“Greg Tate, a journalist and critic whose articles for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and other publications starting in the 1980s helped elevate hip-hop and street art to the same plane as jazz and Abstract Expressionism, died on Tuesday in New York City. He was 64. ... Mr. Tate exploded onto the New York cultural scene in the early 1980s, soon after graduating from Howard University, when he began contributing freelance music reviews to The Voice. Although he didn’t join the weekly newspaper’s staff until 1987, he almost immediately became its pre-eminent writer on Black music and art, and by extension one of the city’s leading cultural critics. New York at the time was an ebullient chaos of cultures, its downtown scene populated by street artists, struggling writers, disco D.J.s and punk rockers living in cheap apartments and crowding into clubs like Paradise Garage and CBGB. ...”
Village Voice: Harlem When It Sizzled (1982), Langston Hughes: A Genius Child Comes of Age (1988), Chuck D: All Over the Map (1991), Black Metropolis: Upholding Sugar Hill’s Radical Tradition (1987), Gil Scott-Heron, R.I.P. (2011), Voice: Greg Tate
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