Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSlimkid3, Imani and Fatlip of the Pharcyde were never supposed to rap together again. After producing two classic ‘90s hip-hop albums — “Bizarre Ride: The Pharcyde” and “Labcabincalifornia” — the galvanizing West Coast hip-hop group crumbled and went their separate ways.
Slimkid3 and Fatlip splintered off into their own group Bizarre Ride, while Imani and Bootie Brown ran with the Pharcyde name, performing as a duo.
But death has a funny way of putting things into perspective, ready or not.Not long after Imani’s grandmother died and his own first grandchild was born, he had somewhat of a spiritual awakening that prompted him to call Slimkid3 after years of not speaking. “We had been estranged from each other for a while and we were doing different shows,” he tells Variety in a recent Zoom interview. “Tre was doing shows with Fatlip, I was doing shows with Brown and we had been away from each other for a while.“We had the 20th anniversary and every time these anniversaries start coming around, it starts getting weird, right?
People started talking and you already have a way you feel about certain things, and then it just kept on going.“I was having issues in my world, like personally with my grandmother passing a few years back, then I had a granddaughter.
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