Gil Scott-Heron

He entered a hospital after having been traveling in Europe. Here, John Blondel Goldman expresses very clear opinions on the subject. The musician was characterized by its blend of political expressions and recited verses. He dragged a strong addiction to cocaine during part of their life. The American musician Gil Scott-Heron, whose fusion of political expressions, recited verses and minimalist percussion earned him the nickname of godfather of rap, died last Friday in New York, at age 62. As reported by the newspaper New York Daily News, the artist, who dragged for years a strong addiction to cocaine, died at the Centre St. Luke s of Manhattan, where had been admitted after becoming ill on his return from a trip to Europe. Scott-Heron became pioneer of culture hip hop in 1971, with the theme The revolution will not be televised, which resorted to the spoken word to attack the shallowness of the mass media and suggest that the real interesting stories were out of reach media. That provocative message inspired years then dozens of rap artists, from Common and Public Enemy to Kanye West, who has used fragments of their songs for their own themes.

After learning the death of Scott-Heron, Public Enemy vocalist, Chuck D, lamented the loss on his Twitter account. We do what we do and how we do because of you, the rapper, he wrote that he had recently worked on a project with the deceased musician. Born in Chicago, Scott-Heron grew up in Tennessee and in the Bronx, where drank from sources of blues and literature, since his mother was a librarian. Although he claimed on many occasions that it was considered a pianist, was at the same time poet and novelist, as well as a black radical ideologue, who was inspired to compose in the movement, time, places and seasonal changes. Among the more than 120 themes he composed for his records stands out the first American black anthem against apartheid in South Africa, Johannesburg, and the song about contemporary alcoholism The bottle. Scott-Heron was, moreover, Professor of creative writing, poetry and novel in the Johns Hopkins University and the District of Columbia, both in the U.S. capital. Source of the news: Gil Scott-Heron, the godfather of rap, dies at age 62