Reply With QuoteVery sad news.
A great poet and musician. Someone who was politically and socially aware, able to put his thoughts across in some great music.
RIP Gil Scott-Heron
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CNN is reporting the death of Gil Scott-Heron Friday at the age of 62. Besides being an influence on many hip-hop artists, his unforgettable 1974 track "The Bottle" is a proto-disco classic.
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Very sad news.
A great poet and musician. Someone who was politically and socially aware, able to put his thoughts across in some great music.
RIP Gil Scott-Heron
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HA HA!!!!
"don't try to lay that rap crap on me!!!!!" :
Mr. Scott-Heron often bristled at the suggestion that his work had prefigured rap. “I don’t know if I can take the blame for it,” he said in an interview last year with the music Web site The Daily Swarm. He preferred to call himself a “bluesologist,” drawing on the traditions of blues, jazz and Harlem renaissance poetics.
NEW YORK TIMES
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Baby, take me
high upon a hillside
high up where the stallion
meets the sun
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Look out for an early 80s film of GSH on the Sky Arts channel in the UK. With his untimely death, its likely that it will be broadcast again. He discusses the Harlem Renaissance along with Reagan, US history and society etc And lots of live music
Godfather of rap ? That's just an easy quote for lazy journos.
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