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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Ali Shaheed Muhammed Discusses a Tribe Called Quest ,The Loss of Phife Dawg, and His Work on the Luke Cage Soundtrack

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with hip-hop icon Ali Shaheed Muhammed, who shares stories of putting together Tribe’s most iconic works, as well as the formation of The Ummah production collective and R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl. The DJ and producer also shares his tricks for pulling out warmth in samples, how he met J Dilla, putting together the score of Luke Cage, and his deep love of jazz. If you’re a fan of hip-hop history and the art of production in equal measures, this episode is a must-listen.

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.

0:03.8

You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented

0:08.0

co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our

0:12.8

episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,

0:18.4

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:22.3

Fife is like constantly stepping it up, stepping it up by the time we get to Midnight Maraudis.

0:27.7

He's letting us in more and he's calling himself the funky diabetic and he's like Ali Shahi

0:32.0

Muhammad got me doing calisthenics. Even with being like, health conscious and and and Fife also

0:38.2

rap later on about Shahi even tip had me stop smoking ism. He talked a little bit about Fife's

0:45.7

health issues and how it had impact on the group at that time. Oh wow.

0:49.7

You see I'm still affected by the law. I still miss him. Yes.

1:00.2

And what's crazy is that Qtip introduced me to him and Tip is like the brother.

1:09.2

Forget the cousins you never you didn't know until a later on. Tip to me is

1:14.2

certainly like you sure we don't have the same daddy somewhere you know.

1:31.3

So what's crazy about

1:34.5

and why I'm so impacted obviously not just because of the loss but Fife's friendship to me.

1:41.9

There are times where Fife would call me way more than he talked to Tip and the two of them

1:52.2

to me are like the same like the same way I feel about Tip being that brother. Those two of that

1:59.7

you know so for me I'm the other brother on the outside watching the challenges of their

2:05.1

relationship and and Fife will call me often about everything. So that's what I feel when you ask

2:13.1

the question but yesterday and I appreciate you sharing it. Yeah. And again the question in particular

2:21.8

adds to the emotion because he ultimately transitioned because of the diabetes you know and

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