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Phife Dawg Saluted in New Video for Posthumous Song ‘Forever’
Legendary A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg, who died in 2016, looks back on his life and career in the new video for his song “Forever,” directed by Tony Reames and Dion “Rasta Root” Liverpool. [embedded content][embedded content] “Forever” is drawn from Phife’s just-released posthumous album of the same name, which was completed after his death by Liverpool and features guest spots from Tribe members Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, members of De La Soul and Redman, among others. “When I first heard ‘Forever’, I was not prepared for the depth and honesty. It took me a long time to let it all sink in,” Reames says. “DJ Rasta Root came up with the idea of personal photos and videos to match the message for the video. The lyrics are also all in Phife’s own handwriting. We scanned in a lot of hi...
Phife Dawg’s Estate Details Posthumous Album Forever
On what would be the MC’s 51st birthday today, the estate of A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg detailed the forthcoming posthumous album Forever. It is set to debut on March 22, on the anniversary of Malik Izaak Taylor’s death in 2016. The New York-born rapper and 4x Grammy-nominee had partnered with trusted collaborators on Forever, and his estate alongside Smokin’ Needles Records are ready to release his final word as a solo MC. Forever will include “Nutshell PART 2” (featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman), which debuted earlier this year. Taylor’s mother Cheryl Boyce-Taylor (a.k.a. Mama Phife) said in a statement of the upcoming record: “Forever, soon come. His voice is a steel pan cruising the sea salt edge of Trini waters. A balm, a salve, a son’s kiss on his mama’s ch...
Phife Dawg ft. Redman & Illa J “French Kiss Trois,” Lil Yachty “Tunde” & More | Daily Visuals 9.6.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Trini Gladiator / Trini Gladiator It’s been six years since the untimely death of Hip-Hop legend, Phife Dawg and while he’s sorely missed by the culture, we’re grateful for the work we’re still getting from the rap icon. In his posthumous visuals to “French Kiss,” Phife’s memory lives on via childhood pictures and adolescent flicks while Redman and Illa J take to the park to enjoy the company of some grown and beautiful women. Rest In Power, Phife. From the old school to the new, Lil Yachty seems to be enjoying the fruits of his labor and in his clip to “Tunde” politics with some peoples in his crib before hitting the block with his goons. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Skepta, Slim Thug featuring Canari, and more. PHIFE DAWG FT. ...
Phife Dawg ft. Redman & Illa J “French Kiss Trois,” Lil Yachty “Tunde” & More | Daily Visuals 9.6.21
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Trini Gladiator / Trini Gladiator It’s been six years since the untimely death of Hip-Hop legend, Phife Dawg and while he’s sorely missed by the culture, we’re grateful for the work we’re still getting from the rap icon. In his posthumous visuals to “French Kiss,” Phife’s memory lives on via childhood pictures and adolescent flicks while Redman and Illa J take to the park to enjoy the company of some grown and beautiful women. Rest In Power, Phife. From the old school to the new, Lil Yachty seems to be enjoying the fruits of his labor and in his clip to “Tunde” politics with some peoples in his crib before hitting the block with his goons. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Skepta, Slim Thug featuring Canari, and more. PHIFE DAWG FT. ...
Watch the Director’s Cut of Phife Dawg’s ‘Nutshell PART 2′
Back in February, Phife Dawg’s estate released a new version of “Nutshell PART 2,” a song that was originally released in 2016 that featured none other than Busta Rhymes and Redman. The track hails from Forever, the upcoming posthumous album from Phife. A video came along with that release, and now there’s an even longer director’s cut of the clip available. In it, a meeting that starts off at a label with an HR rep who can’t get the rappers’ names [and features some special guests, like Peter Rosenberg] right before moving to a diner and, well, you can see it all below. [embedded content] “It was the last day I got to hang with Phife,” Peter Rosenberg says of the video. “So grateful that he thought of me and would include me in anything, but even more grateful I got to kick it w...
Microphone Check 1, 2 What Is This?: Phife Dawg’s Best Verses
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Al Pereira / Getty Five years ago on this date, (March 22nd), the world of Hip-Hop lost one of its most enigmatic and lyrically versatile MC’s when it was announced that Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor) , one-fourth of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest passed away due to complications from diabetes at his home in San Francisco. Proudly representing the borough of Queens, New York, Phife Dawg had a few nicknames that spoke to his flawless capability as an MC, but the “Five Foot Assassin” tag was a calling card and a promise whenever he stepped up to the microphone. Starting out with Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis), Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad to form A Tribe Called Quest in high school back in 1985, he helped usher in a new era in Hip-Hop and was one of the arc...
Remembering Phife Dawg Five Years Later
Born in 1970, Phife Dawg grew up Malik Taylor writing poems and rapping around his native Queens, New York neighborhood before forming A Tribe Called Quest in 1985 with childhood friends Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Nicknamed “The Five-Foot Assassin,” or just “The Five-Footer” for his stature, Phife’s persona was both larger than life and beautifully honest. Through the decades, the band’s daring and eclectic style would forever change the landscape of alternative hip-hop. Though Tribe’s first album, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990), mostly kept Q-Tip at the forefront, with their sophomore effort The Low End Theory (1991) Phife took on a larger role within the group. On “Check The Rhime,” the call-and-response between Q-Tip and Phife brought his lyrical talent...
Phife Dawg Drops New Posthumous Single “Nutshell Pt. 2”
Source: Al Pereira / Getty It’s going on five years since the culture lost the legendary MC Phife Dawg from the iconic Hip-Hop group A Tribe Called Quest (still one of the hardest group names in music, ever). And though the 5-Foot Assassin isn’t here in the physicla, his legacy is still revered, respected and remembered in the fondest of ways. Though many thought we heard the last of his work in the 2016 Tribe Called Quest album We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, in 2021 we’re getting some more lyrical bombardment from the Malik The Five-Foot Freak via a new solo album, Forever. Though details about Phife’s upcoming LP are being held close to the chest, for now, fans are now getting blessed with the first single off the upcoming project which features two of his triple-OG rap p...
