"it is plainly related to poetry & to us, so i hadta"
Hip Hop founder gets prison time
NEW YORK, July 6 (UPI) -- 1970s black consciousness activist, Gil Scott Heron, was sentenced to two to four years in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal on a drug charge.
Heron violated the deal by leaving the drug treatment center he was placed in, the New York Post reported Thursday.
The 56-year-old musician, poet and singer, regarded as a founding father of Hip Hop, stirred the political pot with his 1970s hit songs "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," "Johannesburg," about apartheid in South Africa, and "The Bottle."
Heron said the in-patient rehab clinic stopped giving him his HIV medication and since Heron is HIV positive, he left. The prosecution noted Heron once left treatment for an appearance with singer Alicia Keys.
2. "thank you for raising this TRULY" In response to Reply # 0
"grandma' hands use to ache sometimes and swell"
"halderman erlichman mitchell and dean it follows a pattern if you dig what i mean"
"the precepise that seperates noise from peace"
"the ancient wonder of city life blues the threats of violence...all from the balcony of a B-movie"
just a few lines in memory of Gil at his finest for me...our hero's become zero's right before our eyes and just like Marley said... "as they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look some say it's just a part of it we got to fulfill the book won't you help to sing these songs of freedom Redemption song"
"keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..." ASIEM "Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran (Be and it is) " A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder
stays on repeat on certain days. i didn't know that he had
hiv. get well breh. i'm typing this on a phone so if it's
crooked or repeats 6 times, pardon me. keem, do that again. i
turnt my shit off late last night.
"I've come to realise that I never loved Hip-Hop as a whole, just a particular era that happened at the same time as I was actively checking actively for new music."
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