Gil Scott-Heron
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 2 August 1975
THERE'S NOTHING NEW about black anger. It's run through the whole of black music from the blues onwards, finding perhaps its most forthright expression (in soul at least) in the several uncompromising and not surprisingly, underexposed, albums of The Last Poets.
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