In an exclusive interview with our friends over at HipHopDX, Pharcyde member Slimkid3 (formerly Slim Kid Tre) breaks down the background behind the recording of their classic debut LP Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde and how he thought early J Dilla tracks were actually A Tribe Called Quest frontman Q-Tip recording under a different handle. […]
You’d be hard pressed to find a better voice to place over some dope Hip-Hop beats than Detroit’s own Dwele. The Motown crooner gets top billin’ on this record with the legendary Phife Diggy on the remix of “What Profit.” The Trinidadian member of the fabled A Tribe Called Quest drops a few smooth bars […]
They just do not make posse cuts like this anymore. Last weekend at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Busta Rhymes reunited with Leaders Of The New School and was joined by A Tribe Called Quest to perform the all-time great posse cut “Scenario.” As pointed out by my boy Meka of 2DopeBoyz, “This is quite possibly […]
Busta Rhymes is easily one of Hip-Hop music’s greatest showman and his skills were on full display yesterday (July 14th) as he headlined the 2012 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Bussa Buss can easily rock a stage by himself but nevertheless brought out an assortment of his rap superfriends to help him tear down the stage. But […]
There is no doubt to some most that if Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace were alive today, his crisp baritone flow would still be intact and potent as ever. In honor of Biggie’s 40th birthday today, Hip-Hop Wired has compiled a list of so-called “old fogies” age 40 and over in the young man’s sport of […]
Although Q-Tip has flirted with African drum samples and loops since the early inception of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest, but the New York City native has discovered an even deeper connection to the great continent of Africa. Sitting down with OkayAfrica in their latest “The Roots of” series, the eternally youthful Abstract Poetic playfully lobbed […]
[ooyala code=”BxbXM3MzoMgeBcHAfJQgXzsZ0iY7pX0l”] Phife Dawg of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest was in Atlanta to host One Music Fest; the annual summer festival promoting a mission of unity through music with performances from local and national acts spanning musical genres from alternative rock to Hip-Hop. During one of the show’s intermissions, Hip-Hop Wired caught […]
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