# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jarobi-white
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:42:49.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jarobi-white"
name: "Jarobi White"
slug: "jarobi-white"
description: "Jarobi White is an American rapper and chef, best known as a founding member of hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, alongside Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. He left the group after the release of their debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990), in order to pursue culinary arts, before returning for their last album, 2016's We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. In the early 2010s, Jarobi formed evitaN with Dres, formerly of Black Sheep. Their first album, Speed of Life, was released in October 2012."
tagline: "American hip hop musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jarobi_White.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             1.277777777777778
  historical:           7.1611
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JarobiWhite"
    handle:    "JarobiWhite"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.myspace.com/6220370"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/781564"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جاروبى وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarobi_White"
    title: "Jarobi White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarobi_White"
    title: "Jarobi White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarobi_White"
    title: "Jarobi White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarobi_White"
    title: "Jarobi White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarobi_White"
    title: "Jarobi White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/28e9712e-baad-4c7b-a563-4e44bcfb95da"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3063003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump