Phife Dawg dead: A Tribe Called Quest-rapper with 45 dead – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Grief in the hip hop scene: According to American trade media Phife Dawg died. Born in 1970 as Malik Isaac Taylor in New York rapper was in the early nineties known as one third of the group A Tribe Called Quest, representing a loose movement called Native Tongues along with De La Soul and the Jungle Brothers.

Native Tongues were for a positive attitude in their rap lyrics and related in their samples often on jazz sources – a Tribe called Quest called a their songs even explicitly “Jazz (We’ve Got)”.

During his rapper-mate Q-Tip with deep, relaxed voice carried this jazz influence very strong in itself, was important for the connection to the hip-hop scene Phife Dawg with his more pressing, a little more hectic verses.

the family of Malik Taylor came from Trinidad, he grew up in Queens, New York, but in one of his most famous line (from “Electric relaxation”), he ordered himself another nationality, founded by Africa Bambataa Zulu nation: “I like ‘em Brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian / name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation”

“People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm,” The low End Theory “and” Midnight. Marauders “get A Tribe Called Quest several critically acclaimed albums; commercially successful 1996 was the US number-one album” beats, Rhymes and Life “; for” the Love Movement “of 1998, dissolved the group How the impressive documentary “beats, Rhymes & amp; Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest “was in 2011, the separation was not conflict-free, especially Phife Dawg and Q-Tip had a very critical relationship to each other Nevertheless, there were several reunions Recently the group met in November, 2015.. talk show Jimmy Fallon on.

In the film, the long-standing diabetes disease of Malik Taylor Reports on Phife Dawgs was discussed. death do not have information on the cause of death .