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Rock Docs: A Podcast About Movies About Music Today's documentary is Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, released in 2021, directed by Michael Rapaport. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt

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