Kendrick Lamar, El-P y Chance The Rapper le rinden tributo a Phife Dawg

El 2016 sigue quitándonos a los responsables de la música que escuchamos en la actualidad y ahora volvió a tocar al mundo del hip-hop, ya que hoy por la mañana nos enteramos del lamentable deceso de Phife Dawg, uno de los fundadores del respetable colectivo A Tribe Called Quest.

Con solo 45 años de edad, el legendario Dawn dejó este mundo por causas que aún se desconocen, pero que en definitiva representa un golpe bastante fuerte para la comunidad del hip-hop, ya que él fue uno de los encargados de formar uno de los proyectos más poderosos del género desde el inicio de los 90, el cual cuenta ni más ni menos que con 5 álbumes de estudio y 5 compilados que en años recientes tomaron una mayor relevancia tras su reunión en 2006.

Luego de la noticia, varios rapperos como Kendrick Lamar, El-P, Chance The Rapper, Questlove y hasta Sean Lennon, tomaron sus cuentas oficiales para compartir unas palabras en homenaje al legado de Dawn, el cual naturalmente tuvo un impacto directo en su trabajo. Chequen algunos de estos tributos a continuación:

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!

Una foto publicada por Questlove Gomez (@questlove) el 23 de Mar de 2016 a la(s) 1:49 PDT

Me watching the big bros Bussa Buss and Phife speak, and just nodding and taking mental notes. True legends. #RIPPHIFE AYO BO KNOWS THIS & BO KNOWS THAT BUT BO DONT KNOW JACK CAUSE BO CANT RAP well what do you know

Una foto publicada por Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) el 23 de Mar de 2016 a la(s) 6:43 PDT

REST IN PEACE PHIFE

Un vídeo publicado por thereallyrealelp (@thereallyrealelp) el 22 de Mar de 2016 a la(s) 11:51 PDT

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

Una foto publicada por Sean Ono Lennon (@sean_ono_lennon) el 23 de Mar de 2016 a la(s) 4:59 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) 23 de marzo de 2016

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) 23 de marzo de 2016

Por otro lado, Mac Miller se dio la libertad de compartir un track en el que podemos escuchar a Phife Dawg rapeando por encima de una pieza instrumental en la que estuvo trabajando. Chéquenla después del salto:

Uno de los tributos que en definitiva Han sido de los más emotivos, es el que le hizo Kendrick Lamar durante el concierto que dio en Australia que, gracias a los camaradas de Triple J, pueden ver un vídeo de lo ocurrido en este enlace.

Mientras abren el link, los dejamos con un clásico de A Tribe Called Quest para seguir honrando la memoria de Phife Dawg (Q.E.P.D).