... movement began decades earlier, they helped to make it more accessible. When I moved to Brooklyn in the mid-1990s, I saw Afrocentricity’s influence everywhere, from African-themed restaurants to the clothing designer Moshood to the bold Afros and long dreads and cowrie shells I saw every day on every block. This is the context in which A Tribe Called Quest emerged and flourished.
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Check out the styles for yourself. The store still lives on Fulton St in Brooklyn
... If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby/ All the way to Africa a.k.a. The Motherland.” They talked about philosophy and peace. On “Midnight Marauders,” which they released two years later, they named a song “Steve Biko,” after the revolutionary black South African anti-apartheid activist who died in police custody. They proudly wore dreadlocks and dashikis. They were part of the Native Tongues, a loose collective of rappers bound by their Afrocentrism that included De La Soul, Queen Latifah and the Jungle Broth...
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Biko did die in police custody, but the description reads as euphemistic relative to what actually happened: he was murdered by police.
After his arrest for disobedience at a police roadblock, Biko was interrogated for 22 hours, beaten, and tortured. The next day, police loaded him, comatose, naked, and restrained into a truck and drove him to a hospital, where he died.
The legendary hip-hop group lost a core member this week when the rapper Phife Dawg (born Malik Taylor) passed away from complications of diabetes. He was 45. The remaining members include the group’s leader, rapper Q-Tip, their DJ/producer, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, an occasional bandmate.
The Legacy of A Tribe Called Quest - The New York Times
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I GREW up in the suburbs of Boston, where I was the top-ranked singles player on my prep school’s tennis team and obsessed with rap music by Run-DMC, LL Cool J and KRS-One. But I felt like I was eavesdropping on someone else’s conversation when I listened to them. Those guys were streetwise kings of the hood...
The Legacy of A Tribe Called Quest - The New York Times
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Russia: it used to be ok for me as I’m Russian (I would never recommend non speakers to go there), but it’s highly unpredictable these days. Moscow is the only city I can stand since they have Nobu. I don’t like St Petersburg and provinces are even worse but cold winter is a deal breaker anyway.
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RYAN: This is about ISIS. You would not use a tactical nuclear weapon against ISIS?
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TRUMP: I’ll tell you one thing, this is a very good looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to? A transcript of Donald Trump’s meeting with The Washington Post editorial board - The Washington Post
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TRUMP: I’ll tell you one thing, this is a very good looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to? A transcript of Donald Trump’s meeting with The Washington Post editorial board - The Washington Post
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Matter will work with diverse, visionary, entrepreneurial voices —creators who are finding themselves constrained inside even the most forward-thinking media companies, who want to break out, who want to pioneer their own things. We’re going to give these creators t...
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