Michael Rapaport EXPOSED by Jarobi From A Tribe Called Quest

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The doc was a straight hit piece, I would've rather actual native tongue elders been the minds behind it, we don't need a documentary to know that groups do solo projects.

What if he is sent to destroy
 

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Not going to lie, for a long time, I thought that Q-Tip and Phife had issues with each other. The fact that Phife felt like he was being alienated from the group after Midnight Marauders, Q-Tip deciding to end the group, Phife dissing Q-Tip on his debut album, and the general feeling that Q-Tip was a control freak. Even down to the little things like Phife only having one solo track on Tribe albums while Q-Tip had several. Their relationship was definitely strained for a while.

Looking at it from Jarobi's point of view, the documentary didn't need to amplify that. He's right in that the focus should have been on Tribe as a group, their music making process, Phife coming into his own as a rapper, bringing in J Dilla. What we saw felt like a longstanding beef when it was just arguments at the wrong time. Mass Appeal put out a De La Soul documentary a few years later and it was more in the style of what the Tribe documentary should have been. If Michael directed it, he would have focused on how Prince Paul felt no longer working with the group after Buhloone Mindstate.
 

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Rappafart’s first film is about a white dude from Detroit that “loves” hip hop. He probably did “extensive” research for the role and decided he was a hardcore hip hop head. Not understanding or truly appreciating the true meaning of the culture and the artist that created and molded it.
 

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How this dude got a pass & acceptance is crazy work :snoop:

id say his presence is more of a testament to how much that ecosystem is not ran by black people

its less of a "pass" being given to him and more of him being imposed in those environs ... they funding it and they install whoever they want.. hence a Rappaport
 
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