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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.