Shaheed was the Tribe’s DJ, and Phife Dawg was Tip’s Rhyme partner.

Back in the day, Busta was Tip’s protege.

Also he looked like this:

He keeps his book of rhymes in something like this. It shows he’s not fancy or concerned with image: He’s abstract.

Scratching this classic line from My Melody

Put down your gun, let the Tribe’s music carry you, and instead of capping that brother next to you, embrace him.

The more critics try to reign in hip hop with poor reviews and general scorn, the more that MC’s want to prove them wrong by improving their music.

Hip hop is just an expression of the black community’s going-ons. Whether gangsta shit

Or socially conscious materials, like the then recent release of South African Black Rights leader Nelson Mandela, who had been locked away for numerous decades.

Hip Hop is about whatever is happening around the MC

People are always talking like Hip-Hop is past its prime, that it has lost all of its artistic value. Big Boi wants all other MC’s to prove them wrong, resurrect hip hop by bringing back good lyrics and such. But that is, if you can take the pressure of being a savior.

That is, if you can handle the limelight.

Contrary to Nas’s and Big Boi’s claims, Phife thinks that as long as people are spitting somewhere, hip hop’s soul will live on.

Because now cornrows are afro’s

But really, he’s using fro as a synonym for hairdo