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More Than Just the Godfather of Rap

13 hours ago ago from Indy Jazz Fest 2009

I remember the first time I heard from Gil, it was 15 years after I first heard Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and I immediately could tell where some of PE's influence came from.  Hearing that music propelled me to explore his other records and I became a fan.  His story is one that would equally fit the profile of today's modern hip-hop artists or the forefathers of jazz, all to familiar and troubling. ...

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Rebooting Gil Scott-Heron’s Untelevised Revolution (The Village Voice)

10 hours ago ago from Get A Guitar

"I didn't watch the whole thing—I know what state the union's in," says Gil Scott-Heron, sizing up his reflection in his living room's enormous TV—it's half the size of the wall, glossy, and incongruous in the 60-year-old's small, cluttered Harlem apartment. He doesn't see so well, he... More here: Rebooting Gil Scott-Heron's Untelevised Revolution (The Village Voice)

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Review: Gil Scott-Heron “I’m New Here”

6 hours ago ago from LP33 Blog Network: New Music - Discover, Enjoy, Share

A Gil Scott-Heron release is an event to be lauded and explored, for this review I will try to move away from my knee jerk reaction for the former and attempt the latter. Gil's latest release I'm New Here , released on independent label XL Recording s and produced by label owner Richard Russell is a well crafted work.  The creative influence from the owner of perhaps the dopest label around is clearly apparent on The Crutch and Your Soul ...

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Recordings: Jesse Serwer reviews the new Gil Scott-Heron album, Â’I'm New Here’ - Washington Post

21 hours ago ago from Band News

The Guardian Recordings: Jesse Serwer reviews the new Gil Scott-Heron album , Â'I'm New Here' Washington Post kicks on " New York Is Killing Me" make for an odd complement to Scott-Heron's down-home blues. Yet this fusion begets the album's most accessible song. Album : Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here (XL) Independent Gil Scott-Heron's new album has hint of past glory The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Gil Scott-Heron mixes poetry ...

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Gil Scott-Heron New Album Release

9 hours ago ago from Burden Clothing

After 16 long years Gil Scott Heron will release his come back album today I’m New Here . For those that don't know about the legendary poet and artist, here is what has been said about him. There are a great number of African American orators that have made their impact on many generations of people, both black and white; people like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Dick Gregory, Dr. Cornel West, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie ...

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