I really didn’t want to believe this when I heard the news. We’re losing way too many of our legends in music. His Pieces of a Man is hands down, one of my favorite soul albums ever, along with Curtis Mayfield’s Short Eyes soundtrack. You will be sorely missed, but never forgotten Gil. Rest in power! EDIT: Brought this back to the top as I put together a short compilation of contributions Gil has made to Hip-Hop music. It’s not the most comprehensive list, definitely missing a few joints here. The Gil Scott-Heron originals are the Youtube streams, following each Youtube link are the artist / songs that sampled that specific song. He may physically be gone, however his legacy will thrive through his timeless music and the offspring it created in the form of Hip-Hop. I’ll try and upload a .zip file later on tonight but no promises.
DOWNLOAD: Gil Scott-Heron – It’s Your World
DOWNLOAD: Gil Scott-Heron – Who’ll Pay Reparations For My Soul
[Original Sample] Pieces of a Man [1971]
KMD – What a Niggy Know (rmx) f. MF Grimm [1994]
[Original Sample] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [1971]
Master Ace – Take a Look Around [1990]
[Original Sample] Angel Dust [1978]
The Game – Angel f. Common [2008]
The Coup – Me And Jesus The Pimp In A ’79 Granada Last Night [1998]
[Original Sample] We Almost Lost Detroit w/ Brian Jackson [1977]
Grand Puba – Keep On [1995]
Black Star – Brown Skin Lady [1998]
[Original Sample] The Bottle [1974]
The Jungle Brothers – Black Is Black [1988]
De La Soul – Area [1993]
[Original Sample] Peace Go With You Brother [1974]
Miilkbone – Keep It Real (rmx) [1995]
Lords of the Underground – Lord Jazz Hit Me One Time (Make It Funky) [1993]
[Original Sample] H20 Gate Blues [1974]
Boogie Down Productions – Why Is That? [1989]
[Original Sample] Did You Hear What They Said? [1972]
Freeway – This Can’t Be Real f. Marsha Ambrosius [2007]
[Original Sample] A Legend In His Own Mind [1980]
Mos Def – Mr. Nigga f. Q-Tip
wowwwwwwwwwww!
wow OMFG i cant belive this what the fuck i was just listening to the revolution will not be televised damn this is truly shocking wow R.I.P Gil a true ledgend
“There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.”
Always was my favorite line…lol.
Rest In Peace to one of the grandfathers and pioneers of the hip-hop culture. Hopefully, there won’t be a big debate started on here about how people should know about him, that didn’t. Instead, just share with people who didn’t know about him, his best pieces and how incredible his influence was on the genre. I’d start with “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”
Peace
RIP
FUCK THIS FUCKERY. FUCK FUCK. Why do the legends die early?
And who the fuck dislikes a R.I.P. post?
yes im glad he’s dead my dreams came true!
I dislike this because I’m angry he’s gone. You can never stop death but you can’t stop a legacy. RIP A legend.
smh wtf another legend gone smh this shit gettin crazy
Wtf I can’t believe this man.the OG Gil is dead.that’s so sad.this guy seemed invincible like he was just those people that don’t die.r.I.p
Rest In Power
had to thumbs down this cause i don’t want it to be true. R.I.P.
I owe Kanye a lot. I’m young so I didn’t know of Gil’s music & poetry until “Home” off of Late Registration back in like ’05. Glad I looked him up afterwards. Gil was a genius. RIP
Hip-Hop lost one of its progenitors, who was as essential as James Brown or Ali, some of the earliest early seeds of rhyme came from Gil. The world lost one of its most raw voices of if not truth, honesty. Rest in Power brother, hope we’ll learn from the wisdom and mistakes you left us with.
Rest in Peace.
This is the darkest day for hip hop in years.
Thumbs Up = Love …..RIP
smh, Why?
Um….who the hell is this lol? Never heard of this dude how is a legend? Don’t really listen to 80s rap though
^^WOW^^
Rest in peace, GSH. Big fan..
there are no words
gill scott was a genius, the definition of raw and human
rest in peace
This fucking sucks. I was recently turned onto his music through My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and I was amazed by it. Most celebrity deaths don’t upset me much, but this one hurts.
Rest In Power.
WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA?
all those drugs really messed him up. I commented a couple of weeks ago how bad heron was longing. Sad time for music. I am surprised so many people appear to know who he was though.
nigggaz confused to hit up or down LOL
Me and The Devil.
That’s a hard one to swallow. Just last night I saw another legend (Mulatu Astatke) perform and slept beautifully only to woke up with such tragic news. Bout to slap on We’re New Here by Gil & Jamie XX and listen to My Cloud…
RIP
RIP
“Most celebrity deaths don’t upset me much, but this one hurts.” same here
He was a TRUE Legend, RIP Gil Scott-Heron. Was by far the greatest poet in music.
R.I.P. to the rawest and realist ever Mr. Gil Scott-Heron you will be missed
Never really listened to Gil Scott Heron but I know what he meant for music. RIP to a legend.
The Revoution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
and it sure wont be too soon with the shit music today and how people act towards one another
Winter in America is my shit!! I love this man music and his potery was strong I love being black because of guys like this!!
The revolution still won’t be televised…
sadly lots of people die, at different times even…………it’s called life
RIP another legend gone
i was juss listening to pieces of a man 2 days ago :/
RIP
Sadly lots of people are always negative and never have anything to contribute to the C-section. It’s called being Rio$.
I’m also one of those people, we should meet up for drinks.
RIP Gill. Been rocking your music since the eighties when one of my friends put me on. Thanks Tom Tom.
He put on the cassette and we got blasted that day.
Rio$: Makes you wonder why God takes the great ones and leaves us assholes like yourself.
Do us a favor. Find a bridge and jump.
Cosign P.H.I.L.L.Y.
Such an inspiring man. Go and download – Were new here, the album he did with Jamie xx. Rest in power.
ya’ll know he dissed hip-hop, right? anyways RIP to a real poet and not just a rapper.
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized.
Idiot boxes of the world unite! To fight off the effects of intelligence, replace smart quotes with fart jokes, substitute sense with scenes from Martin, let the baby’s bathe in that glow and learn all manner of things they don’t really need to know!
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
Channel the content of some rambling nonsense deep into the annals of yo’ subconscious, deprogram and depress chasing some televised success, be them, that, they and those be everything but in control,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
Small claims Court drama, teenage baby mamas, Osama watching Osama, Celebrity Endorsed indoor saunas, the perfectly cooked piraña and other cannonfodder for you to ponder, all at the speed of imitations of life while the smoke of war gets inhaled thru the peace pipes, be still my beating heart and scare my brain from thinking thoughts as i sit intoxicated by the delights, sarcasm and 3 strikes thrown by my favorite pitcher in a sound surrounded, 3 dimensional, high death, full color mixture, wholly unsocializing and completely uncensored,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
By this one-eyed monster most of the world was raised, and by this hero most of the world was saved, and to this master most of the world is slaves, it factors your fears with actors and cheers from a live studio audience pushing you to engage in a heroic act of thoughtlessness for the grand prize of a little bread, fleeting fame in the circus and every thought in yo head,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
“Ain’t no changing me” said my flat screen TV, No More Che’s to the rescue, or Black Panthers to correct you, just coaxial cables and satellite signals to connect you to a world that doesn’t really look like it does on TV, where everything is much shorter, fatter, uglier and in disorder, where u have to do it now because there are no digital recorders where if the present gets boring you can just fast forward,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
So there will be no revolution, or paradoxically ironic televised public execution of the entire worldwide televising institution, there wont even be a celebritized, televised trial of old baby blue, cuz you see my dear friends the television will not be revolutionized but what about the revolution that should taking place inside………………….of you?
By Wasalu “Lupe Fiasco” Jaco in Dedication to that guiding light of a human being Gil-Scott Heron
RIP Gil Scott Heron. The mark you made on the world will outlive us all. Many thanks, one love.
lets mourn the loss of a musician by giving his music away for free
fuck logic
Saw him playing live at an artists against apartheid free concert in Clapham Common in 86 with Sade, Elvis Costello and many more (yeah I really am that old)~incredible performer. So many incredible songs but, for me, ‘I think I’ll Call It Morning’ with that beautiful message and Pretty Purdie fills was the first thing I wanted to hear when I heard this news. Let’s celebrate an incredible life and a true original.
man RIP Gil. I liked Angel Dust song, hell I even sampled that when I first started producin beats. You will not be forgotten.
zip please
RIP to a legend, and one of the best poets ever. You will be missed…
And how the fuck could someone give this a thumbs down. Your mother’s a bitch who gave birth to another one.
to the dude that doesn’t even know who Gil Scott Heron is… check the music out and read up on him, he’s a legend and has done a lot more for hip hop than most people realize. He was a true pioneer and made some of the best music of his time, and of all time. he will be missed, but his spirit will live on through the countless classics that he created. Rest In Power.
co-sign philly.