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Leaders Of The New School & Native Tongues Alum Busta Rhymes Pays Tribute To Friend & "Brother" Phife Dawg Of A Tribe Called Quest
Leaders Of The New School & Native Tongues Alum Busta Rhymes Pays Tribute To Friend & "Brother" Phife Dawg Of A Tribe Called Quest

Busta Rhymes Pens Tribute To Phife Dawg

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In the wake of an utterly devastating loss for the hip-hop community, Busta Rhymes took to Instagram this week to pay tribute to longtime friend and fellow Native Tongues MC Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor. The very raw and heartfelt memorial post takes fans back to Busta's October 2015 performance the members of A Tribe Called Quest and Leaders of The New School, where they performed "Scenario" and the "Scenario" (Remix) back to back. Digging deeper, Busta kicks the history behind that full circle moment, the recording of those tracks in the early '90s, Tribe's direct role in his success and his close relationship with Phife.

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