Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning earlier this month, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks,. “Desperate times call…
Album Review: A Tribe Called Quest – “We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service”
“Microphone check 1 2, what is this?” A valid question: What is a new Tribe Called Quest album doing in 2016? Rap has stretched and expanded well beyond the parameters Tribe explored in their 90s heyday, so it’s not like…
Gone Too Soon Dawg: Remembering Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest
The worse feeling in life is heartbreak. After remembering the illustrious voice of west in Nate Dogg, we lose another Dawg, and it’s hard to even fathom the news. Malik Isaac Taylor, or known better as Phife Dawg, was literally one…