Phife Dawg Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Net Worth, Fast Facts

The first, fifth and sixth of those collections had been confirmed ‘Gold’ by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while the second, third and fourth collections had been guaranteed ‘Platinum’.

The last 4 of the above mentioned collections had all topped inside the ‘Best 3’ of the US R&B charts while the second collection,

The Low End Theory, has often been seen as one of the best hip hop collections ever delivered. With the reunion, he also delivered five arrangement collections and two EPs.

Ventilation: Da LP (2000) was the major independent studio collection he delivered during his lifetime.

Phife Dawg’s work has been regularly attributed to helping prove the ‘macho performance’ of rap and hip-jump music during the late 1980s and mid-1990s.

His twin brother, Mikal, was born prematurely and died shortly after birth.
He initially met future rapper and record maker Q-Tip as a child and proposed to him, when he was 9 years old, that they become rappers after the song Rapper’s Delight (1979) woke them up. They would go on to become members of the hip-bounce group A Tribe Called Quest.

It had been determined that he had diabetes mellitus in May 1990. He had used the expression ‘diabetic out of control’, alluding to his analysis, in the single called Oh My God, which was part of the third collection of the aforementioned group, Midnight Marauders. .

Phife Dawg had undergone a kidney replacement in 2008, the benefactor being his partner Deisha Head. The transfer became ineffective in 2012 and he had to use the technique again after this.

He was an avid fan and used to appear constantly on different public broadcasts and sports programs on ESPN. He was also featured as a playable person in the NBA 2K7 and NBA 2K9 basketball computer games.

In November 2016, a portion of Linden Boulevard, at the junction of 192nd Street in St. Albans, Queens, where he grew up, was renamed Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor Way.

It was the area for the filming of the music video for their reunion’s 1991 tune called Check the Rhime.