{"id":377966,"date":"2021-12-08T00:35:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/iconic-music-critic-greg-tate-dies-at-64\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:35:02","slug":"iconic-music-critic-greg-tate-dies-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/iconic-music-critic-greg-tate-dies-at-64\/","title":{"rendered":"#Iconic music critic Greg Tate dies at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33658587d9d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/iconic-music-critic-greg-tate-dies-at-64\/#Tate_co-founded_the_Black_Rock_Coalition_and_was_known_as_the_Godfather_of_hip-hop_journalism\" >Tate co-founded the Black Rock Coalition and was known as the Godfather of hip-hop journalism.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Iconic music critic Greg Tate dies at 64<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tate_co-founded_the_Black_Rock_Coalition_and_was_known_as_the_Godfather_of_hip-hop_journalism\"><\/span>Tate co-founded the Black Rock Coalition and was known as the Godfather of hip-hop journalism.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-226905\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/TATE_FLYBOY_PHOTO_BY_NISHA_SONDHE_twb5av\/photo-by-nisha-sondhe.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Iconic music critic Greg Tate dies at 64\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Nisha Sondhe.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-226906\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Greg Tate, the &#8220;Godfather of hip-hop journalism,&#8221; passed away last night at 64. Friends and fans took to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to mourn his loss this afternoon, and The FADER has independently confirmed his passing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-226909\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">rip greg tate&#8230; impossible to mimic, though we all tried&#8230; a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one&#8230; wrote this in 2016 and could have easily written 100,000 more words about his influence on us <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/watdGCpY8m\">https:\/\/t.co\/watdGCpY8m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hua hsu (@huahsu) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huahsu\/status\/1468268092123983886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-226908\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Tate was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio but moved to Harlem in 1982, shortly after graduating from Howard University. In 1985, he co-founded the Black Rock Coalition with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, Eye and I frontwoman D.K. Dyson, and producer Konda Mason. As a writer, guitarist, and all-around musical mind, he had the rare ability to authoritatively trace sounds back to their roots \u2014 which, in the case of American popular music, are always Black.<\/p>\n<p>            He continued this work at <i>The Village Voice<\/i> from 1987 to 2005. There, he chronicled the rise of hip-hop to the American mainstream, always reminding his readership of the history behind it. He published his first book, <i>Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America<\/i>, in 1992, and published three more \u2014 the last of which is <i>Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader<\/i> (2016) \u2014 in the following decades. He was working on a forthcoming book called <i>James Brown&#8217;s Body and the Revolution of the Mind<\/i> for Riverhead Press.<\/p>\n<p>            &#8220;Everything we love about modern song, noise, and dance sprang from swing and bebop roots,&#8217; he wrote in a 2016 FADER piece titled &#8220;Why Jazz Will Always Be Relevant.&#8221; &#8220;R&amp;B, rock, Motown, funk, disco, hip-hop, Detroit techno, Chicago house, drum &amp; bass, et al are all extensions of a movement-inciting continuum that started in antebellum New Orleans\u2019 Congo Square\u2014breakbeat culture\u2019s ground zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            In 1999, Tate founded Burnt Sugar, the Archestra Chamber: a fluid collective dedicated \u2014 much as the Black Rock Coalition was \u2014 to celebrating all forms of Black music. In addition to Black Rock founders Reid and Dyson, Burnt Sugar has included erswthile Miles Davis guitarist Pete Cosey, pianist Vijay Iyer, and saxophonist Matana Roberts, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>            Tate was a visiting professor of Africana Studies at Brown and of Jazz Studies at Columbia. He will live on not only through his own writing and music, but through the work of the countless writers and musicians who \u2014 knowingly or not \u2014 owe many of their ideas to his genius. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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