Greg Tate

American music critic (The Village Voice) and musician (Burnt Sugar)
Died on Tuesday December 7th 2021

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@NewBlackMan: 'Honoring the publication of Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (Aperture, 2020), this conversation brings Ming Smit… - 2 years ago

@phantomshred: Just had my soul stirred by Greg Tate’s piece on Cecil Taylor in Flyboy In The Buttermilk - 2 years ago

@Cstu05: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@gigstarr: RT @nytimesmusic: A single, clear thread ran through all his work: a belief that Black culture was fresh and innovative but at the same tim… - 2 years ago

@EisaUlen: the wonderous greg tate. we love him always. tributes from @gonzomike @MMLunlimited @selwynhinds and other beautif… - 2 years ago

@MattLabor: RT @LangstonReview: Michael A. Gonzales Remembers His Dear Friend and Mentor #RIP - 2 years ago

@LangstonReview: Michael A. Gonzales Remembers His Dear Friend and Mentor #RIP - 2 years ago

@jojorobo58_jojo: RT @pulmyears: Record Store Day Podcast HOLIDAY SPECIAL, with Amanda Shires, Brian Fallon, and Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull. Plus Paul… - 2 years ago

@danielleamir: RT @gonzomike: Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate by @gonzomike - 2 years ago

@pulmyears: Record Store Day Podcast HOLIDAY SPECIAL, with Amanda Shires, Brian Fallon, and Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull. P… - 2 years ago

@JLBarrow: RT @gonzomike: Two arts journals Greg Tate co-edited: B. Culture (1986) and Coon Bidness (2011) - 2 years ago

@nelsongeorge: RT @gonzomike: Two arts journals Greg Tate co-edited: B. Culture (1986) and Coon Bidness (2011) - 2 years ago

@Gravysauce7: Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@SparkerlyMusic: RT @nytimesmusic: A single, clear thread ran through all his work: a belief that Black culture was fresh and innovative but at the same tim… - 2 years ago

@ecinaj_m: RT @NYMag: Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and teacher - 2 years ago

@alioshak: RT @nytimesmusic: A single, clear thread ran through all his work: a belief that Black culture was fresh and innovative but at the same tim… - 2 years ago

@vulture: RT @NYMag: Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and teacher - 2 years ago

@IIXDR34M3RXII: RT @nytimesmusic: A single, clear thread ran through all his work: a belief that Black culture was fresh and innovative but at the same tim… - 2 years ago

@nytimesmusic: A single, clear thread ran through all his work: a belief that Black culture was fresh and innovative but at the sa… - 2 years ago

@MFreeman2020: RT @gonzomike: "While I’d come of age in the era of new journalism (Tom Wolfe! Joan Didion!) and the gonzo dispatches of Hunter Thompson, T… - 2 years ago

@hof_nodnarb: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@AngieB500: A Black Education - Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and my teacher. - 2 years ago

@yoitsPboy: RT @ComplexMusic: R.I.P 🕊 Greg Tate’s cause of death was cardiac arrest 🙏 Prayers go out to his family - 2 years ago

@EpicProsaic: RT @Bronxbanlieue: As a young Black kid from Harlem I would take the D train downtown just to pick up the Village Voice to read Greg Tate’s… - 2 years ago

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@amacgotswag: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@Tiffscribes: RT @gonzomike: "While I’d come of age in the era of new journalism (Tom Wolfe! Joan Didion!) and the gonzo dispatches of Hunter Thompson, T… - 2 years ago

@Qui9t: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@sofiaquintero: RT @gonzomike: "While I’d come of age in the era of new journalism (Tom Wolfe! Joan Didion!) and the gonzo dispatches of Hunter Thompson, T… - 2 years ago

@sofiaquintero: RT @AMAZINACE: The Vibe Double Covers were so dope ..@danamo and so many Legendary Contributors @Missinfo Bonz . Greg Tate @MimiValdes @har… - 2 years ago

@A3ThePhirstDown: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@JohnSimsProject: Here is my Detroit Metro Times tribute piece for the great Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@dada_strain: Michael Gonzales remembers Greg Tate! - 2 years ago

@digitalroon: RT @tirhakahlove: i did my best to write about the profound worlds greg tate opened up to me as a pan-africanist teacher - 2 years ago

@StevenTnfx4: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@imortalaxe: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@TheQHBlend: RT @gonzomike: "While I’d come of age in the era of new journalism (Tom Wolfe! Joan Didion!) and the gonzo dispatches of Hunter Thompson, T… - 2 years ago

@ROCK_ME_HARD: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@marberfer1: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@profgabrielle: RT @gonzomike: "While I’d come of age in the era of new journalism (Tom Wolfe! Joan Didion!) and the gonzo dispatches of Hunter Thompson, T… - 2 years ago

@Causley1982: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@LosFreaklander: RT @reghud: Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@rluxford: RT @LawProfButler: This right here. Greg Tate had a profound impact on the way I think and write about Blackness and many other things. W… - 2 years ago

@50ShadesofVerde: RT @tirhakahlove: i did my best to write about the profound worlds greg tate opened up to me as a pan-africanist teacher - 2 years ago

@360_Owens: RT @LawProfButler: This right here. Greg Tate had a profound impact on the way I think and write about Blackness and many other things. W… - 2 years ago

@Slangdini: RT @reghud: Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@IR0NLion: RT @reghud: Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@PropCazhPM: RT @Toure: "The reason black music occupies a privileged and authoritative place in black aesthetic discourse is because it seems to croon… - 2 years ago

@iamlydianicole: RT @reghud: Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@MsAngelineTW: A Black Education - 2 years ago

@mikeNmurdoc: RIP Greg Tate :( - 2 years ago

@Reanimateddoll: RT @vulture: Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and a teacher — by @tirhakahlove - 2 years ago

@jobpings: Breakfast with Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@KenneyGeorge: RT @LawProfButler: This right here. Greg Tate had a profound impact on the way I think and write about Blackness and many other things. W… - 2 years ago

@victory1261: RT @Toure: "The reason black music occupies a privileged and authoritative place in black aesthetic discourse is because it seems to croon… - 2 years ago

@tirhakahlove: RT @vulture: Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and a teacher — by @tirhakahlove - 2 years ago

@WillRodgersJr: RT @Toure: "The reason black music occupies a privileged and authoritative place in black aesthetic discourse is because it seems to croon… - 2 years ago

@dupuisj: RT @burn_amb: On Tuesday, I'll be posting a 7500-word 2012 interview with Greg Tate and Jared Michael Nickerson of @BurntSugarBand on BA, c… - 2 years ago

@Toure: "The reason black music occupies a privileged and authoritative place in black aesthetic discourse is because it se… - 2 years ago

@unlewis: RT @reghud: Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@patrickrosal: Melvin Gibbs and JT Lewis for Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@Lionelvinyl: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@Lionelvinyl: RT @carlzoilus: This 2019 (I think) interview between Greg Tate and @LichtAlan has been kindly shared today by @BlankForms. - 2 years ago

@tylrmntg: RT @tromano: Members of the @villagevoice family pay tribute to the great Greg Tate, including moi, Miles Marshall Lewis, @sashafrerejones… - 2 years ago

@Lionelvinyl: RT @joncaramanica: wrote about greg tate, who saw our world more truthfully, forcefully and elegantly than everyone else, and who made room… - 2 years ago

@mental_ephemera: RT @Criterion: We're mourning the incalculable loss of our friend and essential cultural critic Greg Tate, whose contribution to contempora… - 2 years ago

@editaurus: RT @zombiesfj: A bunch of us who wrote for the @villagevoice wrote about Greg Tate, for that very same Voice. Apparently out in print later… - 2 years ago

@ptialex77: RT @mattzollerseitz: “Tate’s abrupt loss is a seismic blow to the worlds of cultural criticism, music, and visual art.” - 2 years ago

@Tarrenceflow: RT @inclasswithcarr: ALL-NEW: In Class with Carr - LIVE with @KarenHunter and Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr)... (Ep. 92) Big Mama Thornton,… - 2 years ago

@wtul_playlist: Just played: Sweet Flying Earth and ICA 2014 - Marion Brown and Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@jwomack: RT @villagevoice: From our Greg Tate remembrance feature: “Tate’s sentences were sprawling fire-breathing dragons of many colors.” “Heart f… - 2 years ago

@MusicCurationX: RT @villagevoice: From our Greg Tate remembrance feature: “Tate’s sentences were sprawling fire-breathing dragons of many colors.” “Heart f… - 2 years ago

@selfstyledsiren: RT @villagevoice: From our Greg Tate remembrance feature: “Tate’s sentences were sprawling fire-breathing dragons of many colors.” “Heart f… - 2 years ago

@villagevoice: From our Greg Tate remembrance feature: “Tate’s sentences were sprawling fire-breathing dragons of many colors.” “H… - 2 years ago

@steven7071: RT @ShaunMichaels31: Update: Derrick Henry 🔜 A.J. Brown 🔜 Julio Jones ✅ Zach Cunningham 🔜 David Long 🔜 Rashaan Evans ✅ Bud Dupree 🔜 Nate D… - 2 years ago

@nytimesmusic: “Cult-Nats Meet Freaky Deke,” published in The Voice in 1986, was an incisive attempt to find a middle ground betwe… - 2 years ago

@improvian: RT @MMLunlimited: The @VillageVoice (myself included) pay tribute to Ionman Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@arrthurr: RT @MMLunlimited: The @VillageVoice (myself included) pay tribute to Ionman Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@MusicREDEF: A Black Education: Remembering Greg Tate, Critical Giant, Author, Flyboy, and My Teacher. (@goontherapy - @vulture) - 2 years ago

@JR1Nelson: RT @tromano: Members of the @villagevoice family pay tribute to the great Greg Tate, including moi, Miles Marshall Lewis, @sashafrerejones… - 2 years ago

@firefire100: RT @nytimesmusic: “When you’re younger, it’s all about expressionism, it’s all about trying to make as much noise as possible,” he said in… - 2 years ago

@nytimesmusic: “When you’re younger, it’s all about expressionism, it’s all about trying to make as much noise as possible,” he sa… - 2 years ago

@codydonair: RT @BABJ_NABJ: Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@MBSchonze: Been reading Greg Tate’s “Flyboy in the Buttermilk” & soundtracking along with each article so far James Blood Ulme… - 2 years ago

@jazyjef: Greg Tate is starting to get the credit he long deserved - 2 years ago

@BABJ_NABJ: Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@Longreads: "This 2017 essay highlights so much of his genius: encyclopedic knowledge, a mind for synthesis, and a singular voi… - 2 years ago

@dot_wayv: RT @CultureType: Greg Tate, Cultural Critic Who Made Name Writing About Hip Hop, Was Equally Attuned to Visual Art - Forthcoming book colle… - 2 years ago

@rhea_combs: Famed cultural critic Greg Tate dies age 64 - 2 years ago

@itoowashustled: RT @RomarnaCampbell: I had just started reading 'Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America' written by Greg Tate, this week… - 2 years ago

@dem8z: RT @CultureType: Greg Tate, Cultural Critic Who Made Name Writing About Hip Hop, Was Equally Attuned to Visual Art - Forthcoming book colle… - 2 years ago

@YvonneBynoe: RT @CultureType: Greg Tate, Cultural Critic Who Made Name Writing About Hip Hop, Was Equally Attuned to Visual Art - Forthcoming book colle… - 2 years ago

@MrMarkbonnett: RT @inclasswithcarr: ALL-NEW: In Class with Carr - LIVE with @KarenHunter and Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr)... (Ep. 92) Big Mama Thornton,… - 2 years ago

@JohnGotty: RT @nprmusic: Greg Tate — who died this week at 64 — influenced generations of writers. His colleagues, peers and followers, including @Nif… - 2 years ago

@AJMuhammad3: RT @inclasswithcarr: ALL-NEW: In Class with Carr - LIVE with @KarenHunter and Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr)... (Ep. 92) Big Mama Thornton,… - 2 years ago

@shannboogie: RT @inclasswithcarr: Deep dive with readings from today’s LIVE #InClassWithCarr "Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries" by Florence T… - 2 years ago

@t_hisashi: RT @nprmusic: Greg Tate — who died this week at 64 — influenced generations of writers. His colleagues, peers and followers, including @Nif… - 2 years ago

@bryanvargas: NBC's profile on Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@4Livingtheory: RT @blackstudies: "Large numbers of Black folk in this town get more upset over being disrespected than they do over being disempowered. Wh… - 2 years ago

@uniqueloves: RT @RockTheBells: Thank you for everything, Greg #RIP 🕊🕊🕊 - 2 years ago

@lebeauvice: Puisque personne n'en parle ici: Greg Tate, Giant Among Cultural Critics, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@alexsalvator: RT @LAMusicFestival: #rip #goat 💔 #GregTate - 2 years ago

@LAMusicFestival: #rip #goat 💔 #GregTate - 2 years ago

@DukePress: RT @CultureType: Greg Tate, Cultural Critic Who Made Name Writing About Hip Hop, Was Equally Attuned to Visual Art - Forthcoming book colle… - 2 years ago

@carla_ruth: Stonecoldboldness: A many-sided memorial to the writing of Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@ourstorian: RT @NewBlackMan: "This living embodiment of all our racial fears, romantic fantasies, otherworldly dreams, and radical desires. This shy Bl… - 2 years ago

@nettle_leaf: RT @NewBlackMan: "This living embodiment of all our racial fears, romantic fantasies, otherworldly dreams, and radical desires. This shy Bl… - 2 years ago

@KolaBoof3: ~~ GREG TATE ~~ - 2 years ago

@AtBestIsKorny: To keep things interesting I sprinkled in some funky library music cuts from upcoming @bewithrecords reissues. Str… - 2 years ago

@FluentMundo: Greg Tate’s intro to a 1991 roundup of black women filmmakers, including the (at that point recently) late Kathleen… - 2 years ago

@mctony: Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64… - The New York Times - 2 years ago

@kbjosephs: RT @NewBlackMan: "This living embodiment of all our racial fears, romantic fantasies, otherworldly dreams, and radical desires. This shy Bl… - 2 years ago

@suprchnk: RT @blackstudies: "Large numbers of Black folk in this town get more upset over being disrespected than they do over being disempowered. Wh… - 2 years ago

@JSAAHC: Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@Lamo_Inc: RT @blackexpollence: Much respect to the legendary Greg Tate. Journalist. Author. Musician. Scholar. Legend. Rest in power. Born in Dayton,… - 2 years ago

@23jordynn: RT @blackstudies: "Large numbers of Black folk in this town get more upset over being disrespected than they do over being disempowered. Wh… - 2 years ago

@mattzollerseitz: RT @mattzollerseitz: 5. Flyboy in the Buttermilk. Compilation by the late, great Greg Tate, a terrific intro to his writings on hip-hop, hi… - 2 years ago

@Senain: RT @DeathofLit: Two decades worth of wonderful writing from #GregTate made available for free by @thewiremagazine. Reviews, interviews, pro… - 2 years ago

@rontronik: RT @CrackMagazine: A roundup of essential works penned by the late, great Greg Tate 📚 - 2 years ago

@QCTours: R.I.P. Mr. Tate from Jay and #gregtate #blackpagesworldwide @blkpgsworldwide - 2 years ago

@topherlundell: RT @natechinen: Greg Tate helped Gary Giddins grok how to listen to Wayne Shorter. One of many small revelations in this mosaic of apprecia… - 2 years ago

@CasesinVirginia: Greg Tate: “Somebody has to be the trickster. The culture always needs those jokesters that stand right in the fore… - 2 years ago

@TheZenithBeast: Critic, author and musician Greg Tate has died ⁦@nprmusic⁩ - 2 years ago

@TheLakshmiK: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@offbeatorbit: RT @hazelcills: "He was so intellectually colloquial that, of course, you wanted to emulate — but only he could sound like him. So you reli… - 2 years ago

@seshbennu: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@ifPUCKtweeted: RT @thrasherxy: Brother Tate speaking on Prince at ASA 2016, right after Trump was eleceted. Can’t think of another journalist or scholar w… - 2 years ago

@jwomack: RT @natechinen: Greg Tate helped Gary Giddins grok how to listen to Wayne Shorter. One of many small revelations in this mosaic of apprecia… - 2 years ago

@angiewrites: RT @thrasherxy: Brother Tate speaking on Prince at ASA 2016, right after Trump was eleceted. Can’t think of another journalist or scholar w… - 2 years ago

@angiewrites: RT @nprmusic: Greg Tate, who died this week at 64, was a groundbreaking culture-shaper, a life-changing mentor, a loyal friend and a being… - 2 years ago

@edward_stilson: RT @NBCNews: Greg Tate, a music and cultural critic who elevated hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon worthy of the kind of respect and admirat… - 2 years ago

@anniepaul: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@Amina110979: @JKBerrySr1 @Kkbrown444 Greg Tate, whoever the hell he was didn’t know Michael Jackson personally. His opinion of h… - 2 years ago

@drhannahrobbins: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@taoleighgoffe: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@PropCazhPM: RT @thewiremagazine: Greg Tate (15 October 1957–7 December 2021) By way of tribute to the author and critic we have made a number of artic… - 2 years ago

@PropCazhPM: RT @DeathofLit: Two decades worth of wonderful writing from #GregTate made available for free by @thewiremagazine. Reviews, interviews, pro… - 2 years ago

@robertgumpert: Ming Smith! - 2 years ago

@vijayiyer: ✨✨✨✨✨ Stonecoldboldness: A many-sided memorial to the writing of Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@Chris__Richards: Love Greg Tate’s sentences, but love his words, too Love that “furthermucker” from his RS review of “Californicat… - 2 years ago

@kevinthobbs: There Will Never Be Another Greg Tate | Pitchfork - 2 years ago

@texastabx: Greg Tate, Barry Harris, Robbie Shakespeare, Lina Wertmuller, Michael Nesmith. What a fucking week. - 2 years ago

@heresysquad: RT @DLamontJenkins: Greg Tate, Robbie Shakespeare, and now Mensi. Rest in Power to all of them and thank you for giving our power one hel… - 2 years ago

@Speedy2DaNeedy: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@swellsville: "Which speaks to the cool factor of AP as yet another example of Blackfolks’ ability to make any odd thing we touch… - 2 years ago

@soulpowercoach: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@uniqueloves: RT @MrChuckD: ‘Everything But The Damn Burden’ Lost a great one yesterday ..GREG TATE we sparred , we bro hugged REstInBeats Brother #Most… - 2 years ago

@zpr_media: RT @kalonge93: Greg Tate speaking on how he arrived in New York. Much love to @temne 🖤🙌🏾 - 2 years ago

@zpr_media: RT @swamikondananda: Yesterday I lived in shock and prayer. My friend, colleague, and co-conspirator Greg Tate flew off into the great unkn… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @pitchfork: Greg Tate was spectral, mythical, legendary—a giant among critics, the godfather of hip-hop journalism, a paragon of freedom… - 2 years ago

@BeSawzPoetic: RT @coopmike48: The Sound She Saw: Ming Smith in Conversation with Greg Tate | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - - 2 years ago

@reneetwhite: Tonight @ Land of Broken Dreams, a convening on Carrie Mae Weems’ @ParkAveArmory exhibit. A performance w/ vocalist… - 2 years ago

@lorapalomas: Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@BurntSugarBand: RT @melvingibbs: I wrote a little something for Greg to take with him on his ride home sort of an aural flashlight to help him read his map… - 2 years ago

@RICANCRACK: Pumps he rule, run through, yo god, you I got God you, for him and you Greg Tate, leave his mouth taped Eliminate,… - 2 years ago

@abienen: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@ShepardWill: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@zpr_media: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@zpr_media: RT @jazyjef: When Joni Mitchell met Mingus, as told to Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@zpr_media: RT @NifMuhammad: no language for how thankful I am to have lived in a time where I could learn from Greg Tate. Absolutely devastated by thi… - 2 years ago

@NashvilleScene: RT @pithinthewind: The Weekly Links: Greg Tate, best books and Birds Aren't Real. This week, Scene staffers are reading stories from Pitchf… - 2 years ago

@pithinthewind: The Weekly Links: Greg Tate, best books and Birds Aren't Real. This week, Scene staffers are reading stories from P… - 2 years ago

@alexagwinton: RT @taoleighgoffe: just wrote a syllabus for INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES & wow i hope i get to teach it one day!! i begin with 2022 The Roof is… - 2 years ago

@OdoyleCharlotte: RT @DLamontJenkins: Greg Tate, Robbie Shakespeare, and now Mensi. Rest in Power to all of them and thank you for giving our power one hel… - 2 years ago

@sirjamesa12: RT @DLamontJenkins: Greg Tate, Robbie Shakespeare, and now Mensi. Rest in Power to all of them and thank you for giving our power one hel… - 2 years ago

@mariosesh: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@OldSquida: RT @DLamontJenkins: Greg Tate, Robbie Shakespeare, and now Mensi. Rest in Power to all of them and thank you for giving our power one hel… - 2 years ago

@DLamontJenkins: Greg Tate, Robbie Shakespeare, and now Mensi. Rest in Power to all of them and thank you for giving our power one… - 2 years ago

@sgbuggs: RT @gonzomike: Greg Tate in The @thewiremagazine was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the author and critic Greg Tate. By way of t… - 2 years ago

@dchiasso: RT @joncaramanica: if there's any young critic or critic-aspirant who wants to understand the power of Greg Tate's writing firsthand, I'm h… - 2 years ago

@dcft_thefilm: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@GrammieMRD: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@Atom_Kane_: RT @NifMuhammad: Greg Tate, from "Love And The Enemy," 1991. - 2 years ago

@IRAASColumbiaU: "The Wire was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the author & critic Greg Tate. By way of tribute, we have m… - 2 years ago

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@UrbanEdDJ: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@Jason37899346: RT @DeathofLit: Two decades worth of wonderful writing from #GregTate made available for free by @thewiremagazine. Reviews, interviews, pro… - 2 years ago

@DRPECON: RT @AfricanaCarr: Tomorrow, 12 pm ET: @inclasswithcarr will lift the genealogy, work and times of our new ancestor Greg Tate, including his… - 2 years ago

@KimMetalGuitars: Black Rockers across the globe lost an advocate and a legend. R.I.P. to our ancestor, Greg Tate.🖤 - 2 years ago

@DeathofLit: RT @robsheff: I've had this Greg Tate piece taped up on the wall over my desk all these years: his Chaka Khan live review from the Voice, 1… - 2 years ago

@EDAYEBK: RT @StretchArmy: Damn…Greg Tate. He’s the blueprint. 🙏🏼 Huge loss. - 2 years ago

@dubdotdoh: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@dubdotdoh: RT @joncaramanica: wrote about greg tate, who saw our world more truthfully, forcefully and elegantly than everyone else, and who made room… - 2 years ago

@AshConsultingGr: RT @Toure: Toure Show x Greg Tate. “I Am The Ironman." The legendary Tate passed away this week so I’m throwing back to an episode we did i… - 2 years ago

@missnisha6849: RT @NMAAHC: It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Greg Tate, influential author, journalist and musician whose works amplif… - 2 years ago

@Matthaber: "It’s hard to describe what it’s like having the voice of a generation as your friend." - Arthur Jafa on Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@CrisisDawn: RT @CornelWest: I am devastated by the loss of my very dear brother Greg Tate! He was a great love warrior, intellectual titan & spiritual… - 2 years ago

@JulianXeer: Rest In Eternity, Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@Milkman__Dead: RT @joncaramanica: wrote about greg tate, who saw our world more truthfully, forcefully and elegantly than everyone else, and who made room… - 2 years ago

@RastaBlues7: Greg Tate left a hole that can't be filled. Rise in power Negus. - 2 years ago

@Matthaber: "When I was a cast member on the very first season of MTV’s 'The Real World' in 1992, in my hands was Greg Tate’s f… - 2 years ago

@jonathanjleal: RT @kwissoker: The Peerless Imagination of Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@StacyMa69663680: "Greg Tate, Influential Critic of Black Culture, Dies at 64" by @StacyMa69663680 #art - 2 years ago

@dancharnas: RT @jodyrosen: Caramanica on Tate, a soulful appreciation that nails it - 2 years ago

@CandeyQ: RT @jodyrosen: Caramanica on Tate, a soulful appreciation that nails it - 2 years ago

@vernejgay: (And contributor to many fine docs on Pryor, Miles Davis...) Greg Tate, Groundbreaking Cultural Critic and Black Ro… - 2 years ago

@oxidentalist: RT @Dr_Sportello: Greg Tate on Ghost Dog. - 2 years ago

@risenc: My latest for @NYTObits is about Greg Tate, an erudite, ebullient writer who defined hip hop criticism in the 1980s… - 2 years ago

@ktjazz14: RT @Toure: Toure Show x Greg Tate. “I Am The Ironman." The legendary Tate passed away this week so I’m throwing back to an episode we did i… - 2 years ago

@mharvey816: RT @BooksandTunes: Greg Tate, Influential Critic of Black Culture, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@SpikeLeeIsGod: RT @DianneSmithArt: Then, noted author and critic Greg Tate offers an interactive lecture on the cross-influence of politics and music duri… - 2 years ago

@SpikeLeeIsGod: RT @DianneSmithArt: Performers include Greg Tate (conduction, guitar, laptop), Bazaar Royale (vocals), Carl Hancock Rux (vocals, spoken wor… - 2 years ago

@SpikeLeeIsGod: RT @FlyMai16: 2 weeks before the world shut down in 2020 I was fortunate to see many of my friends play w/Greg Tate in his 🎶 @BurntSugarBan… - 2 years ago

@toggleModal: RT @aperturefnd: Aperture remembers the visionary writer Greg Tate (1957–2021) by revisiting his expansive conversation with Arthur Jafa fo… - 2 years ago

@SpikeLeeIsGod: RT @thrasherxy: Brother Tate speaking on Prince at ASA 2016, right after Trump was eleceted. Can’t think of another journalist or scholar w… - 2 years ago

@foradagrei: RT @craigspoplife: “What Is HipHop?” - Greg Tate. VIBE (10/93) - 2 years ago

@89theBrainchild: RT @mfaboston: We are devastated to learn of the untimely passing of writer and musician Greg Tate. Co-curator of our recent exhibition “Wr… - 2 years ago

@studiesincrap: RT @burn_amb: This appears to be Greg Tate's final byline: a piece on Afropessimism from @thenation, published in September. The concluding… - 2 years ago

@danruccia: RT @DukePress: Read our farewell to music and cultural critic Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@justinmclurkin: Rest in Power Greg Tate, the best at everything ✊🏽 - 2 years ago

@foggynotions: Sad to hear about Greg Tate. What a writer, enjoyed his hip-hop writing - 2 years ago

@aperturefnd: Aperture remembers the visionary writer Greg Tate (1957–2021) by revisiting his expansive conversation with Arthur… - 2 years ago

@AmyAlex63: RT @craigspoplife: A touching tribute to 👑 Greg Tate by 👑 @nelsongeorge - 2 years ago

@TruthMagnetic: Greg Tate, Hip Hop Journalism Godfather, Dies At 64 - Here's Why His Words Mattered - 2 years ago

@paulpelt: Greg Tate, a powerful chronicler and critic of Black life and culture, has died at 64 - 2 years ago

@kwissoker: RT @_motherslug: I was so nervous to call Greg Tate. He was so damn cool, thoughtful, funny, deep. Fuck, we are all so lucky to have been a… - 2 years ago

@SheopatraSmith: RT @dem8z: “I realized that the meaning of being Black is summed up in who comes to bury you, who gathers in your name after you’re gone,”… - 2 years ago

@eugeneholley: In 2016, I did a Q&A with Greg Tate about his just-published Flyboy2: The Greg Tate Reader for Publishers Weekly. I… - 2 years ago

@TeeMichelle57: TheGrio: Greg Tate was the GOAT of Black cultural writing — we could all learn from his genius. via @GoogleNews - 2 years ago

@Caleb_San17: RT @AfricanaCarr: Greg Tate set standards for writers of his generation who wrestle with contemporary Africana popular culture. His ideas,… - 2 years ago

@imLeor: RT @nelsongeorge: GREG TATE - 1957 to 2021, by @nelsongeorge - 2 years ago

@KagisoMnisi_: RT @imaniperry: I remember Greg Tate once talking about considering whether he should get a Ph.D. and saying to him “So you can read a bunc… - 2 years ago

@vinivinidogo: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@CamiloSmith: GREG TATE - 1957 to 2021, by @nelsongeorge - 2 years ago

@KagisoMnisi_: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@RebelliousMag: RT @BNCNews: #GregTate was born in Dayton, #Ohio, and studied film and journalism at #HowardUniversity. Tate was known as one of the most i… - 2 years ago

@Sthezu: #RIPGregTate Greg Tate - 2 years ago

@StateSounds: RT @jsmooth995: Greg Tate. What do you even say. He was that one. - 2 years ago

@Alpaca_Brothel: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@angelicabastien: RT @HawthorneCDOLA: I’ve been teaching a class on criticism this fall @USCDornsife, and it’s been remarkable how many of the working critic… - 2 years ago

@KagisoMnisi_: RT @nemesisinc: We're doing that thing where we speak of writers, black writers, and strip off their lineage. Greg Tate was because of what… - 2 years ago

@HunterFelt: The late Greg Tate on David Bowie's passing: - 2 years ago

@CHayling: RT @gonzomike: Anyone who knows me or my work knows how much Greg Tate meant to me as a writer, mentor and friend. I wrote this tribute in… - 2 years ago

@arrthurr: RT @nelsongeorge: GREG TATE - 1957 to 2021, by @nelsongeorge - 2 years ago

@drlatonyagreen: RT @craigspoplife: “What Is HipHop?” - Greg Tate. VIBE (10/93) - 2 years ago

@drlatonyagreen: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@TheVirtuosoCo: Greg Tate, Hip Hop Journalism Godfather, Dies At 64 - Here's Why His Words Mattered - 2 years ago

@drlatonyagreen: RT @NifMuhammad: Greg Tate, from "Love And The Enemy," 1991. - 2 years ago

@dggfthr: Greg Tate, Hip Hop Journalism Godfather, Dies At 64 - Here's Why His Words Mattered -- - 2 years ago

@dmpongwana: RT @craigspoplife: Greg Tate on @jonimitchell - 2 years ago

@CircusRecipe: RT @craigspoplife: Greg Tate on @jonimitchell - 2 years ago

@Staceyplaysbass: RT @sjbassplayer: I think a lot about this poignant thing that Greg Tate wrote on the wall back in 2016. - 2 years ago

@davidlfear: RT @DarkForcesSwing: Thank you, Greg Tate. The 'Flyboy' books in particular are sacred texts for me. (The Rammellzee piece from vol. 2 is s… - 2 years ago

@poeetweet: RT @maketodayrock: #RIP ~ Sadly #TDIM #DiedToday Dec-7-2021 Greg Tate, music critic, journalist, Village Voice, guitarist w/ Burnt Sugar, b… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @jsmooth995: Greg Tate. What do you even say. He was that one. - 2 years ago

@s_m_i: RT @NifMuhammad: I wrote this, in praise of Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @zentronix: Papa Greg Tate has joined the ancestors. The Godfather of hip-hop criticism. An expansive, gentle soul. His only violence wa… - 2 years ago

@metamoses: RT @NPR: Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. Starting in 1987, Tate was a longtime… - 2 years ago

@metamoses: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@rinank_: RT @dem8z: “I realized that the meaning of being Black is summed up in who comes to bury you, who gathers in your name after you’re gone,”… - 2 years ago

@enjoying_movies: RT @natechinen: Absolutely gutted to learn (from a trusted source) that Greg Tate has left this dimension. What a hero he’s been — a fierce… - 2 years ago

@anodyne2art: RT @PaulBacon30: Music and cultural critic #GregTate dead at 64 #RIPGregTate #GregTateRIP #RIPGreg - 2 years ago

@anodyne2art: RT @killhim: We lost a giant today. A GOAT on so many levels. I’m better for knowing him. I will forever bless his name. Greg Tate understo… - 2 years ago

@VincentWash71: RT @CornelWest: I am devastated by the loss of my very dear brother Greg Tate! He was a great love warrior, intellectual titan & spiritual… - 2 years ago

@CircusRecipe: RT @JasonReynolds83: So grateful for Greg Tate. Most people don’t know but the true beginning of my publishing career was as a music writer… - 2 years ago

@LoralynGrassi: RT @robsheff: thanks for your life, Greg Tate. a total hero & inspiration to me. reading this man totally changed how I heard music, but al… - 2 years ago

@CircusRecipe: RT @dancharnas: Greg Tate's prose was hypertext before there was such a thing—drawing on layers of references—and, today, no one can do wit… - 2 years ago

@lyfestile7: RT @Toure: Greg Tate was the GOAT of Black cultural writing — we could all learn from his genius - 2 years ago

@SharpCheddar856: RT @nicklucchesi: Rest In Peace, Greg Tate. Here’s a vibrant taste of what he could do, and on the best punk band of all time, too. “Bad B… - 2 years ago

@DEStacey: RT @fullyaltered: This is the best obituary on Greg Tate I’ve read so far. - 2 years ago

@theshaunpoole: RT @craigspoplife: Greg Tate on D'Angelo's Voodoo. Vibe Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 - 2 years ago

@stellapigna: RT @craigspoplife: “What Is HipHop?” - Greg Tate. VIBE (10/93) - 2 years ago

@anodyne2art: RT @jessicaCaremoor: Our hearts are broken. The NYC art scene, the globe…I am beyond devastated…hard to take a breath..we still need you #g… - 2 years ago

@RDHulll: RT @carlzoilus: The way musical-theater people felt the other week when they lost Sondheim - that's what music-criticism people are feeling… - 2 years ago

@Galileo908: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@starsfandave: Man… plowing through Flyboy in the Buttermilk was a seminal moment of my early 20’s. Every white person alive needs… - 2 years ago

@MikiHereEgo: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@sistadbarnes: RT @RobertJKenner: First thing I did as the new music editor @complex was email Greg Tate. I asked the co-founder of the #BlackRockCoalitio… - 2 years ago

@kagwuncha: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@SamUniverse14: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@jongraywb: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@ajgradilla: RT @dennisjromero: Music and cultural critic Greg Tate dead at 64 - 2 years ago

@jdprillwitz: Greg Tate, a powerful chronicler and critic of Black life and culture, has died at 64 - 2 years ago

@slimjymmin: RT @AfricanaCarr: Greg Tate set standards for writers of his generation who wrestle with contemporary Africana popular culture. His ideas,… - 2 years ago

@BullyCreative: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@SameOldShawn: Greg Tate (c. 1958–2021) - Artforum International - 2 years ago

@timmidyett: Requiescat Greg Tate, excellent writer who so often truly captured the spirit and movement of the music he wrote ab… - 2 years ago

@_Rofhiwa_: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@dmsrblog: RT @Miss_EThompson: Rest in peace, Greg Tate. It was an honor to hear him speak a few years ago at the Prince from Minneapolis Symposium. G… - 2 years ago

@TearieIs: RT @AWMuseum: Rest easy, Greg Tate. Thank you for writing. - 2 years ago

@polishedsolid: RT @NifMuhammad: I wrote this, in praise of Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@WillRDukes: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@paula_span: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@danthecritic: RT @zombiesfj: I love the idea that this rickety platform might allow us to collude with the algorithm and put Greg's writing in front of s… - 2 years ago

@guasibirienemy: RT @DocDre: “Knowing yourself as a black person- historically, spiritually, and culturally-is not something that's given to you, institutio… - 2 years ago

@wise_diva: RT @NewBlackMan: Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa discuss representation and Black cultural production at the @hammer_museum in 2016 - 2 years ago

@silvermoon820: #GregTate #Dead At 64 #NewsBreak - 2 years ago

@Diane_LngBchNY: RT @okayplayer: Greg Tate, the godfather of Hip-Hop journalism, has passed away. 🕊🙏🏾 - 2 years ago

@MrProfChanda: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@wise_diva: RT @imaniperry: I remember Greg Tate once talking about considering whether he should get a Ph.D. and saying to him “So you can read a bunc… - 2 years ago

@checkthevibes: RT @okayplayer: Greg Tate, the godfather of Hip-Hop journalism, has passed away. 🕊🙏🏾 - 2 years ago

@BeatsandRants: RT @RobertJKenner: First thing I did as the new music editor @complex was email Greg Tate. I asked the co-founder of the #BlackRockCoalitio… - 2 years ago

@RJ5000: RT @scottwoodssays: Greg Tate dropping science on that art life. - 2 years ago

@BlackCatrachoBK: RT @_blackpoetics: Salute to Greg Tate. We have so much to learn from what he taught. Rest easy, Brother. What an enormous loss. - 2 years ago

@carynrose: RT @carlzoilus: Co-signing @NifMuhammad here: "Today, at least, in the wreckage of this particular sadness, I would hope to be better about… - 2 years ago

@BurntSugarBand: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@AGSpinelli: RT @tamaranopper: Greg Tate said, "You realize, after a while, your thoughts are incendiary enough; the language doesn’t have to also be on… - 2 years ago

@EG10029: RT @themiddlespaces: Rest in Power, Greg Tate and thanks for putting this collection together, one of the first things I read when working… - 2 years ago

@lisaskwon: RT @tamaranopper: Greg Tate said, "You realize, after a while, your thoughts are incendiary enough; the language doesn’t have to also be on… - 2 years ago

@_VickiGass: RT @NPR: Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. Starting in 1987, Tate was a longtime… - 2 years ago

@Baron3121: RT @saintfabio: Seconding this emotion. Greg Tate was a huge-hearted, passionate, knowledgeable, funny, brilliant writer and artist. I love… - 2 years ago

@omglaurstfu: RT @craigspoplife: “What Is HipHop?” - Greg Tate. VIBE (10/93) - 2 years ago

@MelkiJRussell: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@saintfabio: Seconding this emotion. Greg Tate was a huge-hearted, passionate, knowledgeable, funny, brilliant writer and artist… - 2 years ago

@djlesboogie: RT @RealJoeLevy: I edited Greg Tate at the Village Voice for five years, '89-'94. The pieces would come in, and of course they'd be great.… - 2 years ago

@toschoon: RT @zentronix: Papa Greg Tate has joined the ancestors. The Godfather of hip-hop criticism. An expansive, gentle soul. His only violence wa… - 2 years ago

@JenniferEMabry: RT @jfreewright: RIP Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@Storm24Jenkins: RT @ivieani: If you didn't have an actual mentor in the game, you just read great writers' work and aimed to be as great. That's what I did… - 2 years ago

@rhetorikory: RT @imaniperry: I remember Greg Tate once talking about considering whether he should get a Ph.D. and saying to him “So you can read a bunc… - 2 years ago

@TVMCCA: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@FUNKC0MA: RT @zaheerali: Greg Tate, from three years ago at the #PRINCEfromMPLS conference (short thread) - 2 years ago

@RJ5000: RT @robsheff: I've had this Greg Tate piece taped up on the wall over my desk all these years: his Chaka Khan live review from the Voice, 1… - 2 years ago

@NicoleFleetwoo2: RT @ShaunaReporter: Listening to the closing reception of @AEIVAuab's "Marking Time" exhibition led by @NicoleFleetwoo2. Dr. Fleetwood ju… - 2 years ago

@Baron3121: RT @imaniperry: I remember Greg Tate once talking about considering whether he should get a Ph.D. and saying to him “So you can read a bunc… - 2 years ago

@pdog11234: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@EmMcCC: ‘the roar and the resonance against which all contenders are judged.’ Vale Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@Baron3121: RT @MMLunlimited: If I ever had a mentor, Greg Tate was that man. He blurbed my 1st book; it was the only blurb I wanted. Consummate critic… - 2 years ago

@Const_Overhaul: Greg Tate, godfather of hip hop journalism & a powerful chronicler/critic of Black life and culture, has died at 64 - 2 years ago

@hojimoji: Reading Greg Tate is a constant process of asking “you can *do* that in writing?!?” and then realizing no, you can’… - 2 years ago

@keetmom5: RT @RollingStone: Greg Tate's writings for Rolling Stone included this characteristically incisive review of Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Bu… - 2 years ago

@EdStern: RT @EvNarc: learning that Greg Tate is gone on the same day that we find out George Perez will be leaving us?! I'm fucked up, y’all. - 2 years ago

@MaryELosch: RT @NPR: Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. Starting in 1987, Tate was a longtime… - 2 years ago

@Jeremiah48204: RT @NewYorker: The writer and critic Greg Tate has died. “His best paragraphs throbbed like a party and chattered like a salon,” Hua Hsu wr… - 2 years ago

@dem8z: RT @mfaboston: We are devastated to learn of the untimely passing of writer and musician Greg Tate. Co-curator of our recent exhibition “Wr… - 2 years ago

@MarqueeMarq: RT @craigspoplife: Greg Tate on D'Angelo's Voodoo. Vibe Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 - 2 years ago

@jmlopes2: Uma perda enorme. RIP. Greg Tate, Groundbreaking Cultural Critic and Black Rock Coalition Co-Founder, Has Died… - 2 years ago

@ckoh: RIP Greg Tate - I loved his writing in the Voice & Flyboy in the Buttermilk - 2 years ago

@WITWhat: RT @carlzoilus: This 2019 (I think) interview between Greg Tate and @LichtAlan has been kindly shared today by @BlankForms. - 2 years ago

@MixMalikMarvel: RT @natechinen: Absolutely gutted to learn (from a trusted source) that Greg Tate has left this dimension. What a hero he’s been — a fierce… - 2 years ago

@profkakie: Greg Tate, Groundbreaking Cultural Critic and Black Rock Coalition Co-Founder, Has Died RIP. Taught me so much.… - 2 years ago

@reluctantlyjoe: RT @redclayscholar: When I first started writing seriously about hip hop and its impact on culture, I had four muses: Joan Morgan, Mark Ant… - 2 years ago

@FlyFidelity: Greg Tate, the godfather of hip hop criticism has died 💔🕊 A giant who's contribution and impact cannot be described… - 2 years ago

@MarkSV: RT @redclayscholar: When I first started writing seriously about hip hop and its impact on culture, I had four muses: Joan Morgan, Mark Ant… - 2 years ago

@Dave_willbury: RT @Mark_Stryker: 1. Greg Tate (1957--2021) Greg Tate was a heavyweight champ among American cultural critics. There was nobody like him.… - 2 years ago

@derekwalmsley: Devastating news Greg Tate RIP. Editing his stuff, you were privileged to see the word play and metaphors coming in… - 2 years ago

@BummiNAnderson: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@nrookie: RT @dem8z: “I realized that the meaning of being Black is summed up in who comes to bury you, who gathers in your name after you’re gone,”… - 2 years ago

@FilmStudies140: RT @dem8z: “I realized that the meaning of being Black is summed up in who comes to bury you, who gathers in your name after you’re gone,”… - 2 years ago

@zombiesfj: RT @tobihaslett: Greg Tate on Basquiat, from 1989. Heroic - 2 years ago

@phyll_indablank: RT @ThatEricAlper: Greg Tate has died at 64. His many years at the Village Voice and beyond made him a must-read and his thinking on hip ho… - 2 years ago

@carlzoilus: This 2019 (I think) interview between Greg Tate and @LichtAlan has been kindly shared today by @BlankForms. - 2 years ago

@cordill3ra: RT @moormother: Greg Tate forever for the culture and love - 2 years ago

@KINGCHRXS: Rest well Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@beingbails: RT @TheQueenBRI: One of the first things I did when I set out to write professionally was read everything I could by Greg Tate. He is the b… - 2 years ago

@MisterMinor: Greg Tate. - 2 years ago

@robsheff: RT @DarkForcesSwing: Thank you, Greg Tate. The 'Flyboy' books in particular are sacred texts for me. (The Rammellzee piece from vol. 2 is s… - 2 years ago

@AfroFuturAffair: RT @SaulWilliams: My first gig at CBGBs, my band was setting up for sound check, Greg Tate walks in w his guitar & amp, walks right on stag… - 2 years ago

@tashawnjones_: RT @okayplayer: Greg Tate, the godfather of Hip-Hop journalism, has passed away. 🕊🙏🏾 - 2 years ago

@rzx08_t3: RT @NifMuhammad: Greg Tate, from "Love And The Enemy," 1991. - 2 years ago

@jaimiestarr7: RT @ThatEricAlper: Greg Tate has died at 64. His many years at the Village Voice and beyond made him a must-read and his thinking on hip ho… - 2 years ago

@MusicREDEF: A Warrior for the Heart: The Gigantic Music Legacy of Greg Tate (@robsheff - @rollingstone) - 2 years ago

@JamilSmith: And, of course: read everything Greg Tate wrote for the @villagevoice. - 2 years ago

@beingbails: RT @AfricanaCarr: Greg Tate set standards for writers of his generation who wrestle with contemporary Africana popular culture. His ideas,… - 2 years ago

@ifPUCKtweeted: Greg Tate is a wealth of knowledge, inspiring, has done everything possible and would still walk me to the subway a… - 2 years ago

@espiistudios: RT @moormother: My collective black quantum futurism had the pleasure to be introduced by Greg Tate for an afrofuturism event put on by Non… - 2 years ago

@iam_DanaScott: RT @zentronix: Papa Greg Tate has joined the ancestors. The Godfather of hip-hop criticism. An expansive, gentle soul. His only violence wa… - 2 years ago

@Dart_Adams: RT @RobertJKenner: First thing I did as the new music editor @complex was email Greg Tate. I asked the co-founder of the #BlackRockCoalitio… - 2 years ago

@timmhotep: RT @RobertJKenner: First thing I did as the new music editor @complex was email Greg Tate. I asked the co-founder of the #BlackRockCoalitio… - 2 years ago

@NeedhiBhalla: RT @craigspoplife: “What Is HipHop?” - Greg Tate. VIBE (10/93) - 2 years ago

@Iheartnoise: RT @blackfaurest: More wisdom from Greg Tate: here's a marvelous interview that @LichtAlan did with him -- a vivid description of working u… - 2 years ago

@MsOedipaMass: RT @natechinen: Absolutely gutted to learn (from a trusted source) that Greg Tate has left this dimension. What a hero he’s been — a fierce… - 2 years ago

@blackfaurest: More wisdom from Greg Tate: here's a marvelous interview that @LichtAlan did with him -- a vivid description of wor… - 2 years ago

@DustyGroove: Rest In Peace, Greg Tate. Such a vital voice, and one that will live on in all of his published work. - 2 years ago

@SevenStarHand: RT @RMTaylor_Studio: #GregTate RIP - irreplaceable a voice and mind - 2 years ago

@SaviBis: RT @public_archive: A beautiful tribute. Greg Tate (c.1958–2021) - 2 years ago

@_IPascual: Greg Tate, Influential Critic, Essayist, and Chronicler of the Black Avant-Garde, Dies #art #arte Vía Andy Battagli… - 2 years ago

@alisonwillmore: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@NedRaggett: RT @NoahShachtman: Stop what you're doing, and read the late, great Greg Tate's review of Californication. - 2 years ago

@NedRaggett: RT @ProfessorCrunk: Like every writer of my generation l, I have certainly used Greg Tate’s words and work to help me find my own. Rest in… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @natechinen: Absolutely gutted to learn (from a trusted source) that Greg Tate has left this dimension. What a hero he’s been — a fierce… - 2 years ago

@NicolasRapold: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@5011x: RT @NifMuhammad: no language for how thankful I am to have lived in a time where I could learn from Greg Tate. Absolutely devastated by thi… - 2 years ago

@thisiselmattic: RT @HPrizm: In the liner notes for our 1999 full length debut, written by the mastermind that is Greg Tate, he made the juxtaposition "...i… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @robsheff: I've had this Greg Tate piece taped up on the wall over my desk all these years: his Chaka Khan live review from the Voice, 1… - 2 years ago

@MsOedipaMass: RT @amaxwinter: RIP Greg Tate—yours was a mind on fire 'Putting into effect Borges’s rule that “The most fleeting thought obeys an invisib… - 2 years ago

@RayPride: RT @_Ash_Clark: The sheer amount I learned from Greg Tate, the avenues his writing and thinking opened up to me, the unexpected paths he to… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @jelani9: Hard to explain the impact that Flyboy in the Buttermilk had on a whole generation of young writers and critics who read every… - 2 years ago

@tigerbeat: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@jerryquickley: Years back Greg Tate came backstage after a show I did at the Apollo. He literally said to me: "Jerry, your s&*t is… - 2 years ago

@Anthony: RT @edmundlee: Hit me hard just now hearing Greg Tate has passed. He was the godfather of hip-hop criticism. I learned a lot just listening… - 2 years ago

@pmarg: RT @natechinen: Absolutely gutted to learn (from a trusted source) that Greg Tate has left this dimension. What a hero he’s been — a fierce… - 2 years ago

@OMayraOMz: RT @RollingStone: Greg Tate, one of the most incisive, insightful, and influential cultural critics of the past 35 years, has died. The cri… - 2 years ago

@Increasemaniple: Greg Tate, Celebrated Hip-Hop Journalist and Cultural Critic, Dies at 64 - 2 years ago

@BLK_DJASPORA: first book i read by greg tate was the collection of essays: _everything but the burden: what white people are taki… - 2 years ago

@kalonge93: RT @DarkForcesSwing: Thank you, Greg Tate. The 'Flyboy' books in particular are sacred texts for me. (The Rammellzee piece from vol. 2 is s… - 2 years ago

@215tayyib: RT @huahsu: rip greg tate... impossible to mimic, though we all tried... a giant, a good and big-hearted person, the realest one... wrote t… - 2 years ago

@TROYwastaken: RT @John_Liberator: Last year, @thewiremagazine asked me to write about jazz fusion in its contemporary expression and Greg Tate wrote abou… - 2 years ago

@DJCOOLC72: RT @zentronix: Papa Greg Tate has joined the ancestors. The Godfather of hip-hop criticism. An expansive, gentle soul. His only violence wa… - 2 years ago