don't mess with my man. so here's what's wack. lucy pearl's track "you" featured snoop dogg and q tip and naturally, when they went to make the video, they both were asked to be in attendance at the shoot. snoop dogg in all his skinny glory was there, looking cool and doing his pre-shizzle nizzle yo hizzle thing. joi (who replaced dawn robinson), raphael saadiq and ali shaheed muhammad my dj who is real dominant, he and i form the funky tribe, if you want to get with it, just feel the vibe were set up to promote their song in a typical, yet relatively classy, party video. q tip was nowhere to be found. tip, long time friend (i'm assuming) and associate of ali, worked together for years to produce some of the greatest music hip hop has ever seen. with the break up of the quest tribe, lucy pearl was the first project from an ex member and their work was highly anticipated and eventually highly acclaimed. where was q tip when his old bandmate needed some support though?



nowhere that's where.



he didn't show up at the shoot, even after he had committed to it. obviously ali and the rest of lucy pearl were not very happy. how do you make a video without one of the lyricists on the track? especially when it's q tip, a big name and "star" in the industry. of course q tip scenes did get in for the actual video. he shoots his lines walking and rapping along the streets of new york. but there is a big disconnect between the club scenes featuring everyone else and q tip doing his own solo bit. and you kind of wonder, "what happened?" what happened was that ali got jacked and tip screwed over his friend (supposedly he partied too hard or something). i may not know the whole story but if it went down like i just said it did, that's waaaaack! don't do that to your friends man. it sucks. and blows. if...when...i make a damn video, you guys better all be there or we are no longer friends.