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The Native Tongues took their name from a line in the song African Cry by Motown-offshoot funk group New Birth. That lyric reads took away our native tongues and became the banner for a new collective of hip hop artists.
Principal groups within the movement included the Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest alongside honorary members such as Queen Latifah. By 1989 the core had expanded to include Monie Love from the United Kingdom and soon Black Sheep and Chi-Ali joined the fold.
This crew formed in New York City during the late 1980s before eventually fading apart by 1993. De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove proclaimed that native shit is dead in 1993 marking the end of an era but not erasing the impact they had already made.
Rolling Stone cited the track Doin Our Own Dang as the definitive Native Tongues posse cut because it embodied this unique blend. Rolling Stone highlighted Doin Our Own Dang as the defining example of their collaborative power showing what was possible when diverse voices merged into a single creative force.
The Native Tongues movement inspired later alternative hip-hop artists such as Outkast, the Roots, Lupe Fiasco, Little Brother, Black Eyed Peas, Dead Prez, Camp Lo, Jean Grae, Nappy Roots, Digable Planets, Common, Black Star, J Dilla, Lauryn Hill, MF Doom, and Pharrell Williams. In 2019 the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., launched an annual Native Tongues Festival to celebrate the musical legacy of the group.