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 at age 64.
in 2016, confirmed his death Tuesday.Tate began having an impact on popular music and criticism in the 1980s as a staff writer for New York's Village Voice, and he eventually contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vibe. He was a Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies and lectured at thein Los Angeles. The Source magazine called him"one of the godfathers of hip-hop journalism.
Tate praised the Voice's music critic, Robert Christgau, for hiring him in 1981. He has been quoted as saying Christgau"believed Afro-diasporic musics should on occasion be covered by people who weren't strangers to those communities." Early hip-hop, however, was rarely a topic for Rolling Stone. When it did draw the attention of pop's mostly white critical establishment, it was often seen as a bubble-gum fad responsible for bright, baggy and tasteless fashion. It was rarely taken seriously.Today it's hard to find a greatest-emcee list that doesn't feature Rakim near its very top. In 1988,by clearing space for the duo on the top shelf of American musical greats, including Miles Davis.
"The music on 'Follow the Leader' is spooky, a science-fiction score that sounds straight out of the Tangerine Dream songbook," he wrote in the Voice."Rakim’s on an elocutionary speed-trip, a black bullet train slitting through hyperspace."
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