Phife's Best Verses?

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:33 pm

Alotta people shit on Phife for being a sideman, and at times a subpar flunky. However there are certain instances where he definitely ripped shit, and dare I say, stole the show.

For example:

"Can I Kick It"

"Buggin' Out"

"Check The Rhime"

"Scenario" (both versions)

"Let The Horns Blow" w/Chi-Ali

"La Schmoove" w/ Fu Shnickens

"Award Tour" (didn't outshine Tip but ripped it nonetheless)

"We Can Get Down" (again, didn't outshine Tip but he murders this ... seems to be the case on many of the Marauders cuts...)

Add on...

DULLAH · Post by **DULLAH** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:42 pm

Even basic sh!t like Keep It Rollin' or Chase pt. 2, especially Chase pt.2, I reallyt liked Phifa as much if not more than tip.

His overall best verse though?
8 million stories maybe?

No.

Date rape.

Sumthin_Funky · Post by **Sumthin_Funky** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:43 pm

All of Midnight Marauders. He shits on every track he's on.

"I flipped ya crazier than a bus load full of jerry's kids"

edit: And how was Butter not mentioned??

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:53 pm

When to Carvel to get a milkshake.

skater4041 · Post by **skater4041** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:02 pm

didn't Tip write his verses on People's Instinctives...?

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:16 pm

I love how none of his solo album songs will appear on this list.

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:28 pm

De La - Shife MC's
Whitey Don - Article (this shit should be on those ragge/hop mixes)*
ATCQ - The Hop

*the BDP mix is pretty dope too.

strategy786 · Post by **strategy786** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:32 pm

Glad to see this thread. When Phife came into his own on Low End Theory, ATCQ became a much doper group to me. Tip was always the tighter emcee but in many cases I found Phife more entertaining.

Buggin Out
Vibes and Stuff
"Hair is crazy curly, flipped like Mr. Furley, to this day I still believe that no emcee can serve me."

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:36 pm

"and If I ever went solo, my favourite MC would be me"

now THATS a dope line!

But my favourite verse ever is, without a doubt, Buggin Out.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:43 pm

phife had dope lines. a bunch of them...i can't say he's ever ripped anything though...
that said, i always liked him on "let the horns blow".

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:56 pm

I like em brown puertorican and haitian....my name's Phif dawg from the zulu nation

money I get loose off orange juice

I float like gravity never had a caviy I got more rhymes than the wayans have family..

he did a TLC interlude or somthing that was dope too... Speaking of which you know how we do late night shooting ball at the run and shoot..

I know I'm butchering shit. Nyquil.

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:19 am

Sumthin_Funky wrote:All of Midnight Marauders. He shits on every track he's on.

This.

Phife definitely got better with each album leading up to MM. After that...not so much.

He may not have always ripped tracks but he was always an excellent supporting member of a fucking great rap group.

MD · Post by MD » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:19 am

Gotta go with "8 Million."

"Went down on hun... she's in the red zone..."

strategy786 · Post by **strategy786** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:50 am

CRASH DDZ wrote:I like em brown puertorican and haitian....my name's Phif dawg from the zulu nation

money I get loose off orange juice

Oh yeah! How could I forget that one from Phony Rappers.

"Talkin' about 'I need a Phillie right before I get loose.' Poor excuse. Money please, I get loose off of orange juice."

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:53 am

Echo Leader wrote: He may not have always ripped tracks but he was always an excellent supporting member of a fucking great rap group.

i can ride with that. especially when your sig contains the greatest album of all time.

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:16 am

MD wrote:Gotta go with "8 Million."

"Went down on hun... she's in the red zone..."

Better than Puba. Didn't he say on a track something about "Honey came bloody, so I hit her in the shitter" ? or am I high offa somethin?

Blockhead wrote:
Echo Leader wrote: He may not have always ripped tracks but he was always an excellent supporting member of a fucking great rap group.
i can ride with that. especially when your sig contains the greatest album of all time.

lol... pass the piote o get your shit fucked up...

Jaz · Post by **Jaz** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:49 am

Everything that has been mentioned here, I agree with, I have always liked Phife, but was slightly disappointed with his solo album Ventilation: Da LP

step one · Post by **step one** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:37 am

'Lyrics To Go' (prob one my fave ATCQ tracks)

''Im Jordan with the mic..wanna gamble?''

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:19 am

Blockhead wrote:phife had dope lines. a bunch of them...i can't say he's ever ripped anything though...
that said, i always liked him on "let the horns blow".

You don't think he ripped "La Schmoove"?

HomeSkillet · Post by **HomeSkillet** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:06 am

Buggin Out will forever be my favorite

"believe that if you must but riding on the bus with no dough ... sucks."

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:28 am

HomeSkillet wrote:Buggin Out will forever be my favorite

"believe that if you want to, but I'll tell you this much: riding on the bus with no dough ... sucks."

Corrected, but agreed, the way he delivers that is impeccable.

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:07 am

Jaz wrote:slightly disappointed with his solo album Ventilation: Da LP

understatement of the year

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:22 pm

Thun wrote:
Blockhead wrote:phife had dope lines. a bunch of them...i can't say he's ever ripped anything though...
that said, i always liked him on "let the horns blow".
You don't think he ripped "La Schmoove"?

eh..he was ok on it. to me, there was always a ceiling to how dope he could be. was it dope for a phife verse? sure. was it dope when compared to other really good rappers? not at all.
his improvement from the first to second tribe album was huge but, to me , he went from being awful to listenable. some dope lines here an there but , overall, pretty whatever in every sense.
i think his verse on "Vibe and stuff" is one of his best.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:04 pm

I don't know man ... I mean purely from a crowd-rocking, traditional sense, I think he really killed shit on La Schmoove. Obviously he's not Kool G. Rap but if that was a cipher in 1992 how could you not think he stepped in an got busy? To each his own I guess.

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:19 pm

Blockhead wrote:
Echo Leader wrote: He may not have always ripped tracks but he was always an excellent supporting member of a fucking great rap group.
i can ride with that. especially when your sig contains the greatest album of all time.

Rap-A-Lot pre '96 >>>>

Sumthin_Funky · Post by **Sumthin_Funky** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:22 pm

I'm probably one of the few who hasn't listened to his solo. Is it really THAT bad? I'll listen one day, but is it production? Lyrics? Both?

Odnet · Post by **Odnet** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:31 pm

He's terrible on it and the production is boring as fuck.

grass · Post by **grass** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:57 pm

Always loved his verse on Science Of Sound - Who Got The Funk from 95.
Peep it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVgPwVzR-mo

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:12 am

Thun wrote:
Blockhead wrote:phife had dope lines. a bunch of them...i can't say he's ever ripped anything though...
that said, i always liked him on "let the horns blow".
You don't think he ripped "La Schmoove"?

he killed la schmoove...its only to bad his verse was so short

i think his best is she fe mc's