with the group in 2007....
    , Sporty Thievz
    Sporty Thievz

    Sporty Thievz was a Yonkers, New York hip-hop group, originally a trio, composed of King Kirk , Big Dubez and Marlon Brando . Sporty Thievz debuted in 1998 as one of the first acts to record for the new Roc-A-Bloc label, founded by veteran producer Ski , and partnered under Ruffhouse Records, who boasted major success by this time under its...
    , and Shabaam Sahdeeq, from Hip-Hop for Respect


2001
  • "Take That" by Da Beatminerz
    Da Beatminerz

    Da Beatminerz are a Hip hop music production crew from Brooklyn, New York, and are known for their dark, gritty sound that is very popular with the underground hip-hop scene....
     featuring Flipmode Squad
    Flipmode Squad

    The Flipmode Squad is a production crew and musical group, founded and fronted by rapper Busta Rhymes. The first Flipmode album debuted in 1998 in music with "The Imperial ", and Rampage and Rah Digga went on to record solo efforts....
     & Vinia Mojica, from Brace 4 Impak


2002
  • "Get By (Remix)" by Talib Kweli featuring Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z
    Jay-Z

    Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
    , and Kanye West
    Kanye West

    Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  • "Stand To The Side" by Talib Kweli featuring Vinia Mojica & Res
    Res

    Shareese Ren?e Ballard, better known as Res is a female rock music/R&B singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her music is a mixture of soul music and rock music....
    , from Quality


2003
  • "Let's Get Loud" by Steven Tyler
    Steven Tyler

    Steven Victor Tallarico , better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer and primary lyricist of Boston, Massachusetts-based rock band Aerosmith....
    , Busta Rhymes, Phife Dawg, MC Lyte
    MC Lyte

    MC Lyte is rapping musician who has scored several Rap and R&B hits. She has released several albums since 1988. She was born October 11, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York...
    , and Chuck D
    Chuck D

    Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy ....
    , from the 2003 ESPY Awards
    ESPY Awards

    The ESPY Awards is an annual sports awards event created and broadcast by United States cable television network ESPN. Begun in 1993 in sports, the event confers eponymous awards, fully styled as Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards, for individual sports and team sports athletic achievement and other sports-related performance...


2004
  • "She Wants to Move (Native Tongues Remix)" by N*E*R*D
    N*E*R*D

    N.E.R.D is a funk rock, alternative rock and alternative hip hop band formed in 2001. Their music is best described as funk rock, with various other influences, including Hip hop music, Contemporary R&B, soul music, alternative rock, and blues....
     feat. Common, Mos Def, De La Soul, and Q-Tip, from "She Wants To Move Remixes" 12-inch single
  • "Days of Our Lives" by De La Soul featuring Common, from The Grind Date


2005
  • "Like That" by Black Eyed Peas featuring Cee-Lo Green, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, and John Legend
    John Legend

    John Stephens better known by his stage name John Legend, is an United States Neo soul singer, songwriter, and pianist.His debut studio album, the multimusic recording sales certification-selling Get Lifted, was released in late 2004, and features collaborations with rapper and record producer Kanye West as well as Snoop Dogg....
    , from Monkey Business
    Monkey Business

    Monkey Business may refer to:...
  • "We Can Make it Better" by Kanye West featuring Rhymefest, Q-Tip, Common, and Talib Kweli


2006
  • "Get You Some" by Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip and Marsha Ambrosius
    Marsha Ambrosius

    Marsha Ambrosius or Marsha is a member of the English musical ensemble duo Floetry. She is also a part of the songwriting team Mario #Knightwritaz....
    , from The Big Bang
    The Big Bang (album)

    The Big Bang is the seventh studio album from American rapping Busta Rhymes....
  • "You Can't Hold A Torch" by Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip and Chauncey Black, from The Big Bang


2007
  • "Where Are They Now? (Remix)" by Nas
    Nas

    Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
     featuring Mike G, Dres, Das EFX
    Das EFX

    Das EFX is an United States hip hop music group. It consists of rapper Skoob and Dre . They rose to popularity in the early 1990s due to their affiliation with EPMD's Hit Squad and the group's Stream of consciousness writing lyrical delivery, which became one of the most influential lyrical styles in hip hop music during the earl...
    , Positive K
    Positive K

    Darryl Gibson, better known by his stage name Positive K is an American rapping from the Bronx, New York. He started his career in 1988....
    , EST
    EST

    EST or Est or est may stand for:...
    , DoItAll, Chip Fu, Monie Love, Father MC
    Father MC

    Father MC was a popular African American rapper for the Uptown Records record label in the early 1990s. Discovered and signed by then-Uptown executive Sean "Puffy" Combs , he is best known for introducing the public to Uptown's successful Rhythm and blues act Jodeci in the track, "Treat Them Like They Want To Be Treated" and Mary J....
    , Spinderella, Rob Base, and Redhead Kingpin


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