Kendrick Lamar, Questlove, Chuck D, Chance the Rapper, More Pay Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg

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Kendrick Lamar, Questlove, Chuck D, Chance the Rapper, More Pay Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg

This morning, it was reported that A Tribe Called Quest‘s Phife Dawg died at the age of 45. (Update:  3/23 1:08 p.m. EST): Phife Dog died from “complications resulting from diabetes,” according to his family and manager. Artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Questlove, Chuck D, Chris Rock, Chance the Rapper, and more have begun to pay tribute to the late rapper. Find some of their tributes below. Mac Miller also shared “5 Foot Assassin,” a freestyle of Phife’s set to a Miller-produced instrumental. Listen to that above.

King Kendrick Lamar pays tribute to the late Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest

Posted by Matt and Alex on Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Phife forever 1970-2016. 1991 in Sept I went to visit Tariq at Millersville U in the middle of PA (Lancaster). Miles Davis had just passed & I went on a binge to study his post jazz works. Went to Sound Of Market to purchase Nefertiti, In A Silent Way & Live Evil—the only non jazz purchase I made that day ironically was the most jazziest album in that collection: #TheLowEndTheory by @ATCQ. —it was raining that day so somehow the 1…2 punch of “Nefertiti”/”Fall” just had me in a trance that train trip—even though I suspected there was a possibility that Tribe could possibly have made a better album then their debut (the perfect @@@@@ mic Source rating would be on stands in a week so I was right)—but I knew I wanted to save that listening for when I got up to the campus w Riq.—so some 90mins later when I get to his dorm–we ripped that bad boy open (I can’t describe the frustration that was CD packaging in 1991, just imagine the anger that environmentalists feel when all that paper packaging in Beats headphone gets wasted—it’s like that)—the sign of a true classic is when a life memory is burnt in your head because of the first time you hear a song. —Riq & I had this moment a few times, but the look on our faces when we 1st heard “Buggin Out” was prolly Me & Tariq’s greatest “rewind selector!” moment in our friendship. (Back then every MC’s goal was to have that “rewind!!!” moment. As in to say something so incredible. Or to catch you by surprise that it makes you go “DAAAAAYUM!!!”& you listen over & over—Malik “Phife” Taylor’s verse was such a gauntlet/flag planting moment in hip hop. Every hip hop head was just…stunned HE. CAME. FOR. BLOOD & was taking NO prisoners on this album (or ever again) we just kept looking at the speaker on some disbelief old timey radio Suspense episode. & also at each other “Phife is KILLIN!”–by the time we got to “Scenario” I swear to god THAT was the moment I knew I wanted to make THIS type of music when I grew up–(yeah yeah dad I know: “go to Juilliard or Curtis to make a nice living at “real music”) but he didn’t know that Phife & his crew already wrote my destiny. I ain’t look back since. THANK YOU PHIFE!

A photo posted by Questlove Gomez (@questlove) onMar 23, 2016 at 1:49am PDT

Phife-HipHop & Rap word Warrior, simple as that.Breathed it & lined rhyme into Sport.A true fire Social Narrator my bro #RIBeats ATCQforever

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) March 23, 2016

My Mellotron was tagged by Phife. Thinking of all the great music he brought us. Malik Taylor R.I.P.

A photo posted by Sean Ono Lennon (@sean_ono_lennon) onMar 23, 2016 at 4:59am PDT

I like brown ,yellow Puerto Rican or Haitian name is phife dog from the Zulu nation. Rip Phife pic.twitter.com/rSy8pSKnxC

— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) March 23, 2016

REST IN PEACE PHIFE

A video posted by thereallyrealelp (@thereallyrealelp) onMar 22, 2016 at 11:51pm PDT

A Tribe Called Quest blessed our city with beats, rhymes, and life. Saying goodbye to a true Queens legend, #RIPPhifeDawg. #CheckTheRhime

— NYC Mayor’s Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) March 23, 2016

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