Greg Tate Was Loved

Written BY GT

Harlem When It Sizzled

December 7, 1982

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Stagolee vs. the Proper Negro: Eddie Murphy, Wynton Marsalis & Prince

September 11, 1984

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Run-D.M.C.: They’re Gonna Smash Their Brains In

April 9, 1985

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Yo Hermeneutics! Hiphopping Toward Poststructuralism

June 1, 1985

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Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke - The coming age of the post-nationalist black aesthetic.

December 9, 1986

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Black Metropolis: Upholding Sugar Hill’s Radical Tradition

September 1, 1987

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Black Metropolis: A Special Section

September 1, 1987

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Hiphop Nation: It’s Like This Y’all

January 19, 1988

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Julie Dash Films Gullah Country

April 12, 1988

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Langston Hughes: A Genius Child Comes of Age

July 1, 1988

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Public Enemy: The Devil Made ‘Em Do It

July 19, 1988

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Eric B. & Rakim: Titty Boom-A-Rooney

September 3, 1988

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk

November 14, 1989

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Of Thangs Past

April 10, 1990

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The Africentric Cinema of Julie Dash

June 25, 1991

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BLACK LIKE WHO? Love and the Enemy

September 17, 1991

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Chuck D: All Over the Map

October 22, 1991

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Too Deep for Anger

March 3, 1998

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The Long Distance Soulster

October 20, 1998

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Fade to Black

December 15, 1998

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Video God Madness

December 29, 1998

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Looking Blackward

March 9, 1999

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Blood and Bridges

April 20, 1999

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Copland

May 18, 1999

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Californication

June 24, 1999

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The Executor’s Song

July 6, 1999

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Tear the Roof off Jungleland

August 10, 1999

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Scrambling On Eggshells

August 24, 1999

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Hours

October 28, 1999

Rolling Stone

The Style Bible

November 30, 1999

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Fear of a Mongrel Planet

May 9, 2000

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Land of the Lost

October 17, 2000

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The King of Coonology

October 31, 2000

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Get into the Groove

January 23, 2001

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The Golden Age

May 15, 2001

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To E or Not to E

June 12, 2001

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Journey Through Debtor’s Prison

June 12, 2001

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Sex & Negrocity

June 26, 2001

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Lincoln in Whiteface

July 24, 2001

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Intelligence Data

September 25, 2001

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Harlem Renaissance

January 22, 2002

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Harlem Renaissance

January 29, 2002

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Nigger-‘tude

January 29, 2002

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Adventures in the Skin Trade

March 26, 2002

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Power Nana Club

October 29, 2002

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The Supreme

December 31, 2002

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Probably Not

January 14, 2003

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Bottom Feeders

September 16, 2003

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Love and Crunk

September 30, 2003

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Judgment Day

November 25, 2003

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Call Inky

December 23, 2003

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Blacked Out

January 27, 2004

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Cybernetic Grits

April 13, 2004

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Apocalypse Now

May 4, 2004

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Band in My Head

May 25, 2004

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The Resurrection and the Light

August 31, 2004

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White Freedom

November 9, 2004

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Hiphop Turns 30

December 28, 2004

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Got Your Sex Raps Here

December 28, 2004

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Visible Man

February 10, 2005

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MCs Are Paid, Not Born

February 22, 2005

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Married to the Hook

March 8, 2005

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Signifying Nada

May 3, 2005

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The Secret of Joy

May 10, 2005

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License to Ill

October 18, 2005

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Just Say No

October 25, 2005

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Richard Pryor, 1940–2005

December 6, 2005

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The New King

January 10, 2006

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The MVP of Black Cinema

January 10, 2006

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Blood of the Ham

January 17, 2006

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A Soldier’s Hagiography

January 31, 2006

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The Color of Money

February 9, 2006

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Gordon Parks, 1912-2006

March 7, 2006

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Loving the Ironman

April 25, 2006

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All Money, No Blood

May 23, 2006

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Bronx Biannual: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature

June, 1st, 2006

Ashik Books

Eulogy for Black Caesar

December 26, 2006

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King of Wreck

January 30, 2007

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The Zeitgeist Reloaded

May 1, 2007

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In Praise of Assholes

September 4, 2007

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Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror

July 1, 2009

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Marsha Ambrosius Can Bring the R and the B

April 6, 2011

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Gil Scott-Heron, R.I.P.

May 31, 2011

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Top 10 Reasons Why So Few Black Folk Appear Down To Occupy Wall Street

October 19, 2011

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Azealia Banks, ‘Fantasea’ (Self-Released Mixtape)

July 16, 2012

SPIN

Kanye West, ‘Yeezus’ (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)

June 18, 2013

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Tempus Fugit in the People’s Republic of BK

September 17, 2014

Creative Time Reports

To Pimp a Butterfly - The Compton MC’s second major-label album is a masterpiece of fiery outrage, deep jazz and ruthless self-critique

March 19, 2015

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N.E.W. - Detroit punk progenitors come back to life, stay loud as ever

June 8, 2015

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Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 - New box set of his Newport Jazz Festival performances sheds light on his restless genius

July 17, 2015

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How Black Lives Matter Changed Hip-Hop and R&B - Kendrick Lamar and D’Angelo spoke to the struggle — but so did Black Twitter, the most radical hip-hop voice of all

December 16, 2015

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Everything’s Beautiful - Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder and others help boundary-crossing jazz pianist Robert Glasper reimagine the music of Miles Davis

June 2, 2016

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

August 5, 2016

Duke University Press

How Barry Jenkins Turned the Misery and Beauty of the Queer Black Experience Into the Year’s Best Movie

December 21, 2016

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The Black Stars of 2016: From the Knowles Industrial Complex to the Hip-Hop Avengers

January 25, 2017

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Chuck Berry: The Double Helix Of Rock & Roll

March 22, 2017

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Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN” Is the Soundtrack to the Resistance

April 25, 2017

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L.A. 1992: How Race Riots Have Shaped America - From Harlem to South Central to Ferguson, how the riots of our past are a glimpse into America’s future

April 29, 2017

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“4:44” is Not an Apology

July 11, 2017

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Kalahari Hopscotch - A FREEWHEELING MANIFESTO ON TRICKSTERS, HEALERS, AND HOODOO


September 1st, 2017

The Believer

It’s a Hard Knock Legacy: Appreciating the Lessons of Joe Jackson - The family’s patriarch was a deeply flawed man who rose above racism to guide his family to unparalleled heights of stardom

June 28, 2018

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On Malcolm X: Can This Be the End for Cyclops and Professor X?

May 28, 2020

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Bad Brains: Hardcore of Darkness

November 10, 2020

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MLK/FBI

January 15, 2021

Columns

Afropessimism and Its Discontents - A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused.

September 17, 2021

The Nation

Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa on Ming Smith’s “Acts of Love” in Photography

December 8, 2021

Aperture