--- title: Watch A Tribe Called Quest's 'We The People' Music Video description: A Tribe Called Quest dropped their a powerful new music video for 'We the People,' which features a tribute to late member Phife Dawg. canonical: https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-18T17:33:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:49.663Z og:title: Watch A Tribe Called Quest's New 'We the People' Music Video og:description: The visuals pay tribute to late member Phife Dawg og:url: https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch A Tribe Called Quest's New 'We the People' Music Video twitter:description: The visuals pay tribute to late member Phife Dawg twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch A Tribe Called Quest Pay Tribute to Phife Dawg in the 'We the People' Music Video > Sponsored content. 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There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=bd8a416c-a8fa-471f-b7f2-9dfbd8b56d0a&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 18, 2016 5:33 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 18, 2016 5:33 PM UTC A [Tribe Called Quest’s](http://time.com/4549277/a-tribe-called-quest-final-album/) latest — [and what they deem their final](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7580467/a-tribe-called-quest-comeback-album-future) — album _We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service_ couldn’t have come at a more fitting time. Although the album was recorded before the presidential election, it dropped was just three days after the [election results were announced](http://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/), making the politically charged themes all the more relevant, a fact that’s not lost on the group’s “We the People” video, which dropped on Thursday night. The powerful video features Q-Tip, Jarobi White, and Busta Rhymes addressing issues ranging like oppression, xenophobia, misogyny and homophobia as a large graffiti mural of the late Phife Dawg watches from the side of a building. As Tip raps lines like “All you black folks, you must go/ All you Mexicans, you must go/ And all you poor folks, you must go/Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways/ So all you bad folks, you must go,” the visuals show people rallying for the beginning of a major political protest. A Tribe Called Quest performed “We the People” with Busta Rhymes and Consequence last week during [their appearance as musical guests on _Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4569026/saturday-night-live-snl-donald-trump-review/); watch the music video for “We the People” below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/"},"headline":"Watch A Tribe Called Quest Pay Tribute to Phife Dawg in the 'We the People' Music Video","datePublished":"2016-11-18T17:33:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:49.663Z","description":"RIP Phife Dawg","url":"https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4576382/a-tribe-called-quest-we-the-people-music-video/","name":"Watch A Tribe Called Quest Pay Tribute to Phife Dawg in the 'We the People' Music Video"}}]}] ```