A Tribe Referred to as Quest has formally been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
ATCQ Inducted Into Rock Corridor
On Saturday (Oct. 19), the annual Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony passed off at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. Hip-hop was represented as A Tribe Referred to as Quest was inducted into the Class of 2024. Dave Chappelle was available to induct the group, with Q-Tip, Jarobi and Phife Dawg’s mother and father accepting the consideration. Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad was not current.
Q-Tip delivered a heartfelt acceptance speech.
“What’s extra Rock & Roll than the blues?” Tip stated whereas accepting the consideration under. “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 specific 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.”
The ceremony additionally included a medley of ATQC songs carried out by the group’s contemporaries. Queen Latifah opened the tribute efficiency with “Can I Kick It?” Black Thought and De La Soul’s Posdnous carried out “Test the Rhime.” Widespread provided a rendition of “Bonita Applebum” and Busta Rhymes was available to flip Tribe’s 1992 hit “State of affairs.”
Taste Flav was on the occasion greeting performers and inductees, who additionally included Mary J. Blige, Kool & The Gang, Dionne Warwick, Cher, Jimmy Buffett and others.
ATCQ joins a rising record of rappers to be inducted into the Rock Corridor together with Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z, N.W.A, LL Cool J, Run-DMC and others. Missy Elliott was inducted into the 2023 class.
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Take a look at Q-Tip’s acceptance speech under.
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