Michael Rapaport & Phife Dawg Bring us Beats, Rhymes and Life

The therapist, the therapist, the therapy bills on this one, I'm still paying. I mean, I'm just getting out of documentary rehab. How is it to here at the Young Hollywood Studio with Michael Rapaport and 5 Dog. Thanks for stopping in, guys.

Hey, thanks for having us.

So I noticed you guys were going back and forth before we started about uh, I think it was basketball. Yes. Okay. Obviously not that familiar with basketball. Great sport though. Oh, who's your your top five right now in the NBA right now?

Five. What's your top five right now? Break it down right now.

Can I get six?

No. No, you can only have five guys, but

This is tough. But I need six men.

Oh, you got a six, one six man.

Chris Paul at the point. Chris Paul. Kobe Bryant at the two. Okay. Carmelo Anthony at the three. Right. Dirk Nowitzki at the four. Big German. Um, at the five, I'm not Dwight Howard. Okay, who's our six? Dwight Howard at the four. No, I'm close. Period.

The old NCAA 12 is coming out. Yes. You guys are I see you're big on the video games here.

We are. We are. Yeah. I I need I need that game now. I'll take you guys down on that.

You'll take my kids. I'll take my kids down.

There's no playing football. There's no playing football 2012. Yeah. I know my son kills me in that game. I'm just I'm terrible.

Beats, rhymes and life, the travels of a Tribe Called Quest. That's right. As a child flies high like a dog. How did this partnership come into uh, come to work?

Um, you know, I've been a fan of the group since 1988. They give me a lot of joy, a lot of uh, you know, a lot of pleasure, a lot of good memories. And when the group broke up in 1998, I was kind of unfulfilled and I was always like, you know, why'd you break up? Will there be more music? And that sort of question and and earnestness about the group spawned into, can I do a documentary about the group?

5 Dog, how was it for you reliving, you know, reliving all this, I guess?

I mean, at first it was a little tough, you know what I mean, but, um, you gotta take the good with the bad. Uh-huh. You know what I mean? Can't have a future without a past. So, I accepted it with open arms and I'm enjoying it so far. I thought Mike did a really, really good job putting everything together.

Thanks, 5 Dog.

Welcome.

It was a long time coming, right?

Yeah. I mean, the film took two and a half years. Yeah, to to complete. Blood, sweat, and sometimes actual tears. Um, but, you know, we got it done and and I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out.

You're crying in baseball. There's no crying in hip hop. There's no crying in documentary filmmaking. Did you shed a tear, you tear?

Yeah, man. I mean, it was it was a challenge all the way around.

The only change I saw was just to see those guys' relationship deteriorate. Chemistry was dead. Yeah, I'm kick. I've never had a problem. Five had a problem with me. I'm asking you a song, what would you say, Dude, I'm in a group with you. You're not my dad. That was it for me.

5 Dog, you're working on a solo album, right?

Cheryl's big son, Elmer's grandson. When I was sick or whatever the last couple of years, the only people I had to, um, lean on was my support system, which was my mom, my grandmoms, and my wife. You know what I mean? And, um, I lost my grandmother last June and that was like my best friend. And tour, so to speak. So, um, that's why I named the album, The Microphone check, one, two. What is this? The Five for the with the Ruff Neck business. When he came through on Bugging Out, the first time we heard it, yo, microphone check, one, two, what is this? What?

Who do you listen to now? How would you say it's changed and who would you who you listen to now?

A lot of a lot of old stuff. I mean, as far as hip hop, I listen to a lot of I mean, I still listen to a lot of old stuff. If if there's one thing that I would like to see kind of come back is just like really kind of the diversity of all the different kind of flavors of styles. You can't have like a new artist walking around with a Kango and a boombox the way LL was, but just like that.

You should do that, man.

I want to. I want to.

You should talk to some. I should bring him. I should actually.

But just don't make a big deal out of it. You just you're rocking a Kango. You gotta go. Yeah, but like just like that's just the way it is.

Do a documentary. Jesus. Come on. I'm just I'm just getting over. Hopefully he's got another two and a half years. The therapist, the therapist, the therapy bills on this one, I'm still paying. I mean, I'm just getting out of documentary rehab. Well, guys, thank you for coming in.

Thanks for having me.

Been a pleasure.

Um, amazing documentary.

Thank you.

Thank you.

5 Dog, get the album out. Come on. Do it. Do it. Come on now. The Five Foot Assassin with the Ruff Neck business. Exactly. What you say?