Samme uka som Miles Davis døde, i september 1991, slapp rapgruppa A Tribe Called Quest albumet «The Low End Theory». Det begynner med en vandrende ståbass samplet av Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, før Q-Tip rapper: Back in the days when I was a teenager / Before I had status and before I had a pager / You could find the Abstract listenin’ to hip-hop / My pops used to say, it reminded him of bebop.