15 track best of. without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, gil scott-heron has been called a vietnam-era langston hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and the black bob dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither black-power phonies or scheming presidents. in 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky, bad-as-fuck 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, scott-heron's deep, soulful voice spoke of nukes, reaganomics or apartheid, always from deep inside the tradition.
15 track best of. without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, gil scott-heron has been called a vietnam-era langston hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and the black bob dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither black-power phonies or scheming presidents. in 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky, bad-as-fuck 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, scott-heron's deep, soulful voice spoke of nukes, reaganomics or apartheid, always from deep inside the tradition.