Michael Rapaport 'Completely Done' Reasoning With Q-Tip Over Documentary Feud (VIDEO)

The stormy relationship between actor/director Michael Rapaport and rapper Q-Tip continued to develop Wednesday, when Rapaport told New York Daily News that he was "completely done" reasoning with the rapper and that they have no relationship. The pair's dispute arose from the portrayal of hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, which Q-Tip co-founded, in Rapaport's upcoming documentary "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest."

The group's other three members have expressed support for the film, but Rapaport claims Q-Tip demanded more and more control of Tribe's sometimes unflattering portrayal. "The movie version Q-Tip thinks should be coming out would be going straight to DVD," Rapaport told New York Daily News.

In March, however, Q-Tip said that his major disagreement with Rapaport was that producers were plotting to deny the band members production credits. In an interview with MTV News, he claimed that one of the film's producers accidentally sent him an email discussing this plan:

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"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest" premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January, and opens in New York and Los Angeles on July 8.

Comments

[theRealAmerica]

12:47 PM on 08/01/2011

The song FOOTPRINTS solidified Tribe as my all time favorite hip hop group and QTip as my all time favorite rapper...

Forever a Tribe Head...

[schtarkiller]

05:50 AM on 07/10/2011

I still listen to the "Midnight Marauders" religiously. I still think its as fresh as it was waay back when.

[Omeezee]

04:36 AM on 07/03/2011

Not that he's not capable, but why was Rappaort apart of this to begin with? As far as I know he's not know for his directing skills or having much to do with hip hop, or documentaries? The whole thing seems weird?

[WinstedGardens]

03:42 PM on 07/02/2011

ATCQ is my favorite group ever and their 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums were the soundtrack to my college years. Although it's dissapointing that Q-tip's pissed about it, I hear it's a damn good documentary and I wouldn't assume that Rapaport messed it up. I wanted to see a doc celebrating the group and getting into the details of what made their 1st 3 albums so brilliant. And I hear the 1st half of the movie is exactly that. But I was dissapointed at first when I heard the 2nd half of the doc focuses on the group today and how strained their relationships are. Q-Tip doesn't come off looking very good and it has a meloncollie, almost sad, ending. Didn't sound like too much of a Tribe celebration to me. But the more I thought about it, that could be a brilliant direction as it humanizes them and shows that sometime great frienships dissolve. And apparently, as bad as Q-tip comes off, everyone will come out with an even greater appreciation of Phife.

[TheFabOne]

12:47 PM on 07/02/2011

The Low End Theory is my fave album.

[mikeodd]

11:22 AM on 07/02/2011

It's a damn shame that controversy has to tinge a moment when the Tribe actually get some attention.

[ctekin]

03:41 AM on 07/02/2011

my style is kinda fat, reminiscient of a whale

[lawgrrl]

11:26 AM on 07/01/2011

Yo, microphone check one, two what is this . . . changed my life freshman year of college. yeah. i'm old.

[mikeodd]

11:16 AM on 07/02/2011

Freshman year in HS for me, but I feel ya! F & F'd!

[too young but old enough]

10:41 AM on 07/01/2011

Their first three records stand as some of the greatest hip hop ever. Up through Midnight Marauders, I thought they could do no wrong. If you like rap, but don't own Low End Theory, you need to get it today.

[lawgrrl]

11:00 AM on 07/01/2011

Ahhhh, my soundtracks to my life in college! Agreed!

[lawgrrl]

11:01 AM on 07/01/2011

You should give a listen to Q-tips solo "The Renaissance". people slept on this album--you can listen start to finish without forwarding or skipping a single track.

[SeanMartin]

10:20 AM on 07/01/2011

Pardon me while I get out my Sinatra albums. Maybe by the time I'm done, this PR-designed "controversy" will be over.

[amplow]

12:29 PM on 07/01/2011

? I love Sinatra too, but their stuff is brilliant. To each his/her own.

[SeanMartin]

03:52 PM on 07/01/2011

Oh, I agree. My issue is that this is clearly a manufactured dispute just for the sake of getting names in print, nothing more. And as such, I have no use for either the film or the artists behind it, not when they play games like this.

[annasophie1228]

10:08 AM on 07/01/2011

love me some tribe and de la soul...

[bmora]

10:03 AM on 07/01/2011

A Tribe Called Quest and the Beastie Boys are the grandparents of hip hop.

[too young but old enough]

10:39 AM on 07/01/2011

That statement is just silly.

There was a decade of hip hop before the Beastie Boys came out with their debut full-length, and A Tribe Called Quest came even later than that. DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa are the parents of hip hop. The grandparents would be James Brown, George Clinton, Rudy Ray Moore and Gil Scott-Heron.

[lawgrrl]

11:02 AM on 07/01/2011

Wow! Impressive--you know your stuff---you look so young!!! Agreed and faved.

[radtech74]

09:19 AM on 07/05/2011

Thank you for making that correction. Mine wouldn't have ended at silly. F/F for taking the higher road. Let's not forget Melle Mel.

[William Munny]

09:38 AM on 07/01/2011

I hear you Q-Tip. Sound and looks real shady. Too bad. I liked Rapaport.

[jwredd]

09:53 AM on 07/01/2011

Yep. But nobody's saying that email was from Rapaport and any one of the inevitable entertainment industry scumb@gs_could have written that and most likely did. Too bad Rapaport is essentially taking the hit for it.....

[jsrl317]

11:04 AM on 07/01/2011

Good observation. I'll withhold judgement, but the entertainment industry is full of snakes.

[LightninHopkins]

01:29 AM on 07/02/2011

If Ali Shaheed and the Five Footer are down with it, what's Q-Tip's real problem? I've loved Tribe since Low End Theory and always digged whatever Q did but this seems kinda diva on his part. We got the jazz, we got the jazz...

[dickdarwin]

02:38 AM on 07/02/2011

i saw the doc last weekend at the l.a. film fest. everyone but q-tip showed up. the doc is said to be a very honest portrayal of the groups dynamic and up to that point i was never really privy to anything but their music (even though they are probably my favorite music makers of all time), but q-tip looks like an A $ $ in the movie. he's comes across like kanye. ironically some of the last shots of him in the film are him sharing the stage with kanye. while i respect the hell out of his music, I know think very differently of him as a person. granted this is someone who has never met him personally, but I think his true character is pretty transparent in the film. It makes perfect sense that he wouldn't be happy with this film in some way.

[Northern Observer]

09:24 AM on 07/01/2011

Tribe and Leaders of the New School were my 90's rap kings. Brings me back.

[too young but old enough]

10:46 AM on 07/01/2011

Leaders of the New School brings me back...I remember going to see both of them on a tour with Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, and Naughty by Nature. What a great line-up.

Tribe's best (in my opinion) tour was with KMD...Lots of fun on-stage collaboration.

[Spleenz]

09:23 AM on 07/01/2011

I thought the whole "dissing" title to the story was completely misleading. If you watch the whole series of interviews, the very last one is Tip saying to people to see the movie, he doesn't want to discourage anyone from watching it.

He didn't even "diss" it to begin with. Never once did he say anything of the like. He just stated that he wish he had more control over the project (not surprising considering it's Tip), and he feels hurt and effed over by it, and an e-mail he received by "accident".

No matter what happens I'll still be an ATCQ fan.