In addition to the abovementioned rappers, Rapaport was able to get Pharrell, Questlove, Pete Rock, De La Soul, and more to wax poetic about Tribe in the film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. But he also scored the bigger get: Intimate conversations with Tribe's Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad about their music and legacy, as well as the personal conflicts that led to the group's disbandment in 1998.
I faintly recall being backstage during the 2008 Rock the Bells tour, glimpsing Rapaport among ATCQ's entourage and wondering how that meeting of minds came to be; it turns out Rapaport was filming his documentary then, given considerable access to the band as they headlined the 2008 iteration of the tour that first brought them back together professionally.
Rapaport's self-financed film hits theaters this summer, starting July 8 with a limited engagement in New York and Los Angeles. Sony Pictures Classics will roll out the film in subsequent weeks in cities including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and beyond.