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Greg Tate - Wikipedia. Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 – December 7, 2021) was an American writer, musician, and producer. A long-time critic for The Village Voice, Tate focused particularly on African-American music and culture, helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of music criticism.
Dec 8, 2021 · Greg Tate, a journalist and critic whose articles for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and other publications starting in the 1980s helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same plane as jazz...
Dec 7, 2021 · Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson at Duke University Press, his publisher.
- Andrew Limbong
Dec 8, 2021 · The revered critic Greg Tate, an early and influential hip hop writer, has died. Tate grew up around intellectuals and developed a rabid curiosity about music, film, literature, theory...
Dec 7, 2021 · Greg Tate was a groundbreaking voice on Black music and culture, co-founding the Black Rock Coalition and authoring Flyboy in the Buttermilk. He also played in Burnt Sugar and other projects, and wrote for The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
- Hank Shteamer
Dec 7, 2021 · Tate was a longtime writer for the Village Voice and a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition. He also wrote books on black culture, jazz and Jimi Hendrix, and was praised for his erudite and stylish criticism.
Dec 9, 2021 · Greg Tate, a musician and longtime Village Voice writer who chronicled Black achievement in the arts and was acclaimed as a preeminent critic of hip-hop music and culture, died Dec....
