Q-Tip Will Teach College Students The Low End Theory & Other Hip-Hop Lessons
In March, A Tribe Called Quest released its final music video, “The Space Program.” Currently an exclusive at Apple Music, the single from 2016’s We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service closes the visual book on one of Hip-Hop’s most beloved groups, according to a recent Sway In The Morning interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and longtime A.T.C.Q. affiliate Consequence. Last September, Q-Tip announced that the Queens, New York collective had performed its final concert in an extended media run following the #1 album recorded ahead of Phife Dawg’s 2016 death.
Although it seems that the Tribe chapter is closed, Tip is especially busy during a transitional period of his career. For more than a year, the MC/producer has brought Hip-Hop to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center as Artistic Director. He recent assembled an all-star team of cultural giants around him. Last month, The Abstract portrayed Miles Davis in a live-reading of a play written by Nelson George. He also collaborated with Pop starlet Demi Lovato in a video single covering Elton John and Kiki Dee’s 1976 #1 hit “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.”
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Q-Tip adds something else to his 2018 resume. In September, Tip will begin teaching a seven-course class at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute Of Recorded Music that explores the intersecting relationship between Hip-Hop and Jazz. He will be teaching alongside journalist and Miles Davis/John Coltrane biographer Ashley Kahn.
With Tribe, Q-Tip was instrumental in bringing a Jazz renaissance found through Hip-Hop. The group’s 1991 album The Low End Theory was demonstrative in vocal themes, as well as its use of upright bass, vibraphones, and other instruments from the genre.
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The Making Of ATCQ’s The Low End Theory, Told By People Who Were There
“I couldn’t be more excited to share with the students what I know and I look forward to them also teaching me. Teaching is an exchange of sharing and receiving for all involved,” Q-Tip said in a statement to NYU.
The university details the Tisch School Of Music program, “Each class session is divided into two: students will complete focused readings and undertake listening and viewing assignments to investigate the social, cultural, musical, and business aspects of the relationships between Jazz and Hip-Hop. The second half of each class focuses on musicianship, performance, composition, and production with students completing in-class and out-of-class assignments under Q-Tip’s mentorship, investigating compositional and studio choices at the nexus of Hip-Hop and Jazz, and working collaboratively to create, refine, and produce their own original musical works.”
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As a gold-selling solo artist in the late ’90s, Q-Tip worked closely with school namesake Clive Davis (an NYU alumnus) and his Arista Records.
Previously, Q-Tip collaborator Questlove of The Roots has taught at NYU, including a 2014 class on Prince. Tribe’s longtime engineer, Bob Power joined then-Artist In Residence Pharrell Williams in a 2016 masterclass. Tip’s collaborators, the Beastie Boys, have also made their multimedia Oscilloscope studios available to New York University students.
#BonusBeat: The non-exclusive trailer to “The Space Program” music video:
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It is unknown when this video will be available in full on other platforms.
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