{"id":127343,"date":"2018-03-23T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=127343"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:12:30","slug":"dig-of-the-day-phife-dawg-thought-you-wuz-nice-original-version-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-phife-dawg-thought-you-wuz-nice-original-version-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Phife Dawg &#8211; Thought You Wuz Nice (Original version) (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vED0l3D9y7Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unbelieveable but true. I remember the early morning 2 years ago when I found out the sad news and made  a post about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/rest-in-peace-phife-dawg-a-tribe-called-quest\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here on Blackout<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, 2 years ago we lost one of the Hip-Hop greats, a  brilliant and unique emcee, a legend, a huge sports fan and  a great lyricist, the funky diabetic and the very dear <strong>Five Foot Assassin Malik Isaac Taylor<\/strong> aka <strong>Phife Dawg<\/strong> (November 20, 1970 \u2013 March 22, 2016), who we all remember with joy as he was a highly influental Hip-Hop figure and a member of  <strong>A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re listening to the original unreleased version (probably recorded in &#8217;99) of <strong>Phife<\/strong> and <strong>Dilla<\/strong>&#8216;s magic. Brilliance on rewind. Light that shit in honor of this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>J.Dilla<\/strong> (February 7, 1974 \u2013 February 10, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>RIP Brothers<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"127409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-phife-dawg-thought-you-wuz-nice-original-version-1999\/phife\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?fit=1064%2C611&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1064,611\" 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=\"phife\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?fit=640%2C368&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?fit=640%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?resize=540%2C310&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?resize=768%2C441&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?resize=1024%2C588&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/phife.png?w=1064&amp;ssl=1 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelieveable but true. I remember the early morning 2 years ago when I found out&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-x7V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127343","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=127343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}