“Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a love letter to the influential hip-hop group, directed by actor and Tribe superfan Michael Rapaport,” blogs David Fear for Time Out New York. “It does offer a lot for diehards: an origin story; a timeline; famous folks gushing about ATCQ’s 1991 masterpiece, The Low End Theory; concert footage; and some fly-on-the-wall moments. But don’t mistake a mash note for a penetrating look at a collective that changed the course of an art form. And even when it gets personal, delving into member Malki ‘Phife Dog’ Taylor’s health problems and the bad blood between him and founding member/childhood friend Kamaal ‘Q-Tip’ Fareed, the doc still skims the surface of a deeper story.” SYNOPSIS Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip-hop bands of all time, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998. The band shaped a unique sound by wedding jazz-infused musicscapes to Afrocentric rhymes espousing unity and community. Its music became the anthem for cool and broke down barriers for people who had never before connected … Continue reading (Film/Info) Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest