The 11 Best A Tribe Called Quest Songs Featuring Phife Dag

It's been a hard year on music.  Another major loss today with the passing of the iconic, Phife Dawg.  A legend, whose lyrical mastery inspired a generation of socially-motivated rappers.  A wordsmith, a poet, a legend.  Your words will live on. Here are the 11 best Phife Dawg performances in A Tribe Called Quest:

1. Buggin' Out (Low End Theory)
2. Oh My God (Midnight Marauders)
3. Electric Relaxation (Midnight Marauders)
4. Scenario (Low End Theory)
5. Award Tour (Midnight Marauders)
6. Check The Rhyme (Low End Theory)
7. Can I Kick It? (People's Instinctive Travels and the Path of Rhythm)
8. Jazz (Low End Theory)
9. Steve Biko (Midnight Marauders)
10. Mind Power (Beats, Rhyme, and Life)
11. Find A Way (The Love Movement)

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The 11 Best Reunions That Have Never Played Coachella

They crammed all my favorite bands into Saturdays line-up, so I was left with no choice but to watch the Chili Peppers.

One of the best things about Coachella is guessing with iconic band will reunite for that year's show.  This list taps into the wet dreams of all the indie kids heading out to the desert every year.  For a list of the best bands who are still together that have never played together...check yesterday's list.  I excluded a couple of groups (N.W.A., The Replacements) because they were missing dead members.  I only did this to narrow down the list.

Who am I missing?

Here are the 11 Best Bands Who Have Never REUNITED To Play Coachella:

1. The Smiths
2. The Police
3. The Talking Heads
4. R.E.M.
5. Neutral Milk Hotel
6. Outkast
7. Soundgarden
8. lush
9. Oingo Boingo
10. Fugazi
11. A Tribe Called Quest
12. Sneaker Pimps (original line-up)
13. Porno For Pyros

um...yeah...that's 13.  It's a hard list to make!

Watch Coachella now!!

The 11 Best Songs By A Tribe Called Quest

I can't believe it happened. We've been waiting 8 years. 8 years for a new dawn. We've been given promises for something new every 4 years...but for some reason...they've never seen the light of day. Of course I'm talking about Q-tip's solo work. First Kamaal The Abstract (maybe one of the most innovative hip-hop albums of all time) gets shelved for no apparent reason. A few years later, his follow-up to his shelved album, Open, also is shelved.

On November 4th...all that changed. Q-tip returns to mainstream music with one of the best hip-hop albums of the year...if not the decade. And easily his best material since Midnight Mauraders. Why does it take so long for America to catch up with such progressive thinkers?

Here are The 11 Best Songs By A Tribe Called Quest:

1. Award Tour (Midnight Mauraders)

2. Can I Kick It? (People's Instinctive Travels)

3. Scenario (The Low End Theory)

4. Description of A Fool (People's Instinctive Travels)

5. Stressed Out (Beats Rhymes & Life)

6. Electric Relaxation (Midnight Mauraders)

7. After Hours (People's Instinctive Travels)

8. Steve Biko (Midnight Mauraders)

9. Bugging Out (The Low End Theory)

10. Like It Like That (The Love Movement)

11. I Left My Wallet In El Segundo (People's Instinctive Travels)

Buy Q-Tip's new album...The Renaissance. For less than $10! It's great!!