TQ isn't the first artist to combine hard-core hip-hop lyrical scenarios with a melodic R&B vocal delivery. TQ wraps his soulful, yearning tenor around the raw, uncensored language of the new millennium hip-hop generation, but uses that language to tell stories of cinematic detail and heartfelt emotion.
The artist known as TQ was born Terrance Quaites in Mobile, Alabama. Shortly thereafter, TQ's family moved to Compton, California, the birthplace of N.W.A. and other rap legends. TQ was raised in the church (he sang in the choir) but his real education came from the streets, where the first wave of hip-hop music became the soundtrack t ...More
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