Posted on 05/28/2011 9:49:45 AM PDT by BraveMan
"Godfather of Rap" Gil Scott-Heron, who in 1970 mixed poetry and music for his militant song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday afternoon in a New York hospital, his publicist told CNN.
He was 62, and the cause of death was not immediately stated. Scott-Heron was known to be HIV positive and had struggled with drug addiction throughout a large part of his life.
"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," went one stanza of the work.
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Every time I hear an auctioneer, I think of a square dance caller.
RIP... If only he could take rap with him.
Well, I’ll be. Dead, huh?
Gil Scott Herron was actually a fairly gifted musician, but his radical leftist politics infected his work, and destroyed any chance he might have had at becoming a superstar recording artist.
I really enjoyed some of his stuff, back in the 70s.
Television will not be televised.
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