Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Bass Guitar and Producer | b. 1970

Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s groove-first approach to sampling and playing shaped A Tribe Called Quest and now runs through the Jazz Is Dead series, where he is the main bass guitarist. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he formed Tribe with Q-Tip and Phife Dawg in 1985, then co-formed Lucy Pearl with Dawn Robinson and Raphael Saadiq and the Ummah production collective with Q-Tip and J Dilla. After moving to Los Angeles in 2013 he began working with Adrian Younge, scoring Luke Cage, touring as The Midnight Hour and releasing an album under that name (2018). His solo debut is Shaheedullah and Stereotypes (2004).