PhifeDawg

Last year, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg announced that he is planning to release a follow-up LP to his 2000 album 'Ventilation: Da LP,' and has now revealed that he will be dropping a teaser EP first, to whet fans' appetites. " my next project, 'Songs in the Key of Phife: 8 is Enuff...

Despite their initial concerns, it appears that A Tribe Called Quest is finally on board with Michael Rapaport's controversial documentary, 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.' Though Tribe frontman Q-Tip publicly denounced Rapaport's film, which he claimed was not a fair representation of his group, he has since turned an about-face, voicing his approval, though he was

Phife Dawg has had his share of health problems over the years, but the A Tribe Called Quest MC is returning to the fold in 2011 with a brand new EP. In addition to Q-Tip's follow-up to 2008's excellent 'The Renaissance,' Phife will drop 'Elma's Grandson' -- a new short effort that seems to be the culmination of a project he teased earlier in the year that paid tribute to Stevie Wonder with the ti

A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg assembled some of the illest emcees -- old school and new -- last night (Jan. 20) for the Mind Body Soul: A Benefit for Diabetes concert at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory. While much of the world are turning their attention toward the crisis created by last week's massive earthquake in Haiti, Phife, whose struggled with diabetes since being diagnosed in 1990, has bee

Phife Dawg of veteran rap group A Tribe Called Quest suffered a crushing loss earlier this month when his protege, underground rapper Jax, died on stage during a performance at Lenny's in Atlanta. According to reports, the young rapper, born Chris Thurston, died of a heart attack...