The Pharcyde (/ˈfɑːrsaɪd/) is a Californian alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles. The original four members of the group are Imani (Emandu Wilcox), Slimkid3 (Trevant Hardson), Bootie Brown (Romye Robinson), and Fatlip (Derrick Stewart). DJ Mark Luv was the group's first disc jockey (DJ), followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is perhaps best known for the hit singles "Drop", "Passin' Me By" and "Runnin'", as well as their first album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992). The group continues to tour and record, both collaboratively and in solo projects—the most recent being Hardson's collaborative EP with the award-winning DJ Nu-Mark (of Jurassic 5) released in 2014 on Delicious Vinyl.
Pharcyde group members Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, and Imani met as dancers in the late 1980s and dancing was their main ambition as late as 1990. Around this time, Imani and Slimkid3 were in a group called "As Is" and later a group called the "Play Brothers", whilst Bootie Brown was a backup dancer for Fatlip (Fatlip being the last member to join the group). Bootie Brown recalls that their earlier dancing careers influenced their rapping – "sometimes the way I rap is almost like the way I used to dance". The group met Reggie Andrews, a local high-school music teacher who worked with the Dazz Band and Rick James, and who was a major musical influence on their debut album. The group also met producer J-Swift around this time, as he was Reggie Andrews's "star pupil" according to the book Check the Technique.
Still to far from me
Only now in real life
Guess iÂ've never been this free
Guess itÂ's time to realise
When you left your life collection
Was it planned for me to see
And i took the first moment
Just to not let it be
And i blame, i blame it all
It all on me
There was something in that mind
Something wanished and gone
And i just couldnÂ't follow
What was going on
When i tore apart your picture
It was just cause it was old
But i put it all together
Just like i was told
I never pictured that about you
My home is no more immune
You brought me my enemy
Just like i told you not to
And nothing in this world
Can wash it clean
And i donÂ't wanna be able
To see how that could have been
And i blame, i blame it all
It all on me
Headacher, painful
Heartbraker, beautiful
So i turn out all the lights