Proving that they were indeed THE LAST POETS

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Political commentary/prophecy (this is from 1973) begins at 1:20.

[anansi]

Get outta here this is from 73?? wow!! this coulda been today..the men will look like the women and the women will look like the man.. this is not a remix right??
This is what was later to become House Hip-Hop and Trans..thanx for sharing.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

You're most certainly welcome and glad you enjoyed! ;D


I really don't see what chanting conscious poetry over precise African drumming patterns has
to do with House or with Hip-Hop. H. Rap Brown was not rapping in today's sense of the word
and FM DJs like Dr. Perry Johnson were rapping in the sense of what Black Americans always
meant by rap, speech delivery (listen to James Brown's Brother Rap or Poppa Don't Take No
Mess where rap is mentioned in the context of a man sweet talking a woman).

I think Rap/Hip-Hop owes more to Yardie toasters (U-Roy) and dub masters (King Tubby) of
the 70's than it does to the Last Poets. But unlike USA rappers and their East Coast West
Coast War, Yardies I-Roy and Jazzbo "beefed" as a gimic not a killer self-genocidal thing.

[anansi]

Mar 3, 2011 1:26:11 GMT -5 Tukuler al~Takruri said:

You're most certainly welcome and glad you enjoyed! ;D


I really don't see what chanting conscious poetry over precise African drumming patterns has
to do with House or with Hip-Hop. H. Rap Brown was not rapping in today's sense of the word
and FM DJs like Dr. Perry Johnson were rapping in the sense of what Black Americans always
meant by rap, speech delivery (listen to James Brown's Brother Rap or Poppa Don't Take No
Mess where rap is mentioned in the context of a man sweet talking a woman).

I think Rap/Hip-Hop owes more to Yardie toasters (U-Roy) and dub masters (King Tubby) of
the 70's than it does to the Last Poets. But unlike USA rappers and their East Coast West
Coast War, Yardies I-Roy and Jazzbo "beefed" as a gimic not a killer self-genocidal thing.

Well the tempo especially early House all you have to do is speed it up and a lot and repetitions with key words or lyrics ,OOh don't get me wrong　I know the yardies form one corner stone of Hip Hop but the AA communities and Caribbean communities has been cross pollinating for a long time and the East coast West coast divide was much more recent than early Hip-Hop and I hate to put it on the West coast brothers but that was Gangsta rap.

Yes I remember this well..

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Wow!!! OK, taking it to culture corner after this one
Come on over and bring me up to today's speed.

[alluswe]

i have enjoyed the music lessons of you two brothers, but allow me to interject, Poets were not the last. D/P or Dead Prez. are out there with a conscious poetry reminiscent of Last Poets. Critics say it is Gangster , i think Revolutionary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKge-dBSa0

[anansi]

Mar 9, 2011 13:30:08 GMT -5 alluswe said:

i have enjoyed the music lessons of you two brothers, but allow me to interject, Poets were not the last. D/P or Dead Prez. are out there with a conscious poetry reminiscent of Last Poets. Critics say it is Gangster , i think Revolutionary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbKge-dBSa0

Oh I love me some Dead Prez ,and Imortal Technque


My favorite here