The Soulquarians

I know this might sound a bit random, but the truth is the love i have for basketball has made me come up with this next comparison. In my eyes this collective of musicians is the equivalent of the American basketball team,also known as the Dream Team, that won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. It was around that time when the Golden Era of hip hop had started to emerge,but it would take approximately 10 years before some of the most talented individuals of this genre would come together to build a collective known as the Soulquarians. Comprised mostly of artists hailing from the east side such as New York,Detroit and Philadelphia, the Soulquarians was formed around 1998 by ?uestlove, drummer of The Roots, who was also the key player in terms of producing in most of the projects that the Soulquarians put down, English producer and singer James Poyser and the of course the one and only J Dilla. Before they all came together, this group of musicians already had some collaborations under its belt among its members since some of them had already performed on one another's records. The reason though that brought the three founding members together was the love they all shared for "unorthodox" musical compositions and weird sounding rhythms and beats mostly hailing from their common love for jazz,as well as the coincidental sharing of the same zodiac sign, where they drew the inspiration for their name from. Great artists such as Common, Q Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Bilal, D'Angelo and Erykah Badu were the rest of the people that completed this massive congregation of talent which was like a shrine to what is known as "conscious hip hop" and seemed almost liked the musical offspring of an other era. Today the collective is on a hiatus, nevertheless none of its members has ever openly admitted that it has ceased to exist.