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Mar 26, 2016 · Q-Tip remembered his fellow A Tribe Called Quest member, “lifelong friend and day one homie” Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor during his Beats 1 show Abstract Radio Friday.
- Phife Speaks on A Tribe called Quest’s Formation
- Phife’s Reflection on A Tribe called Quest’s Legacy
- Phife Talks Life After “Tribe,” New Career in Sports Journalism
HipHopDX:What can you say about the group dynamic on the first Tribe album? Phife:It’s actually difficult for me to talk about that first album, being that I really had zero to do with it! I was hardly around.Q-Tip wrote all the lyrics, his and mine. Not that I couldn’t write, but I wasn’t an official member of the group then. I was working on my o...
DX: In Michael Rappaport’s documentary Beats, Rhymes, and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, you mentioned about how the last album should have been called The Last Movement instead of The Love Movement. I once read around the release of that album that there was a fire that happened at Q-Tip’s townhouse studio in New Jersey and it destroye...
DX: You were around the college-age during that first tour with Tribe. What else would you have done in you were never even became a solo artist or an official member of A Tribe Called Quest? Phife:I didn’t go to college, but I would have gone back to school for journalism, communications and for sports broadcasting. I wanted to have gone to Syracu...
Mar 24, 2016 · While Q-Tip was the mad scientist and mercurial artist, Phife Dawg was a lot like you: a guy who loved hip-hop, sports, and talking shit. Hip-hop will never be the same. Stereo Williams....
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Apr 4, 2016 · Q-Tip Calls Phife Dawg His Hero. Peter Walsh Published: April 4, 2016. Rick Diamond, Getty Images. While most of the hip-hop world has chimed in with their memories of Phife Dawg and...
Mar 23, 2016 · Phife Dawg, who died at the age of 45 at his home near Antioch, in Contra Costa County, was hip-hop royalty while still seeming like one of us. Q-Tip gets most of the credit for Tribe, of course, and he deserves plenty for finding Tribe’s samples, producing songs, crafting their structure.
Feb 4, 2022 · Tribe’s frontman and lauded producer Q-Tip spoke on the bittersweet moment and how he wished former member Phife Dawg, who passed in 2016, was here to relish the feat. “I was pleased,...
