Phife Dawg

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Phife Dawg (born Malik Taylor on November 20, 1970 in Queens, New York), also known as the Five Foot Assassin and The Five Footer, is a Trinidadian-American rapper, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (and for a short time Jarobi White).

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In addition to being a member of pioneering hip--hop group A Tribe Called Quest, Phife has performed in songs with other artists. He was featured on the Fu-Schnickens song "La Schmoove", Diamond D's "Painz & Strife" along with Pete Rock, and Black Sheep's "Let the Horns Blow" with Al' Tariq and Trugoy, among others. In 2000 he released his first solo LP, Ventilation: Da LP to mostly negative reviews[citation needed], although the criticism centered largely on the production's eclectic and seemingly lazy nature. Currently Phife is anticipating a second album titled Songs in the Key of Phife. He stated on Billboard's website that we would like to get Method Man, Faith Evans, De La Soul, and Redman, as well as his fellow ATCQ bandmates.

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  • He is a playable Character in the videogame NBA 2K7.

[edit] Lyrics

Among Phife's most quotable lyrics are:

  • "Microphone check one two - what is this? The Five Foot Assassin with the roughneck business."
  • "The height of Muggsy Bogues, complexion of a hockey puck."
  • "I never half-step, cuz I'm not a half-stepper; drink a lot of soda so they call me Doctor Pepper."
  • "Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am. Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram."
  • "Bo knows this, and Bo knows that, but Bo don't know jack, cuz Bo can't rap."
  • "I'll bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from."
  • "I used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. Not that honey dip would wanna get with me, but just in case, I own more condoms than TLC.
  • "The whackest crews try to diss it makes me laugh, when my track record's longer than a DC-20 aircraft."
  • "Tryin' hard to look fly, but yo, you're lookin' dumber. If I wanted someone like you I woulda swung with Jamie Summers
  • "I Like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian. Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation."
  • "By the way my name's Malik, the five foot freak! Let's say we get together by the end of the week. She simply said no, labeled me a hoe, I said, how do ya figure? My friends tell me so. I hate when silly groupies wanna run their yap, word to God hun, I don't get down like that."
  • "Let me hit it from the back girl, I won't catch a hernia, bust off on your couch, now ya got Seaman's furniture."
  • "I like my beats hard like two day old shits, steady eatin booty MC's like cheese grits."
  • "Every dog has its day well eff' that its my year, all you gat pullin' MC's can never come near, all that bogus-type chatta please put it to rest, its the Phifer from Quest, leavin' venues a mess."
  • "I never let a statue tell me how nice i am."

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