Revered engineer/producer Bob Power, who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Erykah Badu, The Roots and D’Angelo, has died at age 74. His death was confirmed by NYU's Clive Davis Institute, where Power worked as a professor.

Power helped shape the sound of 1990s hip-hop and R&B. He engineered A Tribe Called Quest's acclaimed second album, The Low End Theory, and would go on to work on De La Soul Is Dead, D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, Badu's Baduizm, and The Roots projects like Do You Want More?!!!??! and Things Fall Apart.

Badu paid tribute to Power on social media."What a great loss for the music community today," she wrote on IG. "The great engineer, producer, mentor and friend @bobpower has traveled on. I / we appreciate you. You taught me soo much… Love and easy breaths to your loved ones ! Our community will forever Say your name."

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