A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - THAT OLD BOOM BAP: Few groups had the originality and flavor that A Tribe Called Quest brought to HipHop music and even fewer came with 2-straight classic albums (arguably 3-straight, if you're like me and include People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm).

I represented elements from all three of those albums, People's Instinctive, Low End Theory, and Midnight Marauders, in this piece by way of the stick figure logo, the bizarre red, black and green "person"/mascot, and the facial emcee collage.

And of course, I included Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Sorry, no Jarobi. You may also notice how I streaked the red black and green from the person/mascot across the faces of the group members in camoulflage fashion. Well, a few months after this piece was completed and years after Quest had broken up (for the first time), Jive Records dropped a Quest compilation album that bit that concept from this piece. Can I prove it? No. But we HipHoppahs know when somebody is bitin' our rhymes, our beats, or our style.

As for the lyrics, I took those from "We Can Get Down":

Keep the poetry in my black knapsack / got my Timbos hooked and my Doublemint pack

Hit the city streets to enhance my soul / I can kick a rhyme over ill drum rolls / with the kick, snare, kicks and high-hat / skilled in the trade of that old boom bap