Some of you know him as Gil Scott Heron. Some of you know him as a revolutionary artist and poet and some of you may even know him as the “Godfather of Rap”. Whatever you knew him as, it holds true across the board that he was a man who truly left his imprint on the world of Hip Hop. So when Friday, May 27, 2011 hit a lot of hearts around the globe were still as they heard of the passing of this phenomenal man.
Scott-Heron rose to the scenes in the ‘70s, the post-civil rights era – the moment where we were moving towards a new age but the same moment where everything was not answered from the civil rights movement. He took his artistry to another level where he discussed the social and political and what we faced as a country at the moment: racism, sexism and even classism. Although he had his own issues, crack addiction and being in jail quite a few times, he had a powerful voice that reached many.
His mark of Hip Hop will forever remain and his “revolution will not be televised”.
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