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2022 studio album by Phife Dawg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forever is the posthumous second and final studio album by American rapper Phife Dawg. It was released on March 22, 2022, the sixth anniversary of his death, by Smokin' Needles Records and AWAL. It features guest appearances by his bandmate Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Maseo and Posdnuos of De La Soul, Dwele, Angela Winbush, Redman, Illa J, and Little Brother, among others. The album was mostly complete at the time of Phife Dawg's death, and was later completed by his business partner and collaborator, DJ Rasta Root.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The A.V. Club | B−[3] |
| Clash | 7/10[4] |
| Exclaim! | 7/10[5] |
| HipHopDX | 3.9/5[6] |
| Pitchfork | 7.0/10[7] |
| Rolling Stone | [8] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ ( )[9] |
| Forever | ||||
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| Released | March 22, 2022 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 53:05 | |||
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Forever was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on seven reviews.[1]
Before his death on March 22, 2016, Phife Dawg had spent roughly a decade recording tracks for his second album, originally titled Songs in the Key of Phife: Volume 1 (Cheryl's Big Son).[10][11] According to DJ Rasta Root, two-thirds of the album was recorded before he stepped in to complete it.[8] For the final third of the album, he used "a lot of blueprints and clues" that Phife Dawg had left behind, in the form of rap notebooks that detailed producers, featured guests, and liner notes that he wanted for the album.[10] DJ Rasta Root noted, "Down to the mix engineer [Bob Power], the photographers, everybody involved had some connection with Phife."[10] His bandmate Ali Shaheed Muhammad mixed two tracks, "Nutshell Pt. 2" and "French Kiss Trois".[10][12]
Forever was promoted with three singles, "Nutshell Pt. 2", "French Kiss Trois", and the title track "Forever". Music videos were released for "Nutshell Pt. 2" on March 22, 2021, "French Kiss Trois" on September 3, 2021, and "Forever" on March 31, 2022.[13][14][15]
Credits are adapted from Tidal.[16]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Cheryl's Big Son (Intro)" (featuring V.Rich) |
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| 0:43 |
| 2. | "Only a Coward" | 9th Wonder | 4:02 | |
| 3. | "Fallback" (featuring Rapsody and Renée Neufville) |
| Khrysis | 4:15 |
| 4. | "Nutshell Pt. 2" (featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman) |
| J Dilla | 3:41 |
| 5. | "Sorry" (featuring V.Rich) |
| Nottz | 4:05 |
| 6. | "Dear Dilla (Reprise)" (featuring Q-Tip) |
| DJ Rasta Root | 3:51 |
| 7. | "Wow Factor" (featuring Maseo) |
| Khrysis | 2:43 |
| 8. | "Residual Curiosities" (featuring Lyric Jones) |
| Riddim Kidz | 4:20 |
| 9. | "God Send" (featuring Dwele) |
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| 4:52 |
| 10. | "Round Irving High School" (featuring Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and Angela Winbush) |
| Winbush | 5:07 |
| 11. | "French Kiss Trois" (featuring Redman and Illa J) |
| Potatohead People | 3:58 |
| 12. | "2 Live Forever" (featuring Posdnuos, Little Brother and Darien Brockington) |
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| 5:24 |
| 13. | "Forever" |
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| 5:57 |
| Total length: | 53:05 | |||
Sample credits
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