The Music World Pays Tribute To Phife Dawg

RIP to the one and only Phife Dawg. Very sad. pic.twitter.com/NSyNAsWjzj

— Aesop Rock (@AesopRockWins) 23 March 2016

😢
Refuse to believe this.

— Just Blaze (@JustBlaze) 23 March 2016

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 March 2016

Phife!

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) 23 March 2016

REST IN PEACE TO THE INCREDIBLE PHIFE DAWG

— el-p (@therealelp) 23 March 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) on Mar 23, 2016 at 1:49am PDT

Hard to think of records that I have listened to more. Hard to think of a better combination of vocal tones than Tip & Phife. Eternal Thanks

— Benji B (@TheRealBenjiB) 23 March 2016

RIP PHIFE. DRINKING A DR PEPPER FOR U RIGHT NOW. pic.twitter.com/ClSNcuLR9P

— Mac (@MacMiller) 23 March 2016

Phife and @QtipTheAbstract complimented each other like Lennon and McCartney https://t.co/z3hD3yAXzK

— Gilles Peterson (@gillespeterson) 23 March 2016

RIP Phife 😪

— syd (@internetsyd) 23 March 2016

10 years ago. My first real nationwide tour. A Tribe Called Quest. Rest in peace Phife Dawg. "Legend" is the biggest understatement possible. Love to the fam.

A photo posted by Statik Selektah (@statikselekt) on Mar 23, 2016 at 12:31am PDT

Phife Dawg made some of the most beloved hip hop ever. It's so sad that he's gone. I'd have gone to every reunion show till the end of time.

— Mark Ronson (@MarkRonson) 23 March 2016

Hip-hop is living, can't yank the plug
if you do the result, will end up kind of bugged
Phife Dawg

— Rob da Bank (@RobdaBank) 23 March 2016

now Phife's gone too? 😖

— UMO (@UMO) 23 March 2016

Yo, microphone check 1,2 what is this The 5 ft assassin with the ruffneck business.......Rest In Peace King we all loved you, your rhymes are a part of all the worlds collective youth, fly with the angels brother give Baby Chris a hug for me!

A photo posted by Dante Ross (@danteross) on Mar 23, 2016 at 12:09am PDT

Noooo. Can't wake up to this - please be a rumour #phife

— DJ Yoda (@DJYodaUK) 23 March 2016

"Trini gladiator /anti hesitator /Shaheed push the fader / from here to Grenada" 😥😥😥😥 #RIPPhife ...

— Estelle (@EstelleDarlings) 23 March 2016

#RIPPhife Rip Phife Dawg..i grew up to you nuf respect let me "PLAY THE RESURRECTOR AND GIVE THE DEAD SOME LIFE"🙌🏾💯 pic.twitter.com/BPzuiybgxT

— Obie Trice (@realobietrice) 23 March 2016

So fucked up to keep hearing sad news about our comrades in our culture...
R.I.P. PHIFE DAWG... #ATCQ LOVE TO TIP, ALI AND JAROBI...

— DJ Premier (@REALDJPREMIER) 23 March 2016

Rip King #phifedawg #tribe 🙏🏽 thx for the Epic vibes ...................I'm sick rite now!!!

A photo posted by therealswizzz (@therealswizzz) on Mar 23, 2016 at 12:34am PDT

Gonna miss you, my dude! #RIPPhife pic.twitter.com/xkpleB5Qcf

— Z-TRIP (@ztrip) 23 March 2016

a tribe called quest is the greatest rap group of all time. and i would have never thought i had a place in rap if not for them #RIPPhife

— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) 23 March 2016

#RIPPhifeDawg pic.twitter.com/JBbXqL7rvm

— DJ Spider (@deejayspider) 23 March 2016

Man. Man o man. Rest in Peace King. #Phife #ATCQ #NativeTongues

A photo posted by 9th Wonder (@9thwonder) on Mar 22, 2016 at 11:19pm PDT

Rest in Peace Phife Dawg

— Big Sean (@BigSean) 23 March 2016

Confirmed. rest in peace Phife. Man. I'm out.

— Statik Selektah (@StatikSelekt) 23 March 2016

Hip hop just lost a hero.I can't rhyme but I tried listening to Phife Dawg.Still bump you in my ride on a https://t.co/lUvsmxit12.#legendary

— Trevor Nelson (@DJTrevorNelson) 23 March 2016

Damn RIP 2 the legend Phife Dawg 😔. My prayers go out to ATCQ & family...

— BADMON (@joeyBADASS) 23 March 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) on Mar 23, 2016 at 4:59am PDT

#RIPPhife 😢❤️

— jennylewis (@jennylewis) 23 March 2016

Oh Jesus R.I.P. The 5 foot assassin, fucking hell.

— Hudson Mohawke (@HudMo) 23 March 2016

"Rude boy composer, step to me you're over." 🌹

A video posted by 🇸🇱BadBoy ChiChi💕Blood Orange🇬🇾 (@devhynes) on Mar 23, 2016 at 6:19am PDT

😔😔😔😔😔😔 Thank you Phife... ATCQ was everything to us growing up. Your legacy lives on. Rest in peace sir. 🙏🏼

A photo posted by Disclosure (@disclosure) on Mar 23, 2016 at 1:05am PDT

No words can truly capture the effect and influence of Tribe. Thank you Phife. For all the records and the rhymes we memorised #RIPPhifeDawg

— Zane Lowe (@zanelowe) 23 March 2016