The Hip Hop community joined forces to pay their respects to the late Chris Lighty.
Q-Tip and Phife Dawg patched up their differences to run through their A Tribe Called Quest classic “Award Tour” as a picture of them and Lighty towered in the background. The ended the performance by having the audience put their L’s up in honor of Lighty.
“If it wasn’t for Chris, you wouldn’t hear music like this,” said Tip, bringing out Busta Rhymes for “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See.” Bus-A-Buss ran through the track wearing a shirt with the Violator symbol on it, stating, “If it wasn’t for no Chris, there wouldn’t be no this.”
Fat Joe was next to grace the stage, performing Terror Squad’s “Lean Back” as Busta filled in with ad-libs. Missy Elliott appeared to run through “Get UR Freak On,” while 50 Cent closed the set with “I Get Money.”
Watch the performance below.
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Awesome tribute
This was a great and touching tribute for Chris Lighty. I loved the message that he was a huge part of Hip Hop and if not for him many of these artists wouldnt be performing on stage during this award show. It was great to see Talib Kweli and Phife Dawg come together and perform. I almost forgot the award show was on tonight until one of my DISH coworkers reminded me. I set up a timer on my phone using the DISH Remote Access app. I can even watch live and recorded shows with this app all on my phone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA TALIB KWELI WAS NOT ON THIS FUCKING TRIBUTE U FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!
AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT U PROMOTING DISH!!!
Q-TIP!!!
HIGHLIGHT OF THE FUCKING NIGHT!!!
can someone please tell me who fif was blowing a kiss too..was it to rossay and gunplay cuz it didnt look like a kiss of love blown more like a kiss of fuk u lol .. even tho this is a tribute fif keep it real 1 hunit lol shitt to real .. if it was to an enemy that remind me of wen bone thugs bizzy was rapping to dogg pound ..he was rippin it lookint at them ..memorys thats y i fuk w fif ..too real
50 cent killed it…
I get Money worst fucking song ever
50 Cent sucks as hell in that
Loved the fact that not too many peoples in the audience knew the words to Award Tour…
If it wasn’t for Lighty, we wouldn’t hear all them great hip-hop classics from the 90s to 2007!! R.I.P Chris Lighty!!
Nw this was what i called music..
No surprise as usual. Leave it up to east coast hip hop to be the highlight of the night.
50 cent’s “I Get Money” track just went gold 2 weeks ago,
and was and still is hot garbage……now gold garbage…..lol