A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group, formed in 1985.

[1] They released six studio albums, five compilations, sixteen singles and two extended plays.

The group was made up of rapper/main producer Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), the late rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor) and DJ/co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

In under a year, they managed to produce People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm to critical acclaim, but lukewarm sales, reaching #91 on the Billboard 200, though it did eventually achieve gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Beats, Rhymes and Life, their subsequent album which was released three years after Midnight Marauders, was considered their darkest work.