Brooklyn-emcee Joey Bada$$ visited VIP Saturdays on Shade45 recently. During an interview published to Youtube today, Joey shares a chilling story about a conversation he had with Q-Tip moments before news broke that Phife Dawg passed away.
“It’s just so crazy the way the universe works,” Joey Bada$$ says [19:34]. “The night that he passed, I was just on the phone with Q-Tip. Literally, right before it happened I was on the phone with Q-Tip. I called Tip because I was looking for the ‘Check The Rhime’ video because it wasn’t on Youtube. I was tryna use it as a reference for my ‘Brooklyn Zone’ video—the scene when they was on top of the laundromat. I said, ‘Yo, Tip, where the video at?’ He said, ‘Ah, you know, label shit.’ Me and Tip just started building for a little bit and then it was ‘Peace.’ Then right after that, the news [about Phife Dawg] started. I could tell he ain’t even know it had happened yet.”
Bada$$ went on to describe how Hip Hop is in a “sad time” right now.
“Over the last year we lost Phife, we lost Sean [Price],” he says.
Phife Dawg passed away on March 22 due to diabetes related complications.
Sean Price passed away in his sleep on August 8, 2015.
Watch the full interview below:
why is this news? seems corny to even mention
I hope what got out of the article is that we lost a hip hop legend in Phife. & where 1 was when it happened cuz some things u dont 4get. Rest in paradise.
so he spoke to someone who knew someone else who died but he didnt know he had died when he spoke to him?
Where Is the news….what the fuck…joey also all hyped n feeling relevant for a shitty phone call. fucking DX
I just think it’s interesting. We know the last person Joey talked to, and potentially the last person Tip talked to. I remember the last person I talked to when Phife died. I know exactly where I was when Big died. I remember the last person I talked to when Pac died. These are things that have never left me. For Joey, that’ll be Q-tip. It’s interesting.
Joey didnt say Q-Tip was the last person he talked to before he found out Phife died. He could have had a girlfriend or friend at his home with him that he spoke to after his phonecall.
Fair enough. He does say “Literally, right before it happened I was on the phone with Q-Tip,” though. Either way, the principle is the same. I think it’s interesting.
No homo but I would wanna butt fuck Justin Hunte for posting this stupid article.
Thank you for the comment, Quentin.
I honestly don’t see why people are dissing this article. It’s not as bad as everyone says it is. Also, a bit of critique for the one who wrote this, I think you should have had a shirtless picture of Joey to make it more interesting.
No homo?
yeah this is very important news. i’m glad this article was written!
This isn’t life-changing but it’s trivia I guess, y’all r expecting DX to make an amazing article about a tiny bit of information.. It’s like expecting someone to make a cake with only milk and flour
Hold Up. Has Joey ever heard of Google? “I was looking for the ‘Check The Rhime’ video because it wasn’t on Youtube.”
Type ‘Check The Rhime Video’ in google and the first thing that comes up is the video on Daily Motion.