Q-Tip Traces African Ancestry

Tuesday, January 24 2012 5:02 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Blog, Focus

As part of OKP’s “The Roots Of” series, Q-Tip traces his native tongue back to the Motherland. He later discovers that his ancestors were from West Africa. After the jump, ?uestlove and Black Thought find out their ancestry.

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Comments (16)

  1. mac DIESEL says:

    THAT’S SOME DOPE SHIT!!!! IF IT WASN’T FOR SLAVERY, WE’D BE STEPPIN’ ON THESE CRACKER’S NECKS!!!! WE KNEW WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE, AND WE LET ‘EM OFF THE HOOK!!!!

    …..HA!!!! I WANNA SEE YN CHASE HIS ROOTS BACK!!!! I WANNA SEE HOW YELLOW HIS ANCESTORS WERE!!!! HA!!!!

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

  2. JustMyOpinion says:

    A black man from Africa? Wow, I am SO shocked. SMH
    Q-tip a grown man why is he whispering?

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  5. Gunter, B. says:

    We’re dedicated to good music, and devoted to the best Hip Hop.

    We are Forth & Back.

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  6. sincere says:

    flies on pile of shit = questlove

    muahahahha..

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  8. hannibal says:

    watch him flip this into a hot beat

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  10. magnum says:

    i knew it was gon be nigeria all u have to do is to look at the facial accent and swag and energy fuck a swab go gettter by any means type attitude u cld just tell naija all day we taking over this bitch jadakiss chamellionare many more y’all niggas watch.

  11. loch121 says:

    This is hip hop.fuck the BS
    Loch Drake headlines Freestyle http://youtube.com/lochofmceo

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