Rapaport's documentary “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest” took home the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature during the annual film festival.
The awards, which were hosted by Allison Janney and John C. Reilly, ran in various locations from Thursday, June 16th to Sunday, June 26th, in downtown Los Angeles.
When the documentary debuted at the Sundance film Festival, leading group members refused to attend the premiere after a disagreement with director, Michael Rapaport.
Q-Tip took issue with Rapaport over the creative direction of the documentary, which he felt did not have enough input from original group members, including himself Phife, and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
Each group member, with the exception of Q-Tip, came out to support “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest," during the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg and original group member Jarobi addressed the crowd that had gathered to watch the documentary at L.A.'s Ford Amphitheater on Friday (June 24th).
According to Tribe group members, Q-Tip could not attend due to family obligations in New York.
Despite Q-Tip's absence, A Tribe Called Quest members opened up about their feelings about the documentary to MovieLine.com, during the film's screening.
“I have seen it before but each time I see it I see something different," Ali Shaheed Muhammad said. “L.A. seemed to have a real cool mellow kind of cheer. I saw in New York and it was a little bit different, which is reminiscent of every time we step on stage; each city has its own reaction. It reminded me of the early days when we first came out. As a matter of fact, right where Jimmy Kimmel is taped used to be a club called Water the Bush, and I remember it was one of the first appearances we had in Los Angeles.”
For Phife, the film is much more personal, because it delves into his health crisis relating to his battle with diabetes, which resulted in the rapper having to receive a kidney transplant in October of 2008.
His wife, Deisha Head-Taylor became his kidney donor.
She initially did not want to appear in the documentary but changed her mind at Phife's urging.
"He had to go through dialysis and he was at the clinic three times a week and trying to travel, trying to do music," Taylor told Movieline.com. "But once the kidney transplant started approaching and I found out I was a donor, his spirit just sort of changed. It was a miracle that I was the donor. It just changed our lives.”
“Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest" is slated to open on July 8th via Sony Pictures Classics.
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