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Sacha Jenkins, Director and Hip-Hop Journalist, Dead at 53

Sacha Jenkins, the hip-hop journalist, filmmaker, and historian who co-founded the seminal Nineties magazine 'Ego Trip,' has died at age 53.

As a journalist, he started underground zines; wrote for an edited prominent publications like Vibe, Rolling Stone, and Spin(He was currently creative director of Mass Appeal); and profiled major artists across various genres. Proudly proclaiming itself to be “the arrogant voice of musical truth,” Ego Trip published just 13 issues over the next four years, but left an indelible mark with not only its hip-hop coverage, but its unique brand of humor and investigations into underground scenes of all kinds. As a filmmaker, Jenkins produced a variety of projects, including the recent documentary, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, and the upcoming film, Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, about the notorious Cro-Mags bassist and frontman.

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