Artist
Q-Tip
Q-Tip is a hip-hop artist from St. Albans, Queens, New York, USA formed in 1970. 10 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hip-Hop · St. Albans, Queens, New York, USA · Best hip-hop albums
- 10
- Releases
- 1999–2025
- Active years
- 1970
- Formed
Artist
Q-Tip is a hip-hop artist from St. Albans, Queens, New York, USA formed in 1970. 10 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Hip-Hop · St. Albans, Queens, New York, USA · Best hip-hop albums
Most popular
The Renaissance
2008
Releases by other artists featuring Q-Tip.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop recording artist from St. Albans, Queens, New York, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest. John Bush of Allmusic called him "the best rapper/producer in hip-hop history," while editors of About.com placed him on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers, as well as placing him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007). In 2012, The Source ranked him #20 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. Born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 in Harlem, he converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed. He moved to St. Albans, Queens as a child. As referenced in the song "Check the Rhime", he mostly resided at Linden Boulevard. His father was from Montserrat, a British territory in the eastern Caribbean. His mother is an African-American from Alabama. His sister, Gwen, is eight years older than he is. He attended Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, New York. According to Fareed, he was given his stage name by Afrika Baby Bam of Jungle Brothers, which he used as a replacement for his prior name, MC Love Child. He has also …
