Prior to its formation, members Q-Tip, Common, Talib Kweli and Mos Def were members or associates of the Native Tongues Posse. The collective, formed during the late 1990s, continued into the early 2000s, and produced several critically acclaimed albums. The Soulquarians were a neo soul and alternative hip hop-informed music collective with members from Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Richmond, Brooklyn, Chicago, Dallas and Oakland. Dilla who all shared the same zodiac sign, Aquarius. 'The thing was we never had a title,' he said, adding that The Soulquarians were him, James Poyser, D'Angelo and J. Because when that issue came out, motherfuckers were angry. Neo soul, alternative hip hop, funk, soulīlack Star, The Roots, Slum Village, A Tribe Called Quest The loose name for the collective was The Soulquarians, although Questlove explained back in 2015 that the name was probably the least important aspect of collective. Speaking about the end of The Soulquarians, in 2015, Questlove blamed a September 2000 magazine photo and article from Vibe as part of the reason for their eventual split: 'The Vibe magazine photo was the beginning of the end. L-R: Talib Kweli, Common (kneeling), Mos Def, James Poyser, Erykah Badu, Questlove, D'Angelo, Q-Tip, J Dilla (kneeling), Bilal The Soulquarians burned brightly in the first few years following the turn of the millennium, fizzled out quickly, but left their musical DNA everywhere. Like many collectives, there’s often ambiguity in who exactly is a quote-unquote official member.

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