Widely acknowledged as the matrix from which hip-hop and neo-soul emerged, the poetry, music and performance of Gil Scott-Heron was a guiding force throughout the late 60s and 70s. Scott-Heron‘s transgressive, politicized, spoken-word-meets-jazz recordings, including The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Whitey on the Moon, The Bottle and Small Talk at 125th and Lennox, have been covered, sampled, referenced, deified and parodied by generations of artists, including Labelle, Public Enemy and Talib Kweli. 2010 saw the release of I’m New Here, Scott-Heron‘s first release in thirteen years.
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