{"id":104430,"date":"2016-04-14T17:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=104430"},"modified":"2016-04-14T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:41:05","slug":"7-brilliant-phife-dawg-tribute-mixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/7-brilliant-phife-dawg-tribute-mixes\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Brilliant Phife Dawg Tribute Mixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"104431\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/7-brilliant-phife-dawg-tribute-mixes\/tumblr_nfblnjwcz21t1yehoo1_500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?fit=500%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?fit=386%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?fit=500%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?resize=386%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500\" width=\"386\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?resize=386%2C540&amp;ssl=1 386w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_nfblnjWcZ21t1yehoo1_500.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, <strong>Phife Dawg<\/strong> from <strong>A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> died of complications from diabetes at the age of forty-five. <strong>Phife<\/strong> was the consummate punchline rapper, bringing a playfulness to his lyrics and balancing his rhyming partner <strong>Q-Tip<\/strong>\u2019s more spiritual leanings. But the pair weren\u2019t <strong>Flavor Flav<\/strong> and <strong>Chuck D<\/strong> \u2014<strong>Phife<\/strong> wasn\u2019t a hype man, he was a brilliant wordsmith and a beast of a rapper on his own. <\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to the 7 mixes startin&#8217; with <strong>The Beat Junkies<\/strong> &#8211; <em>God Lives Through (A Tribute to Phife Dawg)<\/em> via <a href=\"http:\/\/frank151.com\/7-phife-dawg-tribute-mixes\/\" target=\"_blank\">frank151<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest died of complications from diabetes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-ram","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}