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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

Bjork Awesomeness

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 20 2008, 2:00 PM ET Comment

Meh because I feel like it. Me and Kenyatta saw her do All Is Full Of Love and Joga back in 2003 out on Coney Island (the first one might be from that show). I was like 27, and this was like the most romantic thing I'd ever done with a woman. Don't know if that says something about me or Bjork. In the words of Gza, "her mutherfucking style was mad murderous.

Anyway, Samori was in B'more with my folks (he'd recently advanced past the stage of saying "no" to any question you asked him). I had just lost, like, 40 pounds of baby-weight and was feeling Romeoesque. They were serving red wine at the concession stand. A buddy of mine was there with a disaster of a girl. I wrote a shitty review for the Voice. Heh, to be young again. Good times.





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