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Sacha Jenkins, Influential Hip-Hop Journalist and Filmmaker, Dies at 54
Sacha Jenkins, a pioneering hip-hop journalist, author, filmmaker and cultural historian, has died at the age of 54.
Jenkins passed away on Friday (May 23) at his home due to complications from multiple system atrophy, his wife, journalist and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City, he moved to Queens in the late 1970s — a formative time when hip-hop, punk, graffiti and skateboarding were all rising cultural forces. His work includes Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues(2022), Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James(2021), Fresh Dressed(2015), All Up in the Biz(2023) and Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos(2024).
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