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Tariq Allah Nasheed also known as Tariq Elite, King Flex, and K-Flex, is an American film producer and social media commentator.
Film career
Documentaries
He has produced a documentary about the history of Haiti called 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti that was released in the fall of 2017.
Hidden Colors series
Nasheed produced the 2011 documentary film Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent. Nasheed's follow-up film and DVD, Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin, was released in 2012.
In 2014, Nasheed released Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism.
Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy was released in June 2016.
Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare was released in August 2019. During a screening of the film in the UK, Nasheed was banned from entering the country by the UK Home Office as he was deemed "not conducive to the public good."
Feature films
In 2013, Nasheed released the horror film Dark Medicine, which he also wrote and directed.
Music career
Nasheed is the lead singer of the R&B musical group Mink Slide. Mink Slide's first album, Egyptian Musk, debuted at #12 on Billboard R&B Albums charts in 2018.
Use of term "bed wench"
Nasheed has referred to black women who date interracially as "bed wenches" on social media. In using this term, which historically was used to disparage black women who were raped by their masters during slavery, he has revived and popularized its use. However his use of the term has been criticized because a black woman who chooses to have relationships and consensual sex outside of her race is not included within the traditional definition of the term. In Nasheed’s conception of the term a bed wench is a black women who challenges the institutions of black patriarchy.
He has also coined the term “Negro bed wench mentality” which he has expanded upon in great detail on his podcast.
Filmography
- Hidden Colors (2011)
- Hidden Colors 2 (2012)
- Dark Medicine (2013)
- Hidden Colors 3 (2014)
- Hidden Colors 4 (2016)
- 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti (2017)
- Hidden Colors 5 (2019)
Bibliography
- The Art of Mackin' (2000) ISBN 0971135339
- Play or Be Played: What Every Female Should Know About Men, Dating, and Relationships (2004) ISBN 1439188769
- The Mack Within (2005) ISBN 144062514X
- The Art Of Gold Digging (2008) ISBN 0971135320
- The Elite Way: 10 Rules Men Must Know in Order to Deal With Women (2009) ISBN 0971135347