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.
Greg Tate has 12 screen credits in a career dating back to 1993. Signature works include I Am Richard Pryor, Two Trains Runnin', Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
