Phife Dawg's posthumous album 'Forever' is a beautiful tribute to a hip-hop legend.
Busta Rhymes, Redman, Rapsody, and De La Soul’s Maseo, andgenre stopped after the Soulquarians broke up in the early 2000s. The spirit of Phife’s friend and collaborator J Dilla
looms almost as large as Phife himself; the late hip-hop visionary, who died in 2006, produced several tracks onDilla,” Phife eulogizes J Dilla on the verse, while Q-Tip uses the chorus to do the same to Phife.Foreveron what he considered hip-hop’s glory days. “Wow Factor” shouts out pioneers likehip-hop for the Nineties.” But it’s his calls to the future that end up being the most inadvertently heartfelt.
nimble rapper. Phife recorded the verse just three days before his death, running through his history with A Tribe Called Quest — “four brothers with the mic and a dream” — and eschewing their fractious past in favor of an olive branch: “I love you muhfuckers, true spit, all facts/Deep in my soul, I believe what will be shall be/Requiem for a Tribe.
admirable to hear lines from “Forever” like, “If I could do it all over again/I’d sit down with my friend/we hear both a middle-aged man looking back onmortality and trying to make peace at the end.
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