Thoughts on Beats, Rhymes and Life:
1. Based on Q-Tip’s resistance to the movie on release and Phife’s embrace of it, one might think without seeing it that Q-Tip came off looking like the bad guy. In reality, Q-Tip seems to genuinely care about Phife, while Phife comes off as bitter over Q-Tip’s more dominant role in ATCQ (which may only be bolstered by the fact that Q-Tip was clearly the most charismatic, and probably the most talented, member). Was Q-Tip resistant to the movie more because he was concerned over how Phife looks in it than how he does?
2. The most legitimate gripe that Phife and Shaheed appear to have is Q-Tip’s unilateral decision that ATCQ had run its course. However, isn’t Q-Tip vindicated by the fact that at least two out of Q-Tip’s three solo albums (The Renaissance and Kamaal the Abstract [although I love Amplified]) are empirically superior to the last two Tribe albums (Beats Rhymes and Life and The Love Movement)?
3. What special hell is reserved for whoever refused to release the rights for the use of “The Scenario” in an ATCQ documentary?
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