{"id":149031,"date":"2021-01-25T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=149031"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:07:24","slug":"new-book-mama-phife-represents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/new-book-mama-phife-represents\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Mama Phife Represents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"149104\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/new-book-mama-phife-represents\/capture-100\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=802%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"802,797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Radostin Pashov&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1611583553&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=640%2C636&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=640%2C537&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-149104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?resize=540%2C537&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?resize=768%2C763&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Capture-5.jpg?w=802&amp;ssl=1 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning poet <strong>Cheryl Boyce-Taylor<\/strong> pays tribute to her departed son <strong>Malik &#8216;Phife Dawg\u2019 Taylor <\/strong>of the legendary hip-hop trio <strong>A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> in a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother\u2019s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u201cPhife Dawg\u201d 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\u2019s writings and memoirs help to comfort the place that misses him greatly. I thank her for this book and for still teaching us&#8230; like her mother before her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ali Shaheed Muhammad, A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get your copy of <strong>Cheryl Boyce-Taylor<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Mama Phife Represents<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mama-Phife-Represents-Memoir-BreakBeat\/dp\/1642592668#ace-0979249316\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor pays tribute to her departed son Malik &#8216;Phife Dawg\u2019 Taylor of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-CLJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}