Even the green light is moving in regards to the highly anticipated ATCQ Documovie, there are still technicalities between the group and director Michael Rappaport. Here the group lets loose after a hefty silence regarding some very interesting point in the whole situation. Un-aired portion of the same interview after the jump. [Read more...]
ATCQ: BeatsRhymes+Life doc picked up by Sony
Phife Dog.Q-Tip.Ali Shaheed.and sometimes Jarobi
Sony Pictures Classics recently announced that they have acquired all North American rights to Michael Rapaport‘s directorial debut, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. Rival Pictures and State Street Pictures produced the film, which was in Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. [Read more...]
Beats, Rhymes & Life: Travels of ATCQ
Every once in a while it’s good sit back and ponder, cogitate, excogitate and maybe even haterate on some of the individuals who impacted your life in some way shape or form. While riding the school bus home one day in the 9th grade, this tall lanky kid named “Grady” let me borrow a 90 minute TDK cassette tape. I was suppose to take it home that night, make a copy of it and return it the next day. Bear in mind that my family had only been living in Atlanta for 6 months at best. We moved here from Miami, Florida, so I was still listening to original electro, miami bass, and Jam Pony Express mixtapes. How ever, my taste in music was about to go Broader than Broadway. When I got home that day I dropped the TDK into my JVC RC-838-W and got real familiar with the Linden Blvd chapter of The Native Tounges Family… A Tribe Called Quest. keep reading [Read more...]
