And if the looped sample on J. Also, if "I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian" isn't one of the first rap lyrics you ever learned iconic and easy! Jay Z's "22 Two's" is already impressive as the Reasonable Doubt cut features the rapper delivering phonetic variations of the word "two" 22 times in one verse, but the call-and-response he employs on the chorus is borrowed directly from ATCQ's "Can I Kick It?
The deep bass that undercuts the dreamy intro of Soul for Real's biggest and maybe only hit "Candy Rain" comes straight from ATCQ's "Check the Rhime," doing its best to give the childlike bouncy-ballad a bit of a grittier backbone. The title to T. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Filed under: Reviews T. Almost an aside in the middle of one of his typically cocky streams of consciousness — and a strong sign of his mindstate reacting to success — this line's got a sly double-meaning.
Phife doesn't get gassed off outside validation from industry institutions, but what reads as humility also comes off like defiance: statue or not, he already knows. Phife could tell a story with the best of them when he was inclined, and this Midnight Marauders cut — not quite a "deep cut," since they all feel like first-tier hits — is his magnum opus.
Capping off the first verse of his inversion of "It Was a Good Day" with a lament of the long-suffering Knicks fan threads his own personal travails into a bigger snapshot of New York stress: It's a problem that wasn't aimed directly at him, but compounds all the bullshit anyway.
Tribe could be simultaneously filthy and hilarious about sex in a way that felt more fun than crass, and it helped when they could be a little esoteric with it. So here's some more NYC-area punchlines — the now-liquidated Seaman's furniture chain was omnipresent in regional commercial blocks throughout the '80s and '90s — that likely went over the heads of an audience that had expanded far out of the five boroughs. A guest spot recorded during the extended downtime between 's Midnight Marauders and 's Beats, Rhymes and Life , Phife is great throughout guesting for briefly-famous reggae singer Whitey Don.
No knock on the headliner, but Phife steals this track by weaving some seamless patois into his familiar flow and issuing one of the funnier variations of his omnipresent shoe-based trauma warnings. The way he depicts his rivals whining is some top-tier levity in the middle of a dose of rawness.
If Q-Tip was the philosopher of the crew, Phife was the shit-talker. Their roles weren't actually as defined as all that, but when they took to them, they shone.
Phife's take on being accosted by a wannabe battler is pure scrapper in contrast to Q-Tip's effortless-seeming cool spontaneity. And as on so many Tribe albums before, Rhymes supplies high test shots of adrenaline whenever necessary. Rhymes, who went on to have the most commercially successful career of the entire Tribe family, was only 19 when he first began performing with Tribe as a member of the Leaders of the New School.
The next day, he still said he was with it. Then I really knew. This article is more than 5 years old. Jarobi and Q-Tip. Sometimes a comeback is also a farewell. Phife Dawg: the socially conscious rapper who gave 90s hip-hop its good vibes.
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