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[A tribe called quest's
"8 million stories" plays]
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[Crowd cheering]
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Phife dawg:
I can't ever put a finger on q-tip
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even though
we've known each other longer
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than anybody in this world
outside of our respective families.
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I guess you could call it
a love-hate relationship.
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Q—tip: I'm not gonna say fucking
"written by tip" or "produced by tip"
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because it's about the tribe.
It's about the fucking unit, b.
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It's about all of us.
I didn't single myself out
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to be the fucking
ginsu master of this shit, b.
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Ali:
Outside of this music, there's a life.
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What's disappointing
is seeing the path
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that people who don't have
a blood tie but have a kinship
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is taking a separation.
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And that's...
That's always disappointing.
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J“ help me out now
help me out, y'all j“
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j“ help me out now
help me out, god j“
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j“ help me out, y'all
help me out now j“
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j“ help me out, god j“j“
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q—tip: You guys fucking rock!
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People try to shit on hip-hop.
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But we are representative today
that we are still here.
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We're still strong.
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I want everybody to put a celebratory
fist up in the air. Everybody.
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We all here,
you know what I'm saying?
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We represent this philosophy,
this group of ideas.
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I look out in the crowd,
I see white, I see black.
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It makes me feel proud
to be a part of it.
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So on the count of three,
I want us all to say "power."
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Y'all ready? One, two, three!
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Crowd: Power!
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Q—tip:
Power to the people. We out, man.
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Peace, Seattle! We love you!
We love y'all!
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A tribe called quest.
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Phife dawg: We do have to move
on. Good things do come to an end.
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J“ help me out now
help me out, y'all j“
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j“ help me out now
help me out, y'all j“j“
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man 1: You know what it is.
Appreciate it, man.
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Rapaport:
Tip, you think that that's it?
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Q—tip: Mm-hm.
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Did you ask them that?
Did you ask all that?
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Rapaport: About the last show?
Did you ask them the same thing?
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Rapaport: I asked all you guys.
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And what'd they say?
Same thing, right?
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Rapaport: Yeah,
everybody said the same thing.
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Q-tip: That it's the last one, right?
Rapaport: Yeah.
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Well...
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You asked phife, right?
What'd he say?
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Rapaport:
Everybody, all four of you.
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Said it's over, right?
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Rapaport: Everybody said that.
Said what?
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Rapaport:
That this was the last one.
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Yeah. That's it.
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Only way we could be on-stage
together ever again
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is we get in the rock and roll
hall of fame.
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I did everything I could do.
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For 20 years, man.
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Too old for this shit. I'm out.
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It's a wrap, brother.
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Narrator: A tribe called
quest consists of four members:
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Phife dawg.
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Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
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Q- tip.
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And jarobi.
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A, e, I, o, u,
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and sometimes y.
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[A tribe called quest's
"can I kick it?" Plays]
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J“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ can I kick it? J“
j“ yes, you can j“
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j“ well, I'm gone j“
j“ go on, then j“j“
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Phife dawg: Rewind for a second.
A tribe called quest met up like this.
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[Pure essence's
"third rock" plays]
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I have known q-tip since
we were about 2 years old.
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Played little league baseball,
played football.
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Played all the sports.
I grew up with him.
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We're practically god-brothers.
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Q—tip: We met in church.
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Basically grew up together.
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We were best friends,
you know what I'm saying?
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Phife and I didn't live
on the same block.
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We kind of lived in the same area.
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He lived, like, right off of linden,
kind of on the good side.
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I lived on the other side.
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J“ back in the days
on the boulevard of linden j“
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j“ we used to kick routines
and the presence was fittin' j“
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j“ it was I, the abstract j“
j“ and me, the five-footer j“
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j“ I kicks the mad style
80 step off the frankfurter j“j“
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phife dawg:
I lived with my mom and dad.
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A lot of times on weekends
I'd be at my grandmother's house.
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Because she took me to church.
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And the church
is seven-day adventist.
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So, you know, from sunset Friday
to sunset Saturday,
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your mind had to be
on nobody but god.
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Like, everything else is dead.
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So I had to sneak and watch
soul train.
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I had to sneak and watch
Scooby-doo
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or whatever cartoon
was popping off at the time.
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But when it came to the block parties
and the hip-hop,
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once I saw them grabbing Mikes
and getting busy,
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I risked my livelihood,
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getting kicked out of the house
just to be a part of it.
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[Margo's kool out crew's
"death rap" plays]
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J“ margo j“
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j“ margo j“j“
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q—tip: You know, we were
mesmerized by the hip-hop.
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He was the one who said to me,
"you should rhyme.
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I'm gonna rhyme.
You should rhyme."
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So we was just always doing it,
just fucking around.
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Rapaport:
And how old are you at this time?
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Like 9.
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And he said you should rhyme.
Yeah.
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And he started rhyming? Yeah.
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Phife dawg: And of course, we're from
the same area pretty much as run-dmc.
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Ll cool j.
You know what I'm saying?
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So those guys were our idols.
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It wasn't even about coming up
with your own cadences and flows.
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It was all about,
"yo, I wanna be like them dudes."
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Say, "ho!" Crowd: Ho!
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Say, "ho, ho!" Crowd: Ho, ho!
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Run-dmc: Say, "ho, ho, ho!"
Crowd: Ho, ho, ho!
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Now scream!
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Q—tip: Everybody... I thought
it was just me and phife.
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But everybody in here was like...
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The hip-hop shit was hot.
You know what I mean?
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And if you could rhyme,
that was like a big deal.
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And then after a while you start
making up your own words
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to their songs.
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It was like, "yo, we could do this
on our own. What's up?"
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Before you knew it, it was on.
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[J“j“j“]
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Jarobi: These are all the people
that lived in St. albans at some point.
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All the famous musicians
that's lived in St. albans.
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Rapaport:
All these people lived down here?
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Jarobi: Yeah. Queens puts out
legends. And I know me and phife
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would walk by here and be like,
"maybe one day
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we're gonna be on this wall."
You know?
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Beside James brown, fats waller,
Coltrane, Lena horne.
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You know what I mean?
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It was dope. It was definitely
in the back of your mind every day.
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This is St. albans park.
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This is where me and Malik
really cemented our friendship.
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When we first met,
we didn't really care for each other.
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He was a smart-ass dude,
little dude, whatever, whatever.
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We used to sit in this park
and play basketball.
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So, you know, everybody's
in the park. You gotta call next.
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While you was waiting for next, phife
would be like, "jarobi, kick a beat."
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Jarobi is like:
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[Beatboxing]
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Word? Oh, we a team, that's it.
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I introduced him to tip,
then he had met Ali in high school
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and that was the connect.
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J“ can I get whatever
from Mr. Muhammad? J“j“
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[a tribe called quest's
"Mr. Muhammad" plays]
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Ali: I lived in an apartment
that had a fire escape.
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And during the summertime,
DJs started setting up
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their sound systems
in the schoolyard
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which was directly across the street
from my fire escape.
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So I had a view of the schoolyard
and I'd see these kids coming in.
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Pulling out vinyl,
putting their headphones on.
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All of a sudden,
there's this roar, this cheer.
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People dancing and movement
of just rhythms and melodies.
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It's just going on and on and on
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and it becomes
somewhat intoxicating.
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And not too long after,
I learned that those guys were DJs.
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[J“j“j“]
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It was the '80s and hip-hop had
skyrocketed from out of the Bronx.
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It came out of the streets
and now onto the radios.
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There was actual jocks and actual
personalities who were eloquent.
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Majestic royal voices
like Mr. Magic.
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Good evening to you, super listeners.
How you doing?
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It was just a feeling that the music
and the art form has arrived.
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J“ psk, we 're makin' that green j“
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j“ people always say,
"what the hell does that mean?" J“j“
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Ali: For me growing up, I don't
know whether to call it a tool,
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a resource, an alien.
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You know, it was a physical presence
that was a part of
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your clique, your crew.
That was the radio.
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[Jvc force's
"strong island" plays]
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Garcia: You know, you
were just stuck to your radio dial
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with two fingers on buttons.
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Pause. Record.
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Ali: You're flipping through the
dial and it wasn't no digital tuning.
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It was straight:
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[Imitates tuning radio]
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Fine-tune it because you might
have overshot your situation.
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You're like, "oh, I got static.
All right, we good. Hold on."
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[Imitates tuning radio]
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Martinez: You could go to school,
talk about, "did you hear this new song?
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Did you hear what red alert did?
What Chuck chillout did?"
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You bonded with people
who were drawn to the music.
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Mike d: You'd wanna
listen to red alert every week.
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You couldn't help but hear him.
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You'd just hear it blasting
from cars or whatever.
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And then what's the red alert voice?
"Yeah."
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J“ yes j“j“
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red alert.
Pinnacle, at the very top.
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So important to so many
people's careers.
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Everybody say, "ho!"
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Q—tip: If it wasn't for red alert, I
wouldn't be talking to you right now
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because red taught me so much.
He's the one who believed in us.
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Who gave a tribe called quest
theirjump-off.
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[Sparky d's "he's my dj
(Red alert)" Plays]
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[A tribe called quest's
"youthful expressions" plays]
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This is police headquarters
in New York City.
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And right here is my old high school,
murry bergtraum.
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Come on.
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Hi, miss esmilla.
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Esmilla: Oh, good to see you.
Q-tip: How are you?
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Oh, my goodness.
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We pulled out the yearbook.
You see your yearbook picture?
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There he is.
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Q—tip: Computers.
Computer science.
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[Esmilla chuckles]
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All right, all right.
That's enough.
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Starting to sound geeky.
I don't wanna talk about it.
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Because I'm a rapper. I'm cool.
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[People laughing]
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Ali: Going to murry bergtraum
high school for business careers
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was one of the most scary
moments of my life.
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Coming from Brooklyn, knowing you
gotta get on the train, go into the city.
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It's like, "whoa."
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In fact, it was the biggest blessing
that happened to me.
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Because not only did I meet
people from other boroughs,
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but I met q-tip.
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Q—tip: Music to me in
the 9th grade was a big deal
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because my father had gotten
really sick with emphysema.
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And, you know, he was basically
dying in front of me.
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So music was like
a place of refuge.
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Um...
So it was everything to me.
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Wow. Stage.
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[Drumming on desk]
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Stop banging on those tables!
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Banging on the tables.
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Craziness. That's all we used
to do to these things.
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Like they were good for books.
Like you could put books in them.
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Like you could put books
in them and stuff.
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But they really were handy
as percussion instruments.
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[Jungle brothers'
"on the run" plays]
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Ali: When we all went there, there
was a whole bunch of musicians.
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You know, a whole bunch of kids
who took the opportunity
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during cafeteria to beat on the tables
and kick a bunch of rhymes.
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When I'd speak to phife,
I would tell phife:
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"Yo, this school is crazy, man."
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We went there with Mike g
from the jungle brothers.
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Afrika from the jungle brothers.
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J“ jungle brothers on the run, y'all j“
j“ jungle brothers on the run j“
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j“ jungle brothers on the run, y'all j“
j“ jungle brothers on the run j“
253
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j“ j. Beez on the run j“
j“ j. Beez on the run j“
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j“ j. Beez on the run j“
j“ j. Beez on the run, come on j“j“
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afrika:
I look back and I'm like:
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"Some weird,
mystical thing going on there."
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Rapaport: Right.
A meant-to-be type of thing.
258
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Mike g: As me and afrika
got to know each other more,
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he found out that red alert
was my uncle.
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So we were already driven
to do hip-hop.
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To write rhymes and make songs.
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Q—tip: It was wild because, you
know, we fucking around with jungle.
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Rhyming our hearts out.
And Mike, he's like:
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"I'm gonna pass this shit
off to my uncle."
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Like, "who's your uncle?"
"Red alert." And we were all like:
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"Are you serious?
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Like we're fucking rapping forever
and your uncle is red alert?"
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They would say, "we want to put on
the next set we have in mind."
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Because I never knew what
they was brainstorming at school.
270
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And they brought this fellow on there,
and it was an introduction.
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And everybody like, "who's this guy?
Who's this guy? Who's this guy?"
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You know, and who it turned out
to be was q-tip.
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J“ black is black is black is black
is black is black is black j“j“
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phife dawg: He used to always come
home from school playing little joints.
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He finally came home
and played a joint
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he did with them,
and I believe it was "black is black."
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"Quest." the group
was called quest at the time.
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It was part of the early
quest demos.
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Tip was on the Mike and he was
like... he started the song by saying:
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"I'm from a group called quest."
And afrika was like, "hold up."
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He said, "say I'm from..."
A tribe called quest.
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It just stuck.
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Q—tip: J“ now I'm from
a tribe called quest j“
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j“ and I'm here tonight
with the jungle brothers j“
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j“ and we about to get into
this thing called j“
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all:
J“ black is black is black is black j“j“
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afrika: I said, "get
your shine on this record."
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I was very adamant about,
"say your name."
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You know, "say your name.
290
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Say the name of your crew.
And do your rhyme."
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Q—tip: J“ my bone is
grabbed this is what I mean j“
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j“ I brag a gab
and here's the scene j“
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j“ q-tip from a tribe called quest j“
man: J“ q-tip j“
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j“ saw the jungle brothers' album
oh, yes j“j“
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first time I remember hearing myself
on the radio was a Saturday night.
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I was just waiting. I knew that it
would come on around 10
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because I was asking, "what
time do you think it'll come on?"
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And it came on, and I was like:
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Q-tip: J“ just feel the vibe j“
man: J“ feel the vibe j“
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q—tip:
J“ me and all are extremely radiant j“
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[laughs]
302
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I was just like that. I just couldn't
believe it. I was stuck, you know?
303
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It wasn't... I was just like:
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I told my moms and she was like,
305
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[in high-pitched voice]
"Really? Get out of here.
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I wanna hear it. Oh, I wish your father
was here to hear that."
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[In normal voice]
You know what I'm saying, so...
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It's crazy. It was a crazy moment.
You know? It was crazy.
309
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J“ go on with your, go on with your
go on with your bad self j“j“
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[jjj]
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After you.
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Man: Yeah, this is
perfect. I'll halo you guys.
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Rapaport: The hardest
thing about being in a group?
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Q—tip: The hardest part
about being in a group is
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constantly considering
someone else.
316
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Even before yourself.
317
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This happens when you're a group
of musicians doing it together.
318
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It's gonna be a tough thing
to manage.
319
00:19:44,642 --> 00:19:47,812
Phife dawg: Let's say we're
doing a two-month, three-month tour.
320
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I mean, you're gonna get tired
of each other.
321
00:19:51,941 --> 00:19:54,110
If the cubs are playing
and we in Chicago,
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me and jarobi,
we'll go drink a beer,
323
00:19:56,446 --> 00:19:58,990
eat a pretzel or a hot dog,
go watch the damn game.
324
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Ali be up in his room,
playing the guitar.
325
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And q-tip
will always be record shopping.
326
00:20:04,662 --> 00:20:07,457
That was his hobby.
That's what he loved to do.
327
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[Jjj]
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Q—tip: Ask him if he
has any boogie records.
329
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Like boogie 12-inches.
Like, uh, queen constance.
330
00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:23,223
You already checked to see
who's producing it, what label it's on.
331
00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:25,517
You know, who else is playing on it.
332
00:20:25,683 --> 00:20:28,311
Sometimes you just grab shit
just to hear it.
333
00:20:31,815 --> 00:20:35,652
A lot of kids who come up
doing hip-hop are doing so
334
00:20:35,819 --> 00:20:38,196
with the only tools that they had.
335
00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:42,909
So all we have is records.
336
00:20:43,076 --> 00:20:46,329
In comes kool herc and
grandmaster flash and bambaataa
337
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and all those dudes, and we're
making do with what we have.
338
00:20:50,375 --> 00:20:53,336
So we take these turntables
and they become our instruments.
339
00:20:58,633 --> 00:21:02,345
Our pulpit and our society
that we're performing for now
340
00:21:02,512 --> 00:21:03,888
is our own society.
341
00:21:04,055 --> 00:21:06,433
And our own neighborhoods
and our own ghettos.
342
00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:09,477
So when we're doing that,
the way we talk to them
343
00:21:09,644 --> 00:21:11,646
is by keeping them hype
at the party
344
00:21:11,813 --> 00:21:13,857
and that turns into mc'ing.
345
00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:18,778
So to me, aside from jazz,
you know, it's the last
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00:21:18,945 --> 00:21:21,114
true American art form, hip-hop.
347
00:21:25,702 --> 00:21:27,983
Jarobi: Tip was the first
person I saw making pause tapes.
348
00:21:28,121 --> 00:21:30,707
And that was dope.
You sit there, you put the record on.
349
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After two bars or whatever go by,
press pause.
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Bring it back. UN-pause it. Next two.
And you kept doing that.
351
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And you have three or four minutes
before a sampler.
352
00:21:42,177 --> 00:21:43,678
Three or four minutes of a song.
353
00:21:45,013 --> 00:21:47,056
Q—tip: All we did was
take those different things
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that we were influenced by
and mix it all together.
355
00:21:50,894 --> 00:21:55,231
You know, we crossed up genre
and all of that, so...
356
00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:57,025
I think it's a beautiful thing.
357
00:21:57,192 --> 00:22:01,821
For "can I kick it?"
These are the drums of pain.
358
00:22:01,988 --> 00:22:05,950
This cover was crazy.
I first caught this shit at this spot
359
00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:10,246
that I used to go to
after school on 26th street
360
00:22:10,413 --> 00:22:11,831
called jazz record center.
361
00:22:11,998 --> 00:22:14,292
I caught this shit for like $5.
362
00:22:14,459 --> 00:22:17,545
I was looking at the cover.
I was like, "ooh. This shit is slick."
363
00:22:17,712 --> 00:22:21,174
Look at his hat. He got, like, the
kangol shit, looking up at his chick.
364
00:22:21,341 --> 00:22:24,677
The chick is bad.
Yo, got the fucking Lincoln.
365
00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,514
My uncle used to have
the Lincoln that looked like that.
366
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,141
And I would look at the title
and shit.
367
00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:32,852
Lonnie Smith.
My pops used to talk about this.
368
00:22:33,019 --> 00:22:35,313
"Let me look at these songs."
I look at the songs.
369
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,607
I remember
"who's afraid of Virginia woolf?"
370
00:22:37,774 --> 00:22:39,776
Because I remember the movie.
371
00:22:39,943 --> 00:22:42,904
The movie was crazy. Pbbbt.
372
00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:45,532
Sometimes I feel like my life
is like that shit.
373
00:22:45,698 --> 00:22:47,408
[Laughs]
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00:22:47,575 --> 00:22:49,786
Just some fucking social mishap.
375
00:22:49,953 --> 00:22:52,455
[Lonnie Smith's "spinning
wheel" playing over speakers]
376
00:22:52,622 --> 00:22:57,252
I'm like, "oh, those drums."
I was like, "oh, oh, oh!"
377
00:22:57,418 --> 00:23:01,047
Jarobi... I think jarobi was there.
He was like, "word, word, word!"
378
00:23:01,214 --> 00:23:05,051
I was like, "yo, these shits is crazy.
I'm gonna kill this shit."
379
00:23:05,218 --> 00:23:08,096
I couldn't get past this.
This is the beginning of the record.
380
00:23:08,263 --> 00:23:11,224
I was like, "goddamn."
I couldn't believe it.
381
00:23:12,517 --> 00:23:16,271
This is on the first album.
This was the pause tape I made.
382
00:23:22,402 --> 00:23:27,240
I was like, "oh, shit, that's crazy."
383
00:23:27,407 --> 00:23:30,410
I was, like,
fucking pissing my pants.
384
00:23:30,577 --> 00:23:31,661
[Playing drum sounds]
385
00:23:31,828 --> 00:23:35,415
"Can I kick it?" These are the drums
that are actually from "can I kick it."
386
00:23:35,582 --> 00:23:37,542
I caught it from the snare.
387
00:23:40,169 --> 00:23:43,464
J“ can, can I kick it?
Yes, you can j“
388
00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:46,301
j“ can I kick it?
Yes, you can j“
389
00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:48,636
j“ I'm gone go on, then j“j“
390
00:23:48,803 --> 00:23:50,096
j“ can I kick it? J“
391
00:23:50,263 --> 00:23:52,423
j“ to all the people who can quest
like a tribe does j“
392
00:23:52,557 --> 00:23:54,892
j“ before this, did you really know
what life was? J“
393
00:23:55,059 --> 00:23:57,437
j“ comprehend to the track, for it's... j“
394
00:23:57,604 --> 00:23:59,897
j“ gettin' measures on the tip
of the vibers j“
395
00:24:00,064 --> 00:24:02,483
j“ rock 'n' roll to the beat
of the funk fuzz j“
396
00:24:02,650 --> 00:24:04,861
j“ wipe your feet really good
on the rhythm rug j“
397
00:24:05,028 --> 00:24:07,363
j“ if you feel the urge to freak
do the jitterbug j“
398
00:24:07,530 --> 00:24:10,450
j“ spread your arms
if you really need a hug j“
399
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,840
q—tip: When we were
doing the early demos,
400
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:15,496
it was me going to Ali's crib
in Brooklyn doing that.
401
00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:19,292
And me always telling,
"yo, phife, come on. Phife, come on.
402
00:24:19,459 --> 00:24:20,710
Phife, come on."
403
00:24:20,877 --> 00:24:22,962
Skip to years later.
"Phife, come on."
404
00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:26,799
It was like that was always the thing
with me and him, the dynamic.
405
00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:28,509
Me trying to get him to come.
406
00:24:28,676 --> 00:24:30,720
Say, "ho!" Crowd: Ho!
407
00:24:30,887 --> 00:24:33,514
Phife dawg: I was still just
running around being a knucklehead.
408
00:24:33,681 --> 00:24:36,225
I wasn't coming to the studio.
Still running around
409
00:24:36,392 --> 00:24:38,853
doing what 18-year-olds do,
I guess.
410
00:24:39,020 --> 00:24:41,022
Fresh out of high school
and just tripping.
411
00:24:41,189 --> 00:24:44,859
But, you know, tip was just
in the right place at the right time.
412
00:24:45,026 --> 00:24:48,237
So I introduced him to the game,
but he introduced me to the paper.
413
00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:50,657
J“ can I kick it? J“
crowd: J“ yes, you can j“j“
414
00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:54,160
q—tip: It was just a lot of excitement
in terms of getting us signed.
415
00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:55,745
So it became a bidding war.
416
00:24:55,912 --> 00:25:00,667
Before we know it, the number
just kept increasing to like 350,000.
417
00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:03,795
At the time,
that was like the biggest advance
418
00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:06,964
that a new artist got,
so everybody was saying:
419
00:25:07,131 --> 00:25:09,676
"You heard of jungle brothers,
you heard of de la soul.
420
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:12,804
Well, tribe called quest
is next in line."
421
00:25:12,970 --> 00:25:15,056
[A tribe called quest's
"footprints" plays]
422
00:25:25,274 --> 00:25:29,904
Hi, I'm q-tip. I'm an aries.
I'm a sick puppy.
423
00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:35,993
And I'm phife
and I rhyme along with him.
424
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,122
That's basically it.
And we are...
425
00:25:39,288 --> 00:25:41,416
A tribe called quest.
A tribe called crazy.
426
00:25:41,582 --> 00:25:44,252
Our deal was like afrocentric
dashikied out.
427
00:25:44,419 --> 00:25:48,548
Like we had to come out and just
separate ourselves because
428
00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:53,302
the clothes and the look
was just a surface philosophy.
429
00:25:53,469 --> 00:25:56,055
But really,
clothes does not make the man.
430
00:25:56,222 --> 00:25:58,641
We are a tribe called quest.
A tribe called quest.
431
00:25:58,808 --> 00:26:01,686
Originally, they was dressed in...
432
00:26:01,853 --> 00:26:04,188
They was wearing some real
questionable-type shit.
433
00:26:04,355 --> 00:26:06,190
[A tribe called quest's
"ham 'n' eggs" plays]
434
00:26:06,357 --> 00:26:08,317
But people didn't look at them
as weirdoes.
435
00:26:08,484 --> 00:26:11,487
They looked at them like
the miles Davis of hip-hop-type shit.
436
00:26:11,654 --> 00:26:14,198
Like, "oh, okay, they just know
about some shit
437
00:26:14,365 --> 00:26:16,784
that we're obviously not up on."
438
00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:19,662
Ali: We were looking like
weirdoes to a lot of people.
439
00:26:19,829 --> 00:26:22,915
It was like, "yo, who are these geeky,
nerdy...? I don't even know."
440
00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:27,044
They didn't wanna hate,
we were part of zulu nation.
441
00:26:27,211 --> 00:26:31,507
It's about diversity and embracing
the different things within cultures
442
00:26:31,674 --> 00:26:35,052
that separate us but actually tie us
through this thing called music.
443
00:26:35,219 --> 00:26:39,140
There couldn't be too much hatred,
but you're looking at these kids like:
444
00:26:39,307 --> 00:26:42,977
"Yo, with the dashiki, the this,
the that, kinte cloths." You're like:
445
00:26:45,354 --> 00:26:46,355
Nah.
446
00:26:46,522 --> 00:26:48,834
[A tribe called quest's "I left
my wallet in El Segundo" plays]
447
00:26:48,858 --> 00:26:51,068
Man: Okay, son, let's start
with this. What's your name?
448
00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:53,446
Q-tip: Q-tip.
Man: Where were you going
449
00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:55,615
and who were you going with?
450
00:26:55,782 --> 00:26:58,075
J“ I left my wallet in El Segundo j“
451
00:26:58,242 --> 00:27:00,536
j“ left my wallet in El Segundo j“
452
00:27:00,703 --> 00:27:03,039
j“ left my wallet in El Segundo j“
453
00:27:03,206 --> 00:27:05,249
j“ I gotta get it
I got, got to get it j“j“
454
00:27:05,416 --> 00:27:09,378
q—tip: The first video for us was
"I left my wallet in El Segundo."
455
00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:12,799
And that title came from...
You know, I liked sanford and son.
456
00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:15,927
I remember Fred sanford
used to be like:
457
00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:20,348
"Son, you gonna sit down
and watch
458
00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:22,517
a late-night movie with me.
459
00:27:22,683 --> 00:27:27,730
It's a good one.
Godzilla ate El Segundo."
460
00:27:27,897 --> 00:27:29,774
You know,
he'd do all that craziness.
461
00:27:29,941 --> 00:27:33,277
So I remember El Segundo
was a constant reference
462
00:27:33,444 --> 00:27:35,029
for Fred g. Sanford.
463
00:27:35,196 --> 00:27:37,198
J“ thanks, senor
as I started the motor j“
464
00:27:37,365 --> 00:27:38,565
j“ Ali said j“ j“ damn, tip j“
465
00:27:38,699 --> 00:27:40,201
j“ what'd you drive
so far for? J“j“
466
00:27:40,368 --> 00:27:42,688
q—tip: The first time we
performed it, we killed that shit.
467
00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:45,623
It was just crazy. I was like,
"wow, if they like this,
468
00:27:45,790 --> 00:27:47,375
wait till they hear 'bonita.'"
469
00:27:47,542 --> 00:27:49,394
[a tribe called quest's
"bonita applebum" playing]
470
00:27:49,418 --> 00:27:51,671
J“ bonita applebum
you gotta put me on j“
471
00:27:51,838 --> 00:27:54,257
j“ bonita applebum
I said, you gotta put me on j“
472
00:27:54,423 --> 00:27:57,051
j“ bonita applebum
you gotta put me on j“
473
00:27:57,218 --> 00:27:59,971
j“ bonita applebum
I said, you gotta put me on j“
474
00:28:00,179 --> 00:28:04,809
Williams: I listened to "bonita applebum"
all the time. I was obsessed with it.
475
00:28:04,976 --> 00:28:10,231
I was like... I had never heard
nothing like that in my whole life.
476
00:28:10,398 --> 00:28:14,569
And that's where I changed
477
00:28:14,735 --> 00:28:19,031
from just a kid that just liked,
you know, hot beats
478
00:28:19,574 --> 00:28:21,409
to really following something.
479
00:28:21,576 --> 00:28:24,287
His style wasn't ongoing.
A lot of people are like:
480
00:28:24,453 --> 00:28:25,955
[Speaking indistinctly]
481
00:28:26,122 --> 00:28:28,499
It was like, "hey, bonita,
glad to meet you."
482
00:28:28,666 --> 00:28:31,878
J“ hey, bonita
glad to meet you j“
483
00:28:33,462 --> 00:28:36,132
j“ for the kinda stunner you, miss
I must beseech ya j“
484
00:28:36,299 --> 00:28:39,927
prince Paul: It was really laid-back.
It was like a hardcore love song.
485
00:28:40,094 --> 00:28:43,389
It was like one you just go like,
"yeah, I love you, girl."
486
00:28:43,848 --> 00:28:45,349
Rapaport: Right.
487
00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:48,227
"I love you." Mwah.
You know what I'm saying.
488
00:28:49,604 --> 00:28:50,897
Rapaport:
Who is bonita applebum?
489
00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:53,024
Just, you know,
somebody that was soft.
490
00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:57,945
Just somebody from the 'hood who
was refined, though, and was a lady.
491
00:28:58,112 --> 00:28:59,906
But she had a fat ass.
492
00:29:01,449 --> 00:29:05,036
Martinez: "Bonita applebum" is
one of the reasons why chicks dig q-tip.
493
00:29:05,202 --> 00:29:08,497
Because it was like this
fun, flirty kind of song
494
00:29:08,664 --> 00:29:12,001
that's appealing, that's fun to say,
it's fun to dance to.
495
00:29:12,710 --> 00:29:14,712
And he coined
496
00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:20,051
you know, the "fat ass" term.
The term for a fat ass.
497
00:29:20,676 --> 00:29:22,094
In a nice way.
498
00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:24,263
J“ bonita, bonita, bonita j“j“
499
00:29:26,432 --> 00:29:28,184
this is what won the series
right here.
500
00:29:28,351 --> 00:29:31,520
You know that, right?
Bong! Pull that.
501
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,148
Mr. Phife dawg.
502
00:29:34,649 --> 00:29:36,484
Yes, sir.
I'd like to talk to you
503
00:29:36,651 --> 00:29:39,195
and ask you
a couple of questions.
504
00:29:40,613 --> 00:29:45,284
You are a native of queens,
New York, is this correct?
505
00:29:45,451 --> 00:29:48,955
Yes, sir. I already know
where he's going.
506
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:52,708
It seems that you're wearing
a Lakers shirt. Is this correct?
507
00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:56,045
Yes, sir. Um...
508
00:29:57,004 --> 00:30:00,800
Is it safe to say
that you are a Lakers fan?
509
00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:02,510
Yes. And you're from New York?
510
00:30:02,677 --> 00:30:05,304
Yes. How did the Knicks fare?
511
00:30:05,471 --> 00:30:07,223
I still love my New York Knicks,
512
00:30:07,390 --> 00:30:10,226
but a championship
starts with the front office,
513
00:30:10,393 --> 00:30:13,396
and the front office of the Knicks
is straight garbage.
514
00:30:13,562 --> 00:30:15,439
They need to get it together.
515
00:30:15,606 --> 00:30:17,900
What do you think about
amar'e stoudemire?
516
00:30:18,067 --> 00:30:19,568
I like amar'e stoudemire,
517
00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:22,405
but I'm gonna need him
to play some defense.
518
00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:28,077
Okay, because a lot of new
yorkers could take this as an offense.
519
00:30:28,244 --> 00:30:30,496
That's because we've been losing
for quite a long time.
520
00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:32,873
[People laughing]
521
00:30:33,958 --> 00:30:36,502
Everybody knows about phife
being a sports enthusiast.
522
00:30:36,669 --> 00:30:37,837
You know what I'm saying?
523
00:30:38,004 --> 00:30:42,216
Every day in me and his life there
was some sports-related activity.
524
00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:45,094
My five favorite little men
in NBA history are:
525
00:30:45,261 --> 00:30:47,972
Kenny Anderson, Mark Jackson,
Kenny "the jet" Smith,
526
00:30:48,139 --> 00:30:50,725
Allen iverson, Chris Paul.
Big east was the greatest.
527
00:30:50,891 --> 00:30:53,644
You had pat ewing at Georgetown,
St. John's, you had mully.
528
00:30:53,811 --> 00:30:57,273
One of the baddest, slowest,
but the illest shooters.
529
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,942
Big east basketball was:
Five favorite running backs.
530
00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:02,194
Barry Sanders, Tony dorsett,
Walter Payton,
531
00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:04,989
Eric dickerson, Marshall faulk.
I had to put him in.
532
00:31:05,156 --> 00:31:07,033
Only the Yankees
should wear pinstripes.
533
00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:09,201
The mets shouldn't have
no pinstripes.
534
00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:11,287
Y'all see the hat.
Jay-Z running the nets.
535
00:31:11,454 --> 00:31:14,290
I guarantee you he'd love to have
a young rod strickland
536
00:31:14,457 --> 00:31:16,709
playing point guard
for the nets right now.
537
00:31:16,876 --> 00:31:18,335
Penod.
538
00:31:20,588 --> 00:31:23,716
[Chattering in distance]
539
00:31:27,178 --> 00:31:29,764
Phife dawg: But I love
basketball because of the atmosphere.
540
00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:31,640
So right now I'm recruiting
541
00:31:31,807 --> 00:31:33,976
for the all-boys high school
in Connecticut.
542
00:31:34,143 --> 00:31:35,853
My wife gave me her blessing.
543
00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:38,522
Even though we live all the way
on the west coast.
544
00:31:38,689 --> 00:31:41,358
She told me she knew this was
something I wanted to do.
545
00:31:41,525 --> 00:31:44,028
So I'm really doing
this basketball thing.
546
00:31:44,195 --> 00:31:46,489
Like, I'm really hardcore into it.
547
00:31:46,655 --> 00:31:48,824
I've always been, but now
548
00:31:49,742 --> 00:31:51,702
I might have to make it
first priority.
549
00:31:51,869 --> 00:31:54,830
You know, I love hip-hop,
550
00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:58,459
but at the rate it's going
right now,
551
00:31:58,918 --> 00:32:01,087
I could do with or without it.
552
00:32:03,214 --> 00:32:05,841
[De la souus "ain't hip to
be labeled a hippie" plays]
553
00:32:06,008 --> 00:32:10,179
We fancied ourselves as being,
like, fresh and innovative.
554
00:32:10,346 --> 00:32:13,265
And we were always looking
for shit like that in other artists.
555
00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:24,193
Posdnuos: J“ in america today
people think they know the way j“
556
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,529
j“ of the soul
de la is on the road j“
557
00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:28,572
j“ to blink and clear the hay j“
558
00:32:28,739 --> 00:32:30,491
j“ behind the line
of inner fine j“
559
00:32:30,658 --> 00:32:32,535
j“ we explained this
time and time j“
560
00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:34,537
j“ daisies don't mean everything j“
561
00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:36,914
j“ daisies don't mean anything j“j“
562
00:32:37,081 --> 00:32:39,792
like, we had the fucking
"crazy-dude freak factor" with us.
563
00:32:39,959 --> 00:32:43,212
You know what I'm saying?
And then we met de la and was like:
564
00:32:43,379 --> 00:32:45,881
"These fucking guys
are just as weird as we are."
565
00:32:46,048 --> 00:32:48,467
[The new birth's
"African cry" plays]
566
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:53,639
We hit it off famously, instantly.
567
00:32:54,348 --> 00:32:57,309
From that day on,
we just became tight and cliqued up.
568
00:32:57,476 --> 00:33:00,729
And then eventually, you know,
I was sitting in afrika's house
569
00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:03,816
and I had this new birth record
where she was saying:
570
00:33:03,983 --> 00:33:07,361
"Recognize our native tongue."
And I just kept cutting it, cutting it.
571
00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:10,364
J“ took away our native tongue j“
572
00:33:10,531 --> 00:33:14,493
j“ native tongue, native tongue j“j“
573
00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:15,940
afrika: That was the first lead.
574
00:33:15,995 --> 00:33:19,039
We speaking our own language
so it's like, you know,
575
00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:23,043
we speaking in tongues, you know.
He'd bounce them back and forth.
576
00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:25,838
I was like, "we should call ourselves
the native tongue."
577
00:33:26,005 --> 00:33:29,091
He was like, "that sounds ill.
What is that? What does that mean?"
578
00:33:29,258 --> 00:33:33,262
So I explained to him it's like
language that's spoken by people
579
00:33:33,429 --> 00:33:35,055
that's indigenous to that land.
580
00:33:35,222 --> 00:33:37,600
"Yo, af, tell pos what
we were just talking about."
581
00:33:37,766 --> 00:33:40,352
I'm like, "what?"
And they tell me:
582
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,857
"Whenever we do a joint, instead
of have to put all our names on it,
583
00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:47,943
we thinking about calling each other
the native tongues.
584
00:33:48,110 --> 00:33:51,405
We, you know... we all speak the
same tongue, the same language."
585
00:33:51,572 --> 00:33:53,824
I was like, dat.
It was that simple.
586
00:33:55,034 --> 00:33:58,078
J“ all the black people j“
587
00:33:58,245 --> 00:34:00,956
j“ African cry j“
588
00:34:01,123 --> 00:34:04,210
j“ just wanted to live j“
589
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:08,589
j“ 80 many have died j“j“
590
00:34:09,715 --> 00:34:11,550
[ndikho xaba & the natives'
"nomusa" plays]
591
00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:14,011
Native tongue is jungle brothers,
592
00:34:14,178 --> 00:34:17,514
tribe called quest, de la soul.
593
00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:22,811
Chi-Ali, brand nubian, beatnuts.
594
00:34:22,978 --> 00:34:28,275
Black sheep, queen latifah,
and then monie love.
595
00:34:28,442 --> 00:34:31,153
Phife dawg: And I also say
ions, leaders of the new school.
596
00:34:34,615 --> 00:34:36,492
Rock: Native tongues
was definitely a movement.
597
00:34:36,659 --> 00:34:40,621
A big movement in, like,
the late '80s, early '90s.
598
00:34:40,788 --> 00:34:44,541
Up to then, rap was maybe more
about, like, boasting or battling.
599
00:34:44,708 --> 00:34:46,210
You know, dissing somebody else.
600
00:34:46,377 --> 00:34:49,713
Then they came out, and it was
party records, but with a consciousness.
601
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,969
One of the things that I felt was a
theme was empowerment and unity.
602
00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:57,721
Like raising the hip-hop community.
603
00:34:57,888 --> 00:35:00,182
Q—tip: It was a thing that
was going on in the culture
604
00:35:00,349 --> 00:35:02,935
about awareness, about identity.
605
00:35:03,102 --> 00:35:06,480
About coming out of the 'hood
and being able to present
606
00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:08,774
ideas that were lofty.
607
00:35:10,067 --> 00:35:12,027
Monie love: We don't
have to do "fuck tha police."
608
00:35:12,152 --> 00:35:14,321
There's a time and a place
for "fuck tha police."
609
00:35:14,488 --> 00:35:17,700
And a group for that. We don't
have to do "fight the power."
610
00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:19,868
There's a time, place
and group for that.
611
00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:21,537
We're allowed to be different.
612
00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:24,915
Williams: It was a movement
where everything was so creative
613
00:35:25,082 --> 00:35:26,834
and everybody was so expressive.
614
00:35:27,543 --> 00:35:30,921
I just miss that, man. I mean,
what the fuck? The native tongues?
615
00:35:31,088 --> 00:35:34,550
That's a ill group name in itself.
A crew name, you know?
616
00:35:34,717 --> 00:35:36,597
Black thought:
Had it not been for their legacy,
617
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,763
the roots would definitely
be a different sort of band.
618
00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:43,684
I mean, I don't even know if we would
have had the courage to be a band.
619
00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:47,271
Common being a teenager, sometimes
being into something that is different,
620
00:35:47,438 --> 00:35:49,064
you kind of scared to do it.
621
00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:52,234
Your homies be like,
"man, what you doing?"
622
00:35:52,401 --> 00:35:54,528
But then you can sing
something like "buddy"
623
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,989
and you could be different
and be celebrated.
624
00:35:57,156 --> 00:35:58,866
[De la soul's "buddy" playing]
625
00:35:59,033 --> 00:36:01,910
Say what?
J“ meany, meany, meany, meany j“
626
00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:04,246
say what?
J“ meany, meany, meany, meany j“
627
00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:05,581
j“ mean j“ okay.
628
00:36:05,748 --> 00:36:06,915
J“ hello, it's the soul j“
629
00:36:07,082 --> 00:36:09,752
j“ troopin' in with the jungle patrol j“j“
630
00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:13,297
it was just a group of people that
enjoyed being around each other.
631
00:36:13,464 --> 00:36:16,633
Going to parties, being at
each other's sessions at the studio.
632
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,053
Late night till wee hours
in the morning
633
00:36:19,219 --> 00:36:21,513
or possibly for three days straight.
634
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,225
Ali: Not only was it just that
social connection, but just musically,
635
00:36:25,392 --> 00:36:28,771
I think we were changing
what was happening in hip-hop.
636
00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:32,149
Just, you know, sonically and all that.
So it was all these elements.
637
00:36:32,316 --> 00:36:36,862
I think it was just a being.
A state of being. You know, so...
638
00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:38,447
Yeah.
639
00:36:41,742 --> 00:36:44,620
Rapaport: Like, you go from
making pause tapes to a demo.
640
00:36:44,787 --> 00:36:47,956
It's cute. It's fun. This is a real thing.
Yeah, the transition.
641
00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:50,501
It changed your life. Yeah.
642
00:36:50,667 --> 00:36:53,545
After the album came out,
the first album, it was just like:
643
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:57,132
"Wow, this is really happening."
The stakes became high.
644
00:36:57,299 --> 00:36:59,843
And then everybody was talking
about sophomore jinx.
645
00:37:00,010 --> 00:37:03,263
But I never was one forjinx
and spooks and shit.
646
00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:06,809
Like, I don't believe in none of
that shit. I'm not a superstitious dude.
647
00:37:06,975 --> 00:37:10,437
Like Stevie said, "if you believe
in things you don't understand,
648
00:37:10,604 --> 00:37:13,524
then you're gonna suffer."
You know what I mean? Like, so...
649
00:37:13,690 --> 00:37:15,609
I never gave none of that shit
no weight.
650
00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:17,486
Sophomore jinx,
what the fuck is that?
651
00:37:17,653 --> 00:37:19,113
I'm going to make low end theory.
652
00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:21,990
[Jjj]
653
00:37:25,202 --> 00:37:28,080
Phife dawg: He made me feel
like it was do or die, that's how I felt.
654
00:37:28,247 --> 00:37:31,166
We were sitting there talking
and he was like, "yo,
655
00:37:31,333 --> 00:37:33,627
we gotta do the damn thing,
this second lp.
656
00:37:33,794 --> 00:37:35,587
You gotta start coming
to the studio.
657
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:38,632
Not only on time, but just come.
You know what I'm saying?
658
00:37:38,799 --> 00:37:42,052
And spit these verses
I know you could spit."
659
00:37:42,219 --> 00:37:43,387
I was like, "all right."
660
00:37:43,554 --> 00:37:46,181
So the first day came around
and we was just doing it.
661
00:37:46,348 --> 00:37:49,059
Going back and forth like,
"we gonna do it this year."
662
00:37:49,226 --> 00:37:52,062
We were in our groove.
It's like you've been practicing
663
00:37:52,229 --> 00:37:55,399
for so long, when you pass the ball
you don't gotta look.
664
00:37:55,566 --> 00:37:59,361
You know your dude's gonna
be there. That was the movement.
665
00:37:59,528 --> 00:38:01,738
You know, the momentum.
It all came to be.
666
00:38:01,905 --> 00:38:03,449
We knew how to make music.
667
00:38:05,492 --> 00:38:07,953
Large professor:
The snares cut, the kicks were big.
668
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,538
Like, the bass was big.
669
00:38:09,705 --> 00:38:11,874
That tribe shit was like
670
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,335
putting your feet in a new,
fresh pair of kicks.
671
00:38:15,502 --> 00:38:16,879
The samples were on point.
672
00:38:17,045 --> 00:38:20,757
Tip was on point. The productions
were on point. Bob power.
673
00:38:20,924 --> 00:38:22,718
Another key figure.
674
00:38:22,885 --> 00:38:24,928
It was not by any grand design.
675
00:38:25,095 --> 00:38:29,766
I was just in a very huge learning
and experimentation phase.
676
00:38:29,933 --> 00:38:33,479
And the guys were
breaking ground musically.
677
00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:35,856
I call it the sgt. Pepper's
of hip-hop.
678
00:38:36,023 --> 00:38:40,694
Low end theory came out.
Nothing was touching tribe. Nothing.
679
00:38:40,861 --> 00:38:43,739
Nothing. Low end theory.
Forget it. Shut up.
680
00:38:43,906 --> 00:38:46,825
Get the fuck out of my face.
It's the illest shit in the world.
681
00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:49,578
Weiss: We loved it. It was
very different than the first album.
682
00:38:49,745 --> 00:38:51,205
It wasn't as left in some ways.
683
00:38:51,371 --> 00:38:53,874
And we were concerned that
it was gonna miss the Mark.
684
00:38:54,041 --> 00:38:56,960
That maybe they were trying
to go too commercial.
685
00:38:57,127 --> 00:39:02,132
But it didn't have the artistic integrity
that people's instinctive travels did.
686
00:39:02,299 --> 00:39:04,301
And we were fucking
completely wrong.
687
00:39:04,468 --> 00:39:08,597
Q—tip: Yes, yes, yes.
688
00:39:08,764 --> 00:39:14,436
Yes. California, how y'all doing?
689
00:39:14,603 --> 00:39:16,605
[Crowd cheering]
690
00:39:18,357 --> 00:39:19,691
Yo, growing up...
691
00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:23,403
Growing up in New York City
in the 'hood,
692
00:39:24,196 --> 00:39:25,989
I wanted to get away.
693
00:39:26,156 --> 00:39:29,493
How many of y'all feel like,
"sometimes I just wanna get away"?
694
00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:31,745
[Crowd cheering]
695
00:39:31,912 --> 00:39:37,626
Well, I wrote this song in 1990 for
this album called low end theory.
696
00:39:39,628 --> 00:39:42,089
And it's called "excursions."
697
00:39:42,256 --> 00:39:44,383
And I wanna get away.
698
00:39:46,426 --> 00:39:48,053
It go like this.
699
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:53,141
I'm gonna read it off my shirt.
Yo, mos def is gonna help me.
700
00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:57,437
But these are the lyrics
right here. Here we go.
701
00:39:58,188 --> 00:40:00,440
Both: J“ back in the days
when I was a teenager j“
702
00:40:00,607 --> 00:40:02,859
j“ before I had status
and before I had a pager j“
703
00:40:03,026 --> 00:40:05,195
j“ you could find the abstract
listening to hip-hop j“
704
00:40:05,362 --> 00:40:07,489
j“ my pops used to say
it reminded him of bebop j“
705
00:40:07,656 --> 00:40:10,256
j“ I said, well, daddy, don't you know
that things go in cycles j“
706
00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:12,606
j“ the way that Bobby brown
is just ampin' like Michael j“
707
00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:14,997
j“ it's all expected
yo, it's for the iookin' j“
708
00:40:15,163 --> 00:40:16,641
j“ if you got the money
quest is... j“
709
00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:17,708
[yells]
710
00:40:17,874 --> 00:40:19,954
J“ come on, everybody
let's get with the fly modes j“
711
00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:22,129
j“ still got room on the truck
load the back boom j“
712
00:40:22,296 --> 00:40:24,506
j“ listen to the rhyme
to get a mental picture j“
713
00:40:24,673 --> 00:40:27,301
j“ of the black man
through black woman victim j“j“
714
00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:31,805
q—tip: And that line, "my pops used to
say it reminded him of bebop," was true.
715
00:40:31,972 --> 00:40:34,182
Based in the improvisation ofjazz
716
00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:36,476
and sometimes the freestyling
of hip-hop.
717
00:40:36,643 --> 00:40:40,647
Just being right there on the moment
and just rhyming about something
718
00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:43,025
and changing the pattern
or whatever.
719
00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:46,194
Although it's devoid of melody,
it still has pattern.
720
00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:49,197
And it still is improvisational.
721
00:40:49,364 --> 00:40:51,199
And the same thing forjazz,
you know.
722
00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:53,827
If somebody's playing a solo
and they improv'ing,
723
00:40:53,994 --> 00:40:56,872
they may be searching
and finding something melodically
724
00:40:57,039 --> 00:41:00,208
whereas mcs search
and find something lyrically.
725
00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,753
Questlove: Probably their
most important contribution
726
00:41:02,919 --> 00:41:05,839
was the canvas that they used, uh,
727
00:41:06,006 --> 00:41:10,344
was a lot of records that were in
728
00:41:10,510 --> 00:41:13,805
our parents' collection
that we didn't bother to look at.
729
00:41:13,972 --> 00:41:16,391
[Scatting]
730
00:41:18,143 --> 00:41:19,645
Common
they introduced me to jazz.
731
00:41:19,811 --> 00:41:22,564
And eventually, the more
I became acquainted with jazz,
732
00:41:22,731 --> 00:41:25,442
the more I started
looking at q-tip
733
00:41:25,609 --> 00:41:28,236
and thinking,
"man, this dude is Charlie Parker."
734
00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:30,822
And Charlie Parker was,
like, a father of bebop,
735
00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:35,327
a father of a whole new brand ofjazz
that came about.
736
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:37,412
And I would say
that tribe called quest
737
00:41:37,579 --> 00:41:40,624
was definitely the fathers
of a whole new brand of hip-hop
738
00:41:40,791 --> 00:41:42,751
and music at that time.
739
00:41:42,918 --> 00:41:44,395
J“ we do it for the strong j“
j“ strong j“
740
00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:45,730
j“ we do it for the meek j“
j“ the weak j“
741
00:41:45,754 --> 00:41:48,149
both: J“ boom it in your, boom
it in your boom it in your Jeep j“
742
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,526
j“ or your Honda or your beemer
or your legend or your benz j“j“
743
00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:52,928
j“ the rave of the town
to your foes and your friends j“
744
00:41:53,095 --> 00:41:55,597
j“ so push it along
trails we Blaze j“
745
00:41:55,764 --> 00:41:58,350
j“ don't deserve the gong
don't deserve the praise j“
746
00:41:58,517 --> 00:42:00,644
j“ the tranquility will make you
unball your fist j“
747
00:42:00,811 --> 00:42:02,938
j“ for we put hip-hop
on a brand-new twist j“j“
748
00:42:03,105 --> 00:42:06,066
Ali: In making the low end
theory, there's definitely, you know,
749
00:42:06,233 --> 00:42:08,110
what I think is evident
to everyone
750
00:42:08,276 --> 00:42:11,238
and that's the emergence
of phife diggy dawg.
751
00:42:11,405 --> 00:42:13,782
[A tribe called quest's
"buggin' out" plays]
752
00:42:14,825 --> 00:42:18,120
Phife dawg: I think of
being on a f train in queens
753
00:42:18,286 --> 00:42:21,623
on the way to Manhattan
to the studio, 25th street,
754
00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:23,458
writing my rhyme on the train.
755
00:42:23,625 --> 00:42:27,754
By the time I got to battery studios,
I walked in there, I was a little late.
756
00:42:27,921 --> 00:42:30,674
I'm like, "yo, what up?
I'm ready to get busy. What's good?"
757
00:42:30,841 --> 00:42:32,634
"Yo, the Mike's waiting for you."
758
00:42:32,801 --> 00:42:34,803
So I went in there
and spit my verse
759
00:42:34,970 --> 00:42:38,265
and then I just remember walking
back into the control room
760
00:42:38,432 --> 00:42:40,600
and everybody being like:
761
00:42:40,767 --> 00:42:44,312
"Yo, man. Son, oh, you've arrived."
762
00:42:44,479 --> 00:42:47,482
J“ yo, microphone check, one, two
what is this? J“
763
00:42:47,649 --> 00:42:49,930
j“ the five foot assassin
with the roughneck business j“j“
764
00:42:49,985 --> 00:42:52,988
when he came through on "buggin'
out" the first time we heard it...
765
00:42:53,155 --> 00:42:56,867
"Yo, microphone check, one, two,
what is this?" What?
766
00:42:57,033 --> 00:42:59,828
J“ yo, microphone check, one, two
what is this? J“j“
767
00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:02,831
the way that I describe that "yo"
is the same way that
768
00:43:02,998 --> 00:43:05,292
n.w.a. Busted through
the Martin Luther King
769
00:43:05,459 --> 00:43:08,670
"I had a dream" piece of paper
on the "express yourself" video.
770
00:43:08,837 --> 00:43:12,132
Like, they busted through
that piece of paper like, "what?"
771
00:43:12,299 --> 00:43:16,845
It's like how you put
the perfect screw in the hole.
772
00:43:17,012 --> 00:43:19,139
That's what phife was
to tribe called quest.
773
00:43:19,306 --> 00:43:21,659
J“ phife this, phife that
where you goin', where you at? J“j“
774
00:43:21,683 --> 00:43:23,435
rock:
You had one voice that was, like,
775
00:43:23,602 --> 00:43:26,938
high and then you had tip
who was, like, in the middle.
776
00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:29,232
Tip is very smooth.
Phife is very hype.
777
00:43:29,399 --> 00:43:33,153
The yin and Yang of those two,
that to me was the perfect marriage.
778
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,198
Lighty: He brought the
street to tribe called quest.
779
00:43:36,364 --> 00:43:40,160
If q-tip was esoteric on pluto,
780
00:43:40,327 --> 00:43:43,121
phife would bring him back
to the moon
781
00:43:43,288 --> 00:43:46,750
so that was in the realm
of human understanding.
782
00:43:46,917 --> 00:43:49,836
J“ phife dawg is on the Mike
and I'm smooth like butter j“j“
783
00:43:50,003 --> 00:43:52,005
[a tribe called quest's
"butter" plays]
784
00:43:52,839 --> 00:43:54,716
Mike d: Phife was just
kind of hard. You know:
785
00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:57,219
"Five foot assassin
with the roughneck business."
786
00:43:57,385 --> 00:44:00,931
"Seaman's furniture." I mean,
he didn't fuck around. He just...
787
00:44:01,097 --> 00:44:03,558
That was the first rhyme
that came to mind.
788
00:44:03,725 --> 00:44:07,729
When you mentioned phife.
I was like, "I'm not gonna say that."
789
00:44:07,896 --> 00:44:09,176
It's memorable. Mike d: Come on.
790
00:44:09,231 --> 00:44:11,942
J“ let me hit it from the back
girl, I won't catch a hernia j“
791
00:44:12,108 --> 00:44:14,528
j“ bust off on your couch
now you got seaman's furniture j“j“
792
00:44:14,694 --> 00:44:18,073
announcer: It's here. Seaman's most
exciting Washington's birthday sale ever.
793
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:19,991
Power:
My favorite line in hip-hop:
794
00:44:20,158 --> 00:44:22,994
"Bust a nut on your couch,
now you got seaman's furniture."
795
00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:26,248
You think you're hot and on fire,
you'd go to seaman's furniture
796
00:44:26,414 --> 00:44:30,085
and buy your black leather couch
and think you were the man.
797
00:44:30,252 --> 00:44:34,714
Seaman's furniture had the furniture
that fell apart immediately,
798
00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:36,967
but it looked hot. It looked hot.
799
00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:38,885
But you were still in the 'hood.
800
00:44:39,052 --> 00:44:43,765
Chorus: J“ for the price that's
always right see seaman's first j“j“
801
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:47,435
you come into your own as a mc,
you know what I'm saying, so...
802
00:44:47,602 --> 00:44:50,564
I had this stupid little
high-pitched voice. I hated my voice.
803
00:44:50,730 --> 00:44:55,360
But everybody else seemed to like it,
so you can't fight the fans.
804
00:44:55,527 --> 00:44:56,987
You don't wanna do that.
805
00:44:57,153 --> 00:45:00,490
But that's basically how low end
came about. We just clicked.
806
00:45:00,657 --> 00:45:02,784
Everything was clicking,
everything was right.
807
00:45:03,785 --> 00:45:06,246
And then jarobi ended up
leaving the group.
808
00:45:06,413 --> 00:45:08,999
He had verses on joints
and everything.
809
00:45:09,165 --> 00:45:14,671
It was all three of us, so I never
really felt like it was me and tip
810
00:45:14,838 --> 00:45:17,632
until he bolted.
811
00:45:18,675 --> 00:45:21,595
He would come and, you know,
it was a revolving door for him
812
00:45:21,761 --> 00:45:25,599
because he'd go, but come back,
and it was always like he never left.
813
00:45:26,016 --> 00:45:29,978
But jarobi is the spirit
of a tribe called quest. It's not me.
814
00:45:30,145 --> 00:45:32,272
It's not phife, and it's not Ali.
It's jarobi.
815
00:45:32,439 --> 00:45:35,317
He's the real spirit
of a tribe called quest.
816
00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:39,821
He was the one where you see him
do his little groovy shit in the camera
817
00:45:39,988 --> 00:45:42,657
and all that.
And just the odd wit and the hu...
818
00:45:42,824 --> 00:45:45,327
Like, jarobi encompasses
everything
819
00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:48,788
that tribe was,
you know what I mean, and tribe is.
820
00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:51,249
Jarobi: J“ least but not last j“
821
00:45:51,416 --> 00:45:53,877
j“ the mystic man himself j“
822
00:45:54,044 --> 00:45:57,797
j“ me, jarobi fuck, yeah j“j“
823
00:45:57,964 --> 00:46:01,593
I just was really uncomfortable
with all of the rules and shit
824
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,345
and things that I had to be
825
00:46:03,511 --> 00:46:07,015
because I came from having
a strict family to getting freedom.
826
00:46:07,182 --> 00:46:10,018
You know? That was putting
the same kind of restrictions.
827
00:46:10,185 --> 00:46:12,020
"Hey, you know you can't do this."
828
00:46:12,187 --> 00:46:14,731
Tip used to say,
"you're not just speaking for yourself.
829
00:46:14,898 --> 00:46:16,900
You're speaking for
other people now."
830
00:46:17,067 --> 00:46:19,653
All those things were too much
for me to handle.
831
00:46:19,819 --> 00:46:22,072
I don't think I was
really mature enough for that.
832
00:46:22,238 --> 00:46:23,740
Boy: Yes? Woman: Little boy.
833
00:46:23,907 --> 00:46:25,617
Love you. Love you.
834
00:46:25,784 --> 00:46:27,619
Love you.
835
00:46:27,786 --> 00:46:29,913
Jarobi:
I don't regret it, not one bit.
836
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,166
Because my life as it is now
is fucking awesome.
837
00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:36,670
You usually develop a passion
and you follow it and you do it.
838
00:46:36,836 --> 00:46:39,881
Not many people are able
to follow two passions
839
00:46:40,048 --> 00:46:41,925
and to be kind of
successful at both.
840
00:46:42,550 --> 00:46:45,345
What's up, chuckles? Who's this?
841
00:46:45,512 --> 00:46:48,598
Phife dawg: Culinary arts, that's
his thing. You know what I mean?
842
00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:52,018
So he bolted.
I was mad that he bolted.
843
00:46:52,185 --> 00:46:54,980
But I wasn't mad
that he was going after his dream.
844
00:46:55,146 --> 00:46:57,399
You know what I'm saying?
I was just like, "damn."
845
00:46:57,565 --> 00:46:59,359
It's like my best friend, like, yo.
846
00:47:01,486 --> 00:47:04,906
I don't know, "friend" don't really...
It don't really...
847
00:47:05,073 --> 00:47:08,660
Me and this guy, just our lives,
our personal lives, everything,
848
00:47:08,827 --> 00:47:11,746
have just been through
so much together.
849
00:47:11,913 --> 00:47:14,165
You know what I'm saying?
It's like...
850
00:47:14,332 --> 00:47:15,583
I need him here.
851
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:19,170
That's why he ended up coming back
on the road and stuff like that.
852
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:23,341
Especially this past tour
because I didn't know how my body
853
00:47:23,508 --> 00:47:26,177
was gonna act
with me going back on the road
854
00:47:26,344 --> 00:47:29,597
and things of that nature, so I
needed him there to hold me together.
855
00:47:29,764 --> 00:47:31,909
Q—tip: J“ show him how, jarobi
help him out while I do this j“
856
00:47:31,933 --> 00:47:34,185
j“ one for the treble
two for the bass j“
857
00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:36,646
j“ you know my style, tip
now watch me rip this j“
858
00:47:36,813 --> 00:47:39,232
j“ I like my beats harder
than two-day-old shit j“
859
00:47:39,399 --> 00:47:41,609
j“ steady eatin' Booty mcs
like cheese grits j“
860
00:47:41,776 --> 00:47:44,237
j“ my man ai b. Sure!
He's in effect mode j“
861
00:47:44,404 --> 00:47:46,531
j“ used to have a crush on j“
j“ dawn from en vogue j“
862
00:47:46,698 --> 00:47:49,051
phife dawg: J“ it's not like
honey dip would wanna get with me j“
863
00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:51,619
j“ but just in case
I own more condoms than tlc j“j“
864
00:47:51,828 --> 00:47:54,247
jarobi: If something happened
to me and I lost everything
865
00:47:54,414 --> 00:47:56,041
or whatever the fuck happened,
866
00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:58,376
I know that I got somewhere to go.
867
00:47:58,543 --> 00:48:00,503
And it's the same thing with him.
You know?
868
00:48:00,670 --> 00:48:03,631
Just to know that somebody
is out there unconditionally.
869
00:48:03,798 --> 00:48:05,633
Just... just whatever.
870
00:48:06,843 --> 00:48:08,678
J“ trini gladiator
anti-hesitator j“
871
00:48:08,845 --> 00:48:11,139
j“ Shaheed push the fader
from here to Grenada j“
872
00:48:11,306 --> 00:48:13,475
j“ Mr. Energetic
who, me, sound pathetic? J“
873
00:48:13,641 --> 00:48:15,935
j“ when's the last time
you heard a funky diabetic? J“
874
00:48:16,102 --> 00:48:18,188
j“ funky diabetic, funky diabetic j“
875
00:48:18,354 --> 00:48:21,024
j“ funky di-— funky di...
Funky diabetic j“j“
876
00:48:21,191 --> 00:48:23,818
it's amazing
how words move people.
877
00:48:23,985 --> 00:48:27,280
They'll see you on the street
or a signing in-store or something
878
00:48:27,447 --> 00:48:29,657
and be like,
"you taking care of yourself?"
879
00:48:29,824 --> 00:48:32,504
I'm like, "what you talking about?"
"You the funky diabetic, right?"
880
00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:36,164
I'm like, "damn, I did say that."
I'm like, "yeah, thanks.
881
00:48:36,331 --> 00:48:39,334
Good looking out. Good looking."
Rapaport: Right.
882
00:48:39,501 --> 00:48:41,377
You know, but, um, it just...
883
00:48:41,544 --> 00:48:45,131
It was just a little flashback like,
"why'd I say that in the first place?"
884
00:48:45,298 --> 00:48:47,008
Rapaport: Right.
You know what I'm saying?
885
00:48:47,175 --> 00:48:50,553
Boyce—taylor: Diabetes is apparently
on my mother's side of the family.
886
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:54,099
Malik and I both have
juvenile diabetes
887
00:48:54,265 --> 00:48:57,102
which is commonly called type 1.
888
00:48:57,268 --> 00:48:59,187
They don't really have a cure for it,
889
00:48:59,354 --> 00:49:05,276
but you take Insulin
and exercise and eat correctly.
890
00:49:05,443 --> 00:49:09,322
And so that helps you
to maintain your life.
891
00:49:09,489 --> 00:49:12,033
Take about, what?
892
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,328
Seven units of this right now,
it's like a sliding scale
893
00:49:15,495 --> 00:49:17,539
becauseljustchecked
my sugar level
894
00:49:17,705 --> 00:49:19,874
so I know exactly how much
I need to take.
895
00:49:20,041 --> 00:49:23,044
This one here, right here,
is the fast-acting.
896
00:49:23,211 --> 00:49:26,506
If you take too much of this, you
might bottom out and play yourself.
897
00:49:26,673 --> 00:49:29,884
Even though I knew I had it,
I was in denial, so to speak.
898
00:49:30,051 --> 00:49:32,345
I had to have my sugar.
899
00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:34,597
Cocoa puffs. Whatever.
900
00:49:34,764 --> 00:49:36,474
If it was sugar, it was all good.
901
00:49:36,641 --> 00:49:39,435
But after a while,
I stopped with the snickers
902
00:49:39,602 --> 00:49:42,063
and the lorna doones
and all of that.
903
00:49:42,230 --> 00:49:46,609
But I'm still addicted to fruit punch.
You know what I'm saying?
904
00:49:46,776 --> 00:49:50,238
And pifia colada
and all of that type of crap.
905
00:49:50,947 --> 00:49:53,116
This is even better.
906
00:49:55,118 --> 00:49:57,537
"I drink a lot of soda,
so they call me Dr. Pepper."
907
00:49:57,704 --> 00:50:00,707
Y'all know what it is.
Diet Dr. Pepper.
908
00:50:00,874 --> 00:50:03,209
I had to have my sugar.
You know what I'm saying?
909
00:50:03,376 --> 00:50:05,670
So you have to accept it.
910
00:50:05,837 --> 00:50:08,423
If you don't accept it,
it's gonna kick your ass.
911
00:50:09,799 --> 00:50:15,054
I think the first time
I found out that phife had diabetes
912
00:50:15,430 --> 00:50:20,435
was a little bit before we did, um,
913
00:50:20,602 --> 00:50:23,104
"check the rhi..."
Well, around low end theory.
914
00:50:23,271 --> 00:50:25,190
When we were starting to perform
915
00:50:25,356 --> 00:50:29,152
"check the rhime" and we was
moving it around in television.
916
00:50:30,028 --> 00:50:35,909
Think it was '92,
and we had to do David letterman.
917
00:50:36,075 --> 00:50:38,453
J“ back in the days
on the boulevard of linden j“
918
00:50:38,620 --> 00:50:41,664
j“ we used to kick routines
and the presence was fittin' j“
919
00:50:41,831 --> 00:50:45,126
by this time,
my sugar level was just, phew,
920
00:50:45,293 --> 00:50:46,502
like, through the roof.
921
00:50:46,669 --> 00:50:49,839
To the point where
everything was comatose to me.
922
00:50:50,006 --> 00:50:51,966
Everything was slow motion.
923
00:50:52,133 --> 00:50:55,178
"Check the rhyme, y'all. Check the..."
I was messed up in the game.
924
00:50:55,345 --> 00:50:58,306
J“ rap is not pop
if you call it that then stop j“
925
00:50:59,307 --> 00:51:02,393
phife dawg: I couldn't even move.
You know what I'm saying? Barely.
926
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,772
I was slurring my speech.
I lost mad weight.
927
00:51:05,939 --> 00:51:07,065
Things of that nature.
928
00:51:07,232 --> 00:51:09,609
J“ late night,
check the rhymes, y'all j“j“
929
00:51:09,776 --> 00:51:11,986
so then right after
David letterman,
930
00:51:12,153 --> 00:51:17,283
we had to fly to la.
To do Dennis Miller the next night.
931
00:51:17,867 --> 00:51:20,662
I couldn't even do the show.
They took me to cedars-sinai.
932
00:51:20,828 --> 00:51:24,624
Phife, one of the members of this
group, took ill right before the show.
933
00:51:24,791 --> 00:51:28,753
And he had to be taken to
the hospital, but q-tip and Ali,
934
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,340
his two remaining members, have
been nice enough to give us the rap.
935
00:51:32,507 --> 00:51:35,718
Q—tip: I didn't think it would
be that serious because I figured
936
00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:38,888
that phife was young enough
937
00:51:39,180 --> 00:51:40,974
to be able to put correction to it.
938
00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:43,685
Because, you know,
there's people who have diabetes
939
00:51:43,893 --> 00:51:47,605
who eat right and work out,
where they can get it down to pills.
940
00:51:47,814 --> 00:51:51,401
So I figured that he would be the one
that'd be able to have it under control.
941
00:51:51,567 --> 00:51:54,529
But he wasn't
that expressive about it.
942
00:51:54,696 --> 00:52:00,493
But we all noticed it.
Like, he was weak, you know?
943
00:52:00,660 --> 00:52:01,953
[Audience cheering]
944
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,204
Miller: And there's Ali,
945
00:52:03,371 --> 00:52:04,706
how you doing? Ali: All right.
946
00:52:04,872 --> 00:52:07,041
What happened to phife, man?
What happened here?
947
00:52:07,208 --> 00:52:11,379
He's a diabetic and we've been
touring with, like, public enemy.
948
00:52:11,546 --> 00:52:14,048
Stuff like that.
And we've been on the road so...
949
00:52:14,215 --> 00:52:17,218
It, like, beat him down so we
had to rush him to the hospital.
950
00:52:17,385 --> 00:52:19,804
But this, this is for him.
You know what I'm saying?
951
00:52:19,971 --> 00:52:23,182
Q—tip: He shrouded his addiction,
which is why I probably caused
952
00:52:23,349 --> 00:52:24,851
dissent with him.
953
00:52:25,018 --> 00:52:28,229
Because I was coming at him like,
"come work out and come eat right."
954
00:52:28,396 --> 00:52:32,358
You know, maybe I represented
a place of resentment for him.
955
00:52:32,525 --> 00:52:34,402
Because that's
where he should have been.
956
00:52:34,569 --> 00:52:37,280
And he didn't come to terms
with his addictions yet.
957
00:52:37,447 --> 00:52:42,994
So, you know, my whole
gym teacher approach with him
958
00:52:43,161 --> 00:52:44,954
may not have been
the best approach.
959
00:52:45,121 --> 00:52:47,540
Had I known,
I would have dealt with it differently.
960
00:52:47,707 --> 00:52:49,083
Rapaport: Right.
961
00:52:49,250 --> 00:52:53,379
Phife dawg: Of course, Ali Shaheed and q-tip
was beating me in the head unmercifully.
962
00:52:53,546 --> 00:52:56,090
Like, "you gotta do better than this."
Boom, boom, boom.
963
00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:59,135
All of that, so I stepped up.
964
00:52:59,302 --> 00:53:02,847
Then I'd slip again.
Step up, slip again.
965
00:53:03,014 --> 00:53:07,185
It's really a sickness, man,
like straight-up drugs, man.
966
00:53:07,352 --> 00:53:09,729
I'm just addicted to sugar.
967
00:53:13,983 --> 00:53:18,279
[A tribe called quest's
"electric relaxation" plays]
968
00:53:21,282 --> 00:53:23,284
J“ relax yourself, girl
please settle down j“
969
00:53:23,451 --> 00:53:25,787
j“ relax yourself, girl
please settle down j“
970
00:53:25,953 --> 00:53:28,247
j“ relax yourself, girl
please settle down j“
971
00:53:28,414 --> 00:53:30,875
j“ honey, check it out
you got me mesmerized j“
972
00:53:31,042 --> 00:53:33,211
j“ with your black hair
and your fat-ass thighs j“
973
00:53:33,378 --> 00:53:35,546
j“ street poetry
is my everyday j“
974
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:38,216
j“ but, yo, I gotta stop
when you trot my way j“
975
00:53:38,383 --> 00:53:40,423
j“ if I was working at the club
you would not pay j“
976
00:53:40,510 --> 00:53:42,887
j“ hey, yo, my man phife diggy
he got somethin' to say j“j“
977
00:53:43,054 --> 00:53:46,849
questlove: The second
Tuesday of October of '93,
978
00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:52,688
I consider that the last great day
in classic hip-hop.
979
00:53:52,855 --> 00:53:55,441
Two very important albums
came out that day.
980
00:53:55,608 --> 00:53:58,778
Enter the 36 chambers
by wu-tang.
981
00:53:58,945 --> 00:54:01,239
Midnight marauders
by a tribe called quest.
982
00:54:01,406 --> 00:54:03,574
Common when tribe had
the midnight marauders album
983
00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:05,910
and they had
all the artists on there...
984
00:54:06,077 --> 00:54:07,620
They had souls of mischief,
985
00:54:07,787 --> 00:54:10,998
they had pharcyde,
they had a lot of different artists,
986
00:54:11,165 --> 00:54:14,836
but I didn't reach that level and
that actually motivated me to go
987
00:54:15,002 --> 00:54:16,838
and get better.
988
00:54:17,004 --> 00:54:18,965
I remember people going,
"where you going?"
989
00:54:19,132 --> 00:54:21,175
"I'm gonna be
on the tribe album cover."
990
00:54:21,342 --> 00:54:25,555
"Really? They didn't ask me."
So I remember everybody going.
991
00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:28,349
I mean, there was mad people
on that cover. I mean, look.
992
00:54:28,516 --> 00:54:30,518
Afrika bambaataa,
of course, was on there.
993
00:54:30,685 --> 00:54:32,854
Too short. Red alert.
994
00:54:33,020 --> 00:54:34,355
Busta was on there.
995
00:54:34,522 --> 00:54:38,067
Beastie Boys. Mc lyte. Heavy d.
996
00:54:38,234 --> 00:54:41,237
Everybody was on that except me.
I was like, "they didn't ask me.
997
00:54:41,404 --> 00:54:43,489
I thought I was cool
with everybody."
998
00:54:44,282 --> 00:54:47,076
Midnight marauders,
big, big, big records.
999
00:54:47,243 --> 00:54:49,370
Big album, but the sample budget
1000
00:54:49,537 --> 00:54:53,207
was probably as big
as the album budget to record it.
1001
00:54:53,374 --> 00:54:56,961
But that's what made
the uniqueness of that music.
1002
00:54:57,128 --> 00:55:02,091
Computerized voice: Some people
who mc don't know what this term means.
1003
00:55:02,258 --> 00:55:05,094
[Jazzy music playing
over speakers]
1004
00:55:05,261 --> 00:55:09,140
Yo, maynard,
let's get a hard echo on this.
1005
00:55:10,892 --> 00:55:12,894
[Squealing]
1006
00:55:17,482 --> 00:55:19,484
[Squeal echoing]
1007
00:55:20,902 --> 00:55:23,738
[A tribe called quest's "lyrics
to go" playing over speakers]
1008
00:55:26,073 --> 00:55:27,533
J“ lyrics to go j“
1009
00:55:27,700 --> 00:55:29,243
j“ oh, yeah j“
j“ lyrics to go j“j“
1010
00:55:29,410 --> 00:55:33,331
q—tip: "Lyrics to go" is ill for
me because I just love that song
1011
00:55:33,498 --> 00:55:35,583
by minnie riperton,
"inside my love."
1012
00:55:35,917 --> 00:55:38,753
J“ you can see inside me j“j“
1013
00:55:39,128 --> 00:55:44,383
q—tip: And I love that part with the Rose
and her holding and sustaining that note.
1014
00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:47,428
It's just crazy to me,
you know what I'm saying? I had to...
1015
00:55:47,595 --> 00:55:49,805
I had to make something out of that.
1016
00:55:49,972 --> 00:55:51,807
[Riperton singing]
1017
00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:54,477
[A tribe called quest's
"lyrics to go" plays]
1018
00:55:54,644 --> 00:55:56,938
J“ lyrics to go j“
j“ lyrics to go j“
1019
00:55:57,104 --> 00:55:59,398
j“ lyrics to go j“
j“ lyrics to go j“
1020
00:55:59,565 --> 00:56:01,734
j“ lyrics to go j“
j“ lyrics to go j“
1021
00:56:01,901 --> 00:56:04,320
j“ lyrics to go j“
j“ lyrics to go j“
1022
00:56:04,487 --> 00:56:06,572
j“ lyrics to go j“
j“ lyrics to go j“
1023
00:56:07,323 --> 00:56:09,659
q—tip: J“ goin' on and on
to the rhythmic variation j“
1024
00:56:09,825 --> 00:56:12,078
j“ wakin' in the morning
I still represent the nation j“
1025
00:56:12,245 --> 00:56:14,605
j“ when I speak of nation
please don't make the deviation j“
1026
00:56:14,705 --> 00:56:17,041
j“ rebels of the party
that create the jump sensation j“
1027
00:56:17,208 --> 00:56:19,961
j“ mind is a pit
of different information j“j“
1028
00:56:20,711 --> 00:56:24,590
Williams: Q-tip just picks the best loops,
man. He's just, like, a great loop picker.
1029
00:56:24,757 --> 00:56:27,927
He'd pick, like, the illest chord
and the baseline and all that.
1030
00:56:28,094 --> 00:56:30,054
That shitjust used to hurt, man.
1031
00:56:30,221 --> 00:56:32,473
And we're, like, all his sons.
1032
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,767
Like, myself.
1033
00:56:34,934 --> 00:56:39,480
J dilla, who was without question
one of the illest beat makers ever.
1034
00:56:39,647 --> 00:56:40,690
Kanye.
1035
00:56:40,856 --> 00:56:44,485
We wouldn't be here, man,
if it wasn't, like, for tribe albums.
1036
00:56:45,319 --> 00:56:46,445
Forget it.
1037
00:56:46,612 --> 00:56:49,532
[A tribe called quest's
"clap your hands" plays]
1038
00:56:51,075 --> 00:56:55,079
Weiss: Their focus was so much about doing
the right thing in the recording studio
1039
00:56:55,246 --> 00:56:58,624
that I think he was almost not
equipped for the amount of stardom
1040
00:56:58,791 --> 00:57:04,880
and the level of adoration that
the group sort of acclaim... achieved.
1041
00:57:05,047 --> 00:57:06,591
He was a reluctant star.
1042
00:57:06,757 --> 00:57:08,175
One day he was Jonathan Davis.
1043
00:57:08,342 --> 00:57:10,511
The next day he was
kamaal the abstract.
1044
00:57:10,678 --> 00:57:15,808
I mean, I love q-tip, but, you know,
he's a fucking nut. You know.
1045
00:57:15,975 --> 00:57:18,603
And, you know, he will
be the first to tell you that.
1046
00:57:18,769 --> 00:57:21,897
One thing about q-tip,
he's a perfectionist.
1047
00:57:22,148 --> 00:57:24,275
He'll like something
for like a day or two...
1048
00:57:24,442 --> 00:57:25,522
Q—tip: Just play it for me.
1049
00:57:25,651 --> 00:57:28,451
Phife dawg: And then he'll hear
something in it that he ain't feeling.
1050
00:57:28,613 --> 00:57:30,448
"Yo, we need to change,
boom, boom."
1051
00:57:30,615 --> 00:57:33,159
Like on Monday, it's like,
"yo, this shit is fire."
1052
00:57:33,659 --> 00:57:38,205
Tuesday, Wednesday,
"I don't know, kid. I ain't feeling it."
1053
00:57:38,372 --> 00:57:39,665
That's just how he get down.
1054
00:57:41,042 --> 00:57:45,046
Lighty: And sometimes
the creativity becomes a block.
1055
00:57:45,212 --> 00:57:47,006
Because we literally had to go in
1056
00:57:47,173 --> 00:57:50,009
and take the low end theory
album from them.
1057
00:57:50,176 --> 00:57:54,513
Like, "give me the fucking album
already." Like, "this is crazy."
1058
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,142
Look, they played me 20 records
and I was like, "all right, we're good.
1059
00:57:58,309 --> 00:58:01,312
Give me that album. That's it.
I'm out of here."
1060
00:58:01,479 --> 00:58:07,068
And we turned it in to jive. Literally,
like, "yo, that's it. Give me the album.
1061
00:58:07,234 --> 00:58:10,154
Give me the album, man.
Come on. What are you guys doing?"
1062
00:58:10,321 --> 00:58:11,364
He didn't—...
1063
00:58:12,239 --> 00:58:16,619
Yo, he could have been
like guns n' roses.
1064
00:58:16,786 --> 00:58:20,581
Seven years later,
midnight marauders comes out.
1065
00:58:20,748 --> 00:58:23,292
He would have been that guy.
There's no question.
1066
00:58:23,459 --> 00:58:27,838
He could be axl Rose
and Dr. Dre if you let him.
1067
00:58:28,172 --> 00:58:30,007
He's that creative.
1068
00:58:30,174 --> 00:58:32,635
Busta rhymes: How you been?
No, it's all good. How you been?
1069
00:58:32,802 --> 00:58:34,470
You all right? Come here.
1070
00:58:34,637 --> 00:58:36,097
What's going on, brother?
1071
00:58:36,263 --> 00:58:38,933
That is my favorite record
right here, son.
1072
00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:41,769
Word?
This is my favorite song, son.
1073
00:58:41,936 --> 00:58:44,438
This shit and "lyrics to go," b.
1074
00:58:44,605 --> 00:58:48,275
These two records, b,
they make me wanna cry every time.
1075
00:58:48,442 --> 00:58:50,653
I remember I called this nigga
on the phone
1076
00:58:50,820 --> 00:58:54,699
when I was just listening to this shit
a couple weeks ago, a month ago.
1077
00:58:54,865 --> 00:58:56,575
You was in Vegas. I was in Vegas
1078
00:58:56,742 --> 00:59:01,205
and I just put this shit on and this
shit had me in tears in the car, b.
1079
00:59:02,289 --> 00:59:05,835
Jesus Christ,
this shit is crazy, b.
1080
00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:09,130
[A tribe called quest's "god lives
through" playing over speakers]
1081
00:59:09,296 --> 00:59:11,048
Q—tip: All that shit.
1082
00:59:11,215 --> 00:59:13,300
[Laughing]
1083
00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:16,178
[David t. Walker's
"on love" plays]
1084
00:59:30,609 --> 00:59:34,864
That was, like,
one of the last, to me...
1085
00:59:35,948 --> 00:59:38,033
One of the last memories
of when hip-hop
1086
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,287
was just, like,
really, really dope.
1087
00:59:42,788 --> 00:59:45,348
Rapaport: You were doing your
thing. You made three great albums.
1088
00:59:45,499 --> 00:59:47,668
You were at the top of your game.
What was next?
1089
00:59:47,835 --> 00:59:50,838
Actually, I thought
tribe called quest was done
1090
00:59:51,005 --> 00:59:53,132
after midnight marauders.
1091
00:59:53,299 --> 00:59:55,760
I moved to Atlanta right
when we were finished
1092
00:59:55,926 --> 00:59:57,678
recording midnight marauders.
1093
00:59:57,845 --> 01:00:00,681
Right before we went on tour
for that campaign.
1094
01:00:00,848 --> 01:00:04,018
I moved to Atlanta, September '93.
1095
01:00:04,185 --> 01:00:06,353
Midnight marauders
came out November '93.
1096
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,856
And by the time we got
to beats, rhymes and life...
1097
01:00:09,023 --> 01:00:10,566
Now this is '96.
1098
01:00:10,733 --> 01:00:13,068
So it's like a three-year wait
for that album.
1099
01:00:13,694 --> 01:00:16,572
The chemistry was dead. Shot.
1100
01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:18,532
The beats, rhymes and life album
1101
01:00:18,699 --> 01:00:21,243
was probably, really,
the beginning of the end.
1102
01:00:21,410 --> 01:00:25,498
For no real apparent reason.
1103
01:00:25,664 --> 01:00:29,460
Because phife moving to Atlanta
shouldn't have affected, you know...
1104
01:00:29,627 --> 01:00:31,712
He wanted to have a better life.
1105
01:00:31,879 --> 01:00:33,714
He wants to move to Atlanta,
let him.
1106
01:00:33,881 --> 01:00:38,010
As long as he's here to rhyme and
gets his ass to the show, it's all good.
1107
01:00:38,928 --> 01:00:41,972
You know, I'm a person
that I kind of want everybody to be
1108
01:00:42,139 --> 01:00:45,392
in the hut together
when we working.
1109
01:00:45,893 --> 01:00:49,063
And when there was a lot of
separation from the three of us.
1110
01:00:49,230 --> 01:00:52,233
And I was just underneath
the impression of:
1111
01:00:52,399 --> 01:00:56,612
"Damn, b. Let's just knock this out.
A little bit more time."
1112
01:00:56,779 --> 01:00:57,822
You know what I mean?
1113
01:00:57,988 --> 01:01:01,283
He was a control freak,
still is a control freak, so...
1114
01:01:01,450 --> 01:01:05,079
He's babbling off, "we're gonna do it
like this, we're gonna do it like that."
1115
01:01:05,246 --> 01:01:08,165
So after a while, it became,
"whatever. Do what you want."
1116
01:01:08,332 --> 01:01:12,044
But when I finally picked up and
bounced to Atlanta, now it becomes:
1117
01:01:12,211 --> 01:01:14,421
"Oh, oh, so he can just
pick up and leave?
1118
01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:18,759
Oh, I'm in charge of this group.
How he just gonna do that?"
1119
01:01:18,926 --> 01:01:21,846
I'm like, "dude, I'm in a group
with you. You're not my daddy."
1120
01:01:22,012 --> 01:01:24,932
And this is my feeling.
And I love you, kamaal.
1121
01:01:25,099 --> 01:01:29,270
But the whole m0 to me was
it's not a tribe called quest,
1122
01:01:29,436 --> 01:01:31,939
it's q-tip
and a tribe called quest.
1123
01:01:32,106 --> 01:01:34,650
It's Diana Ross and the supremes.
1124
01:01:34,817 --> 01:01:38,863
Okay, so I guess Ali's Mary Wilson
and I'm Florence Ballard.
1125
01:01:39,029 --> 01:01:40,865
Get the fuck out of here, man.
1126
01:01:41,031 --> 01:01:45,286
The only change I saw that
really, for me, was challenging
1127
01:01:45,452 --> 01:01:49,123
was just to see
those guys' relationship deteriorate.
1128
01:01:49,290 --> 01:01:52,376
I think as you grow up,
you realize it's not just about me.
1129
01:01:52,543 --> 01:01:53,961
It's about everyone else.
1130
01:01:54,128 --> 01:01:56,297
Weiss: They weren't just
the kids from queens anymore.
1131
01:01:56,463 --> 01:01:59,133
There was the issue of who's
really producing the records.
1132
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:02,136
Is it Ali? Is it q-tip? Who's j dilla?
Who's this new guy?
1133
01:02:02,303 --> 01:02:03,846
Why is consequence
on the record?
1134
01:02:04,013 --> 01:02:06,265
Why bring him in?
What's he got to do with this?
1135
01:02:06,891 --> 01:02:09,059
J“ just a little somethin'-somethin' j“
1136
01:02:09,226 --> 01:02:11,312
j“ about the cats
who be fronting j“j“
1137
01:02:11,478 --> 01:02:15,774
phife dawg: We pretty much knew
before the recording of the love movement
1138
01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:17,234
that this was it.
1139
01:02:17,401 --> 01:02:20,529
You better get your wind up,
because this is the last dance.
1140
01:02:20,696 --> 01:02:23,240
That was it. We knew it.
We knew it.
1141
01:02:23,407 --> 01:02:26,619
It's weird to me that it would
be called the love movement
1142
01:02:26,785 --> 01:02:29,955
because we really were not loving
that album.
1143
01:02:30,122 --> 01:02:32,750
We were not loving putting out
that album.
1144
01:02:32,917 --> 01:02:36,086
We didn't even love each other
at the time, so to speak.
1145
01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:37,838
Jarobi:
I starting hearing about things
1146
01:02:38,005 --> 01:02:41,091
and through the process of
recording the love movement,
1147
01:02:41,258 --> 01:02:43,969
I peeked my head in more.
That's a beautiful album.
1148
01:02:44,136 --> 01:02:46,680
The whole sentiment about it.
It's the love movement.
1149
01:02:47,222 --> 01:02:49,725
Hm. I don't know.
You know what I'm saying?
1150
01:02:49,892 --> 01:02:52,227
It should have been called
the last movement.
1151
01:02:52,394 --> 01:02:54,104
You know what I'm saying?
1152
01:02:56,482 --> 01:03:00,152
Tribe called quest kept their act
together for 10 productive years.
1153
01:03:00,319 --> 01:03:03,113
This influential group
is calling it quits
1154
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,659
following a year of personal turmoil
and record-biz frustration.
1155
01:03:06,825 --> 01:03:07,868
[Jjj]
1156
01:03:08,035 --> 01:03:11,956
I think the first time I realized
that tribe was breaking up
1157
01:03:12,122 --> 01:03:14,917
was when we had this conversation
with Barry weiss.
1158
01:03:15,084 --> 01:03:17,920
And it wasn't a good conversation.
1159
01:03:18,087 --> 01:03:20,506
Barry hung up.
We had an argument or whatever.
1160
01:03:20,673 --> 01:03:25,135
And I said to phife and Ali, I was like,
"yo, man, you feel what this is?"
1161
01:03:25,511 --> 01:03:29,181
And then Ali was like, "yup."
And then phife was like, mm.
1162
01:03:29,348 --> 01:03:32,393
I was like, "yo, man,
I think this is probably a wrap.
1163
01:03:32,559 --> 01:03:34,228
They don't respect us.
1164
01:03:34,395 --> 01:03:37,773
They're kind of moving on.
They're not hearing what we saying.
1165
01:03:37,940 --> 01:03:42,069
Let's just stop it here. I don't want to
just keep battling with these dudes.
1166
01:03:42,236 --> 01:03:43,779
I mean, what do y'all think?"
1167
01:03:43,946 --> 01:03:46,490
And he was like,
"yeah, I'm with it. You right."
1168
01:03:46,657 --> 01:03:50,661
That was the moment that it actually
happened. You know what I mean?
1169
01:03:54,373 --> 01:03:57,042
He kind of made the decision
on his own,
1170
01:03:57,209 --> 01:04:02,881
which I can understand
and I can't understand.
1171
01:04:03,048 --> 01:04:04,883
He told Malik what was happening.
1172
01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:08,262
And he showed him and all
the letter that he was writing
1173
01:04:08,429 --> 01:04:10,973
to say about us dissolving
and shit like that.
1174
01:04:11,140 --> 01:04:14,018
And I remember their reactions
just kind of being like:
1175
01:04:15,602 --> 01:04:16,895
"Word?"
1176
01:04:17,062 --> 01:04:19,648
For me, I felt like, "you know what?
1177
01:04:19,815 --> 01:04:23,152
We've probably exhausted
every effort that we can here.
1178
01:04:23,318 --> 01:04:26,530
And just on a creative level,
yeah, this is not working out."
1179
01:04:26,697 --> 01:04:29,283
So me, I was at peace with it
the moment tip said:
1180
01:04:29,450 --> 01:04:31,368
"I don't want to do this anymore."
1181
01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:35,622
So it's a matter of,
"I understand. I love you."
1182
01:04:35,789 --> 01:04:38,542
"Love you too." Phew.
1183
01:04:38,709 --> 01:04:42,046
Once that was over, I mean,
phife had a different perspective,
1184
01:04:42,212 --> 01:04:45,632
but me, ifelt like, whew,
weight lifted off my shoulder.
1185
01:04:45,799 --> 01:04:49,720
We were preparing for a tour and it
was just like, "okay. So now what?"
1186
01:04:49,887 --> 01:04:51,638
Phife dawg:
The very last show was New York.
1187
01:04:51,805 --> 01:04:55,934
On the real, I just want to say
one thing and shit.
1188
01:04:56,101 --> 01:04:59,646
Y'all have definitely been there to
support. You know what I'm saying?
1189
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:01,231
[Crowd cheering]
1190
01:05:01,398 --> 01:05:03,734
Yo, that shit really mean a lot.
You know?
1191
01:05:03,901 --> 01:05:07,154
For real, that shit mean a lot
to a nigga.
1192
01:05:07,321 --> 01:05:11,325
Because a nigga put his heart
and soul in this shit.
1193
01:05:11,492 --> 01:05:14,953
So that's all I gotta say, yo. One.
1194
01:05:16,830 --> 01:05:19,500
That's when it hit me that,
okay, this is it.
1195
01:05:19,666 --> 01:05:22,044
I cried like a little baby.
1196
01:05:22,628 --> 01:05:25,756
If you're used to something
for your whole adulthood...
1197
01:05:25,923 --> 01:05:29,968
And I'm talking 17, and the group
broke up when I was 28.
1198
01:05:30,427 --> 01:05:32,721
Tribe called quest, y'all, '98.
1199
01:05:32,888 --> 01:05:35,015
That's your whole adulthood,
pretty much.
1200
01:05:35,182 --> 01:05:37,559
I dropped out of high school,
unfortunately.
1201
01:05:37,726 --> 01:05:39,436
You know what I'm saying? Idiot.
1202
01:05:39,603 --> 01:05:43,982
But that's all I've known since
I was 17, 18 years old
1203
01:05:44,149 --> 01:05:46,610
is rhyming and getting paid for it.
1204
01:05:46,944 --> 01:05:50,197
I guess I thought tribe called quest
was the start-all, end-all.
1205
01:05:50,364 --> 01:05:54,910
There may be bumps and bruises,
but as long as we got this right here,
1206
01:05:55,077 --> 01:05:56,286
we all right.
1207
01:05:56,453 --> 01:05:58,413
[Phil Hewitt jazz ensemble's
"Donna" plays]
1208
01:05:58,580 --> 01:06:04,670
Phife dawg: It was a bitter breakup. It was
bitter. I couldn't stand kamaal at that point.
1209
01:06:04,837 --> 01:06:07,214
He felt his way, I felt my way.
1210
01:06:07,381 --> 01:06:10,384
And I'm no means...
This ain't a bash q-tip...
1211
01:06:10,551 --> 01:06:12,719
You know? This ain't none of that.
1212
01:06:12,886 --> 01:06:14,972
I'm just documenting.
1213
01:06:15,139 --> 01:06:19,810
It's like, "dude, you basically shitted
on everything we worked for."
1214
01:06:19,977 --> 01:06:22,771
You know? It's like,
"come on, how you could do that?"
1215
01:06:22,938 --> 01:06:24,898
And at least be honest with me.
1216
01:06:25,065 --> 01:06:27,734
Like, "yo, I really want to embark
on my solo shit.
1217
01:06:27,901 --> 01:06:30,904
I think we don't have anything
left to say as a group."
1218
01:06:31,071 --> 01:06:34,533
I don't think I'd agree with him,
but I could walk away from it
1219
01:06:34,700 --> 01:06:37,578
because at least he sat me down
as my man 50 grand
1220
01:06:37,744 --> 01:06:38,787
and told me that.
1221
01:06:38,954 --> 01:06:39,997
It was never that.
1222
01:06:40,164 --> 01:06:41,832
[Jjj]
1223
01:06:46,044 --> 01:06:49,464
Q—tip: The thing inside me that made
me continue on with music of my own
1224
01:06:49,631 --> 01:06:51,967
is because I'm an artist
and I love music.
1225
01:06:52,134 --> 01:06:54,011
It's who I am.
Know what I'm saying?
1226
01:06:54,178 --> 01:06:58,515
There's no retirement in this for me,
because music is not a sport.
1227
01:06:58,682 --> 01:07:04,563
Athletes retire because they are not
physically able to do it anymore.
1228
01:07:04,730 --> 01:07:07,858
Sammy Davis did it to death.
Duke Ellington did it to death.
1229
01:07:08,025 --> 01:07:11,111
James brown did it to death.
Mj did it to death. You know?
1230
01:07:11,278 --> 01:07:14,114
There's no retirement in this.
1231
01:07:14,281 --> 01:07:20,621
So I just wanted to continue
to make music and express myself.
1232
01:07:31,715 --> 01:07:32,758
Boo. Yes.
1233
01:07:32,925 --> 01:07:35,677
This really reminds me
of when we first got together.
1234
01:07:35,844 --> 01:07:37,179
Why?
1235
01:07:37,346 --> 01:07:39,640
See, we was attached
at the hip, son.
1236
01:07:39,806 --> 01:07:41,683
[Jjj]
1237
01:07:41,850 --> 01:07:45,437
Deisha: I just try to tell him that
he needs to just make peace with tip
1238
01:07:45,604 --> 01:07:47,105
and just keep it moving.
1239
01:07:47,314 --> 01:07:49,483
But you guys never own up
to what...
1240
01:07:49,650 --> 01:07:54,154
Right, right. You're right.
I'm not saying I'm not wrong for that.
1241
01:07:54,321 --> 01:07:57,741
But at the same time,
I don't totally put it all on him
1242
01:07:57,908 --> 01:07:59,451
and just put him on blast.
1243
01:07:59,618 --> 01:08:02,496
That's why I'm saying a therapist
would be important...
1244
01:08:02,663 --> 01:08:05,791
Phife dawg: No, no, no. I
ain't messing with no therapist.
1245
01:08:05,958 --> 01:08:08,126
I'm sorry for being stubborn.
I'm sorry.
1246
01:08:08,293 --> 01:08:11,213
It'll never work, then.
I'm just not into all of that.
1247
01:08:11,380 --> 01:08:14,091
I don't believe in paying
some dude or lady...
1248
01:08:14,258 --> 01:08:18,637
But that's the only way that you're
gonna be able to rebuild a friendship.
1249
01:08:18,804 --> 01:08:22,724
For him or her to be like, "you
know what you guys' problem are?"
1250
01:08:22,891 --> 01:08:26,561
No, I know what the problem is.
I'm not paying you to tell me nothing.
1251
01:08:26,728 --> 01:08:29,064
Deisha: You're not
banded as a group anymore
1252
01:08:29,231 --> 01:08:33,860
but when you come together
to do a tour once every couple years
1253
01:08:34,027 --> 01:08:39,408
and you're still bickering,
it's not gonna work.
1254
01:08:39,574 --> 01:08:42,911
So I don't think
they can ever work together.
1255
01:08:43,078 --> 01:08:45,789
It's sad,
and it saddens my heart
1256
01:08:45,956 --> 01:08:50,043
because I love tribe,
but it is what it is.
1257
01:08:50,210 --> 01:08:51,586
Poor Ali's in the middle.
1258
01:08:51,753 --> 01:08:52,921
[Laughs]
1259
01:08:53,088 --> 01:08:56,883
I feel bad for him.
I really do, because he's...
1260
01:08:57,050 --> 01:08:58,719
[Phife dawg sighs]
1261
01:09:12,149 --> 01:09:14,526
Ali:
For me, I still wake up every day
1262
01:09:14,693 --> 01:09:18,697
and still hear rhythms dancing
through my head.
1263
01:09:18,864 --> 01:09:22,242
[Over speakers]
J“ what you fail to comprehend j“
1264
01:09:22,409 --> 01:09:25,412
j“ is love's unlikely end j“j“
1265
01:09:25,579 --> 01:09:28,081
Ali: Venturing off into
doing outside production,
1266
01:09:28,248 --> 01:09:30,250
forming another group,
Lucy Pearl,
1267
01:09:30,417 --> 01:09:32,878
and still doing, you know,
my solo record,
1268
01:09:33,045 --> 01:09:35,964
I think that there's
gonna be disappointment
1269
01:09:36,131 --> 01:09:39,176
because people are like,
"why you going off doing this?
1270
01:09:39,343 --> 01:09:42,763
You should come back here to do
this thing that we like so much."
1271
01:09:48,185 --> 01:09:50,812
Do I not do it because
I can't rock with this crew?
1272
01:09:50,979 --> 01:09:52,981
No, you gotta live your life,
move on.
1273
01:09:53,148 --> 01:09:55,942
I think it's important for people
to understand that.
1274
01:09:56,109 --> 01:09:57,986
Yeah, I know how sweet
it would be
1275
01:09:58,153 --> 01:10:00,614
with this element
that you're accustomed to.
1276
01:10:00,781 --> 01:10:03,075
But why don't you give
this other thing a chance?
1277
01:10:03,241 --> 01:10:06,703
If you really open yourself
to listening, then you're gonna see
1278
01:10:06,870 --> 01:10:11,541
the same spirit that guided this ship
is guiding this ship, you know.
1279
01:10:11,708 --> 01:10:14,127
Bye. It was good seeing you.
1280
01:10:15,045 --> 01:10:17,464
Thankyousornuch. Bye, guys
man1:Myman
1281
01:10:17,631 --> 01:10:19,883
man 2: Tell him what we did
on the way to the Hamptons?
1282
01:10:20,050 --> 01:10:22,511
Blige:
Yeah, playing all the tribe called...
1283
01:10:22,677 --> 01:10:25,806
Y'all know we diehard fans
for the rest of our lives.
1284
01:10:25,972 --> 01:10:27,492
Man 1: Good to meet you.
Blige: Please.
1285
01:10:27,557 --> 01:10:29,976
Rapaport: I'm sure tribe
gets show offers all the time,
1286
01:10:30,143 --> 01:10:33,313
so, what made you guys finally
go back out on tour in 2008?
1287
01:10:33,480 --> 01:10:35,273
[A tribe called quest's
"award tour" plays]
1288
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:38,693
Based out of, actually, phife's,
you know, medical situation
1289
01:10:38,860 --> 01:10:43,281
and having to pay for his diabetes
being so progressed
1290
01:10:43,448 --> 01:10:48,120
that he said: "I think we need
to take in one of these offers."
1291
01:10:50,247 --> 01:10:52,916
J“ we on award tour
with Muhammad my man j“
1292
01:10:53,083 --> 01:10:55,669
j“ goin' each and every place
with a Mike in their hand j“j“
1293
01:10:55,836 --> 01:10:59,131
q—tip: We all spoke about it and
we all came to an agreement about it.
1294
01:10:59,297 --> 01:11:02,843
And the thing that motivated me
to do it was phife.
1295
01:11:03,009 --> 01:11:05,137
Because he was sick
and he asked.
1296
01:11:05,303 --> 01:11:07,889
He asked me and I said,
"you got it."
1297
01:11:09,349 --> 01:11:13,562
Phife dawg: By the time rock the bells came
about in '08, I was doing hemodialysis,
1298
01:11:13,728 --> 01:11:16,648
which means I was going
to the actual clinic
1299
01:11:16,815 --> 01:11:18,650
three days out of the week.
1300
01:11:18,817 --> 01:11:22,737
Being that the rock the bells shows
were strictly on weekends was perfect.
1301
01:11:23,321 --> 01:11:26,533
But rock the bells
was pretty much
1302
01:11:26,700 --> 01:11:30,078
the straw that broke the
camel's back for the second time.
1303
01:11:32,664 --> 01:11:35,542
Ali:
This group is headlining this tour.
1304
01:11:35,709 --> 01:11:39,421
We're talking about with nas,
mos def, de la soul.
1305
01:11:39,588 --> 01:11:41,006
This is like the tour.
1306
01:11:41,173 --> 01:11:44,134
You have us,
we had our own internal drama
1307
01:11:44,301 --> 01:11:47,345
and a hint that there may be beef?
1308
01:11:47,512 --> 01:11:49,389
Yeah, I wanna go see that.
1309
01:11:50,557 --> 01:11:54,186
[Playing "buggin' out"]
1310
01:11:54,352 --> 01:11:56,730
[Audience cheering]
1311
01:11:56,897 --> 01:11:59,024
[Yells]
1312
01:11:59,191 --> 01:12:01,401
J“ microphone check, one, two
what is this? J“
1313
01:12:01,568 --> 01:12:04,070
j“ the five foot assassin
with the roughneck business j“j“
1314
01:12:04,237 --> 01:12:07,282
phife dawg: That show in
la. When you first started shooting,
1315
01:12:07,449 --> 01:12:09,743
we get on the stage,
we doing the damn thing.
1316
01:12:09,910 --> 01:12:11,661
My blood pressure's dropping
1317
01:12:11,828 --> 01:12:14,748
because when you do dialysis,
it tends to fluctuate.
1318
01:12:14,915 --> 01:12:18,376
It's not a good feeling
when that shit is dropping too low.
1319
01:12:18,543 --> 01:12:20,462
And I'm performing. Whoo!
1320
01:12:20,629 --> 01:12:22,881
[Playing "find a way"]
1321
01:12:23,048 --> 01:12:24,549
J“ she was j“
1322
01:12:24,716 --> 01:12:26,551
j“ messing me up, my whole head j“
1323
01:12:26,718 --> 01:12:28,070
j“ teasing me just like tisha j“j“
1324
01:12:28,094 --> 01:12:31,431
phife dawg: There was a portion of
the show where I had to lean on jarobi
1325
01:12:31,598 --> 01:12:35,769
to get them rhymes out,
but I'm still grooving, playing it off.
1326
01:12:35,936 --> 01:12:39,356
All of that's in vain
because this dude q-tip
1327
01:12:39,523 --> 01:12:42,692
gets on the Mike
in front of the crowd and says:
1328
01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:44,694
Q—tip:
Look alive. Look at phife dawg.
1329
01:12:44,861 --> 01:12:48,406
Phife dawg: If he knew what I was going
through, he wouldn't do shit like that.
1330
01:12:48,573 --> 01:12:50,033
That was it for me.
1331
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:55,497
I'm like, "okay, Duke. You're in
trouble right now. You got it coming."
1332
01:12:55,664 --> 01:13:00,627
[Jjj]
1333
01:13:04,339 --> 01:13:06,967
Q—tip: Phife told everybody
on tour that he was fine.
1334
01:13:07,133 --> 01:13:10,303
You know, he was well enough
to perform on those shows.
1335
01:13:10,470 --> 01:13:14,641
So my whole thing was like,
man, I'm out here for you, dog.
1336
01:13:14,808 --> 01:13:17,644
Like, I'm out here for you.
I don't have to be here.
1337
01:13:17,811 --> 01:13:19,854
But I'm out here
because you're my man.
1338
01:13:20,021 --> 01:13:22,983
So now you coming at me
about some sort of beef.
1339
01:13:23,149 --> 01:13:25,652
Literally four minutes
from walking on-stage
1340
01:13:25,819 --> 01:13:27,988
and you're not gonna say
anything to me
1341
01:13:28,154 --> 01:13:30,156
while we're going on-stage
to perform?
1342
01:13:31,157 --> 01:13:34,953
Q—tip: What's up, Malik? You
all right? You not talking to me?
1343
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:36,663
Phife dawg: No, not right now.
1344
01:13:36,830 --> 01:13:38,832
[Speaking indistinctly]
1345
01:13:40,333 --> 01:13:41,418
[Speaking indistinctly]
1346
01:13:41,585 --> 01:13:45,171
Q—tip: What the fuck is wrong with
you? What the fuck is wrong with you?
1347
01:13:45,338 --> 01:13:49,509
Phife dawg: I don't give a fuck
how you feel. Fuck you, kamaal.
1348
01:13:52,387 --> 01:13:54,264
Phife dawg: No, no, no!
1349
01:13:54,431 --> 01:13:55,974
[Phife dawg shouting
indistinctly]
1350
01:13:56,141 --> 01:13:58,476
Q—tip: What the fuck
is wrong with you, man?
1351
01:13:59,853 --> 01:14:02,022
What the fuck is wrong with you?
1352
01:14:02,397 --> 01:14:05,900
Phife dawg: No! No, no!
1353
01:14:06,818 --> 01:14:08,820
[Speaking indistinctly]
1354
01:14:09,237 --> 01:14:12,157
I ain't speaking to him.
I'm not speaking to you.
1355
01:14:12,324 --> 01:14:14,326
[Chattering]
1356
01:14:17,203 --> 01:14:19,831
I gotta go start the show!
1357
01:14:20,123 --> 01:14:21,750
He hit me in my face.
1358
01:14:21,916 --> 01:14:22,959
You serious? Yeah.
1359
01:14:23,126 --> 01:14:26,087
Phife dawg: What happened, I
was trying to walk by and I nudged him.
1360
01:14:26,254 --> 01:14:27,534
Boyce-Taylor:
My heart is racing.
1361
01:14:27,797 --> 01:14:31,676
We cool, mom, we cool. We cool.
No racing. No racing.
1362
01:14:31,843 --> 01:14:34,095
No, because I don't want
you all to fight, Malik.
1363
01:14:34,262 --> 01:14:35,764
[Speaking indistinctly]
1364
01:14:35,930 --> 01:14:38,600
[Jjj]
1365
01:14:38,767 --> 01:14:41,311
[Inaudible dialogue]
1366
01:14:43,563 --> 01:14:47,067
Rapaport: Do you guys think this
is the last tribe called quest show?
1367
01:14:47,984 --> 01:14:50,487
I hope it is.
1368
01:14:50,654 --> 01:14:51,696
Rapaport: Do you really?
1369
01:14:51,863 --> 01:14:53,782
Yeah. It's disappointing.
1370
01:14:53,948 --> 01:14:56,534
The guys probably know
my sentiments about it.
1371
01:14:56,701 --> 01:14:59,746
I'm a fan. To me, I feel like
when we see tribe on-stage,
1372
01:14:59,913 --> 01:15:01,790
we want to believe
that there's love.
1373
01:15:01,956 --> 01:15:03,750
And if it's really not,
1374
01:15:03,917 --> 01:15:06,211
and behind the scenes
it's some bs going on,
1375
01:15:06,378 --> 01:15:08,004
I'd rather them not be up there.
1376
01:15:10,757 --> 01:15:13,385
Yo, this is my family.
This is who I came up with.
1377
01:15:13,551 --> 01:15:18,181
This was one of my best summers,
tuning this situation.
1378
01:15:18,348 --> 01:15:20,225
My family knows about this.
1379
01:15:20,392 --> 01:15:23,978
They watching me hurt at home
with this. You know what I'm saying?
1380
01:15:24,145 --> 01:15:26,815
Means a lot to me.
Y'all who I grew up with this.
1381
01:15:26,981 --> 01:15:30,276
It's not fun to me no more.
Right.
1382
01:15:30,443 --> 01:15:32,445
Phife dawg:
I can't ever put a finger on q-tip
1383
01:15:32,612 --> 01:15:35,532
even though we've known
each other longer
1384
01:15:35,699 --> 01:15:38,702
than anybody in this world
outside of our respective families.
1385
01:15:38,868 --> 01:15:41,204
I guess you could call it
a love-hate relationship.
1386
01:15:41,371 --> 01:15:44,416
Maseo: Even when you came
over and said, "what's up," it was cold.
1387
01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:45,583
[Laughs]
1388
01:15:45,750 --> 01:15:47,794
Because the nigga did not
speak to me.
1389
01:15:47,961 --> 01:15:51,631
Maseo: I understand. I understand.
I'm walking on-stage, the nigga...
1390
01:15:51,798 --> 01:15:54,509
"There's a spin magazine,
it says 'q-tip.'" "Oh, word?"
1391
01:15:54,676 --> 01:15:57,345
So let me check it out,
see what he talking about.
1392
01:15:57,512 --> 01:16:01,891
"How did you and phife mend y'all
differences in order to go on tour?"
1393
01:16:02,058 --> 01:16:04,018
And things of that nature.
1394
01:16:04,185 --> 01:16:08,982
"I never had a problem with phife.
Phife had a problem with me."
1395
01:16:09,315 --> 01:16:12,402
Like just kick me under the rug,
throw me under the bus.
1396
01:16:12,569 --> 01:16:15,363
Like I'm just this crazy,
loony motherfucker.
1397
01:16:15,530 --> 01:16:18,324
I never said no shit negative
about him in the press.
1398
01:16:18,491 --> 01:16:20,827
And in this comment,
I was self-effacing.
1399
01:16:20,994 --> 01:16:23,913
I said, "yo, I never had
a problem with phife.
1400
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,250
He's had a problem with me
because I'm opinionated."
1401
01:16:27,417 --> 01:16:29,669
I never had a problem with him.
I really didn't.
1402
01:16:29,836 --> 01:16:32,297
And that's hon...
Yo, I swear I didn't.
1403
01:16:32,464 --> 01:16:36,968
I'm like, "yo, stop throwing me under
the bus in interviews or some bullshit.
1404
01:16:37,135 --> 01:16:40,013
It's not like that.
It's not going down like that.
1405
01:16:40,180 --> 01:16:43,808
If you don't have nothing nice to say
about me, say nothing at all."
1406
01:16:43,975 --> 01:16:48,062
He's saying shit like in texting,
"I've had diabetes since 1990.
1407
01:16:48,229 --> 01:16:52,358
I've been suffering. You've been
a pain in my side way before that."
1408
01:16:52,525 --> 01:16:54,611
Like that's some hurtful shit to say.
1409
01:16:54,778 --> 01:16:57,197
That's some real faggoty,
hurtful shit to say.
1410
01:16:57,363 --> 01:16:59,073
Why the fuck you gonna say that?
1411
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:01,868
If you feel it's q-tip
and a tribe called quest
1412
01:17:02,035 --> 01:17:03,995
at least man up and say that shit.
1413
01:17:04,162 --> 01:17:08,583
That way, I could respect you
to the 30th power if not more.
1414
01:17:08,750 --> 01:17:10,210
At least you said the shit.
1415
01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:14,047
I'm not gonna say fucking
"written by tip" or "produced by tip."
1416
01:17:14,214 --> 01:17:18,718
Because it's about the tribe.
It's about the fucking unit, b.
1417
01:17:19,552 --> 01:17:22,096
It's about the fucking unit.
It's about all of us.
1418
01:17:22,263 --> 01:17:24,057
I didn't single myself out
1419
01:17:24,224 --> 01:17:28,436
to make myself out to be the fucking
ginsu master of this shit, b.
1420
01:17:28,603 --> 01:17:32,482
That's why the shit says fucking
"tribe called quest."
1421
01:17:32,649 --> 01:17:35,401
Maseo: I'm glad you said
that. Niggas do rake you out...
1422
01:17:35,568 --> 01:17:38,446
Yeah, but that's why
the shit said "tribe."
1423
01:17:38,613 --> 01:17:41,449
Why you always gotta
be the center of attention?
1424
01:17:41,616 --> 01:17:44,577
You know, in the midst
of being the center of attention
1425
01:17:44,744 --> 01:17:47,080
that's cool if you wanna
play Michael,
1426
01:17:47,247 --> 01:17:50,416
but stop trying to front like
I'm tito or some shit.
1427
01:17:50,583 --> 01:17:53,294
You know what I'm saying?
And no disrespect to tito.
1428
01:17:53,461 --> 01:17:56,130
It's just the whole
tito played the background,
1429
01:17:56,297 --> 01:18:00,093
so phife's just supposed to play
the background and shut the fuck up.
1430
01:18:00,260 --> 01:18:03,054
If I'm asking you if something wrong,
say the shit, b.
1431
01:18:03,221 --> 01:18:07,809
Don't fucking come in
and talk all this crazy loose shit.
1432
01:18:08,643 --> 01:18:11,771
That shit just make me
angry, man. Fuck it.
1433
01:18:11,938 --> 01:18:16,067
And it's like I never even tried
to do that, b, with this dude.
1434
01:18:16,234 --> 01:18:18,862
So for all of this shit
that I'm getting
1435
01:18:19,028 --> 01:18:21,531
like I'm self-centered
1436
01:18:21,698 --> 01:18:25,577
and I'm this egotistical dude
and I'm... you know what I'm saying.
1437
01:18:25,743 --> 01:18:28,246
And I only think about myself
and all that shit.
1438
01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:30,331
It's bullshit.
1439
01:18:32,584 --> 01:18:34,961
That shit is bullshit, man.
1440
01:18:48,641 --> 01:18:51,185
[Inaudible dialogue]
1441
01:18:54,147 --> 01:18:55,982
Rapaport:
Have you heard from tip?
1442
01:18:56,149 --> 01:19:01,321
I haven't heard from tip
since the last show in Seattle.
1443
01:19:01,487 --> 01:19:04,824
You know what I'm saying?
I didn't really expect to,
1444
01:19:04,991 --> 01:19:08,328
but, you know, it is what it is,
you know.
1445
01:19:08,494 --> 01:19:12,040
I'm about to have surgery.
That kidney transplantation.
1446
01:19:12,206 --> 01:19:13,875
I'm scared as hell,
1447
01:19:14,042 --> 01:19:17,921
you know what I mean,
but I'm brave enough to get it done
1448
01:19:18,338 --> 01:19:22,842
because I got a lot more living to do
and things to do.
1449
01:19:24,177 --> 01:19:28,306
Yeah, when he first started taking his
Insulin stuff, that was hard, you know.
1450
01:19:28,473 --> 01:19:34,187
But when it started really affecting his
health, that was really, really difficult.
1451
01:19:35,355 --> 01:19:37,690
I said I wasn't gonna start crying.
1452
01:19:47,617 --> 01:19:48,660
Hooph.
1453
01:19:48,826 --> 01:19:54,540
I mean, that's my heart, man.
You know what I'm saying?
1454
01:19:57,126 --> 01:20:02,674
And to see him have to go through
that shit was very difficult, man, because
1455
01:20:03,758 --> 01:20:08,471
I mean, that's my boy. I wish I could
just take all that shit away. You know?
1456
01:20:08,638 --> 01:20:11,349
And not really...
1457
01:20:12,016 --> 01:20:13,601
I mean,
1458
01:20:15,311 --> 01:20:19,732
I came to Atlanta to try to take care of
this dude, you know what I'm saying?
1459
01:20:19,899 --> 01:20:22,402
I used to cook meals
and shit like that
1460
01:20:22,568 --> 01:20:26,406
to make sure he's eating the right
food and shit like that. I mean...
1461
01:20:27,448 --> 01:20:32,578
I don't have a lot of words for that,
but, I mean, you can tell my level
1462
01:20:33,705 --> 01:20:35,248
of how invested I am in him.
1463
01:20:35,790 --> 01:20:37,417
I'm not really scared of shit.
1464
01:20:37,583 --> 01:20:40,962
But that's the most fearful I've ever
been about anything in my life.
1465
01:20:41,129 --> 01:20:43,756
That shit was really difficult.
1466
01:20:43,923 --> 01:20:46,592
I've been through a lot, dog.
I've been through a lot.
1467
01:20:46,759 --> 01:20:49,262
So, you know,
nobody can't tell me nothing.
1468
01:20:49,429 --> 01:20:52,390
[Jjj]
1469
01:20:52,557 --> 01:20:56,144
To make a long story short, my father
was supposed to be my donor.
1470
01:20:56,310 --> 01:20:59,647
But his health wasn't up to par
where he could be.
1471
01:20:59,814 --> 01:21:01,065
He couldn't do it.
1472
01:21:01,232 --> 01:21:04,027
Then my former manager,
he wasn't able to do it.
1473
01:21:04,902 --> 01:21:08,865
We just found out not too long ago
that my wife is my donor.
1474
01:21:09,032 --> 01:21:10,867
[Jjj]
1475
01:21:11,034 --> 01:21:12,535
She got tested.
1476
01:21:12,702 --> 01:21:16,789
All of a sudden, she just came home,
she was like, "boo, I'm a match."
1477
01:21:17,665 --> 01:21:19,167
Yo.
1478
01:21:19,792 --> 01:21:22,003
Can't ask for anything more, man.
1479
01:21:22,170 --> 01:21:24,756
I don't even know how
to thank her, like...
1480
01:21:28,593 --> 01:21:31,637
You know what I'm saying?
Rapaport: Yeah.
1481
01:21:33,973 --> 01:21:36,517
My whole family was crying.
1482
01:21:41,522 --> 01:21:46,110
Um, I found out recently
that I am a match for his kidney.
1483
01:21:46,277 --> 01:21:49,655
So I'll be giving Malik
one of my kidneys.
1484
01:21:49,822 --> 01:21:53,868
The surgery, the actual surgery,
is gonna take a couple of hours.
1485
01:21:55,286 --> 01:21:59,499
And we will be in the hospital
for four to seven days.
1486
01:21:59,665 --> 01:22:02,376
Recovery time will be
four to six weeks.
1487
01:22:02,543 --> 01:22:06,923
I will be able to survive
with one kidney with no problems.
1488
01:22:07,090 --> 01:22:11,636
And Malik should be fine as long
as his body accepts the kidney.
1489
01:22:11,803 --> 01:22:14,055
This is my best friend, Donna.
Woman: Hi.
1490
01:22:14,222 --> 01:22:17,016
Deisha: I firmly believe that
people are placed in your lives
1491
01:22:17,183 --> 01:22:18,893
for a reason and a season.
1492
01:22:19,060 --> 01:22:22,855
And I just think that
that's what happened with us.
1493
01:22:23,022 --> 01:22:27,610
And god placed me in your life
for a reason and definitely a season.
1494
01:22:28,611 --> 01:22:29,654
Phife dawg: I'm cool.
1495
01:22:29,821 --> 01:22:33,866
I'm cool. I guess I'll be nervous
when it's about to go down.
1496
01:22:34,033 --> 01:22:36,702
You know what I'm saying,
but I'm a new yorker, man.
1497
01:22:36,869 --> 01:22:38,204
You know what I'm saying.
1498
01:22:38,371 --> 01:22:42,041
We tough like that.
You know what I mean? You know.
1499
01:22:42,208 --> 01:22:44,794
Y'all know what time it is in Cali.
We tough.
1500
01:22:44,961 --> 01:22:46,629
No, I'm just playing.
1501
01:22:48,005 --> 01:22:49,549
Q-tip text me.
1502
01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:51,884
That meant a lot,
you know what I mean,
1503
01:22:52,051 --> 01:22:54,011
because I really didn't expect it.
1504
01:22:54,178 --> 01:22:57,014
Not because he's a bad person
or anything like that,
1505
01:22:57,181 --> 01:22:59,934
but we've been going through
our little...
1506
01:23:00,101 --> 01:23:02,019
I don't even know what to call it
1507
01:23:02,186 --> 01:23:06,190
because it's really bullshit at the end
of the day, on both of our parts.
1508
01:23:06,357 --> 01:23:09,902
So, I mean, I really didn't expect that,
but I did need that.
1509
01:23:10,069 --> 01:23:14,574
You know what I'm saying? From
him specifically, so that's all good.
1510
01:23:14,740 --> 01:23:20,705
He just said, "good luck.
Godspeed. Speedy recovery."
1511
01:23:20,872 --> 01:23:22,832
Real simple and to the point.
1512
01:23:22,999 --> 01:23:25,251
That's all I really needed, you know?
1513
01:23:25,418 --> 01:23:28,588
I didn't really need a novel
or anything like that.
1514
01:23:28,754 --> 01:23:32,258
It's just the smaller things mean a lot,
you know what I'm saying?
1515
01:23:32,425 --> 01:23:36,095
So that was hot.
You know what I'm saying?
1516
01:23:37,263 --> 01:23:41,434
[Q-tip featuring Norah
Jones' "life is better" plays]
1517
01:23:49,483 --> 01:23:53,988
J“ life's filled with gray j“
1518
01:23:54,447 --> 01:23:58,701
j“ but now it comes clean j“
1519
01:23:58,868 --> 01:24:01,954
q—tip: Yo, what up, yo? This
is your boy q-tip right here.
1520
01:24:02,121 --> 01:24:06,000
Well, right now I'm in NYC
because my album came out today.
1521
01:24:06,167 --> 01:24:09,003
Nice to meet you.
That new single is hot, man.
1522
01:24:09,170 --> 01:24:13,299
I just wanted to make something
that was just hopefully inspirational.
1523
01:24:14,926 --> 01:24:18,846
After we witness history and vote
today, the renaissance is right there.
1524
01:24:19,013 --> 01:24:22,516
It's q-tip. You can go purchase that,
go cop that, go download that.
1525
01:24:23,684 --> 01:24:25,978
J“ life is better j“
1526
01:24:26,145 --> 01:24:28,940
j“ now that
now that I've found you j“
1527
01:24:29,106 --> 01:24:32,026
q—tip: You know, I produced
the first three tribe albums.
1528
01:24:32,193 --> 01:24:37,323
It's just my thing to produce
and to do music, so it felt at home.
1529
01:24:37,490 --> 01:24:40,743
I'm not gonna do... I mean,
we're family, we love each other,
1530
01:24:40,910 --> 01:24:44,163
but, you know,
it's pretty much ran its course.
1531
01:24:44,330 --> 01:24:46,666
J“ one step at a time
a man walked on the moon j“
1532
01:24:46,832 --> 01:24:49,168
j“ one record got played
kool herc said boom j“
1533
01:24:49,335 --> 01:24:51,175
j“ one minute, young man
your time come soon j“
1534
01:24:51,295 --> 01:24:52,296
j“ we waiting j“j“
1535
01:24:52,463 --> 01:24:53,663
woman: The word on the town is
1536
01:24:53,798 --> 01:24:57,301
some of the reviews on this album
are pretty amazing.
1537
01:24:57,468 --> 01:24:59,679
Yeah, man.
1538
01:24:59,845 --> 01:25:02,348
Looks like the source
is giving me a five-miker.
1539
01:25:02,515 --> 01:25:06,769
Woman: Really?
And rumblings at xxl's of xxls.
1540
01:25:06,936 --> 01:25:11,399
Entertainment weekly gave me an a.
I don't care. I don't read that stuff.
1541
01:25:11,565 --> 01:25:13,276
But let me go on.
The Chicago tribune...
1542
01:25:13,442 --> 01:25:14,485
[All laughing]
1543
01:25:14,652 --> 01:25:16,046
[A tribe called quest's
"stressed out" plays]
1544
01:25:16,070 --> 01:25:18,364
J“ I really know how it feels
to be stressed out j“j“
1545
01:25:18,531 --> 01:25:19,865
[audience cheering]
1546
01:25:20,032 --> 01:25:22,118
You know who this is!
1547
01:25:23,577 --> 01:25:25,955
You know who this is!
1548
01:25:26,122 --> 01:25:30,710
Q—tip: Throw your motherfucking hands
up in the air! Y'all know why we here!
1549
01:25:30,876 --> 01:25:34,588
We here for hip-hop,
y'all know what it is.
1550
01:25:34,755 --> 01:25:37,633
Rapaport: Is it weird for
you when you do solo shows
1551
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,720
to perform tribe songs
and phife's not there?
1552
01:25:40,886 --> 01:25:43,931
Like wrapping your head
around that shit?
1553
01:25:44,390 --> 01:25:47,143
Q—tip: Is it weird? No,
because the music is there,
1554
01:25:47,310 --> 01:25:49,312
people come to hear it
and enjoy it.
1555
01:25:49,478 --> 01:25:52,523
You have to give people,
to a degree, what they ask for
1556
01:25:52,690 --> 01:25:55,443
and what they need and what
they want. You know?
1557
01:25:57,278 --> 01:26:00,114
So I have no qualms
with it at all.
1558
01:26:02,533 --> 01:26:04,785
[Grunting]
1559
01:26:04,952 --> 01:26:06,954
[Yelling]
1560
01:26:07,121 --> 01:26:09,165
[Hip-hop music playing
over speakers]
1561
01:26:10,416 --> 01:26:12,960
Q—tip: Then there's a whole
new generation out there.
1562
01:26:13,127 --> 01:26:15,880
My whole thing ever since
the beginning of tribe
1563
01:26:16,047 --> 01:26:18,924
is to not preach to the converted,
you know.
1564
01:26:19,091 --> 01:26:22,345
It's my duty to go out
and crusade for more.
1565
01:26:22,511 --> 01:26:23,596
You know what I mean?
1566
01:26:23,763 --> 01:26:27,308
You fucking made my trip.
Q-tip: So that's my approach.
1567
01:26:27,475 --> 01:26:30,353
[Jjj]
1568
01:26:33,397 --> 01:26:37,860
To really move toward, you can't
forget where you been at on any level.
1569
01:26:38,027 --> 01:26:41,781
I remember my neighborhood.
I remember my real true-blue friends.
1570
01:26:41,947 --> 01:26:44,408
I remember the music
I made with tribe.
1571
01:26:44,575 --> 01:26:45,785
I remember all of that.
1572
01:26:45,951 --> 01:26:49,330
And all of that informs me
as I take my next step ahead.
1573
01:27:03,761 --> 01:27:06,931
[Jjj]
1574
01:27:14,939 --> 01:27:16,148
Ali: A tribe called quest,
1575
01:27:16,315 --> 01:27:19,777
even though it has been somewhat
a out-of-business business,
1576
01:27:19,944 --> 01:27:21,320
it is still a business.
1577
01:27:21,487 --> 01:27:23,531
We've been blessed
to have promoters
1578
01:27:23,697 --> 01:27:25,491
interested in booking the group.
1579
01:27:25,658 --> 01:27:28,619
So through the years, even though
we haven't been together,
1580
01:27:28,786 --> 01:27:32,540
we've been getting show offers
out the wazoo.
1581
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:38,754
Phife dawg: I really thought
I was a dead man walking.
1582
01:27:38,921 --> 01:27:41,882
It's the realest thing
I ever been through in my life.
1583
01:27:42,049 --> 01:27:46,846
What do you do when you receive
a treasure like that?
1584
01:27:47,012 --> 01:27:49,014
[Record scratching]
1585
01:27:52,351 --> 01:27:54,520
Hi, I'm obviously
Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
1586
01:27:54,687 --> 01:27:57,148
And this is my job.
1587
01:27:57,314 --> 01:28:01,235
This is what I do.
I speak with my hands.
1588
01:28:01,735 --> 01:28:04,029
Fuck that rap shit.
1589
01:28:05,990 --> 01:28:07,658
Enjoy the rehearsal today.
1590
01:28:07,825 --> 01:28:11,245
We're old-ass men. Don't
know what the fuck we're doing.
1591
01:28:11,412 --> 01:28:14,415
And we'll see you in Japan.
1592
01:28:14,707 --> 01:28:16,417
Tribe called quest ichiban.
1593
01:28:16,584 --> 01:28:19,146
[Over speakers] J“ I'm bound to wreck
your body and say turn the party out j“
1594
01:28:19,170 --> 01:28:21,440
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1595
01:28:21,464 --> 01:28:23,883
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1596
01:28:24,049 --> 01:28:26,278
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1597
01:28:26,302 --> 01:28:28,804
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1598
01:28:28,971 --> 01:28:31,283
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1599
01:28:31,307 --> 01:28:33,267
j“ you can't touch me
no, you can't touch me j“
1600
01:28:33,434 --> 01:28:35,895
j“ them can't hold me
no, them can't j“
1601
01:28:36,061 --> 01:28:38,063
[record scratching]
1602
01:28:49,492 --> 01:28:51,494
[Both speaking indistinctly]
1603
01:28:53,996 --> 01:28:56,749
Q-tip: Yeah, and then we
should turn around and separate it.
1604
01:28:56,916 --> 01:29:00,753
It's gonna be hard to turn around
in the middle of that, you know?
1605
01:29:01,629 --> 01:29:04,089
So when he's cutting...
That shit's gonna be bad.
1606
01:29:04,256 --> 01:29:05,257
[Laughing]
1607
01:29:05,424 --> 01:29:06,984
Man: You guys are
going back to dancing.
1608
01:29:07,134 --> 01:29:10,554
But then you just go,
boom, boom, boom.
1609
01:29:11,597 --> 01:29:14,266
Like turn around on
a four-step type shit.
1610
01:29:14,433 --> 01:29:16,018
Let's try it.
1611
01:29:16,185 --> 01:29:18,585
J“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1612
01:29:18,646 --> 01:29:21,065
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1613
01:29:21,232 --> 01:29:23,632
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1614
01:29:23,734 --> 01:29:26,134
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1615
01:29:26,570 --> 01:29:27,905
[laughs]
1616
01:29:28,072 --> 01:29:29,698
[Record scratching]
1617
01:29:29,865 --> 01:29:32,265
J“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1618
01:29:32,326 --> 01:29:34,726
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1619
01:29:34,787 --> 01:29:37,187
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1620
01:29:37,331 --> 01:29:39,643
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1621
01:29:39,667 --> 01:29:42,067
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1622
01:29:42,127 --> 01:29:44,527
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1623
01:29:44,630 --> 01:29:47,030
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1624
01:29:47,132 --> 01:29:49,532
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1625
01:29:49,635 --> 01:29:52,035
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1626
01:29:52,137 --> 01:29:54,537
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1627
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:57,035
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1628
01:29:57,059 --> 01:29:59,478
j“ I'm bound to wreck your body
and say turn the party out j“
1629
01:29:59,645 --> 01:30:02,022
q—tip: Phife dawg!
1630
01:30:02,189 --> 01:30:04,191
J“ them can't touch me
no, them can't touch me j“
1631
01:30:04,358 --> 01:30:06,777
j“ them can't hold me
no, them can't hold me j“
1632
01:30:06,944 --> 01:30:09,071
j“ them can't touch me
no, them can't touch me j“
1633
01:30:09,238 --> 01:30:11,365
j“ them can't hold me no j“
1634
01:30:11,532 --> 01:30:13,242
q—tip: J“ yo, son,
yo you ain't fat j“
1635
01:30:13,409 --> 01:30:14,803
j“ yeah, I know I look antithetic j“
1636
01:30:14,827 --> 01:30:17,079
j“ Ali Shaheed Mohammad
had me doing calisthenics j“
1637
01:30:17,246 --> 01:30:19,623
j“ needless to say, boy
I'm bad to the bone j“
1638
01:30:19,790 --> 01:30:22,126
j“ makin' love to my Mike
like jarobi on the phone j“
1639
01:30:22,293 --> 01:30:23,770
j“ but, um, no time for talk j“
j“ what? J“
1640
01:30:23,794 --> 01:30:25,021
j“ there's bills to be paid j“
j“ what? J“
1641
01:30:25,045 --> 01:30:26,839
j“ chumps to be sprayed
chicks to be laid j“
1642
01:30:27,006 --> 01:30:28,340
j“ come on j“ j“ check it out j“
1643
01:30:28,507 --> 01:30:29,667
j“ my man, watch your back j“
1644
01:30:29,758 --> 01:30:31,802
j“ '93 means skills are a must
so never lack j“
1645
01:30:31,969 --> 01:30:34,722
j“ sit back, relax, come on
watch the birdie j“
1646
01:30:34,888 --> 01:30:37,208
j“ your styles are incomplete
just like vinny testaverde j“
1647
01:30:37,349 --> 01:30:39,685
j“ battlin'?
Whenever, hot damn j“
1648
01:30:39,852 --> 01:30:42,521
j“ give me the microphone, boy
one time, bam j“
1649
01:30:42,688 --> 01:30:45,328
phife dawg: No matter who liked
who, who didn't get along with who,
1650
01:30:45,357 --> 01:30:47,318
for the moment
or for the long haul,
1651
01:30:47,484 --> 01:30:51,071
we were a family at the end
of the day. We were a family.
1652
01:30:51,238 --> 01:30:53,907
This is a tribe called go figure.
1653
01:30:54,074 --> 01:30:57,870
You don't know what's gonna happen,
but that's kind of the fun part too.
1654
01:30:58,037 --> 01:30:59,788
J“... hard rock and cock the glock j“
1655
01:30:59,955 --> 01:31:01,933
j“ and walk the city street
on the jury, they hot j“
1656
01:31:01,957 --> 01:31:05,210
q—tip: Me and phife, that's my
brother. You know, I love him dearly.
1657
01:31:05,377 --> 01:31:08,964
It's weird because I think we always
viewed our roles as the same.
1658
01:31:09,131 --> 01:31:13,510
Like although we months apart in age,
I was always like, "that's my little man."
1659
01:31:13,677 --> 01:31:15,888
And I think he always
looked at me like:
1660
01:31:16,055 --> 01:31:20,017
"Yeah, I got your back. Don't worry. I'm
phife dawg." You know what I'm saying?
1661
01:31:20,184 --> 01:31:22,436
Q—tip: J“ turn this shit
up and let's blast it in here j“
1662
01:31:22,603 --> 01:31:24,438
phife dawg: J“ rock, rock on j“
1663
01:31:24,605 --> 01:31:26,815
j“ Tokyo, rock, rock on j“
1664
01:31:26,982 --> 01:31:29,234
j“ Tokyo, rock, rock on j“
j“ Japan, rock, rock on j“
1665
01:31:29,401 --> 01:31:31,862
j“ Tokyo, rock, rock on j“
1666
01:31:32,029 --> 01:31:34,365
j“ Tokyo, rock, rock on j“
1667
01:31:34,531 --> 01:31:36,659
j“ Ali Shaheed, rock, rock on j“
1668
01:31:36,825 --> 01:31:39,119
j“ the abstract, rock, rock on j“
1669
01:31:39,286 --> 01:31:42,373
j“ phife diggy dawg
to the break of dawn j“
1670
01:31:42,539 --> 01:31:44,583
j“ move back yourself, man
come watch me rock it j“
1671
01:31:44,750 --> 01:31:46,460
Ali: In looking at our fans,
1672
01:31:46,627 --> 01:31:51,757
we put into the music
the encouragement of self-identity,
1673
01:31:51,924 --> 01:31:55,636
to have knowledge of yourself,
of where you come from.
1674
01:31:56,136 --> 01:31:59,932
But for nothing else
that you make music,
1675
01:32:00,099 --> 01:32:02,476
what a better reason
to be remembered for.
1676
01:32:02,643 --> 01:32:04,829
Q—tip: J“ noticin' my stature
the niggas know we gotcha j“
1677
01:32:04,853 --> 01:32:07,356
j“ movin' with the rapture
listen to how we catch you j“
1678
01:32:07,523 --> 01:32:09,733
j“ here we go now
lift your case, let's begin j“
1679
01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:12,277
j“ look at people jump
out their goddamn skin j“
1680
01:32:12,444 --> 01:32:14,905
j“ lyrically we bite
like we rin tin tin j“
1681
01:32:15,072 --> 01:32:17,241
j“ peace to grand pu
and his many, many skins j“
1682
01:32:17,408 --> 01:32:19,928
j“ don't Mark us with the arrow
'cause you know we got the wins j“
1683
01:32:19,952 --> 01:32:21,346
j“ it's the ab, shah j“
j“ it's the dawg, Shaheed j“
1684
01:32:21,370 --> 01:32:23,414
j“ and the dawg for the blend j“j“
1685
01:32:23,914 --> 01:32:27,334
[audience cheering]
1686
01:32:28,752 --> 01:32:31,338
Q—tip: I think the reason
why a tribe called quest
1687
01:32:31,505 --> 01:32:36,635
is still relevant today after
all this time is because it was truth.
1688
01:32:36,802 --> 01:32:38,470
It was honesty, man.
1689
01:32:41,849 --> 01:32:45,352
We made an institution of music
1690
01:32:45,519 --> 01:32:48,230
that we never sold the spirit
of that to anybody.
1691
01:32:48,397 --> 01:32:49,773
We didn't compromise that.
1692
01:32:49,940 --> 01:32:52,109
When you saw us
and you got to touch us,
1693
01:32:52,276 --> 01:32:54,570
it was just a real experience,
you know?
1694
01:32:54,737 --> 01:32:59,491
So it was important to, like, not overkill
the shit and just make the shit right
1695
01:32:59,658 --> 01:33:01,744
and just really touch
people's hearts
1696
01:33:01,910 --> 01:33:04,830
and become a thing like that
rather than over-the-top it.
1697
01:33:05,205 --> 01:33:06,832
So looking back in hindsight,
1698
01:33:06,999 --> 01:33:10,335
it could have been some things
we could have did differently,
1699
01:33:10,502 --> 01:33:12,296
but the way it turned out...
1700
01:33:13,672 --> 01:33:15,924
Turned out good, man.
Rapaport: They still want you.
1701
01:33:16,091 --> 01:33:18,844
They still want us, baby.
They still want us.
1702
01:33:19,011 --> 01:33:23,599
J“ drifting by totally j“
1703
01:33:23,766 --> 01:33:28,604
j“ drifting by just totally j“
1704
01:33:28,771 --> 01:33:33,567
j“ drifting by just totally j“
1705
01:33:33,734 --> 01:33:36,195
j“ the deadly venom
let me start from the beginning j“
1706
01:33:36,361 --> 01:33:38,721
j“ we always hittin'
so, yo, there'll be no extra innings j“
1707
01:33:38,864 --> 01:33:41,384
j“ 'cause I'll send the Mike out
the park like Reggie Jackson j“
1708
01:33:41,408 --> 01:33:43,744
j“ you be the minor leaguer
who sees no action j“j“
1709
01:33:43,911 --> 01:33:45,996
what up, y'all?
Right here, right now,
1710
01:33:46,163 --> 01:33:50,459
I am large professor,
the mad scientist, xtra p.
1711
01:33:50,626 --> 01:33:52,252
I am monie love.
1712
01:33:52,419 --> 01:33:53,712
I am talib kweli.
1713
01:33:53,879 --> 01:33:55,380
I am all Shaheed Muhammad.
1714
01:33:55,547 --> 01:33:57,341
What's going on?
I am 9th wonder.
1715
01:33:57,508 --> 01:34:00,302
I am black thought.
I am prince Paul.
1716
01:34:00,469 --> 01:34:02,054
I am dres.
1717
01:34:02,221 --> 01:34:04,389
I am Danny boy. I am mca.
1718
01:34:04,556 --> 01:34:07,184
I am posdnuos, plug one.
That's me.
1719
01:34:07,351 --> 01:34:09,353
I am ad-rock.
1720
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:11,230
I am everlast.
1721
01:34:11,396 --> 01:34:12,898
I am ludacris.
1722
01:34:13,065 --> 01:34:15,400
Before I say my name,
I just wanna ask tip
1723
01:34:15,567 --> 01:34:18,445
what the fuck did you use
for crooklyn Dodgers?
1724
01:34:18,612 --> 01:34:21,073
What's the filtered joint?
That's what I wanna know.
1725
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:22,241
Please answer that.
1726
01:34:22,407 --> 01:34:26,245
The filtered joint under the
whole main of crooklyn Dodgers.
1727
01:34:26,411 --> 01:34:29,331
Please. What's up? It's Dave.
I am positively q-tip.
1728
01:34:29,498 --> 01:34:31,750
I am consequence
from a tribe called quest.
1729
01:34:31,917 --> 01:34:34,044
I am Pete rock,
the chocolate boy wonder.
1730
01:34:34,211 --> 01:34:35,546
I am Chang weisberg.
1731
01:34:35,712 --> 01:34:38,090
I am Amir "questlove" Thompson.
1732
01:34:38,257 --> 01:34:40,926
I am Mike d.
I am pharrell Williams.
1733
01:34:41,093 --> 01:34:42,928
I am Freddy Rodriguez.
1734
01:34:43,095 --> 01:34:45,055
I am Kenny "the jet" Smith.
1735
01:34:45,222 --> 01:34:50,269
I am Malik izaak Taylor,
a.K.A. Phife diggy.
1736
01:34:50,435 --> 01:34:52,062
I am skeff anselm.
1737
01:34:52,229 --> 01:34:54,439
I am mos def.
1738
01:34:55,941 --> 01:34:58,277
And that's the truth.
Maseo: I am Vincent Mason,
1739
01:34:58,443 --> 01:35:00,445
a.k.a. Dj maseo.
1740
01:35:00,612 --> 01:35:03,657
I am dj lethal.
I am dj red alert.
1741
01:35:03,824 --> 01:35:06,535
I am Mike g.
I am a jungle brother.
1742
01:35:06,702 --> 01:35:09,204
Beatnuts, we here. New York.
We ain't going nowhere.
1743
01:35:09,371 --> 01:35:11,206
I am a-plus.
1744
01:35:11,373 --> 01:35:13,417
I am phesto d.
1745
01:35:13,584 --> 01:35:16,169
I am tajai. I am opio.
1746
01:35:16,336 --> 01:35:20,424
I am Dante Ross.
I be Dante Ross.
1747
01:35:20,591 --> 01:35:22,968
I be Barry weiss.
I be Jim swaffield.
1748
01:35:23,135 --> 01:35:24,595
I be too short.
1749
01:35:24,761 --> 01:35:29,016
I am Chris lighty,
and I be the violatest.
1750
01:35:29,182 --> 01:35:31,101
I am Angie Martinez.
1751
01:35:31,268 --> 01:35:33,604
Yeah, yeah. I am special
k from awesome 2.
1752
01:35:33,770 --> 01:35:37,024
I am the ooh child, a.K.A.
Teddy tedd, awesome 2.
1753
01:35:37,190 --> 01:35:39,484
I am bobbito Garcia,
a.K.A. Kool Bob love,
1754
01:35:39,651 --> 01:35:41,737
formerly known as
dj cucumberslice,
1755
01:35:41,904 --> 01:35:45,115
a.k.a. Bobbito the barber, the
edge up king, the king of swing,
1756
01:35:45,282 --> 01:35:47,701
known on the ball courts
as soul food Bob,
1757
01:35:47,868 --> 01:35:50,871
boogie Bob, bag of tricks
and make it happen.
1758
01:35:51,038 --> 01:35:52,289
I am jarobi.
1759
01:35:52,456 --> 01:35:57,169
A, e, I, o, u.
1760
01:35:57,336 --> 01:35:59,046
And sometimes y, motherfucker.
1761
01:35:59,212 --> 01:36:00,255
[Laughs]
1762
01:36:01,548 --> 01:36:02,591
J“ check it out j“
1763
01:36:02,758 --> 01:36:05,844
check what out?
Yo, check this out.
1764
01:36:06,011 --> 01:36:08,639
J“ yo, microphone check, one, two
what is this? J“
1765
01:36:08,805 --> 01:36:11,183
j“ the five foot assassin
with the roughneck business j“
1766
01:36:11,350 --> 01:36:13,685
j“ I float like gravity
never had a cavity j“
1767
01:36:13,852 --> 01:36:16,271
j“ got more rhymes
than the winans got family j“
1768
01:36:16,438 --> 01:36:18,690
j“ no need to sweat arsenio
to gain some type of fame j“
1769
01:36:18,857 --> 01:36:21,360
j“ no shame in my game
'cause I always be the same j“
1770
01:36:21,526 --> 01:36:23,570
j“ styles upon styles upon styles
is what I have j“
1771
01:36:23,737 --> 01:36:26,257
j“ you wanna dis the phifer
but you still don't know the half j“
1772
01:36:26,365 --> 01:36:28,825
j“ I sport new balance sneakers
to avoid a narrow path j“
1773
01:36:28,992 --> 01:36:31,161
j“ mess around with this
you catch the size of them j“
1774
01:36:31,328 --> 01:36:33,455
j“ I never half step
'cause I'm not a half stepper j“
1775
01:36:33,622 --> 01:36:36,375
j“ drink a lot of soda
so they call me Dr. Pepper j“
1776
01:36:36,541 --> 01:36:38,543
j“ refuse to compete
with bs competition j“
1777
01:36:38,710 --> 01:36:41,481
j“ your name ain't special ed so
won't you seckle with "the mission"? J“
1778
01:36:41,505 --> 01:36:43,625
j“ I never walk the streets
think it's all about me j“
1779
01:36:43,715 --> 01:36:46,176
j“ even though deep in my heart
it really could be j“
1780
01:36:46,343 --> 01:36:48,887
j“ I just try my best
to, like, go all out j“
1781
01:36:49,054 --> 01:36:51,366
j“ some might even say
yo, shorty black, you're buggin' out j“
1782
01:36:51,390 --> 01:36:53,725
j“ zulu nation
brothers, that's creation j“
1783
01:36:53,892 --> 01:36:56,228
j“ minds get flooded
ejaculation j“
1784
01:36:56,395 --> 01:36:58,188
j“ right on the two-inch tape j“
1785
01:36:58,355 --> 01:37:01,191
j“ the abstract poet incognito,
see, I run the cape j“
1786
01:37:01,358 --> 01:37:03,902
j“ not the best, not the worst
but occasionally I curse j“
1787
01:37:04,069 --> 01:37:06,863
j“ to get my point across
so bust the floss j“
1788
01:37:07,030 --> 01:37:09,616
j“ as I go in between
the grit and the dirt j“
1789
01:37:09,783 --> 01:37:12,077
j“ listen to the mission
listen, miss, as I do work j“j“
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