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By Stacey Anderson 11.13.08 6:50 PM
What's more indigenous to the college experience than total, abject confusion?
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Q-Tip
The storied New York rapper's varied talents combine on his powerful new solo album, The Renaissance, out today.
By William Goodman 11.04.08 9:22 AM
What? In the rap game it's all about credentials, and Q-Tip has 'em: From his 1989 appearance on De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising to Tribe Called Quest's 1993 magnum opus Midnight Marauders and his collaborations with the likes of Slum Village, Busta Rhymes, and R.E.M., the New York rapper Q-Tip is a hip-hop renaissance man.
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New Albums from Q-Tip, Dragonette, Strokes Side-Project Little Joy
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By Spin Staff 11.04.08 8:43 AM
Here's a rundown of the new albums available online and in record stores today:
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The Spin Interview: Q-Tip
After Q-Tip transformed hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest, he endured solo exile and ran the celebrity gauntlet. Will he now be accepted back as an MC elder? He's prepared, regardless. "I take what I do seriously," he says, "But it's a lighthearted seriousness."
By Thomas Golianopoulos 08.04.08 4:28 PM
Kamaal "Q-Tip" Fareed is the leader of Queens, New York–based group A Tribe Called Quest, whose innovative first three albums are perhaps hip-hop's most universally beloved -- by both fans and critics. Tensions plagued 1996's disappointing fourth, Beats, Rhymes and Life, and the trio split in 1998.
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