Along with J Dilla, two members of this group formed the Ummah to produce this group’s albums Beats, Rhymes and Life and The Love Movement. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this group led by Q-Tip. This group’s debut was the first album to get a five-mic rating from The Source magazine and features the singles “Bonita Applebum” and “Can I Kick It?”.
ANSWER: A Tribe Called Quest [prompt on partial answers]
[10e] This genre partly names another collective co-founded by J Dilla that also included Erykah Badu and D’Angelo (“dee-AN-je-lo”), who work in the ‘neo’ type of this genre. This genre has its roots in R&B and gospel, and Aretha Franklin is known as the “Queen of [this genre]”.
ANSWER: soul [accept neo soul] (The collective is the Soulquarians)
[10h] On Dilla’s beats for the Pharcyde, this process was notably not applied to the kick drum loops. Dilla’s production often avoids sounding mechanical by not using this process of aligning notes to the beat.
ANSWER: quantisation [accept word forms such as quantised]