Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011) is an American music documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Michael Rapaport, it follows the Queens, New York hip-hop collective — Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White — as they reunite for a tour a decade after their 1998 breakup. The group released five albums between 1990 and 1998 and reshaped what alternative rap could sound like.

Rapaport was inside the operation: rehearsals, disagreements, the friction between members that fans never saw. Mary J. Blige, Common, Yasiin Bey, Questlove, Pete Rock, Ghostface Killah and the Beastie Boys all speak on the band's legacy and reach. Whether you know The Low End Theory by heart or you're coming in cold, this is the closest thing to a definitive record of how A Tribe Called Quest happened. Watch Beats Rhymes & Life online on iFILM.