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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.
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Nepotism Watch

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 25 2008, 1:00 PM ET Comment

My man Neil Drumming's video for the MC, Junior. Nice beat. Weird lyrics. Weirder video. Weird is good where I come from. And me and Neil come from the same place. Not much diff between West Baltimore and Jamaica, Queens. Well Jamaica has Tribe...Anyway, as a bonus beat, here's Neil mulling over HBO's vampire soap. I'm telling you guys this shit has gotten out of hand. This is worse than Seven of Nine. And frankly, I kind of liked Seven of Nine.




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