If you listen to their entire discography

The first words you hear on the first song on their first album is “Q Tip” on Push it along

The last words you hear on the last song on their last album is “Phife Dawg” on The Donald
Both songs are amazing as well, but the group starts with Q Tip and ends with Phife

Great group, just wanted to share that random thought

Cool catch brother

RIP to the god

One of the greatest groups OAT

Such an underrated rapper. He was funny, clever, and thoughtful. Can’t believe they did a top 50 New York rappers ever list and had the nerve not to have him.

In all genres too not just rap.

Wait are you being serious? Whoever made that list should be f***ing ashamed of themselves

a lot of guys don’t get their dues because of being in groups

They had so many people who coulda got swapped w Phife tbh but yea thats true

Its just annoying bc they had Q Tip on the list just not Phife

Phife gets treated how people act like Big Boi gets treated

You see it that’s why I didn’t even put the hip hop qualifier

phife gets treated worse than big boi but they're in similar positions. andre and q tip are the more eccentric creative types that had a ton of outside collabs and got bigger fan bases but their group mate was their equal in a lot of ways

I feel like Big Boi gets way more props than Phife now too

I feel like it was like that some years ago and still is to certain crowds but niggas have definitely been running w the big boi is underrated narrative hard for years now

We need a Phife is underrated narrative, tbh Q Tip is underrated too

Wasnt intentional

Duh i didnt say it was

Thats what makes it crazy

Him not being on that list is heresy

First, the general public would have to actually care about Tribe and unfortunately most people don’t even listen to them outside of Electric Relaxation and s***. That’s the hard truth unfortunately.

Its sad because to me Tribe is a top 10 music act ever, and the best rap group ever.

I agree bro. It’s crazy that I even feel like Q Tip as an artist is underrated as well

Thats why Midnight Marauders is their best album imo, only album where they had no tension (following 2) and were equally present (previous 2) and u can hear it in the music, they both were super on point

Yeah definitely

Tip and DOOM are the two who should be mentioned in the same convo as Pharrell, Ye, Andre imo in terms of equally talented eccentric writers and producers

one day ima get into this group

Best rap group of all time bro, enjoy

The posthumous Phife album was really good btw