Biography
Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 – December 7, 2021) was an American writer, musician, and producer. A long-time critic for The Village Voice, Tate focused particularly on African-American music and culture, helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of music criticism. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) collected 40 of his works for the Voice and he published a sequel, Flyboy 2, in 2016. A musician himself, he was a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of Burnt Sugar. In 2024, Tate was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a Special Citation award.
Roles across career
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Most critically rated
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- 1
95 votesMiles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 · movie
- 2
47 votesSidney
2022 · movie
- 3
25 votesThe Andy Warhol Diaries
2022 · tv
- 4
17 votesI Am Richard Pryor
2019 · movie
- 5
13 votesBetty: They Say I’m Different
2017 · movie
- 6
10 votesBasquiat: Rage to Riches
2017 · movie
- 7
9 votesThe Last Angel of History
1996 · movie
- 8
5 votesTwo Trains Runnin'
2016 · movie
Career timeline
By release / first air year · movie & TV merged
