Q-Tip
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Teddy Bear / Roach (voice)
The Chris Rock Show
Filmography
ASAP Rocky – The Assault in Stockholm
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
as Self
Bruthaload 13: Booty Bandits
2024
Turn Him Out
2024
The Legacy of J Dilla
2023
as Self (archive footage)
WeCrashed
2022
as Q-Tip
JANET JACKSON.
2022
as Self
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
2019
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
Alicia Keys - Here in Times Square
2016
as Self - Singer
Soundbreaking
2016
as Self
Breaking a Monster
2015
as Self
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
2015
What Difference Does It Make?
2014
as Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
as Self
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
2011
as Self
The Minnie Riperton Story
2009
Cadillac Records
2008
as Hip Hop Artist
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
2008
as Self
Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
2005
as Self
She Hate Me
2004
as Vada Huff
Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
2004
as Self
Death of a Dynasty
2003
as Self (uncredited)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Musical Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras
2002
A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology
2002
Prison Song
2001
as Elijah Dixon
Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
2000
as Self
Disappearing Acts
2000
as Reggie Baptiste
Mark Twain Prize
1999
as Self - Musical Guest
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour
1998
as Self
Free Tibet
1998
as Self - A Tribe Called Quest
Rhyme & Reason
1997
as Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997
MADtv
1995
as Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Teddy Bear / Roach (voice)
Poetic Justice
1993
as Markell
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Musical Guest
Yo! MTV Raps
1988
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Musical Guest
The Grammys
1959
as Self