# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phife-dawg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:03:19.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phife-dawg"
name: "Phife Dawg"
slug: "phife-dawg"
description: "Malik Izaak Taylor, known professionally as Phife Dawg, was an American rapper and a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. He was also known as the \"Five-Foot Assassin\" and the \"Five-Footer\", because he stood at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m)."
tagline: "American rapper (1970–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phife-dawg-jm3-funyons.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: "1970-11-20"
deathDate: "2016-03-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.656876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IamthePHIFER"
    handle:    "IamthePHIFER"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205954/"
    handle:    "nm0205954"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5D7j3YOhscvrld2WzjSIpN"
    handle:    "5D7j3YOhscvrld2WzjSIpN"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "مالك تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%AF"
    title: "فایف داوگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phife_Dawg"
    title: "Phife Dawg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d9f3f7ca-9963-45c5-85b3-81f306614ff8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1370892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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