Willing

One of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite artists ever. This BBC documentary also comes highly recommended, giving a great insight on his background, story and what impact he and his music had in general…

“Gil Scott-Heron is the Godfather of rap. His confrontational, no-nonsense street poetry and intelligent song writing skills have inspired the modern Hip-Hop generation and he is arguably one of the most significant musicians and poets in Afro-American history. The programme features contributions from disciples such as Chuck D and Mos Def as well as music from his career stretching back over 20 albums to the early 70s.”

The man himself is supporting Joss Stone this week in Bonn (WTF?), it really should be the other way round even though dude sadly seems to be pretty wasted nowadays. I`m gonna skip that one and be just happy listening to his records.

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Willing (320k)