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Title: A Tribe Called Quest - Hits, Rarities & Remixes
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2003, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap Compilation, Queens, New York 6/26
Matrix #: 01241-41839-1
Condition: EX, sounds great, some marks (CC) | Members: Q-Tip (70' - Alive), Phife D (70' - 16'), Ali Shaheed M (70' - Alive), Jarobi W (71' - Alive)
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Phife Dawg’s long battle with diabetes became part of Tribe’s later story, adding real weight to a catalog built on humor, friendship, and Queens chemistry.
2. Scene Ecology: This set pulls the group’s classics, deep cuts, and alternate versions into one lane, showing how Native Tongues jazz-rap still had collector heat after the breakup.
3. Media Narrative: Released after Tribe’s first run was already over, the compilation helped frame them as canon, not nostalgia, a group whose B-sides still mattered.

6/30/2026 CC