New Book: Mama Phife Represents

Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest in a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother’s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning.

A teacher begets a teacher and a poet begets a poet. This book is the embodiment of pure love, grace and hope. Herein, Mama Phife aka Cheryl Boyce-Taylor has given us a gift about her greatest gift, her son Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor. Malik was a great storyteller. To say he got it from his mama is an understatement. He was a treasure to me and Cheryl’s writings and memoirs help to comfort the place that misses him greatly. I thank her for this book and for still teaching us… like her mother before her.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad, A Tribe Called Quest

Get your copy of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor‘s Mama Phife Represents here.