My uncle gave me this album as a B-day present back in 2003,,,I didn't give it THAT deep listen untill I saw a segment about 'em and Gill-Scott Heroin last month in PBS.

Rough shit in there,,but with complete common sense

Any other fans?

Their shit should be required listening!

But babygirl, it's not Gill Scott-Heroin. It's Heron!

The revolution will no be televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

FunkMistress said:

PFFfff child, I'm a typing-wreck ya'll should've gotten used to that by now lol

Oh snap! What you youngsters know 'bout The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron? It was only two days ago that I felt the need to put on the turntable "Pieces of a Man". That cut is da bomb! Hey FunkMistress, check out those lyrics.

"When The Revolution Comes"

Or how about "Sport" by Lightnin' Rod (Jalal of the Last Poets with Kool And The Gang)?

Harlepolis said:

Yeah, but this one was a classic.

A friend of mine played them for me a couple months ago

*scribbles it down for future reference*
The Last Poets - much check it out

The first album is their classic. "Niggers are scared of revolution" is their best song ever. The follow up This Is Madness is also a classic. The next few albums are okay. This album is better than any GSH album, though Gil has made much more great music than the poets. New York residents might not know, but local celebrity/talk-show/news reporter Felipe Luciano was a member of the poets.

FunkMistress said:

Mistress, I can't believe u r hip to this!! Now, what are you trying 2 do? Make me love you? Damn! But yeah, I'm VERY hip to The Last Poets. Been hip.

lilgish said:

There you go. "Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution" is their opus. This song alone influenced Curtis Mayfield on his album "Curtis". Listen to the intro to "If There's A Hell Below". It also influenced Stevie. Check out "Talking Book" amd "Innervisions". Early Funkadelic also bit from The Last Poets as well.

how funny, i was just thinking about this group the other day. i've never heard their msuic before but someone told me they were the first rappers ever! is this true? what is their stuff like? i have a feeling it might be a bit "militant" or revolutionary? please skool me!

by the way, how come they are never mentioned on any of those hip hop history shows they have on VH1?

saw them (dayum!!!) 'bout ten years ago
(dig this)
on the second stage at lallapolooza!!!


still (maybe even more now)
the message hits home...

dancerella said:

Like I said they were "rough on the edges",,,,VH-1 music is mainly for passive music.

FunkMistress said:

I actually have that very Last Poets album. Haven't listened to it in years, though, so I'm not sure if I'm (still) a fan or not!
Meanwhile, I thought Harlepolis was being mean calling my homey "Scott-Heroin," but she says it was a typing error, so I'll take her at her word. And it's one "L"--Gil Scott-Heron. He and The Last Poets were definitely the first rappers that I was aware of and y'all are right; they don't get their just due when they do those "historical" pieces on rap!

dancerella said:

The best kind of revolutionary.

blackguitaristz said:

I think ya'll know my answer!

I actually had the chance of meeting Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan, them some cool cats. There's one thing they said that night that stuck with me all this time and that is the revolution starts with you. Don't worry about trying to change anyone else, start with yourself.

Umar also had an interesting album on Bill Laswell's "Axiom" label. A lot of it was experiemental, but people like Buckethead and Bootsy are on it. The things he did with "Niggas" is worth it alone.

FunkMistress said:

One of my plans for pre-revolution preparation of the people is to set up hidden loudspeakers in public places across the country and blast shit like Lost Poets, Gil, Marvin, P.E., Bob, Black Star, etc. into everyone's consciousness.

Who's with me?

FunkMistress said:

sinisterpentatonic said:

FunkMistress said:

meh. I just wanna party and bullshit, and party, and bullshit..

CinisterCee said: