Q-Tip is planning out his fourth solo album and hoping to release it within the next year or so. The former A Tribe Called Quest emcee/producer hasn’t begun working on the album, but plans to begin focusing on The Last Zulu in February. The Abstract spoke to EW about the album and the other things keeping him busy.
“I feel like my fans have been so gracious over the years,” Q-Tip says. “They’re so smart that I want to extend the grace back to them and speak to them in their tongues.” Of course he can’t speak French nor Spanish. “I’m going to have to brush up,” he added.
“It’s going to take us back to the days of when it was breakbeats,” Tip said of his idea for the albums sound. “When [Grandmaster] Flash and [Afrika] Bambaataa was throwing on them hard beats. It’s going to have a lot of that energy, and it’s going to feel really big and anthemic. It’s going to be unlike anything I’ve done before.”
Tip also revealed that Drake used one of his beats for his sophomore album. “He told me it’s incredible,” Q-Tip said, who hasn’t heard the final product. “I’m going to take his word for it.” Tip has also been working with Roc Marciano, Santogold and Esperanza Spalding.
FUCK DRAKE
Amplified=underrated
Renaissance=in my all time top 10
Say what u want about his personallity, but dude is a great producer and rapper
gotta agree, renaissance is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Aye Q-Tip fans wanna hear your beats on the New A tribe called Quest album not on faggot ass drakes shit that nigga 15 minutes is done he’s already PLAYED OUT so fuck him patch things up with Phife and Get on ya SPIKE LEE and DO THE RIGHT THING
Q-tip been great throughout a tribe called quest which is to me one of the greatest rap groups ever and his last cd he released was very underrated and got 4 mics in the source just couldnt get the public to buy in to that album i still want to see a tribe called quest and outkast do one song together foreal it would be groundbreaking
is it going to be separate multilingual albums? damn sure hope so. shit. q-tip is one of my biggest anticipations boss thug
HAHA this nigga is named after the shit you put in the ear to take the wax out. These niggas with lame wack ass stage artists. Drake sucks too. Named himself after a duck. A real rap name is Gucci Mane and OJ Da Juiceman. Clever and smart.
It’s Gucci Time!
Gtfoh with that lame ass shit. gucci is named after a line of clothing suited for expensive white women. and oj…really? OJ?! go suck gucci dick and listen to more garbage ass rap…
Gucci? Do you keep a runnin total of people you piss off. You are hilarious.
Go play on the Freeway Little Boy.
shut the fuk up u dick suker, gucci mane???? People hate on drake, me included, but u cant deny the guy has flow that wuld blast most rappers out the zone
I thought Drake was his given name.
The reason why his name is Gucci Mane is becuz Gucci Man was taken already. And the Q in Q-Tips name stands for Queens. Just a few fun facts for the misinformed.
this is great news, q-tip is a legend imo, his last album the renaissanse is one of my fav all time albums.
Q-Tip is in the top 20 greatest MC’s ever But I can’t imagine him putting an album out within a year, It Took him forever to put out “The Renaissance”, But it was an incredible album and i expect nothing less from The Abstract.
This sounds amazing. Last Zulu has got to be my highest anticipated album now. It’s got the same anticipation for me that Pharoahe’s W.A.R. has had all these years. Can’t wait. Renaissance was a masterpiece.