1 posted on
05/28/2011 9:49:49 AM PDT by
BraveMan
To: BraveMan
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
2 posted on
05/28/2011 9:51:37 AM PDT by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: BraveMan
Amazing how for every tragic young death there seems to be another story like this of someone who by all appearances has been trying to die young but failed.
3 posted on
05/28/2011 9:53:00 AM PDT by
sbMKE
To: BraveMan
I sure did enjoy hs “Winter In America” album.
Guy had a good voice.
(didn’t care one bit for his politics though)
To: BraveMan
I'm amazed a rapper lived into his 60's.
To: BraveMan
...and whitey’s on the moon.
To: BraveMan
A contributor to the trashing of American culture.
8 posted on
05/28/2011 9:56:23 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: BraveMan
He’s gonna miss the revolution.
Godspeed, GSH.
9 posted on
05/28/2011 9:56:34 AM PDT by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: BraveMan
..."Godfather of Rap"...Actually, white people invented rap. Ever hear of square dance calling?
10 posted on
05/28/2011 9:59:03 AM PDT by
FReepaholic
(Land of the free my @ss)
To: BraveMan
Another dead "activist." Boo-frickin'-hoo.
Take a look at "black america" today and tell me how that "revolution" thingy worked out.
11 posted on
05/28/2011 10:00:22 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: windcliff
15 posted on
05/28/2011 10:12:20 AM PDT by
stylecouncilor
(What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
To: BraveMan
The revolution WAS televised and we did LOSE Detroit.
To: BraveMan
17 posted on
05/28/2011 10:29:26 AM PDT by
real saxophonist
(The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
To: BraveMan
RIP... If only he could take rap with him.
22 posted on
05/28/2011 2:45:44 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: BraveMan
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.
23 posted on
05/28/2011 6:53:37 PM PDT by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: BraveMan
Television will not be televised.
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