Tonight at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Cleveland, A Tribe Called Quest was inducted by Dave Chappelle, with Q-Tip, Jarobi White and Phife Dawg's parents accepting the honor. (Ali Shaheed Muhammad was not in attendance.) After Chappelle paid tribute to their legacy and influence, video was played of André 3000, Mike D and Questlove discussing the hip-hop legends' imprint on music and popular culture . Then De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, the Roots, Queen Latifah, Common and Spliff Star performed a medley of Tribe classics. Watch it go down below.
In his speech, Q-Tip said: “What's more rock and roll than the blues? But like our predecessors, we had to find spaces on the outskirts of cities and towns, from a sunny southern house at Robert Johnson Crossroads to a converted room in a hood on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. The need to express ourselves burns with a determination fueled by art. A spark. The spark that blooms within many of us in this room and the spark that burned within the four of us boys in 1985 New York.'
Queen Latifah opened the tribute show with 'Can I Kick It?', soon joined by Black Thought and De La Soul's Posdnous for 'Check the Rhime' and Common for 'Bonita Applebum'. Busta Rhymes, who appeared with the Leaders of the New School on Tribe's 1992 hit “Scenario,” played a fusion of the original and the remix.
This year's other Rock Hall inductees include Mary J. Blige, Cher, Kool & the Gang, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton and Ozzy Osbourne. Watch all of Pitchfork's coverage of the event.
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