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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Joseph Patel traces his success as a professional storyteller to the countless hours he spent as a UC Davis undergraduate at campus radio station KDVS. “It’s where I learned how to form community. It’s where I learned how to tell stories, and where I discovered what I love to do,” Patel ’94 told a UC Davis audience earlier this month. “It’s a straight line from there to here.”
Gift of Gab, the rapid-tongued rapper of Blackalicious fame, dead at 50 Adrian Spinelli FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Timothy J. Parker, a.k.a Gift of Gab (left), and Chief Xcel performed as Blackalicious. Parker was known for his verbal acrobatics.www.ilosaarirock.fiShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Gift of Gab of Blackalicious performed at the first annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival in 2006.Karl Walter/Getty Images 2006Show MoreShow Less Timothy J. Parker, better known as Gift of Gab, came up during the golden age of hip-hop in the mid-’90s, first gaining fame with the 1999 Blackalicious track “...
Tributes are pouring in for Gift of Gab as the member of hip-hop duo Blackalicious from Sacramento, California has 'peacefully' passed away at the age of 50.