Quotes from Phife Dawg

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

I would never disrespect a man's way of life, especially if they're happy.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans.

I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.