“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.”
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