After announcing in August that A Tribe Called Quest planned to put an end the group after wrapping its current tour, strong first-week sales of the group's swan-song album, "The Love Movement," demonstrated that the group will apparently be bowing out while still a hip-hop commercial force.
But before year's end, Quest rapper Phife will turn up one more time in a somewhat unexpected place, as part of an ensemble singing on "This World Is Something Strange To Me," along with such artists as Beck, Jakob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, the B-52's, Lisa Loeb and Patti Smith. "It was a last minute thing," Phife explained to MTV News last month -- just after he had been asked to participate in the track. The soundtrack for the "Rugrats" film is slated for release November 3, and also features a collaboration between Blackstreet, Mase and Mya on "Take Me There," Busta Rhymes on "On Your Marks, Get Set, Ready, Go!" and No Doubt on "She Throws Her Toys Around," a song written by Elvis Costello.
