Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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  • Born: Brooklyn, NY
  • Years Active: 1990s, 2000s

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Ali Shaheed Muhammad (born August 11, 1970) is an American hip hop DJ, rapper, producer who enjoyed a great deal of fame as a member of A Tribe Called Quest. With Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, the group released five studio albums from 1990 to 1998.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad is Muslim. Together with Jay Dee and Q-Tip, he formed the music production collective The Ummah.

After the group disbanded, Muhammad formed the R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl with Dawn Robinson, formerly of En Vogue and Raphael Saadiq, formerly of Tony! Toni! Toné!, releasing one album in 2000. On October 12, 2004 he released his debut solo album, Shaheedullah and Stereotypes.

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Icon: A Tribe Called Quest

By Jeff Chang, eMusic Contributor

If fellow travelers De La Soul were the giddy braniacs and the Jungle Brothers the funky eccentrics, A Tribe Called Quest were the artful romantics of the vanguard Native Tongues hip-hop crew in the mid-'90s. They shared their peers 'taste for conceptually rich work but, unlike De La, they preferred minimalism and, unlike the JB's, they proffered a sound that enfolded the listener (props due to shadow Quest member/studio wizard Bob Power). Because of that,… more »