Sacha Jenkins, Iconic Hip-Hop Journalist, Passes Away
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Sacha Jenkins, a author, director, producer and co-founder of the beloved Hip-Hop journal ego journey, has handed away.
For Technology X and Millennial-aged Hip-Hop followers—and significantly Hip-Hop journalists—Jenkins was a titan. Born in Philadelphia, however raised in Queens, he was a co-founder of ego journey journal together with fellow rap journalist Elliott Wilson in 1994. Though it solely revealed 13 points in 4 years, it spawned an influential model that might characteristic books, ego journey’s Guide of Rap Lists, and even a TV present, ego journey’s The White Rapper Present, on VH1.
As a journalist, his byline hit all of the magazines of significance (XXL, The Supply, Rolling Stone, Spin, et. al), interviewing a who’s who of topics (he co-wrote Eminem’s biography, The Manner I Am (2009)). Jenkins would go on to carry down a plethora of gigs that included Music Editor of Vibe journal and artistic director of Mass Enchantment. A former graffiti author, he launched the Piecebook sequence of titles that spotlight graf from worldwide.
In case you’ve watched many Hip-Hop documentaries, you inevitably would see his identify pop up within the credit. He directed the doc sequence Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Males, (2019) which ran on Showtime (as did his Biz Markie doc All Up within the Biz), in addition to Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (2022) and Recent Dressed (2015). And that’s solely a small sampling of an indelible, culturally essential physique of labor that Jenkins managed to go away behind earlier than his premature dying.
Jenkins is survived by his spouse, Raquel Cepeda, and their two youngsters. A reason behind dying has not been shared right now and the household asks for privateness.
As quickly as phrase of Jenkins’ passing turned public, many Hip-Hop figures (together with some iconic graf artists) took to social media to pay homage to the legend. We’ve compiled some under.
Hip-Hop Wired sends its deepest condolences to Sascha Jenkins’ household and pals. Relaxation powerfully in peace.
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