In case you hadn’t heard, hip-hop legends A Tribe Called Quest dropped one hell of an album just last week. The highly appropriate-for-the-times We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service was released last week to massive praise from fans worldwide, after 18 years of agonising waiting.
But that may not be the only bombshell that has been dropped. Q-Tip has revealed in a new interview with Billboard that not only will the record definitely be their last, but a world tour is coming, and probably pretty soon.
“This is our last record, and we’ll probably do a world tour,” he said. “After that, that’s it, for the rest of our lives.”
As of yet no tour dates have been announced, but buzz is building. Q-Tip and Jarobi White recently performed cuts off the new record on Saturday Night Live and were subsequently joined on stage later by Consequence and Busta Rhymes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDxKVYUHBdA
In what could only be considered a bittersweet ending for one of the greatest hip-hop acts of all time, it would be hard for Tribe to continue after the passing of Phife Dawg earlier this year, succumbing to a longtime battle with diabetes since his teen years. The group paid a massive tribute to Phife on SNL, pulling down a banner behind the stage displaying a painting of the legend.
“It was sensory overload,” (when Phife died) he told Billboard. “It was Phife who spearheaded this whole project – all we could do is make dope music and celebrate our man.”
You can check the full interview with Billboard here.
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