ONE OF THE FIRST RAPPERS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS THAT HAS A MESSAGE FOR EVERYBODY,,,,, YOUNG AND OLD,,,,,HIS WORK IS TIMELESS,,,,,MEANING IT WILL NEVER GET OLD,,,,,WHEN I AM ASKED "WHO IS MY FAVORITE ARTIST ?" MY ANSWERS WILL ALWAYS BE "GIL SCOTT-HERON",,,,,,KEEP IT REAL.....A FAN
It's scary how time repeats itself over and over they say we've come a long way but it looks like to me we've gone a long way back.... this man was great and spoke the truth about America
@@nikovibez1568 (20 born in ‘04) I believe this was some time in 1974, as Gerald Ford had been sworn in to replace Nixon, and he speaks about Nelson Rockefeller getting ready to become VP. (Neither were elected because of Watergate)
Everytime I hear this, i want to cry that it is not heard as it should be heard! We could put things like this in class and when finished, give them a test at end of and ask what they got from this educational artist genius! Have Mercy for heroes such as this and rappers, TAKE NOTE!
I remember, when this was released in 1975. I was 21 years old and I was already 'conscious'. It is still relevant today, given who is in the Whitehouse. And most like, the same result will occur--nothing but Pardons will occur.
RIP, Brother Gil. I'll never forget the time I sat right next to as your performed at Yoshi's in Frisco. Just a year later, you passed over to the other side.
When I first heard this song/rap in the 70s the politics of Watergate was unprecedented. The end where Gil Scott says "what goes around...comes around" has had no truer meaning than the days since 9/11. The revolution will not be televised - it's live!
It amazes me how subjects like this one can bring people together to argue, but seldom to agree. There are several certainties that could be the basis for a collective move forward if we were to recognize them. 1. There is something definitely wrong. 2. None of us has THE solution. 3. As long as we let insignificant ideological, religious, or philosophical nuances grow into insurmountable obstacles to our collective work, then we will always be stuck. Look for agreements not arguments...
It is so sad that my realization of this genius only came after his death. I loved "B Movie" 30 years ago, and for some reason never followed through and became a fan. We need more poets like Gil to open our minds to todays inequalities.....
I am White but everything what make my mind and thinking is come from afroamericans and i am pride abut that and very tankfull.... PS mix cloude ...dear mr.man I have some of that influence on mix cloude so please enjoy and i hope one Day i Will come in America and be part of BLM lbecouse i feel that i am allrady part of that...cheers
@@keenanboyd2433 elitist or no elitist...if we dont care about Any digerent race or navionality to keep that heratage and subculture resorse we Will be just one of global eltist or militaryst or something alse for tham reason and goal...that is the Main problem of new age.
I would like to think, that if Mr. GIL Scott Heron was alive what he would be saying about President NUMBER 45 WHOA..... His songs are relevant as they were when I shared the Last Poets in my 10th grade English class of 69-70. Loved him will Free Will love all his music, until his Last One New York is killing me, and me and the Devil. All of his music, with.Brian Jackson. Let's just say I loved his music, his wisdom, his delivery.Rip Gil....
I had the pleasure of being his friend. And mannnn he was the coolest from poerty classes music sessions and just buying food he had a message...We miss u gill.🕊🙏🏿 make sure yall get his poerty book it is🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏿
When I started out in Radio, I was asked to Emcee his concert and got to meet him, Brian, and the Midnight Band backstage before the gig. Love the brother....brilliant. His poetry never gets old.....
I just now discovered Gill Scott Heron and I am sad sad. Everything there is to know is within his words, within his speech. And fifty years later ‘shit’ was learnd But what a beautiful speaker. This beauty just can’t be understood by the hating bunch.
Respectful correction, Gil did not endorse the title 'Grandfather of rap' he preferred to be thought of as a poet. I agree in that the content and intent of his words were far more intellectual than most rap.
Rap GIL- Scott Heron's time which is my time is when BROTHERS got 2 gether to TALK CURRENT EVENTS, not gendre of music & yes he is a poet for those that understand. Food For Thought Go Figure 🤔
Rap of 2 day have a few poets but they come @ u with street knowledge. Ice Cube, & T, KRS, which hits the lower intellect no less the truth. Example, In a rest. with my lady BLK. SIS. all the characteristics of a white Coco Chanel that type will not listen to that music to vulgar, but the White Kid n the burbs r all up on it.
Yeah apparently he didn't like the Godfather of Rap thing. But he also didn't really have a problem with rap music he just wished more rappers were more conscious and talked about social issues. Which since the 90s theres been tons of great conscious rappers.
WOW! Ok, i'm white and this guy is a serious genius. I found him in GTA 4 video game track, and compared to the crap rap/pop lady crap- crap, and the music of today, they couldn't come close to the talent level this man has. And i was born way after all of this music was recorded. Not was Gil Scott a musician, he was a master speaker, poet and preacher of the street too. Damn!
Considering how much Gil Scott-Heron had to say about Ford - “the oatmeal man”, he would probably have had much more to share with us had he lived long enough to witness Trump “the orange man” of today! But that’s not to imply that he wouldn’t have had anything to say about all who were in power between them!
What´s so interesting about gil´s art is how his stuff sounds like it was recorded in the 00s. Anybody knows "watergate blues"? Man, all you have to do is exchange the words "vietnamese" with "iraqi" and the whole song could be about TODAY!!!! Long live Gil!
i remember when these words were first spoken...we were proud and awake...somehow we believe the struggle is over..dont think that because a blackman is running for the highest office of the land...we aint catching hell...
WOW!! This is my first time ever hearing this and if this was first done in '75 yes things have gotten a little better but we've still got a long way to go!!!!
Everything about this is good. Remember, please, to avaoid judging and labeling, My Irish orphaned grandfather who lived at the YMCA in Brockton, Massachusetts, and learned to box there, became a champion featherweight boxer, ate oatmeal for breakfast everyday. Nothing tepid or indecisive about James Boomer Donahue, who went on to work for the telephone company, and bring my father, Paul Foley, into that profession. Dad was born in 1929, youngest of eight children, in the first year of the depression. He worked for the phone company for 38 years and died of asbestos lung cancer one year after he retired, in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was not a smoker. He was my father
Ain't nobody denying that a lot of political pardons are just that--political. The point Gil is making hear is that the powerful and privileged rarely go to jail. Check out Lindsay Lohan as a good example.
where does this performance take place? Please post if ya know. When God made Gil, he broke the mold. A poetic genius of the political poetry genre where so few dare to tread. Whose got the torch now?
"They call it due process and some people are overdue" That line resonates so much with me, it is so simple and yet relevant to current affairs. Know what I'm sayin. Where's the accountability hiding.Will we ever know? hah
you have it a lot better than it was back then....don't forget...these people like Gil were only special because the suffering they endured brought it out of them.....do you really wish you were exposed to that kind of suffering? there's enough injustice in your own time to fight against.....don't wish you were in the past.....it may seem like simpler times, but really nothing has changed...the deceivers deceive.....and the believers believe....been that way for a Loooong time....
ioreodream Nixon was committed a crime he never went to court or nor was he arrested. The question is how did the president become involved as Ford was president at the time. You have to go through due process before the president can even intervene in the process. But this never happened.
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It's 2024 and this is still as relevant as ever.
Word ✊🏼
more than ever
Gil Scott-Heron's message gets older, but it never gets less relevant.
Krystyn White
Exactly....
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
You are so right, just change the names, and the years......
Especially in 2020!
Who was oatmeal man?
ONE OF THE FIRST RAPPERS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS THAT HAS A MESSAGE FOR EVERYBODY,,,,, YOUNG AND OLD,,,,,HIS WORK IS TIMELESS,,,,,MEANING IT WILL NEVER GET OLD,,,,,WHEN I AM ASKED "WHO IS MY FAVORITE ARTIST ?" MY ANSWERS WILL ALWAYS BE "GIL SCOTT-HERON",,,,,,KEEP IT REAL.....A FAN
AMEN BROTHER 🙏🏼 💪🏽🦾🧠🫀👀🦵🏽🙌🏼
The godfather of rap
Amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same!
William E. Poole
Exactly.
Funny that, maybe the establishment is set up to prevent progress
Omg yes. Tragically so.
William E., yes these words are very painfully timeless. Peace and Blessings to you🙏
10 years later… another president effectively pardons himself for trying to rig an American election
It's scary how time repeats itself over and over they say we've come a long way but it looks like to me we've gone a long way back.... this man was great and spoke the truth about America
I'm 28, born in 96', what year did he perform this poem?
@@nikovibez1568 (20 born in ‘04) I believe this was some time in 1974, as Gerald Ford had been sworn in to replace Nixon, and he speaks about Nelson Rockefeller getting ready to become VP. (Neither were elected because of Watergate)
He called it like it was and still is...today.
Everytime I hear this, i want to cry that it is not heard as it should be heard! We could put things like this in class and when finished, give them a test at end of and ask what they got from this educational artist genius! Have Mercy for heroes such as this and rappers, TAKE NOTE!
Valerie Brown Cheers I swear u speak the truth
Got here from listening to East Coast Avengers, they sampled this. Esoteric (Ryan Seamus), trademarc and DC the MIDI Alien. Glad I found this.
The stuff he's talking about is still happening in American politics.
it is the case today believe me but recovered and held hostage by the media which use it for political ends to manipulate the most fragile
@@Zebula1918 It's sure the case today (re. Flynn).
Leads the World in SHOCK ! Better believe it... and I can't see a change real soon.
Waking up is pretty damn cool isn't it?
Totally relevant decades later, Gil Scott is the godfather of rap !
I remember, when this was released in 1975. I was 21 years old and I was already 'conscious'. It is still relevant today, given who is in the Whitehouse. And most like, the same result will occur--nothing but Pardons will occur.
Imagine Gil Scott-Heron and his 'Spoken Words' today about Donald Trump. Top of the charts and inspirational.
We need his spirit today.
we do :(
"I didn't vote for him. Did you vote for him?" School children should listen to GSH.
RIP, Brother Gil. I'll never forget the time I sat right next to as your performed at Yoshi's in Frisco. Just a year later, you passed over to the other side.
Love it Jondrea. Hit the nail on the head here as always Gil Scott-Heron always did. So very fortunate to see him live in Dublin, Ireland....Respect.
When I first heard this song/rap in the 70s the politics of Watergate was unprecedented. The end where Gil Scott says "what goes around...comes around" has had no truer meaning than the days since 9/11. The revolution will not be televised - it's live!
We will never experience what he gave us. Never, he was a true symbol of the truth about america and the struggle which will continue.
This man was Way Ahead of Time. Sad, he is dead; but his words and music live forever in my heart FOREVER!!!
It amazes me how subjects like this one can bring people together to argue, but seldom to agree. There are several certainties that could be the basis for a collective move forward if we were to recognize them. 1. There is something definitely wrong. 2. None of us has THE solution. 3. As long as we let insignificant ideological, religious, or philosophical nuances grow into insurmountable obstacles to our collective work, then we will always be stuck. Look for agreements not arguments...
It is so sad that my realization of this genius only came after his death. I loved "B Movie" 30 years ago, and for some reason never followed through and became a fan. We need more poets like Gil to open our minds to todays inequalities.....
what a performance! we miss you boss.
respect and appreciation for uploading this.
this is one of the greatest poets of america kim amiri baracka and langston hughs i love it
Very relevant. Would love to have here with us and BLM today.
I am White but everything what make my mind and thinking is come from afroamericans and i am pride abut that and very tankfull....
PS mix cloude ...dear mr.man
I have some of that influence on mix cloude so please enjoy and i hope one Day i Will come in America and be part of BLM lbecouse i feel that i am allrady part of that...cheers
BLM is a corporation owned by an elitist
@@keenanboyd2433 elitist or no elitist...if we dont care about Any digerent race or navionality to keep that heratage and subculture resorse we Will be just one of global eltist or militaryst or something alse for tham reason and goal...that is the Main problem of new age.
I like to be part of Organization...
Everybady have chance to be born ones,but Shame and honor live forevar....
It's amazing how this is hits home today, just as much as it did 30 years ago.
we need more of this!
This is FIT also for all the Brazilian politics...
I would like to think, that if Mr. GIL Scott Heron was alive what he would be saying about President NUMBER 45 WHOA..... His songs are relevant as they were when I shared the Last Poets in my 10th grade English class of 69-70. Loved him will Free Will love all his music, until his Last One New York is killing me, and me and the Devil. All of his music, with.Brian Jackson. Let's just say I loved his music, his wisdom, his delivery.Rip Gil....
From someone born, raised and living up here in Massachusetts, thank you. Thank you for understanding.
I had the pleasure of being his friend. And mannnn he was the coolest from poerty classes music sessions and just buying food he had a message...We miss u gill.🕊🙏🏿 make sure yall get his poerty book it is🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏿
I remember my parents playing this album back in the day. RiP We need you today, still
When I started out in Radio, I was asked to Emcee his concert and got to meet him, Brian, and the Midnight Band backstage before the gig. Love the brother....brilliant. His poetry never gets old.....
A great artist and commentator has left us.
I just now discovered Gill Scott Heron and I am sad sad.
Everything there is to know is within his words, within his speech.
And fifty years later ‘shit’ was learnd
But what a beautiful speaker.
This beauty just can’t be understood by the hating bunch.
CHANGE THE NAMES AND IT IS STILL THE SAME
No Damn Question
Gil Scott Herons Words Resonate Just as Loud & Clear Today, As They Did 40 Years Ago.. The Truth Doesn't Go Away..
Man this man spoke the truth about America..And know Trump is The Oat Mealman ...B'klyn...
Facts babyboy, Gil spoke the truth about America... And now look at what's going on with the World today uh!!!!!. Facts...Bklyn..
His music is so appropriate for the #occupywallstreet demonstration. I hope it's getting played.
What a beautiful poet the man was! We're so incredibly lucky that his work is preserved and so accessible!
Quasi-teenage music crush ❤️ Used to go into the city to hear him in the local jazz clubs in my younger days. He’s still with us❣️
When art meets life! When life meet death. When the real meet the fake. When Gil meets the White house of fools!!!!
Listening to Gil tonight and what a genius! I missed him during the Bush administration. He was one to tell it like it is. Amazing!
We Do Miss U Mr Scott, However Ur Knowledge & Message 2 The Messengers remains Infinite & We Hear & Feel U 4Eva More ! Peace Be Unto Unto Him ~
America leads the world in shocks! Lol
Still Relevant!!! Tremendous Piece!
Respectful correction, Gil did not endorse the title 'Grandfather of rap' he preferred to be thought of as a poet. I agree in that the content and intent of his words were far more intellectual than most rap.
He started the Rap
He needs the be held up together with bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen but he rarely is??
Rap GIL- Scott Heron's time which is my time is when BROTHERS got 2 gether to TALK CURRENT EVENTS, not gendre of music & yes he is a poet for those that understand. Food For Thought Go Figure 🤔
Rap of 2 day have a few poets but they come @ u with street knowledge.
Ice Cube, & T, KRS, which hits the lower intellect no less the truth. Example,
In a rest. with my lady BLK.
SIS. all the characteristics of a white Coco Chanel that type will not listen to that music to vulgar, but the White Kid n the burbs r all up on it.
Yeah apparently he didn't like the Godfather of Rap thing. But he also didn't really have a problem with rap music he just wished more rappers were more conscious and talked about social issues. Which since the 90s theres been tons of great conscious rappers.
I'm claiming amens and yes!'s from the very start of this poem.
We beg your pardon, George Zimmerman..
mwanamke ambaye anampenda Yesu
Exactly.
WOW! Ok, i'm white and this guy is a serious genius. I found him in GTA 4 video game track, and compared to the crap rap/pop lady crap- crap, and the music of today, they couldn't come close to the talent level this man has. And i was born way after all of this music was recorded. Not was Gil Scott a musician, he was a master speaker, poet and preacher of the street too. Damn!
What an incredible talent, can't get enough, Mr. neo-soul, jazzy, poet, godfather. You best mist, teacher, enjoy God's Heaven, we remember you always.
Great thinker, Great speaker... G.-S. H. Much respect 💛✊
Substance......heavy substance... Listen
Royal Lee HEAVY substance what has happened to our people??????!!!!!!!!
This was recorded at NYU in the Summer of 1975
R.I.P Gil thanks for the education. Glasgow Celtic F.C
This just happened and will continue to happen. This is America.✌
Considering how much Gil Scott-Heron had to say about Ford - “the oatmeal man”, he would probably have had much more to share with us had he lived long enough to witness Trump “the orange man” of today! But that’s not to imply that he wouldn’t have had anything to say about all who were in power between them!
Mr .Gill Scott Heron, right on the beam. Light years,,,Truth, for our 21st Century..
let get to work.. and make his realty for all of us true..WORK.
We beg your pardon, rest of the world. We are this. So sorry. We don't seem to be able to do better.
He will be missed and nor forgot.
What´s so interesting about gil´s art is how his stuff sounds like it was recorded in the 00s. Anybody knows "watergate blues"? Man, all you have to do is exchange the words "vietnamese" with "iraqi" and the whole song could be about TODAY!!!! Long live Gil!
Ohhhh I didn't know Gil had passed. Oh man. He was such an awesome soul. Thanks for posting this piece.
Off the chain, and the meter
i remember when these words were first spoken...we were proud and awake...somehow we believe the struggle is over..dont think that because a blackman is running for the highest office of the land...we aint catching hell...
This poem is also for this age.
sad how history continues to repeat itself
Listening in June 2020. Still relevant and a fantastic message
Very hard to put into words how amazing GSH is, won't even try. Suffice to say he is a great poet and a great human being, love love love him.
WOW!! This is my first time ever hearing this and if this was first done in '75 yes things have gotten a little better but we've still got a long way to go!!!!
One of the original poets.still relavent. All you so call rappers, take note learn.
The Last Poets,
What this brother is speaking is true rap. I loved listening to him preform in person. I miss this.😏😏😏
How true things still are.
Always, ahead of his time, but on time.
He had a great voice and his focus was on the struggle for liberation.
Everything about this is good. Remember, please, to avaoid judging and labeling, My Irish orphaned grandfather who lived at the YMCA in Brockton, Massachusetts, and learned to box there, became a champion featherweight boxer, ate oatmeal for breakfast everyday. Nothing tepid or indecisive about James Boomer Donahue, who went on to work for the telephone company, and bring my father, Paul Foley, into that profession. Dad was born in 1929, youngest of eight children, in the first year of the depression. He worked for the phone company for 38 years and died of asbestos lung cancer one year after he retired, in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was not a smoker. He was my father
I love him!
I was a teenager when this came out it was the first RAP with a real message not the stuff of today garbage
Ain't nobody denying that a lot of political pardons are just that--political. The point Gil is making hear is that the powerful and privileged rarely go to jail. Check out Lindsay Lohan as a good example.
**Gil Scott-Heron: We Beg Your Pardon America.....Cause Gil Scott-Heron Is Still Alive Forever More**
where does this performance take place? Please post if ya know.
When God made Gil, he broke the mold. A poetic genius of the
political poetry genre where so few dare to tread. Whose got the
torch now?
NYU
"They call it due process and some people are overdue"
That line resonates so much with me, it is so simple and yet relevant to current affairs.
Know what I'm sayin. Where's the accountability hiding.Will we ever know? hah
Shame on the people who tumb down this mans work! :(
Still Relevant........Today....Tomorrow......Forever
Not knowing our history, people listen and we must not allow a pardon for #45
The Brother speaks the Truth. Long live the Brother in the collective memory of Us All!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This could have been recorded today.
Dead at 62,,,Gil was a man that could not stomach all the pardons and excuses in Amerika
Truth is timeless ✌️🎶👍
Love this.💞A message.
oh oh! Preach
Still relevant today in 2016.
you have it a lot better than it was back then....don't forget...these people like Gil were only special because the suffering they endured brought it out of them.....do you really wish you were exposed to that kind of suffering? there's enough injustice in your own time to fight against.....don't wish you were in the past.....it may seem like simpler times, but really nothing has changed...the deceivers deceive.....and the believers believe....been that way for a Loooong time....
Relevant at this very moment! #georgefloyd
A true Poet...
Call your SENATOR, tell your friends to call their SENATORS again and again and AGAIN!!!
gill was and will the Voice.
and now America Trump us out .,I
should place my. bet in Vegas •
ioreodream Nixon was committed a crime he never went to court or nor was he arrested. The question is how did the president become involved as Ford was president at the time. You have to go through due process before the president can even intervene in the process. But this never happened.
wise man still true still relevant real talk
Thank you, Gill!!!
god bless u blud god bless n thanks for ur works
still relevant in 2015
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Timothy Richburg still relevant in 2039