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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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Mos Def In Even Better Context

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Apr 3 2009, 10:00 AM ET Comment

I think these are two reasons why we love him. Dig him digging on Doom. And then dig him just murdering "Two Words." "

These streets, No Game. Can't ball, Don't Play\Heavy traffic, one way, Everybody move..." The best summary of New York, I've ever heard. And of life in general.





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