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A Tribe Called Quest Honor Phife Dawg During Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction: ‘Wish You Were Here’


Seminal rap group A Tribe Called Quest was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Saturday, a decade after becoming eligible.

A Tribe Called Quest was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, recognizing one of hip-hop’s most influential groups after a nearly decade-long wait since they first became eligible in 2015. Two of the three remaining members — Q-Tip and Jarobi White (Ali Shaheed Muhammad was not present) — accepted their induction in person in Cleveland on Saturday, while Phife was honored posthumous ly. But just like our predecessors, we had to find spaces on the outskirts of cities and towns, from a southern sun house off Robert Johnson Crossroads to a transformed room in a hood tenement on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.

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