Most rap music leaves me totally cold - its a repetitive drone of threats, boasts, insults and defamation that, if spoken in any other context would end up in the courts for slander or incitement to violence. This CD is not rap - but its where rap came from. The Last Poets are angry black guys with a political message to get across (Wake Up Nigger) and a measured yet passionate way of delivering it. The poems (I guess this stuff is not song) on this CD are delivered over a little instrumentation - conga drums provide a sparse but driving backing track. These guys saw themselves as 'the last poets' i.e. the last attempt to move the revolution forward with words before 'the brothers took to the streets with guns and bombs' - well I guess this did happen, but rather than fighting for a brighter tomorrow the fight was about drugs turf or who spilt whose pint. Buy this CD - get back to the roots and start to grow again.Read full review
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