Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 ā 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. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) collected 40 of his works for the Voice and he published a sequel, Flyboy 2, in 2016. A
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
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ā 0Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
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ā 7.2Basquiat: Rage to Riches
ā 5.8Seven Songs for Malcolm X
ā 0I Am Richard Pryor
ā 6.9The Last Angel of History
ā 6.7The Real Michael Jackson
ā 9Betty: They Say Iām Different
ā 7.1Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
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