Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGreg Tate, an American music and culture writer and musician, has died, a rep for Tate’s publisher Duke University Press confirmed to Variety.
He was 64; a cause of death was not provided.While his writing touched on many aspects of African-American culture, he is probably best known as a vital early hip-hop writer, particularly in his many years at the Village Voice.
He was also an active musician, a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of the Burnt Sugar ensemble.Born and raised in Ohio, his family moved to Washington, DC when he was a teenager and he immersed himself in the city’s music culture of the era; one of his first articles for the Voice was about D.C.’s pivotal, all-black punk.
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