Phife Dawg
Phife Dawg (real name Malik Isaac Taylor ; born November 20, 1970 in New York ; † March 22, 2016 in the San Francisco Bay Area , California ) was an American rapper who became known as a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest .
Life
Born in Brooklyn in 1970 , Malik Taylor grew up in the New York borough of Queens . As a child he was friends with Jonathan Davis .
Taylor wrote poetry during his childhood and began rapping in school . In high school, he and Davis (aka Q-Tip) met Ali Shaheed Muhammad . With Jarobi White, another friend of Taylor, the four friends formed A Tribe Called Quest in the late 1980s . After the band had released five albums on Jive Records by 1998 , they split. Phife Dawg released the solo album Ventilation: Da LP on Groove Attack in 2000 .
Phife Dawg died in March 2016 at the age of 45 from complications from diabetes .
Discography (solo)
Albums
- 2000: Ventilation: Da LP
Singles
- 1999: Bend Ova / Thought U Wuz Nice
- 1999: Flawless
- 2001: Miscellaneous
- 2014: Dear Dilla
Filmography
- 1993: Who's the Man?
- 1998: The Rugrats Movie
- 2008: NBA 2K8
- 2011: Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Web links
- Phife Dawg at Allmusic (English)
- Phife Dawg at Discogs (English)
- Phife Dawg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Tribe Called Quest: Rapper Phife Dawg dies , Spiegel Online , March 23, 2016; accessed on March 23, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joe Coscarelli, Hannah Olivennes: Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Dies at 45. In: The New York Times , March 23, 2016 (accessed March 24, 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phife Dawg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, Malik Isaac (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2016 |
| Place of death | San Francisco Bay Area , California |