• The Last Poets is a poetry collective and musical group that arose in the late 1960s as part of the African-American civil rights movement and black nationalism...
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  • The Last Poets is the debut studio album by spoken word recording artists The Last Poets. It was released in 1970 through Douglas Records. Recording sessions...
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  • Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (category African-American poets)
    American poet and musician. He was one of the founding members of The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians that evolved in the 1960s out of the Harlem...
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  • youth to the Last Poets." "Go" was the album's third, and highest charting single. The song featured Kanye West and John Mayer, however all the verses are...
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    Abiodun Oyewole (category African-American poets)
    is a poet, teacher and member of the African-American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which developed into what is considered to be the first...
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  • lyrics by The Last Poets. The song's lyrics deal with street corners in poor neighborhoods. The song's beat contains samples from "You Make the Sun Shine"...
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  • Poet of Poets or The Poet of Poets is an epitheton ornans regularly used for a number of poets, including: Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), sometimes anglicized...
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  • The word "POETS" is an acronym for "Piss off early, tomorrow's Saturday": hence Friday becomes "Poets day". It is tradition to begin the POETS day at 3:30 p...
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    Devo Harris (category Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni)
    Bastard, and the Last Poets. For his production on West's 2005 single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", Harris won the Best Rap Song honor at the 48th Annual...
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  • others in the 1949 film adaptation "New York, New York", a song by The Last Poets from their eponymous album, 1970 "New York, New York", a song by Duke...
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    The Last Poets, as well as songs by The Isley Brothers, the Commodores, and the O'Jays had a big part in his early life, especially regarding the tone...
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    Rapping (redirect from Street poet)
    paving the way for The Last Poets in 1968, Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, and the emergence of rap music in the 1970s. An editor of the newspaper, The Fayetteville...
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    literature Russian language Category:Russian poets Greene, Roland; et al., eds. (2012). "Poetry of Russia". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics...
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  • This Is Madness (category The Last Poets albums)
    This Is Madness is the second studio album by spoken word recording artists The Last Poets. It was released in 1971 through Douglas Records. Recording...
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    Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated...
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  • form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip...
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    Spoken word (redirect from Spoken word poet)
    Kumasi, the creative group CHASKELE holds an annual spoken-word event on the campus of KNUST giving platform to poets and other creatives. Poets like Elidior...
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  • Party and Bullshit (category The Notorious B.I.G. songs)
    song "When the Revolution Comes" by the spoken word group the Last Poets. However, Biggie altered its meaning: the original song sarcastically criticized...
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    Scott-Heron The Last Poets Hip hop Performance poetry Poet laureate Sound poetry Puerto Rican Poetry Liverpool poets Hirsch, Edward (2014). Voice – A Poet's Glossary...
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    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising...
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  • with the citizen drivers, look out for hot Chevey panel truck" (from "The Last Drive") and "Take my spirit someplace else" (from "The Last Poet"). The front...
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  • Kris Davis Craig Taborn Uri Caine Hank Roberts Barbara Sukowa & the X Patsy's The Last Poets Mark Dresser Ingrid Laubrock Chris Lightcap Ben Goldberg Ron...
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  • such as Last Poets Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin and Sulieman El-Hadi on "Inquizative, Derivative" (off 1994's Words and Silence). Silent Poets was formed...
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  • Poetic Justice (film) (category Works about poets)
    Baha The Last Poets as themselves On July 23, 2013, John Singleton spoke with writer Lathleen Ade-Brown for Essence magazine and discussed the 20th anniversary...
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    Nuriddin of The Last Poets. Scott-Heron recorded one of the poems in Nasir's book entitled Black & Blue in 2006. In April 2009, on BBC Radio 4, poet Lemn Sissay...
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  • including Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and the Last Poets. Scott-Heron stated that he was inspired to write "Whitey on the Moon" by a statement from writer and...
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    War poetry (redirect from The Trench Poets)
    their poetry. Robert H. Ross describes the British "war poets" as Georgian poets. Many poems by British war poets were published in newspapers and then...
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  • The Watts Prophets were an American political poetry group from Watts, California, United States. Like their contemporaries The Last Poets, the group...
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    The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets...
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  • Felipe Luciano (category African-American poets)
    Culture in the United States, "Collaborations between these [Nuyorican] poets and such primarily African American ensembles as The Last Poets and the Third...
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