Touré is the author of Soul City, a novel to be published in September, and The Portable Promised Land, a collection of short stories. He’s also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the host of MTV2’s Spoke N’ Heard.

• June 2004: Interview with Q-Tip
  A Tribe Called Quest might get back together, despite the unavoidable little beefs that arise now and again. Also: meet Momma-Tip.
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  August 2003: Interview with Ahmir Thompson
  The Roots’ drummer, aka Questlove, tells us why hiphop-lovers should be thankful Jesse Jackson never made it to the White House.