Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born Jonathan William Davis, April 10, 1970), better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American rapper, record producer, singer, and DJ. Nicknamed the Abstract, he is noted for his innovative jazz-influenced style of hip hop production and his philosophical, esoteric and introspective lyrical themes. He embarked on his music career in the late 1980s, as an MC and main producer of the influential alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. In the mid-1990s, he co-founded the production team The Ummah, followed by the release of his gold-certified solo debut Amplified in 1999. In the following decade, he released the Grammy Award-nominated album The Renaissance (2008) and the experimental album Kamaal the Abstract (2009).
As an actor, Q-Tip has appeared in various films, such as Poetic Justice, She Hate Me, and Prison Song, the latter of which he co-wrote and played the lead role. As a DJ, he has hosted the Apple Music 1 radio show Abstract Radio since 2015. In 2016, Q-Tip was named the artistic director for hip hop culture at the Kennedy Center, and in 2018, he became the instructor of a jazz and hip hop course at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
Q-Tip is one of the most acclaimed figures in hip hop. AllMusic states that he "led a jazz-based hip-hop revolution during the '90s", calling him "the best rapper/producer in hip-hop history". Several publications have ranked him as one of the greatest rappers and hip hop producers of all time, with The Source ranking him the 20th greatest rap lyricist, and Billboard ranking him the sixth greatest hip hop producer. In 2024, Q-Tip was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of A Tribe Called Quest.
Read more...The April 10, 1970 was a Friday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 99 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 55 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 10, 2025, 156 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 10, 2026, in 208 days. You have lived for 20,245 days, or about 485,893 hours, or about 29,153,594 minutes, or about 1,749,215,640 seconds.
Date: 10 April 1970
newsmen covering Vietnam peace talks in Paris appeal to 4 participating delegations to help establish whereabouts and release of missing newsmen; NBC repts that its news cameraman D Bellendorf apparently was captured by Vietcong while on assignment
Date: 11 April 1970
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Times publisher A O Sulzberger warns possible shutdown is 'rapidly approaching' because of 'illegal' printers meetings; says paper is usually prepared to 'grin and bear it' during negotiations but that when labor tactics affect news and ad content of paper it will not go out under Times logotype; says Times has been forced to drop $409,000 worth of ad and 130 columns of news since Mar 30; other losses noted; Powers repts no progress in talks; printers repr E McGuinness decries Sulzberger statement as insult to union; warns Post will be struck Apr 13 unless negotiations show progress; Fed mediator A A Desser sets meetings between Post and Guild unit
Date: 11 April 1970
Vice Pres Agnew charges Sen rejected Carswell nomination on basis of 'subjective judgment' and after members had been 'showed' by 'liberal media' and subjected to heavy pressure from labor and civil rights activists, CBS TV int; says he does not believe Nixon assailed Sen for rejecting Carswell 'with a political view in mind' but that everything Pres does 'has a political impact in the final analysis'
Date: 10 April 1970
Judge Zirpoli signs order limiting disclosures that Caldwell must make before grand jury; excerpts
Date: 10 April 1970
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
details of lithographers' settlement with rotogravure cos
Date: 11 April 1970
By ALEXANDER R. HAMMER
Alexander HAMMER
Date: 10 April 1970
By ALEXANDER R. HAMMER
Alexander HAMMER
Date: 11 April 1970
Papadopoulos announces easing of martial law to permit enforcement of const guarantees against arbitrary arrest and those upholding right of assembly and freedom of press, TV news conf; warns that people are not ready for return of parliamentary dem; says measure has been prompted by improvement marked by pub order and security resulting from confidence in regime; warns intellectuals and judges to revise views; tells foreign critics to leave country in peace; says martial law now applies only to propaganda against const order and unauthorized possession or use of radio transmitters and duplicating machines; announces about 350 of 1,537 pol prisoners to be released Apr 21, 3d anniv of coup; announces creation of advisory body of 50 appointed on nomination of professional orgns, trade unions and local councils to act as 'small, select parliament'; announces abolition of preventive censorship of freedom of expression, restoration of civil servants right to appeal to State Council, and timetable for completion by end of '70 for institutional laws that supplement articles of '68 Const
Date: 11 April 1970
By WILLIAM E. FARRELL Special to The New York Times
William FARRELL
NYS Assembly adopts bill forbidding businesses from requiring prospective employes to take lie detector tests