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A Tribe Known as Quest is an Yankee hip hop cluster, fashioned in 1985, and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album however rejoined in 2006. Together with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the foremost industrial success out of all the teams to emerge from that collective. Their innovative fusing of hip hop and jazz has had a lasting impact on hip hop music, serving to to expand the art of hip hop production. Several of their songs, like "Bonita Applebum", "Will I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Situation", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electrical Relaxation" are thought to be classics.by whom? They released five albums between 1990 and 1998. The first three LPs were highly acclaimed, but the group disbanded in 1998. In 2006, the cluster reunited and toured the U.S., and planned to release an album after some works in the studio. The cluster is thought to be iconic pioneers of alternative hip hop music, having helped to pave the manner for innovative hip hop artists. John Bush of Allmusic referred to as them "the most intelligent, creative rap cluster throughout the 1990s," whereas the editors of About.com ranked them four on their list of the "twenty five Best Rap Teams of All Time." In 2005, A Tribe Referred to as Quest received a Special Achievement Award at the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. In 2007, the group was formally honored at the fourth VH1 Hip Hop Honors.