Greg Tate is a writer, musician and producer who lives in Harlem. From 1987-2005 he was a Staff Writer at The Village Voice. Tate's  writings on culture and politics have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum and Rolling Stone. He has been recognized as one of the ‘Godfathers of Hiphop Journalism’. His books include Flyboy In The Buttermilk, Brooklyn Kings-New York City's Black Bikers (with Martin Dixon), Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and The Black Experience, and Everything But The Burden--What White People Are Taking From Black Culture. This summer Duke University Press will publish Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader. Since 1999, Tate has led the Astro-Black Futurist big band, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber who have released 17 albums on their own Avant Groidd Records imprint.