I have been a big fan of Gil Scott Heron for a very long time. Â I have to give credit to my oldest sister Barbara for that. Â If you go back and check many of his works, you will notice that in many cases, only the names have changed. Â I was reading Harrison Ford’s reaction […]
Gil-Scott Heron is a groundbreaking musician/poet whose work was sampled by many hip-hop artists. His song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is one of…
Terry Callier a veteran musician who released a handful of critically acclaimed jazz-folk albums in the Seventies and toured with George Benson and Gil Scott-Heron, had scant commercial success at the time, and had given up his musical career in the Eighties to raise his daughter. He was working at the University of Chicago as a […]
Two deserving Artists to recieve Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy.
NEW YORK-Producer and rapper, Kanye West paid tribute to the man many call the Godfather Of Hip Hop, Gil Scott Heron at a memorial at Riverside Church in Harlem. He performed “Lost in the World,” which sampled Gil Scott Heron’s song “Comment #1.” AllHipHop reports: Others in attendance included members of The Last Poets, Malcolm […]