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movies The Love Movement At the heart of the A Tribe Called Quest documentary is a touching story of a fraught friendship. By Jonah WeinerPosted Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at 11:25 AM ET The most transfixing moment in Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Rapaport's documentary about the epochal early-'90s hip-hop group, comes in a single shot toward the end. On the left side of the frame is Q-Tip: tall, broad-shouldered, wolfishly handsome. On the right is Phife Dawg: bug-eyed, built like Humpty Dumpty, "height of Mugsy Bogues, complexion of a hockey puck," as he once succinctly rapped. Up to this point, the two rappers have spent much of the film complaining about each other behind each other's backs--turning to the camera in separate interviews to air gripes and grievances born long ago. But here they are in a cautious detente at a Manhattan studio, practicing for a one-off reunion show. As their music plays, the pair break into a hypnotically odd synchronized dance, bopping and kicking, arms undulating in time as though borne aloft by the same current. "Like this," Q-Tip says, and Phife, glancing over at him, follows. The camera remains still and at a distance, loath to break the spell. The sight of these physically mismatched men dancing is inherently comical, but there's also something deeply touching about it: These are two lifelong friends, putting their festering resentments on hold and swaying, goofily, as one. Like Anvil!, Sacha Gervasi's 2008 documentary about two lovable, bickering metalheads, Beats, Rhymes & Life is a music documentary with a buddy-movie heart. A Tribe Called Quest, which formed in Queens in 1988, is rounded out by the DJ and producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White (whose role, beyond spiritual mascot, has always been unclear and remains so here), but in this film Muhammad and White are innocent bystanders to the main event, which is the love-hate relationship between the guys on the mics. To continue reading, click here. Jonah Weiner is a pop critic for Slate. Follow him on Twitter.Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate The Army's Scheme To Protect Itself From Leon Panetta's Huge Budget Cuts It's Completely Pointless for Congress To "Stay in Town" To Settle the Deficit Fight Badges! How Foursquare Brought Design Ideas From the Boy Scouts to the Web. | Advertisement |
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