Q-Tip in Support of A Tribe Called Quest Doc, Squashes
Beef With Phife Dawg
“If we wouldn’t be in support of the film it
wouldn’t have been out,” Q-Tip told radio host Angie Martinez about
his backing of the upcoming doc…
Q-Tip
and Ali from A Tribe Called Quest hit up New York radio station Hot 97 yesterday
(July 6) and chopped it up with host Angie Martinez about the upcoming Michael
Rapaport-helmed documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe
Called Quest, slated to hit theaters on Friday, July 8, and the current status
of the relationship between Tip and Phife.
“Yeah. If we wouldn’t be in support of the film it wouldn’t
have been out,” Q-Tip said about backing the forthcoming, controversial
doc based on the legendary group, adding that his previous dislike of the film
has since been rectified with some editing. “When I said I wasn’t
in support of it on Twitter, the director needed to respect the subjects…
it was an editing thing. It was more like a flair, to get his attention. Two
days later they came and worked on the edit.”
When asked about Rapaport’s recent comments to New York’s Daily
News newspaper, in which he accused Tip of being some sort of a diva, the Abstract
Poetic said Rapaport has since apologized. “They weren’t trying
to honor us as producers. We had some issues behind the scene, in terms of the
contracts,” Q-Tip explained. “Because things weren’t all the
way solid, we didn’t go to Sundance… He started going to press and
saying some stuff. It got a little adversarial.”
But there are no hard feelings towards Rapaport, according to Tip, who said
“Mike is not a bad person at his core. He’s excited about it, he’s
a passionate dude, it’s his first outing as director. But, it is what
it is. It’s definitely a certain story.”
Tip also clarified that the beef displayed in the movie between him and Phife
has since been squashed, and even had Phife call his cell phone while he was
live on the radio. “Yeah. C’mon, I’m not a bad guy,”
Phife said via speaker when Martinez asked him if all was good between the two.
Q-Tip added that he is in the studio, working on the Kanye West and Jay-Z album,
Watch the Throne, and said he’s heard 15 amazing songs off the set already.
Ali said he’s working on his own solo record as well as partnering with
an alternative Irish band that has an album coming out next month.—Mariel
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