Q-Tip Presents Offline, Powered by Giant Step December 21, 2012

As 2012 comes to a close, there is no better way to celebrate the holidays than attending music legend Q-Tip's Offline party. Now in its seventh installment, Q-Tip has been packing Irving Plaza every month and bringing out the very best in what New York nightlife has to offer. The dance floor heats up with a diverse crowd of music lovers surrounding Q-Tip as he helms the decks from a specially designed metallic DJ booth.

Don't be surprised to see such celebrities as J.Cole, Mark Ronson, Grandmaster Flash, Just Blaze, DJ Cassidy, Busta Rhymes, Gabrielle Union, but whoever you are, the emphasis is all about dancing to Q-Tip's eclectic selections of great music.

Modern hip hop and R&B music can both arguably be divided into pre- and post-A Tribe Called Quest, and the musical efforts of its lead MC and producer Kamaal Ibn John Fareed - better known to the world as Q-Tip. ATCQ's 1990 debut, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, introduced Q-Tip's iconoclast stance. In 1999, he dropped his first solo album Amplified, featuring the career-defining hip pop hits "Vivrant Thing" and "Breathe and Stop." Produced primarily by Q-Tip with plenty of live instrumentation and a love fixation, 2008's The Renaissance marks the return of one of the most recognizable voices and individualist figures in all of hip hop.

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