Greg Tate is an African-American writer, musician, and producer who is a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber. Tate was recently acknowledged by as one of the ‘Godfathers of Hiphop Journalism’ for his groundbreaking work on the genre’s social, political, economic and cultural implications in the period when most pundits considered it a fad. His books include Flyboy In The Buttermilk, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, and Everything But The Burden --What White People Are Taking From Black Culture.