Producer Interviews

Q-Tip Breaks Down Pause Tapes & 4-Tracks

Grind Music radio bring Q-Tip into to studio to talk about how he started producing and meeting Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Phife. Q-Tip breaks down the art of the pause tapes and 4-tracks before revealing that his first production equipment was purchased after making the first A Tribe Called Quest album.

When I was doing the first album, I was still bring pause tapes to the studio.

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  1. TONY TRAXX ·

    HE MADE BONITA AT 15 ! 15 . Q TIP MADE A CLASSIC BEFORE MOST CATS COULD GET THIER DIVERS LICENCE . WOW
    PRODUCED APPACHIE GANGSTER B I ALREADY KNEW THAT BUT THAT BEAT WAS KINDA HARD .
    GOOD VIDEO SEMANTIC !

  2. Semantik ·

    People really don't realize how amazing Q-Tip is as a producer. That Monty Alexander record he used for Apache is one of my favorite original samples of all time.

  3. TONY TRAXX ·

    word !

  4. ibn yasir ·

    tribe were actually the peeps who inspired me to want to make some beats. mad props to qtip and ali shaheed

  5. Jayson Feller ·

    An under-rated beat master indeed. 4 words: Mobb Deep The Infamous. Wanna know who influenced Jay Dee and was Jay Dee's "hero"? Um, yeah, it was 'Tip.

  6. Shan Money ·

    Qtip started the whole back pack movement

  7. Deejay Trach Metropolis ·

    Wow, Tip straight droppin knowledge! One of my favorites emcees and producers.

  8. Michael ·

    Ive been bumping Bonita since forever.