A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg Forever 1970-2016
Posted on March 23, 2016
Hip hop has lost one of its founding fathers. Pfife Dawg, one of the founding members of legendary hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest, died Wednesday at 45 of complications from diabetes. Born Malik Taylor in 1970, he founded A Tribe Called Quest in 1985 with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. One of rap's landmark early acts, A Tribe Called Quest released five critically and commercially successful albums from 1990 to 1998, and were responsible for hits such as Bonita Applebaum Can I Kick It?, I Left My Wallet in El Segundo, Scenario and Check the Rhime. -USA Today
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