{"id":15877,"date":"2016-03-24T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2016-08-24T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:04:26","slug":"rip-phife-dawg-tribe-called-quest-90s-hiphop-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/rip-phife-dawg-tribe-called-quest-90s-hiphop-legend\/110132","title":{"rendered":"Phife Dawg &#8211; Tribe Called Quest HipHop Legend Dies at 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malik Taylor<\/strong> aka <strong>Phife Dawg<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phife_Dawg\" target=\"_blank\">co-founder<\/a> of the 1990&#8217;s legendary <strong>HipHop<\/strong> crew A <strong>Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> died on Tuesday at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15878 size-full\" title=\"Phife Dawg\" src=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phife-Dawg-640x427-e1458762560599.jpg\" alt=\"Phife Dawg\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phife-Dawg-640x427-e1458762560599.jpg 615w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Phife-Dawg-640x427-e1458762560599-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malik was our loving husband, father, brother and friend,&#8221; his family said in a statement. &#8220;We love him dearly. How he impacted all our lives will never be forgotten. His love for music and sports was only surpassed by his love of God and family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15879 size-full\" title=\"Phife Dawg, Tribe Called Quest, Rest in Peace\" src=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tribe-large-e1458762981295.jpg\" alt=\"Phife Dawg, Tribe Called Quest, Rest in Peace\" width=\"614\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tribe-large-e1458762981295.jpg 614w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tribe-large-e1458762981295-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> was an American hip hop trio that was formed in 1985,composed of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Along with <strong>De La Soul<\/strong>, the group was a central part of the <strong>Native Tongues Posse<\/strong>, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Many of their songs, such as &#8220;Bonita Applebum&#8221;, &#8220;Can I Kick It?&#8221;, &#8220;I Left My Wallet in El Segundo&#8221;, &#8220;Scenario&#8221;, &#8220;Check the Rhime&#8221;, &#8220;Jazz (We&#8217;ve Got)&#8221;, &#8220;Award Tour&#8221; and &#8220;Electric Relaxation&#8221; are regarded as classics. The group released five albums between 1990 and 1998 and disbanded in 1998. In 2006, the group reunited and toured the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OIah18jcJko\" width=\"615\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>John Bush of AllMusic called them &#8220;the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s,&#8221;<br \/>\nAbout.com ranked them #4 on their list of the &#8220;25 Best Rap Groups of All Time.&#8221;<br \/>\nBillboard gave them the &#8220;Special Achievement Award&#8221; at the Hip-Hop Awards in 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Taylor aka Phife Dawg, co-founder of the 1990&#8217;s legendary HipHop crew A Tribe Called Quest died on Tuesday at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes. &#8220;Malik was our loving husband, father, brother and friend,&#8221; his family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[11580,8281,10287,7933,10288],"class_list":["post-15877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-malik-taylor","tag-music-2","tag-phife-dawg","tag-spotlight","tag-tribe-called-quest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}