Whenever I hear Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised it gets my blood boiling. In fact it gets me more crazy these days than ever. It seems there is no true dissent. The dissent is bottled and labeled. We need the anti. Without it we are drones, mules and followers. Thanks Gil for a great track and career.
“Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died Friday at age 62. A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in the afternoon at St. Luke’s Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.” – philly.com
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This is really true, and something to think about. The world needs real sincere and pure dissent.