Poet, singer, activist and proto-rapper Gil Scott-Heron passed away yesterday in New York City. He was 62. Best known for the track “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, Scott-Heron’s booming, authoritative voice often decried the struggles of black people as we advanced through the Civil Rights movement in the Seventies and Eighties. His recitative style has been imitated by everyone from (name your person at a poetry slam here) to Kool Moe Dee, Chuck D and 2Pac. Also blessed with […]
Posts tagged "“I’m New Here”"
Popblerd! Presents: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (The Top Five)
Popblerd finishes off the Top 40 albums of 2010 with the final five.
Gil Scott-Heron’s Haunting “New York is Killing Me” Video
I’ve been looking for this video for ages! There was quite the big to-do about “New York is Killing Me”, the latest video from Gil Scott-Heron’s [amazon-product text=”I’m New Here”” tracking_id=”popblerdcom-20″ type=”text”]B002ZBT84G[/amazon-product](my favorite album of 2010 so far, BTW), receiving it’s premiere at a special event at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But as quickly as the news hit the interwebs, the video vanished. And I mean VANISHED. So it took a little bit of sleuthing for me to […]
This is More My Type of ‘Ye: “Lost in the World”
I don’t think Kanye does frivolous well. His best music, to my ears, either comes from a place of unbridled joy, a place of righteous anger, or a place of reflection. I posted “So Appalled” at the beginning of the week, and I was a bit disappointed with how soulless it sounded. Once artists achieve a certain level of commercial and financial success, I believe their work suffers (most of the time, anyway) because, let’s face it, once the hunger […]
Gil Scott-Heron "I'm New Here" Review on Popdose
While I generally recommend that you head over to Popdose just because it’s a good fucking music/pop culture SITE (as opposed to my teeny widdle blog), I’m also hoping that while you’re there, you’ll check out my review of Gil Scott-Heron’s “I’m New Here”. It’s a really, REALLY good album, very powerful. Since I don’t want to double up on video posts with them, here’s a brief clip from the recording of the album. You know how, if you grew up in […]