Ali Shaheed Muhammad (born August 11, 1970) is an American hip hop DJ, record producer, and rapper, best known as a member of A Tribe Called Quest. With Q-Tip and

Phife Dawg Malik Izaak Taylor (November 20, 1970March 22, 2016), known professionally as Phife Dawg (or simply Phife), was an American rapper and a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (and for a short time Jarob ...

(and sometimes Jarobi White), the group released five studio albums from 1990 to 1998 before disbanding; their final album was released in 2016. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Muhammad currently lives in Los Angeles.

Career

Muhammad is a Muslim. Together with

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and Q-Tip, he formed the music-production collective

the Ummah The Ummah was a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and the late Jay Dee (also known as J Dilla) of the Detroit-based group Slum Village. Occasional members included Raphae ...

. After A Tribe Called Quest disbanded, Muhammad formed the R&B supergroup

Lucy Pearl Lucy Pearl was an American R&B supergroup formed in 1999. The group was composed of Raphael Saadiq (formerly of Tony! Toni! Toné!), Dawn Robinson (formerly of En Vogue), and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (formerly of A Tribe Called Quest). History In 199 ...

with

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, formerly of

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and

Raphael Saadiq Raphael Saadiq (; born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He rose to fame as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! In addition to his solo and group ...

, formerly of

Tony! Toni! Toné! Tony! Toni! Toné! was an American soul/ R&B band from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. During the band's heyday, it was composed of D'wayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael Saadiq ...

, releasing one album in 2000. On October 12, 2004, he released his debut solo album, '' Shaheedullah and Stereotypes''. He is currently the co-host of

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's ''Microphone Check'' radio show. In 2013, Muhammad worked with producer

Adrian Younge Adrian Younge (born May 7, 1978) is an American composer, arranger and music producer based in the Los Angeles area. Background Younge grew up in Fontana, California. His father is a lawyer and Younge himself earned a Juris Doctor degree fro ...

on the

Souls of Mischief Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective Hieroglyphics. The Souls of Mischief formed in 1991 and is composed of rappers A-Plus, Opio, Phesto, and Tajai. History East Oakland ...

album ''

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'', as the album's narrator. Since then Muhammad and Younge have collaborated to co-produce the soundtrack for both seasons of the ''

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'' TV series, and they have toured together since 2018 as the Midnight Hour, releasing an album by the same name. In 2019, Muhammad contributed to Saadiq's fifth album, '' Jimmy Lee''. In 2020, Muhammad and Younge launched the ''Jazz Is Dead'' album series, collaborating with jazz musicians

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Po ...

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, Doug Carn,

Gary Bartz Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards. Biography Bartz studied at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Wor ...

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, and the trio

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Discography

;Studio albums *'' Shaheedullah and Stereotypes'' (2004) ;with Lucy Pearl *''

'' (2000) ;with Adrian Younge *''

Luke Cage (Original Soundtrack Album) ''Luke Cage (Original Soundtrack Album)'' is the soundtrack album to the 2016 first season of the streaming television series ''Luke Cage'', featuring music composed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. The soundtrack was released on October ...

'' (2016) *'' Luke Cage: Season Two (Original Score)'' (2018) *''The Midnight Hour'' (2018) *''Jazz Is Dead 001'' (2020) *''Roy Ayers JID002'' (2020) *''Marcos Valle JID003'' (2020) *''Azymuth JID004'' (2020) *''Doug Carn JID005'' (2020) *''Gary Bartz JID006'' (2021) *''João Donato JID007'' (2021) *''Brian Jackson JID008'' (2021) *''Instrumentals JID009'' (2021) *''Remixes JID010'' (2021) *''Jazz is Dead 011'' (2022) *''Jean Carne'' ''JID012'' (2022) *''Katalyst JID013'' (2022) *''Henry Franklin JID014'' (2022)

References

External links

Official website

Official A Tribe Called Quest website
* Living people African-American DJs African-American Muslims American hip hop DJs American hip hop record producers A Tribe Called Quest members Musicians from Brooklyn People from Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 1970 births Converts to Islam African-American male rappers East Coast hip hop musicians Rappers from Brooklyn 21st-century American rappers Record producers from New York (state) Lucy Pearl members {{Portal bar, Biography, Music, United States

Career

Discography

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