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Ali Shaheed Muhammad
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Ali Shaheed Muhammad

DJ

Born 1970 in Brooklyn

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Wikipedia ties Ali Shaheed Muhammad to Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A tie, not always an origin

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  • Moment

    Square Diner, “Electric Relaxation”

    1994

    In A Tribe Called Quest’s video for “Electric Relaxation”, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad cruise the city in a cab before pulling up to the Square Diner in Tribeca, where they order only a glass of Coke and a cup of coffee, per DNAinfo. The song was released as a single in February 1994, per Wikipedia.

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  • Mural

    A Tribe Called Quest mural

    2016

    Shortly after Phife’s death in 2016, Vince Ballentine was commissioned to create this mural picturing Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, on the laundromat where the group filmed its “Check the Rhime” video, per NYC Tourism.

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Also tied to Bedford–Stuyvesant