A Tribe Called Quest Rap City Freestyle 1996

Ali,Phife and Tip stop through the Rap City studios and kick some verses with Joe Clair.

[@The808Mixmaster]

phife is underrated, he got bars

[@TheLordAI]

He was definitely a bar-barian!!!

[@adreanpagente2189]

better than tip i'd say

[@The808Mixmaster]

@@adreanpagente2189 for sure tip was never really that good honestly. His shit is aight

[@adreanpagente2189]

@@The808Mixmaster phife's verse in god lives through tho

[@dboy4034]

Phife dog is in my top 5 rappers of all time no matter what.

[@Jwitzpoopz]

phife always put it down hardest

[@Borough81]

the most underrated MC of all time. RIP PHIFE

[@ChrisKamanYourMouth]

R.I.P. to the Five Foot Freak AKA Phife Dawg.

[@1980Dilling]

"Peace to Baby Phife, Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed arh". The Tribe are great and they have all made great solo material.

[@nonstophiphop6293]

R.I.P. Phife...one of a kind

[@sherwinfitz]

Q-Tip: "...plus his voice is raspy." Yes Sir! That's Phife Diggy.

[@enzov9772]

Tribe worked because of Q-Tip’s producing combined with Phife’s lyrics

[@KardiFan2000]

Their rhyming chemistry too...their back-and-forth interplay was legendary

[@mikenney7]

phife kills it

[@olliefuture]

Amazing voice, timing, intellect, style . My fav mc

[@yaboyschooledya]

I just wanna say thank you 4 your service Tribe....#thisweekend

[@illlmatic4life981]

I cannot wait, it's got classic written all over it.

[@sunnydforfree7145]

Dang watching all these 90s freestyle made me realize how nice phife was off the dome. Rip.

[@MrEgd91]

Heltah Skeltah instrumental,ATCQ freestyle...da bomb!

[@Nkogneetoe]

Phife just spit fire all over the room on that one!!

[@Nosnibormada1]

Ho ho holy shiatt... Phife's verse was just something else. I would never have thought it was a freestyle.

[@mial2781]

what a sad day. Rap in peace Phife Dawg.

[@DaOldSchoolRapLova96]

man......the golden era of hiphop :/ i was only a couple months old back in 96. smfh

[@sdmamusic]

r.i.p phife dawg

[@badcompany2685]

Videos like these need to be up there atleast with the 5 to 10 million views

[@digitalrazorbladez]

phife killed it!

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

That guy on the right is Joe Clair the host of Rap City in the 1990s. He also used to host with big Lez back in the 1990s too. Prince Da Jour, Big Tigger, Chris Thomas all after Yo MTV Raps! had the legendary Fab 5 Freddy. Real Hip Hop knowledge for you. One Love. Peace.

[@domgreen1859]

"freestyle fanatic and never will it ever stop"

[@WuTngCln]

hell yeah tribe acually freestyles that shits dope. phife my man wrecks

[@charliebrown316]

THAT JERRY RICE JERSEY THO!

[@TorontosFinestKrew]

oh my head

[@twicedtk]

so good..

[@TheDTrell]

Phife was the truth

[@DaQuanTimberlake]

That was great, my favorite hip-hop group freestyling

[@shmiqqy]

Phife's a badass man.

[@TheTriangleOffense47]

Damn Phife went crazy!

[@bootygirl1234]

Listen everybody !!! This video can get NO DISLIKES !!! Let's make it happen !!

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

Big ups to A Tribe called Quest because they never shot anybody.

[@Mohi_LDS]

MFs don't even know how legendary this one video is outside of America.

[@VintageDonny216]

That Jerry Rice 4️⃣9️⃣er Jersey Doe R.I.P Phifey 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@GoGetter18]

thanks !

[@RunningP123456]

god damn this is some real shit!

[@optimum2008]

guy on the right couldn't hold the smile in, trying his best but phife just went on a mad 1

[@Richie2k6]

nobody's touchin Phife

[@josephmccall5308]

phife is the 💣

[@BillLionaire12]

i have this episode on vhs too !!!!! NICE POST

[@Herbalizer28]

He outshined Q-Tip ..and Tip doesn't look happy about it ..

[@Simon-qf1dg]

they the best no doubt

[@zealousjay1993]

Phife 💯💯💯

[@viralbuthow000]

phife shut it down

[@chrisdoggsta]

Damn shits nice

[@jerryzollicoffer1570]

had this shit on VHS when it happened in 96

[@hiphopfoelife]

phife sooo underrated!

[@hokki97]

Q tip and phife dawg are the best

[@rampagecurruption]

Phife Dawg is Sick

[@vincentwashington4106]

Phife killed it

[@eLkO187]

Phife killed it.

[@RHCPfreak98]

shiiit VINTAGE P Dogggg

[@jawsjawsjawsjaws]

Pay attention to this science

[@mandeemonee]

THE 5 FOOT ASSASSIN ;)

[@LouieV6]

Do I hear Heltah Skeltah's Operation Lockdown?? hot!!

[@juliusum]

Phife with the Rice jersey

[@flairhayden]

I can't believe i just found out about ATCQ. Can believe it..

[@dudewhyfi]

damn phife brought it hard

[@findmestudios]

tribe on a sean price instrumental fuck me up

[@bballsharpshooter10]

@rastahuen For knowing that and being into real hip hop u get 10 bonus points which with u can't absolutely do shit with. But nice to see that people still listen to boot camp clik and real hip hop. It's all about the music

[@Comoesa]

Obviously, Phife and q-tip (and the dj) are fucking legends.....but that's one nice studio.

[@1L0VEMU51C]

holy shit

[@dekoir]

ayo!!!

[@stunnaflex]

Tip was dope, but Phife slaughtered it with that Brooklyn Linbrook line

[@rastahuen]

@GoGetter18 It's Heltah Skeltah - Operation Lock Down :)

[@cocobosox]

Hahaha Q tip is blown as fuck

[@DrRonPaul12]

Canibus RIIIIPS that Heltah Skeltah beat

[@ChrisNova777]

phife dont need your rating phife was hiphop before you were born kid

[@DrRonPaul12]

Comes off wrong, but in a freestyle (separate from this video lol) he kills it.

[@ronsetorie]

Fuego take…without Phife we don’t get all the rappers of URL…King of the Dot…and other battle rappers…if you know you know

[@LooseOrangeJuice]

Tip was good, Phife was the shit.

[@FANKANable]

My names malik the 5 foot freak

[@GIOGOMEZVAULT]

1 Lil Uzi Vert fan

[@icy966]

What's the instrumental called?

[@rhymesgalore81]

Heltah Skeltah - Operation Lockdown. Dope beat

[@GoGetter18]

whats the instrumental ?

[@NoofGoof]

where?

[@dbrown2607]

WHY THE HELL IS LIL B CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE RELATED VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!-_-

[@AndyDavis39]

💕🔥🥒

[@Reetlegna]

Tip was a bit of a fail, was still cool though, but phife ripped it.

[@kavalou4799]

Thing is we dunno what was said before, maybe it was ending a looong quality freestyle before the video starts... Anyway Tip is more of an intellectual writer than a wild freestyle imo! :)

[@curly-d23]

Tip was clearly freestyling “off the dome”, whereas Phife was freestyling a written verse.