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A Tribe Called Quest: Subterania, London

Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 3 December 1994

IN MANY ways. A Tribe Called Quest are one of hip-hop's best-kept secrets. Their debut album, People's Instinctive Travels... remains one of the defining moments of that short-lived era. Since then, Quest have become a rap group whose stature among the cognoscenti has grown the more they are overlooked by the mainstream.

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