+thelordai gat Todays tryers, if they hit their toe on the side of the bed, they are shutting down whole tours! Phife Dawg always a trooper! Peace!

Yeah you can definitely tell, if you know how he usually performs, and they usual speed of his flow, speech is a little slurred. He still did the damn thing tho! Rocked the mic!

yea, ikr it's a good thing he got thru the performance!!! he did good tho

Yep, can def tell he was pushing thru it. Damn, miss Phife. So glad I got to see them perform a couple times before he passed.

Was it type 1?

Demetrius Kent you right

yessir

Yes

That’s so depressing

13Rose all the time;)

Once again

@Day One Mastering this was before the roots and the band still killed it

dominic hocutt Sounded exactly like the samples. The Roots are dope...but don’t front on Paul (super pro)!!

Paul Schaefer was always a top-flight pro, the goofiness was an act. The horns were killing it

Everybody enjoying it🥺💟

@Perverted Alchemist I know isn't it amazing. My favorite Q-Tip album is Kamaal the Abstract because of the real instruments that were played on it.

DeeDeeKhan thats sampled from Minnie Riperton's track - Baby, this love I have. Such a killer tune and sample!

you should listen rakim to

Check out schooly d just-ice kool moe d

I’m 18 now yall and still listening !!

All the time

kiddkevo what's the name of the documentary?

Beats, Rhymes And Life documentary film

Wow did not know this was on the documentary, seen it twice too.

Read the description

Early!

Lost a true one for real homie

And if you see the doc done about them by actor Michael Rappaport you will find out the Phif did this performance with a high diabetes count, hence the slow movement and slurred speech, They flew from NY to do the Dennis Miller show in LA the next night and Phif could not perform, Check out the doc on a Tirbe Called Quest.

lmao! so true - and you know this song on the album is nothing short of straight classic beats - alone!

rap is not pop if you call it that then stop

It’s really not that hard. Rappers just don’t care about anything but getting paid, so they will hire one DJ to play their instrumentals instead of getting a few talented musicians for a live band.

@@Peyote1312 Four thumbs down...Your trolling needs Jesus. Bombaclot fool. Now scram! Back to your cage. Begone demon! (insert classic fart noise)

Yea he looks like a fan and blends right in.

Yeah man.

Aint list to the radio since 1997, and I will tell you there has been just as good stuff as Tribe since after this came out tho. The Fugees - The Score came out in 1996, De La Soul - Stakes Is High, Outkast - ATLiens, Wu-Tang Forever 1997, Gangstarr - Moment of Truth 1997...All good shit .

when a bass player knows when to switch from groove to 2nd percussive ...thats a winner

+Dante Reliford Bo knows this, and Bo knows that/ but Bo don't know jack, cuz Bo can't rap

That's my line too! Some people had never even heard of the furniture outlet Seamans! Genius!

@@lpurnell4827 used to be a store in georgia back in the 80s and 90s. it used to make me laugh when i first heard the line. still very good now.

@@19brittani I bought a dark green leather couch from that store in 1994!

Stewart Harvey-Wilson true dat wish I was there

Late reply i know. But i must share this ,one evening i got to see them when they came to London Subterania Ladbroke Grove. Its was a warm up jam for their gigs in the UK ,they did a whole set with the Roots.and God Father of Noise Rahzel Oh my me, it was up close loud and just feet away . I like everyone there totally blown away. Tribe roots Razel did free style the lot unbelievable. Unforgettable.

Lol was thinkin the same thing man I remember those, I still got them shits

It helps when you have one of the members of AWB playing as well 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 !!!

+Giancarlo Ricci In the movie Phife talked about how his diabetes was so bad at that point that whole performance felt like it was in slow motion. He really struggled through it

+Leo Mathews Poor phife is prob in DKA while this is happening. Brutha needs some insulin!

Lmao Classic

@@LeoJMathews what movie is this?

He was mad sick with diabetes in this performance. He almost didn't perform

Never been repeated as genuine as it was back then with Letterman + Paul and the band.. The interaction and integration alone was phenomenal... Let alone Paul's quick wit hovering not so far from Dave's, ultimately complementing/ combining to be the experience that it was... They sat above the corny basic shit they had to say/pervay... Norm Macdonald highlights Dave's high level intellect, while portraying the everyday man approach to comedy and is beyond spot on... Never gained intellectual/vocabulary knowledge from any other late show host within the hijinks other than from Dave... Quisling being a standout, then Norm's ability to play the everyman in return while pretending not to understand is a late night reverse/faux level of intellectual back n forth that I truly believe will never be surpassed in these BS times.. Also Norm n Conan n Craig are amazing but different levels comparatively with the pretend to be dumb for relatability sake approach due to unrelatable levels of intelligence... Genius!

My pleasure! Too good not to share :) Thanks for the note of appreciation, and glad you enjoyed it. Peace!

This isn't the late show , it's late night , back when Letterman used to be on NBC , and the band was known as " The Most Dangerous Band In The World In The World " . Once Dave switched networks , NBC kept intellectual property of the band's name .

I do wish the sax's would've hit that funky note at the end of each phrase...it sounds more polished here.

+NYCBostero Thanks for taking the time to write a note of appreciation! Happy this clip is making so many people thrilled :)

+NYCBostero he killed it after that tho!

+NYCBostero He was sick at the time.

+Movado yea he was

He didn't fuck up, he had to leave a blank space due the censorship and it was a live performance. (Slayed is similar to murder, so it was forbidden).

Verdoso1897 hip hop in its truest form

BEYOND good, this shit is gold