On April 2, 2016, Fabolous and Jadakiss released a freestyle of Futures 'Wicked' from Purple Reign that was scheduled appear on Freddy vs. Jason coming soon', hinting at the release of a joint project with Jadakiss, titled Freddy vs. Last November, Phife Dawg performed one last time with his bandmates on The Tonight Show – their first performance after almost 15 years. On February 29, 2016, Fabolous posted a picture on Instagram with Jadakiss with the caption, 'Freddy vs. We take comfort in knowing he will be beside his grandmother.” The group’s remaining members said in a statement, “We’re inspired by his daily joy and courage. Phife appeared on all five of the group’s studio albums and might be best known for his humorous verses on tracks like “Can I Kick It?” And “Electric Relaxation”.
While many rappers in the 90s bigged themselves up, Phife wasn’t afraid to be modest: “I’m just a short brother, dark skin face/Weigh a buck-fifty, 36 waist,” he rapped on “Vibes and Stuff”. Phife was known to be self-deprecating, casual and a perfect contrast to Q-Tip’s philosophical cool. Oftentimes rapping about social and political issues, the self-proclaimed “five-foot assassin” jolted the music scene by challenging traditional macho lyrics. The group, which also included Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, would go on to be one of the most progressive hip-hop groups of all time and served as the inspiration for rappers like Common, Kanye West and Jill Scott. In 1985, Phife Dawg teamed up with his high school friend Q-Tip to form the rap group A Tribe Called Quest. Phife Dawg, the “funky diabetic”, had been struggling with diabetes for over two decades and it was the ultimately the cause of his death.
Malik Isaac Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, passed this Tuesday (March 22) at the age of 45 in his San Francisco home. “Can I kick it? To my Tribe that flows in layers/Right now, Phife is a poem sayer.” Check out the documentary on Netflix.Īnd if you wanna know why Outkast hasn’t gotten back together, check out the clip below.
Take a listen below and download a copy of this historic collection, as it may be the last time you hear from this ensemble.īut there really is a documentary out on Organized Noize, the hip-hop production sensation behind a lot of artists’ success and the rise of the Atlanta sounds we all love and get down to. The EP comes as a shock to us all, but it’s welcomed nonetheless. The title of the EP is both a play off their song “Return of the ‘G’” and an homage to “ The Dungeon”, the legendary basement studio of producer Rico Wade, where the likes of Outkast, the Dungeon Family and Goodie Mob (CeeLo Green) did their first recordings. It goes down in The Dungeon (it go down) it go down in The Dungeon (it go down, it go…down)Īfter the success of the documentary, The Art of Organized Noize, André 3000 and Big Boi decided to get back together one time to surprise fans with a 5-track EP entitled Return of the Dungeon.