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Reply #30 posted 08/17/19 3:56pm

RJOrion

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...great post...The Last Poets are most definitely one of the forefathers of hiphop...often forgetten and overlooked by everyone, myself included..
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Reply #31 posted 08/17/19 4:36pm

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^Thanks RJOrion! Yes, they truly were ahead of their times, musically, lyrically... and otherwise.

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Reply #32 posted 08/19/19 4:02pm

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JACK KEROUAC on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW with Steve Allen 1959


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk

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Reply #33 posted 09/22/19 1:52pm

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https://i0.wp.com/hiphopandpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/eddie-cheba_Kurtis-Blow-DJhollywood.jpg?fit=500%2C306

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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