[youtube=http://youtu.be/kZvWt29OG0s] (excerpt from) LA Times Gil Scott-Heron dies; influential poet/musician helped inspire rap Gil Scott-Heron, whose late 1960s and early ’70s poetry set to rhythmic jazz music, especially “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” was one of the most important and obvious inspirations for rap music, has died, according to his British publisher… Ron Carter, […]
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