RIP Phife
I first learned about the passing of Phife from friends’ posts on Facebook.
“Scenario” is one of the first hip-hop tracks that I remember really liking
Part of it is the fact that it made me feel I could legitimately identify with both being into hip hop and being a nerd (mostly because of Busta Rhymes’ line “Rawr! Rawr! Like a dungeon dragon!”)
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Q-Tip You on point, Phife? Phife All the time, Tip.
— A Tribe Called Quest “Check the Rhime”[^2]
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For some reason, this was the line that made me truly realize the magnitude of our loss.