I have been a big fan of Gil Scott Heron for a very long time.  I have to give credit to my oldest sister Barbara for that.  If you go back and check many of his works, you will notice that in many cases, only the names have changed.  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…

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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 […]