Q-Tip, also known by his stage name Abstract and, since his conversion to Islam, by his changed name Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, is a founding member and MC of the internationally successful hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Q-Tip is currently signed to G.O.O.D.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Show with David Letterman
2010
Saturday Night Live
2016
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2009
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
2000
Men in Black
1997
The Great Gatsby
2013
The Chris Rock Show
1999
WeCrashed
2022
Yo! MTV Raps
1992

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
49
Writing
2
Producing
1
Sound
3
2026
ASAP Rocky – The Assault in Stockholm
as Self (archive footage)
2026
The Grammys
as Self
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
as Self
2024
Bruthaload 13: Booty Bandits
2024
Turn Him Out
2023
The Legacy of J Dilla
as Self (archive footage)
2022
WeCrashed
as Q-Tip
2022
JANET JACKSON.
as Self
2020
Mark Twain Prize
as Self - Musical Guest
2019
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
2016
Alicia Keys - Here in Times Square
as Self - Singer
2016
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Musical Guest
2016
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
2016
Soundbreaking
as Self
2015
Breaking a Monster
as Self
2015
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
2014
What Difference Does It Make?
as Self
2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2012
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
as Self
2011
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
as Self
2010
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Musical Guest
2009
The Minnie Riperton Story
2009
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2008
Cadillac Records
as Hip Hop Artist
2008
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
as Self
2007
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2005
Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
as Self
2004
She Hate Me
as Vada Huff
2004
Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
as Self
2003
Death of a Dynasty
as Self (uncredited)
2002
Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras
2002
A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology
2001
Prison Song
as Elijah Dixon
2000
Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
as Self
2000
Disappearing Acts
as Reggie Baptiste
2000
MADtv
as Self
2000
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Teddy Bear / Roach (voice)
1999
The Chris Rock Show
1998
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour
as Self
1998
Free Tibet
as Self - A Tribe Called Quest
1997
Rhyme & Reason
as Self
1993
Poetic Justice
as Markell
1992
Yo! MTV Raps
as Self
Love Goggles
as Complex
A Tribe Called Quest: Tibetan Freedom Concert
Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2
as Self