Cast & creator
Q-Tip
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live
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.
Also known as: Kamaal Fareed, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, The Abstract, A Tribe Called Quest, The Ummah
38
film credits
15
television credits
47
1959–2026 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
Showing 53 of 53 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
1993
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Songs
2014
Men in Black
Songs
1997
The Great Gatsby
Songs
2013
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Teddy Bear / Roach (voice)
1995
The Chris Rock Show
1997
WeCrashed
Q-Tip
2022
Yo! MTV Raps
Self
1988
Soundbreaking
Self
2016
Mark Twain Prize
Self - Musical Guest
1999
JANET JACKSON.
Self
2022
Cadillac Records
Hip Hop Artist
2008
MADtv
Self
1995
She Hate Me
Vada Huff
2004
Poetic Justice
Markell
1993
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
2025
ASAP Rocky – The Assault in Stockholm
Self (archive footage)
2026
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
2025
Disappearing Acts
Reggie Baptiste
2000
Prison Song
Elijah Dixon
2001Prison Song
Writer
2001
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Self
2018Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2
Self
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
2019
The Hip Hop Project
Associate Producer
2006
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Self
2011
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Self
2008
Death of a Dynasty
Self (uncredited)
2003
Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
Self
2000
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Self
2012
Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
Self
2004Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos
Musical
2004
The Grammys
Self
1959
The Legacy of J Dilla
Self (archive footage)
2023
A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology
2002
Rhyme & Reason
Self
1997
Free Tibet
Self - A Tribe Called Quest
1998
Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
Self
2005
What Difference Does It Make?
Self
2014
Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras
2002
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour
Self
1998
Alicia Keys - Here in Times Square
Self - Singer
2016
The Minnie Riperton Story
2009
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
2015
Breaking a Monster
Self
2015
A Tribe Called Quest: Tibetan Freedom Concert
Love Goggles
Complex