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Phife Dawg is a Hip hop act. Their sound grew out of Hi-Tek. Those roots explain a lot about how Phife Dawg arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Large Professor, Main Source and Little Brother, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Common, Q-Tip, Kanye West, Jill Scott and The Roots, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Phife Dawg, reaching back through Hi-Tek and forward to Common. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Phife Dawg connections
Phife Dawg grew out of Hi-Tek, shares an orbit with A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Large Professor and Main Source, went on to shape Common, Q-Tip, Kanye West and Jill Scott. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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