Gil Scott-Heron

[jimipresley]

The world is a smaller, sadder place for his death. The man who invented rap. A true legend.

And a great article from The New Yorker:

newyorker.com/reporting/2010 … _wilkinson

[zender]

I thought Johnny Cash invented rap.

Or was he singing?

[Dr_McCoy]

Johnny Cash was the one who did Whitey On The Moon.

[tommy525]

Johnny cashed out.

[jimipresley]

Fuck me, you lot can be utter TOOLS sometimes. Is it really too much to ask for a little damn respect?

[Dr_McCoy]

Sorry. We respected him at the Morgue already.

[Huang_Guang_Chen]

Nice link to that new tune in the Morgue, Doc McCoy. Oddly enough, because that chap from the UKe band xx re-jigged Scot-Heron’s last album, they played it on UK Beat. Respek!

This one goes out to the Freds and other anti-reds.

- YouTube

But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan…meant it. Acted like an actor…Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We’re all actors in this I suppose.

HG

[Dial]

Short but good podcast discussion of his death here.

slate.com/id/2295826/

[Dial]

Here we go