Tonight on the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Cleveland, A Tribe Called Quest have been inducted by Dave Chappelle, with Q-Tip, Jarobi White, and Phife Dawg’s dad and mom accepting the glory. (Ali Shaheed Muhammad was not current.) After Chappelle paid tribute to their legacy and affect, video performed of André 3000, Mike D, and Questlove discussing the hip-hop legends’ imprint on music and fashionable tradition. De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, the Roots, Queen Latifah, Widespread, and Spliff Star then carried out a medley of Tribe classics. Watch it go down under.
In his speech, Q-Tip mentioned, “What’s extra rock and roll than the blues? However identical to our predecessors, we needed to discover areas on the outskirts of cities and cities, from a southern solar home off Robert Johnson Crossroads to a reworked room in a hood tenement on Sedgwick Avenue within the Bronx. The necessity to categorical burns in us with an art-fueled willpower. A spark. The spark that embers inside many people on this room, and the spark that burned throughout the 4 of us boys in 1985 in New York Metropolis.”
Queen Latifah opened the tribute efficiency with “Can I Kick It?,” quickly joined by Black Thought and De La Soul’s Posdnous for “Verify the Rhime” and Widespread for “Bonita Applebum.” Busta Rhymes, who appeared with Leaders of the New College on Tribe’s 1992 hit “Situation,” performed a fusion of the unique and the remix.
This yr’s different Rock Hall inductees are Mary J. Blige, Cher, Kool & the Gang, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, and Ozzy Osbourne. Comply with all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the event.
