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Gil Scott-Heron

Best of Gil Scott-Heron [BMG]

15 track best of without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music gil scottheron has been called a vietnamera langston hughes a protorap pioneer and the black bob dylan someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither blackpower phonies or scheming presidents in 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky badasfuck anthem 'the revolution would not be televised' on which the then 23 year old poetically dismantled the entire 70s culture while throughout a career spanning five decades scottheron's deep soulful voice spoke of nukes reaganomics or apartheid always from deep inside the tradition