Email Author Greg Tate

2006 Stories by Greg Tate

• Eulogy for Black Caesar

  published December 26, 2006

  Eeeeeeyow. Gud gaad. Aintit fonkeenah? James Brown knew how to freak the tribal speak and the tribal feet alike—the... More >>

• All Money, No Blood

  published May 23, 2006

  Who doesn't feel sorry for the artists formerly known as Mobb Deep? After years of blithely carrying the torch for Queensbridge murda muzik, they... More >>

• Loving the Ironman

  published April 25, 2006

  Five years ago it was clear that Ghostface Killah was going to be the last Wu-Tang Clansman standing. Career-wise, not literally, Russell Jones... More >>

• Gordon Parks, 1912-2006

  published March 7, 2006

  Talk about flipping the script: Gordon Parks was born dead and damn near buried alive. Then went on to live to the ripe young age of 93.... More >>

• A Soldier's Hagiography

  published January 31, 2006

  The buildup to the God Rakim Allah's performance at B.B. King's was so fabulously alive with chest-beating and biblical portent that the real... More >>

• Blood of the Ham

  published January 17, 2006

  On Ain't Nobody Worryin', Anthony Hamilton once again brings the drama. The kind best described as blue-collar-Black- Southern-soul-... More >>

• The New King

  published January 10, 2006

  Fluck Howard Stern and let's make it official—Jamie Foxx is the new king of all media. From Keenan to Cruise to Ray, from Oprah to Oscar to... More >>

• The MVP of Black Cinema

  published January 10, 2006

  Melvin Van Peebles is still free. One of the last free Black men on earth, in fact—an elite category of uppity, accomplished, streetwise... More >>