| LC control no. | no 98122138 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Phife Dawg, 1970-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Phife, 1970-2016 Taylor, Malik, 1970-2016 Five Foot Assassin, 1970-2016 Five Footer, 1970-2016 Mutty Ranks, 1970-2016 Ranks, Mutty, 1970-2016 Taylor, Malik Isaac, 1970-2016 |
| See also | Corporate body: Tribe Called Quest (Musical group) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Atlanta (Ga.) |
| Birth date | 1970-11-20 |
| Death date | 2016-03-22 |
| Place of birth | Queens (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Rap (Music) |
| Profession or occupation | Rap musicians |
| Found in | Music from the motion picture The rugrats movie, p1998: container (Phife) AllMusic guide, Nov. 9, 1998 (Phife, b. Malik Taylor, Apr. 10, 1970; vocalist with A Tribe Called Quest) January 6, 2015 (Phife Dawg; as part of the pioneering rap group A Tribe Called Quest and its extended Native Tongues family, Phife Dawg helped to usher in a whole new style of intelligent hip-hop. Born Malik Taylor, Phife grew up in Queens, NY; along with high-school classmates Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife founded ATCQ, whose legendary decade-long career ended in 1998 with The Love Movement; Atlanta-based; born April 20, 1970 in Brooklyn, NY; Genre: Rap; Styles: Alternative Rap, East Coast Rap, Underground Rap. Also known as: Malik Taylor, Mutty Ranks. Member of: A Tribe Called Quest; Native Tongues) Beats, rhymes & life, 2011: voice-over introduction (Phife Dawg) end credits (Malik Taylor) Wikipedia, January 6, 2015 (Phife Dawg; Malik Isaac Taylor (born November 20, 1970), better known by his stage name Phife Dawg (or simply Phife), is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (and for a short time Jarobi White). He is also known as the "Five Foot Assassin" and "The Five Footer", because he stands at 5 ft 3 in. Also known as: Five Foot Assassin, The Five Footer, Phife; has diabetes) IMDb, January 6, 2015 (Phife Dawg; born on November 20, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Malik Isaac Taylor; Nickname: The Five-Foot Assassin; is a diabetic) Phife Dawg biography, via dLife website, January 6, 2015 (Phife Dawg; Claim to fame: Musician; DOB: November 20, 1970; Diabetes Type: 1; born Malik Taylor, changed the face of hip-hop music with the acclaimed, Grammy-nominated group, A Tribe Called Quest) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016 (in obituary published Mar. 23: Malik Taylor; b. Malik Isaac Taylor, Nov. 20, 1970, Queens; d. Tuesday [Mar. 22, 2016], in the San Francisco Bay Area, aged 45; wry and agile rapper known as Phife Dawg, who as a member of A Tribe Called Quest brought left-of-center hip-hop to the masses) |
| Associated language | eng |
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