Mama Phife Represents: A Memoir (Paperback)
Hip-hop icon Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor passed away in March, 2016 at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes.
A Tribe Called Quest is legendary. They are one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history. They currently average more than 3 million listeners per month on Spotify. They're last album, released months after Phife's death, was widely lauded the New York Times.
Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller, an IndieNext pick, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and widely lauded at NPR, Buzzfeed, AV Club, The Rumpus, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is an award-winning poet. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award and a VONA fellow. Her life papers and portfolio are stored at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
At a time in the United States when so many Black mothers are losing their Black children -- through illness and violence -- this book stands as a testament to the deep, ground-shifting impact of loss across generations.
Hip-hop icon Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor passed away in March, 2016 at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes.
A Tribe Called Quest is legendary. They are one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history. They currently average more than 3 million listeners per month on Spotify. They're last album, released months after Phife's death, was widely lauded the New York Times.
Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller, an IndieNext pick, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and widely lauded at NPR, Buzzfeed, AV Club, The Rumpus, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is an award-winning poet. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award and a VONA fellow. Her life papers and portfolio are stored at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
At a time in the United States when so many Black mothers are losing their Black children -- through illness and violence -- this book stands as a testament to the deep, ground-shifting impact of loss across generations.
Hip-hop icon Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor passed away in March, 2016 at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes.
A Tribe Called Quest is legendary. They are one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history. They currently average more than 3 million listeners per month on Spotify. They're last album, released months after Phife's death, was widely lauded the New York Times.
Hanif Abdurraqib's Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller, an IndieNext pick, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, and widely lauded at NPR, Buzzfeed, AV Club, The Rumpus, Vanity Fair, and many other outlets.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is an award-winning poet. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers For Writers Award and a VONA fellow. Her life papers and portfolio are stored at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
At a time in the United States when so many Black mothers are losing their Black children -- through illness and violence -- this book stands as a testament to the deep, ground-shifting impact of loss across generations.