R.I.P. Sacha Jenkins Iconic Hip Hop Journalist

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...jenkins-dead-journalist-filmmaker-1236229231/

Sacha Jenkins, the journalist and filmmaker, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. According to reports, Jenkins was 54.

Jenkins died Friday morning at his home due to complications from multiple system atrophy, his wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Born in Philadelphia, Jenkins had an extensive journalistic career across several publications. He began his career by founding one of the first magazines about graffiti art called, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language. He co-founded the hip-hop newspaper, Beat Down with his childhood friend and journalist and TV producer, Elliott Wilson

After that, the pair founded the hip-hop and skateboarding magazine, Ego Trip. Jenkins has also written for Spin, Rolling Stone and previously served as a music editor and writer-at-large for Vibe.
In the filmmaking world, Jenkins directed such films as Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, Fresh Dressed and All Up in the Biz, about the late Biz Markie, writing the latter two. He’s also worked on the docuseries, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, which earned him an Emmy nomination for best writing for a nonfiction program.

His additional credits include Everything’s Gonna Be All White, Around The Way, Supreme Team, Generation Dead: The Walking Dead Fan Documentary, You’re Watching Video Music Box, Rolling Like Thunder, Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain, City Girls Point Blank Period and Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos.

For the documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, which he directed and produced, Jenkins told the Film Academy of Armstrong, “He’s a very special person — not a normal individual — who had a real foresight and real insight and was just the essence of creativity. I play music. I do different things. And I’m inspired by seeing someone who can do it on such a high level. He was inspired by creativity. That was his fuel.”
 
dik cashmere said:
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...jenkins-dead-journalist-filmmaker-1236229231/

Sacha Jenkins, the journalist and filmmaker, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. According to reports, Jenkins was 54.

Jenkins died Friday morning at his home due to complications from multiple system atrophy, his wife, Raquel Cepeda, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Born in Philadelphia, Jenkins had an extensive journalistic career across several publications. He began his career by founding one of the first magazines about graffiti art called, Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language. He co-founded the hip-hop newspaper, Beat Down with his childhood friend and journalist and TV producer, Elliott Wilson

After that, the pair founded the hip-hop and skateboarding magazine, Ego Trip. Jenkins has also written for Spin, Rolling Stone and previously served as a music editor and writer-at-large for Vibe.
In the filmmaking world, Jenkins directed such films as Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, Fresh Dressed and All Up in the Biz, about the late Biz Markie, writing the latter two. He’s also worked on the docuseries, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, which earned him an Emmy nomination for best writing for a nonfiction program.

His additional credits include Everything’s Gonna Be All White, Around The Way, Supreme Team, Generation Dead: The Walking Dead Fan Documentary, You’re Watching Video Music Box, Rolling Like Thunder, Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain, City Girls Point Blank Period and Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos.

For the documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, which he directed and produced, Jenkins told the Film Academy of Armstrong, “He’s a very special person — not a normal individual — who had a real foresight and real insight and was just the essence of creativity. I play music. I do different things. And I’m inspired by seeing someone who can do it on such a high level. He was inspired by creativity. That was his fuel.”
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Thank you for the extra info, @dik cashmere


54 is young, and multiple system atrophy sounds like a tough way to go.




www.mayoclinic.org

Multiple system atrophy - Symptoms and causes

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my.clevelandclinic.org

Multiple System Atrophy (MSA): Symptoms & Treatment

Multiple system atrophy is a fatal disease that causes parts of your brain to deteriorate. As they do, it disrupts movement ability and automatic body processes.
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Hate to hear this news. None of our lives would be what they are without his love and dedication, way before many of us were born let alone aware of his work and how it was moving us.

Let’s keep this thread updated with as much of his body of work as we can CSI, not just in his honor but because his life’s work is crucial; and putting together the people with their influence and impact on/in our lives is the work - no matter who we are - the ancestors (and those yet to come) call every one of us to, for our own healing and for our collective healing.
 
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