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Gil Scott-Heron: Remembering a Musical Innovator and Rap Inspiration

Gil Scott-Heron, a chicago born poet who many called the “Godfather of Rap,” died Friday, at the age of 62. Scott-Heron was a musical innovator, whose spoken-word-over-jazz 1970 debut album “Small Talk at 125th and Lennox,” is often credited as year zero of rap music. The record featured songs like “The Revolution Will Not Be […]