Q-Tip
Biography
Q-Tip, also known by his stage name Abstract and, since his conversion to Islam, by his changed name Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, is a founding member and MC of the internationally successful hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Q-Tip is currently signed to G.O.O.D.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saturday Night Live
Late Show with David Letterman
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
WeCrashed
All Movies (32)
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music2025 · as Self (archive footage)
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)2025 · as Self
- Turn Him Out2024
- Bruthaload 13: Booty Bandits2024
- The Legacy of J Dilla2023 · as Self (archive footage)
- Devil's Pie: D'Angelo2019
- Survivor's Guide to Prison2018 · as Self
- Alicia Keys - Here in Times Square2016 · as Self - Singer
- Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives2015
- Breaking a Monster2015 · as Self
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic2014 · as Self
- What Difference Does It Make?2014 · as Self
- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’2012 · as Self
- Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest2011 · as Self
- The Minnie Riperton Story2009
- Cadillac Records2008 · as Hip Hop Artist
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue2008 · as Self
- Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits2005 · as Self
- She Hate Me2004 · as Vada Huff
- Death of a Dynasty2003 · as Self (uncredited)
- A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology2002
- Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras2002
- Prison Song2001 · as Elijah Dixon
- Disappearing Acts2000 · as Reggie Baptiste
- Beastie Boys: Video Anthology2000 · as Self
- Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour1998 · as Self
- Free Tibet1998 · as Self - A Tribe Called Quest
- Rhyme & Reason1997 · as Self
- Poetic Justice1993 · as Markell
- Love Goggles— · as Complex
- A Tribe Called Quest: Tibetan Freedom Concert—
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2— · as Self
All TV Shows (15)
- WeCrashed2022 · as Q-Tip
- JANET JACKSON.2022 · as Self
- Soundbreaking2016 · as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Musical Guest
- Mark Twain Prize1999 · as Self - Musical Guest
- The Chris Rock Show1997
- MADtv1995 · as Self
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child1995 · as Teddy Bear / Roach (voice)
- Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self - Musical Guest
- Yo! MTV Raps1988 · as Self
- Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Musical Guest
- The Grammys1959 · as Self