Artist Q-Tip

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Q-Tip’s 2008 comeback album The Renaissance is a respectable neo-soul inflected hip-hop album that garnered more than respectable reviews. It’s possible critics were just overjoyed to hear Q-Tip rapping again. Regardless, following his seminal, wildly influential years as the frontman for A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip spent a solid decade in the creative wilderness. He wrote and starred in a bizarre, barely released miserablist musical (2001’s Prison Song), turned in a supporting role in She Hate Me, and recorded a funk-soul album as Kamaal The Abstract. Though Tip’s efforts to expand his range are admirable, hip-hop is clearly where he belongs.

Updated 07/26/2011