Music and cultural critic Greg Tate dead at 64
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 8, 2021
Greg Tate, a music and cultural critic who elevated hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon worthy of the kind of respect and admiration jazz has received, has died. He was 64.
Laura Sell, a spokeswoman for Duke University Press, which published Tate's "Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader" in 2016, confirmed his death Tuesday.
The cause was not immediately available.
Tate began impacting popular music and criticism in the 1980s as a staff writer for . . .
