A Tribe Called Quest has reveled the “major announcement” they teased last week. On Tuesday (March 6), ATCQ explained they were teaming up with Pharrell Williams’ clothing company, Billionaire Boys Club (BBC), for a capsule collection — The Space Program.
The Instagram post included a few words about Pharrell, who has been a long time fan of Tribe.
In the caption, ATCQ announced a short film was on its way. Also titled The Space Program, a reference to a song of the same name on Tribe’s 2016 album We got it from Here … Thank You 4 Your service, it will premiere exclusively on Apple Music.
Consequence recently told Complex, “We have a longstanding relationship with Pharrell. He’s publicly stated that he’s always been a student of the Tribe catalog and how Low End Theory changed his life. We worked with him on Beats, Rhymes and Life. There’s always been this revolving door with Pharrell and Tribe.
“Even as of late, when the Grammy nominations came out, he was … Outside of Q-Tip’s video clip where he’s stating his displeasure with what happened, Pharrell took to Twitter to state how important Tribe was to him and to the culture as far as longevity in hip-hop. There’s always been a respect there.”
The Space Program collection is expected to arrive on March 13, and includes a hoodie, t-shirt and a couple of other surprises.
Check out the BBC website here.
(The original version of this article was published on March 1, 2018 and can be found below.)
A Tribe Called Quest —Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Consequence and Jarobi White — is evidently cooking up something special. On Thursday (March 1), the group’s collective Instagram account shared a vintage photo of Tip, Ali and the late Phife Dawg.
The caption read, “Major @atcq Announcement on Monday. Stay Tuned… #TheQuestIsOn #RIPPhifeDawg #WeLoveYouTRIBE.”
HipHopDX reached out to Jarobi who said, “No spoilers like Black Panther. You know how good we are about keeping [our] secrets. It’s ill though!”
Some of Reddit’s die-hard Tribe fans are theorizing the announcement will involve the long-awaited Phife Dawg solo album, while others are anticipating a new Tribe lineup that could possibly include longtime affiliate Busta Rhymes. Others joked it could be a Outkast and ATCQ dream project.
Last year, Tribe announced the Thank You For Your Service Tour was to be its last. The weight of Phife’s 2016 passing was too much to bare, which the Hip Hop legends explained in a statement to the L.A. Times after pulling a no-show at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival.
Tribe played its final show at the Bestival 2017 in England last July.
THIS IS NOT A VIDEO GAME. THOSE PRETENTIOUS FOOLS AT REDDIT KNOW NOTHING.
Wonder if it’s the unreleased Phife album or a new album (hopefully with quest features from kdot, that q&k track was great)
I’m hoping for another Tribe Called Quest album with features from Kanye, K-Dot, Busta Rhymes, and will.i.am. That would be a classic as the first three albums.
Pass on the Kanye though, he makes horrible and shitty music.
Will.i.am was an Eazy-E protege. Marks like you forget that he has hip hop credibility, you just know him from his hits.
And then if it dont catch a grammy we will cry about it 🙁
I very doubt it is but if this is a tribe and outkast joint album, that would possibly be the greatest album of all time.
Anything from Tribe, music-wise is appreciated. Just don’t make it clothing or some bullshit, and we cool.
TIP, ALI, CONSEQUENCE, JAROBI AND BUSTA!!!! A NU TRIBE 2018 ITS OFFICIAL!!!!!
All I gotta say as and I say on every DX Tribe post is Q Tip is a prima donna. He scammed everyone at Outside Lands, no showed it twice, ruined my weekend. He owes me $400. #ATribeCalledQuit
Man that shit was almost a year ago…how long are y’all gonna be crying about that?
I have a legit reason lol trust me.
Not sayin the reason isn’t legit, but if it was me, I wouldn’t be crying about it for a year on every Tribe article by DX…we get it.
Then file a lawsuit, herb. Life happens, time for you to grow up.
File a lawsuit for $400? I guess I would if I was an attorney, and festivals didn’t include the asterisk “lineups subject to change.” The fact is, my homie who I trust had a friend backstage who overheard the owner of the festival talking to Q Tip’s manager and Q Tip didn’t perform because he didn’t feel like it. Who claims hip hop and fuck’s over a massive crowd like that? Q Tip is forever on my shit list and I will troll ATCQ articles on DX forever. I don’t care if it’s immature or dumb, I waste my time using the internet, so I might as well speak my mind.
Jesus Christ are you a fucking baby or what? First, if you go to the fucking festival site, it says in bold letters at the bottom of the page “Lineups are subject to change”. Second…. if you didn’t already know festival lineups are subject to change, then you’re either a complete fucking moron or you’re 12 and have no business at a music festival in the first place. Lastly, they don’t owe you shit. Your $400 got you a ticket to see 40 other bands.
So how about quit your fucking crying and let it go already. It’s been a gottam year you little baby.
Did you read my last post? I acknowledged that lineups are subject to change. Doesn’t mean that Q Tip isn’t still a P.O.S. for not showing up because he didn’t feel like performing. He makes and claims hip hop, but his personality is not hip hop. Watch the Tribe documentary if you don’t believe me.
So Q has had time to do something else with all his whinging about not getting a Grammy?
Muscle pump
All these youngsters hatin on the Tribe. hahaha. Keep on with your rainbow wearing fruitcake rappers.
These young cats don’t even have the power speak,let alone hate on any hip hop artist from my generation. In 30 years let alone 10 knowbody will remember any of the new artist.
I FUCKING KNEW IT WOULD BE CLOTHES OR SOME SHIT!! FUCK SAKE…
Hip hop will never be the same, I turn the radio on these days and feel bad the kids growing up in this generation.
Typical Q Tip, get everyone hype for no reason, exactly like he did at Outside Lands Festival 2017 in SF. Supposed to be his final performance, but he no showed because he didn’t feel like performing… love this dude’s music, but if you’ve seen the Tribe documentary you know that Q Tip is a prima donna jerk. Thanks for the “announcement” Tribe.
Tip doesn’t owe you shit.
Fuck all that shit. Need a new, leaders of the new school album.
I don’t really sport hip hop clothes like that. I’m not x’ing it out though. But i was hoping for some damn music smdh.
There will never be another Tribe album. I would get used to that statement.
So because ATCQ music is important piece of hiphop history and Pharrell geeks out on them I’m supposed to buy his ugly ass sweater now? I see no logic here, I think I’d rather hold onto my money than give it to “billionaire boys”..