a tribe called quest reunion

Funions are so gross.

i was behind michael rappaport in the drive-thru @ mcdonald's once, he was there with an SUV full of kids trying to order a ton of food. it was about what you'd expect it to be.

actually come to think of it another time i saw him at an ice cream place with a bunch of kids once, trying to corral them while they were all running around with ice cream cones.

haha i just looked up rapaport on wiki to see how many kids he has and saw this:

Rapaport is married to Nichole Beattie and they have two children, sons Julian Ali and Maceo Shane. He revealed on VH1's 2008 Hip Hop Honors that his son was named after Vincent Mason (nicknamed "Maseo") of the rap group De La Soul.

I think MR's mellowed out over the years. Lili Taylor put a restraining order on him when they broke up.

hey HEY come OVAH HEah we gotTA GO! FINISH YA ICE CREAM alRIGHT?

hahaha

So I was on walking down a really empty block when the bumping into ocurred just when he happened to be saying something to the friend he was walking with and that something happened to be "blah blah herpes blah" so after excusing ourselves and laughing etc we started to walk in oposite directions and he yells back at me, "Hey, just so you know I was talking about someone else having herpes. It's not me, I def don't got herpes!"

HEY COULD I GET ahh two...TWO HAPPY MEALS and a....yeah a TWENTY PIECE MCNUGGET LARGE FRIES and....hey HEY QUIET DOWN...uh a CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE

It's like I'm right there with him.

lmao @ enbb

"Hey, just so you know I was talking about someone else having herpes. It's not me, I def don't got herpes!"

things shouted to strangers on the street very much in character

twitter saying Phife is dead :(

:(

arghno no confirmation i can see

yea seems like diabetes - very sad - so young

i still kept hoping they might do another record one day

nah that was never gonna happen. personal rifts too strong/Jive contract too strong.

yea

so sad

noooooooooooooooooo

goddammit

RIP

way way too young

aw man, this is so sad

fuck

RIP

He was a fly MC who was five foot three and very brave.

RIP funky diabetic

oh god awful

Aw crap this is so sad

goddammit. RIP.

this year is brutal so far. will miss you, five foot assassin. :(

HFS was not expecting this. aaggghhh RIP

instantly reminded of my favorite moment from the doc, him and Tip rehearsing their little arm-swinging dance step before the show

a tribe called quest reunion (in hell)

jk, RIP

Pretty great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRujBI_vPSM

"Steve Biko" is one of the jams of all jams

"Award Tour" as well, in fact so many off Midnight Marauders

that traffic guy is the best omg

RIP

listening to Beats Rhymes and Life, the biggest sin of which was coming after two back-to-back of the greatest rap albums ever, good stuff

haha phife just said

"Eating through your crew like Stephen King's The Langoliers" <3

has always been unfairly maligned in my opinion - it is a dark complex beast - i know not many will agree but although it may not have the highs of the previous two for me it is consistently great and at least the equal of MM and LET

beats rhymes and life i mean

Listened to The Love Movement yday, still v strong.

I mean I don't think they put out a record that wasn't blinding. Even that post-Instinctive Rhythms remix LP was strong throughout, and didn't feel like a ripoff.

"Find a Way" is among their best imo. Don't care for the rest though.

"Start It Up" is also great

tape of ATCQ London gig 1994
https://soundcloud.com/flip-the-script/a-tribe-called-quest-midnight

it is a dark complex beast

THIS is why Beats Rhymes & Life is great, it just always gets ignorec cause it doesn't have any certifiable jams like their other albums do. If anything, The Love Movement stands out as their weakest because it feels like a self-consciously "lighthearted" overcorrection to BR&L.

it just dawned on me that I haven't played BR&L in its entirety in over a decade

so yeah at a bare minimum the first four songs on BR&L are flawless

Phony Rappers is top 5 Tribe for me

Find a Way is probably at least top 10.