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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/arts/music/a-tribe-called-quest-new-album-interview.html?_r=0&referer=
Sorry it's the mobile link.
Q-Tip, left, and Jarobi White, members of A Tribe Called Quest, which is releasing “We Got It From Here, Thank You for Your Service.” CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Loss Haunts A Tribe Called Quest’s First Album in 18 Years Recorded just before the death of Phife Dawg in March, “We Got It From Here, Thank You For Your Service” is haunted by his presence.
By TOURÉ NOVEMBER 2, 2016 ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — On March 22, at 3 a.m., Q-Tip and Phife Dawg were on the phone. The two rappers — lifelong friends from Queens and half of the influential hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest — were “yucking it up,” Q-Tip recalled, and talking about a project few people outside their inner circle knew was in the works: a new Tribe album, the first in 18 years.
Q-Tip was in the million-dollar recording studio he built in the basement of his stately New Jersey home; Phife was at his place in Oakland, Calif.
Phife was fired up about a potential track: “Yo, make sure you send me that beat. I’ve got to put some verses to it. That beat is fire!” Q-Tip said in a recent interview in the lounge of his studio, surrounded by white shelves holding hundreds of vinyl LPs. The lighthearted conversation ended around 4 a.m. and Q-Tip went back to work. Nineteen hours later, Phife’s manager called. His friend and lifelong collaborator was dead.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
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