Ali Shaheed Muhammad
The Ummah
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Emerging from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, he started DJing at eight and was programming tracks by his early teens, later meeting future collaborator Q-Tip at Murry Bergtraum High School and co-founding the influential hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest. The group issued five studio albums between 1990 and 1998, and after its initial split he helped launch the R&B supergroup Lu…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
