tHanks for shareing this.

1st time hearing this

He said then tv, the Internet, your phone is watching you. 20 years ago

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah 2024 and beyond!!!

Maaaaan folks stiiiiiiiil ain't ready to accept & digest this poem from my LU🧡💙(PA) brotha thee ultimate motivation 💪🏿 👏🏿 🙌🏾 to remain focused on my goals!

Shout out to Brian Jackson, he really fleshes out the sound that Gil builds and adds so much life to its already blossoming personality

VERY TRUE

Simply the coolest song. with great meaning. Respect

Killer tune 1luv 😎....

Gil The funky troubadour 4 ever

❤❤❤❤

.Somebody needs to send to this to Donald/Trump.

Our Brotha' Gil was Pure Genius!!!

Thanks Bro. Thanks Gil ✌️❤️

God father of rap ✊🏾

You are drawn to where you need to be…if you follow…you will find…

1st time hearing this & i done dabbled quite a bit wit Gil

Much Gratitude

Can you imagine if he was alive now with the 🍊 45president ,, lots of material to write about.

WE FIGHTING BACK G......R.I.P

Gone 10 years today. Always remembered! Never forgotten!!!! The Godfather of Rap and the best of all these damn rappers. None could touch him. I wonder what you would say about today.

12 people still can't understand that there ain't no such thing as superman.

ONE OF MY MENTORS ! ! ! SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE AND LOVE !

My main man!!!

THEE Last Poet......

It was not enough that we were bought and brought to this home as the slave, locked in the bowels of a floating shithouse, watching those we love eaten away by plauge and insanity, flesh falling like strips of bark from a termite-infested tree, bones rotting turning first to brittle ivory then to resin. that was not enough. it was not enough that we were chained to leg irons, black on black with a piss stained wall forced to heed nature's call through and inside of tattered rags that strained our privates, and evidently years of slavery did not appease your need to be superior to something like a crazed lion hung up on being the king of his corner of the cage, backs bent under the wieght of being everything and having nothing, minds too like bomerrangs curving back into themselves kicked and carved by the face-straining smiles that saved my life. that was not enough. somehow i can not believe that it would be enough for me to melt with you and integrate without the thoughts of rape and murder. i cannot conceive of peace on earth until i have given you a piece of lead or pipe to end your worthless motherfucking exitence. imagine your nightmares of my sneaking into a vieled of satin bedroom and attacking your daughter, wife and mother at once ripping open their bowels sexually like a wishbone. imagine that magnified a million times when you realize that the blinders have been stripped from my eyes and I realize that slavery was no smiling happy-fizzy party. your ancestors raped my foremothers and i will not forget. i will not forget that Yale or Harvard or Princeton or In-Hell because you are on my mind. i see you everytime my woman walks down the street with her ass on her shoulders. i see you everytime i look in the mirror and think about the times that i would pat myself on the back for not being too black afterall. i think of you morning, noon and night and i wonder, "just exactly what in hell is enough?" everytime i see a rope or gun i remember, and to top it all of you ain't through yet. over fifty you have killed in mississippi since 1963. that doesn't even begin to begin all of those you have maimed, hit and run over, blinded, poisoned, starved, or castrated. i hope you do not think that a vote for John Kennedy took you off my shit-list because in the street there will only be black and white. there will be no Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives, Moderates, or any other of the rest of that shit you have used to make me forget to hate. there ain't no enough. there ain't no surrender. there is only plot and plan, move and groove, kill. there is no promise land. there is only the promise. the promise is not vowel until we have been nerve gassed, shot down and murdered, or done some of the same ourselves. look over your shoulder motherfucker, i am coming

looks like we smack dab in the middle of some Sirius world wide protests with cameras rolling

He is one of the best positive brother to ever be able to get across the minds of people Frank

GD brilliant.

strong performance by Gil! Eloquent expression of inner city life...

Thank you for sharing. We have lost such a great individual, but I know because we come from such a great stock, there will be more to come regardless of whatever "they" say is trending! This man instilled my hope the 1st time I heard him and this sound-bite has rejuvenated the melancholy of patience within me. Thank you, again.

I eventually found out when i got older that there Ain't No Such Thing As Superman.The amazing Gil & his side kick Brian Jackson never put a foot wrong musically, this track features some moody Jazzy back drop with a sweet groove, that really allows Gil to open up as a singer more than ever

Cool

Where did you find this version of "the revolution will not be televised????????". Is there a video to it???? Also, this is the version that they play on the beginning of "Homeland season 6". Been looking for it since....Thanks for your resource. This version holds the great line "the revolution starts in your mind"; what a revelation!!!!! Thanks for the upload.

True words faster that

*GSH WILL ALWAYS BE MAH HERO....SOUNDTRACK II MANY A GOOD MEMORY*

#freehawaii #protestnaiaupuni #federalrecognition #beatitkook

beautiful haunting and such passion RIP GSH

this is too dope

..every once in a while, a brother get shot somewhere for no reason, a brother get his head kicked in for no reason, and you wonder just exactly: "what in the hell is enough"?

R.I.P/HAPPY BIRTHDAY

He is one of the original rappers. He spoke about political justice, and what he saw happening in america. We need more poets like Gil Scott today

After listening to and loving a lot of his music and spoken-word work, I have to say that this right here is my favorite Gil Scott-Heron song. Everyone falls back on "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". And aside from a couple of problematic lines, it's great. But it's dated. This is both much deeper, and timeless.

pathetic division is the death of the working class

man we need him and his music around doing the Bush area and am not just talking about jr time either for daddys time a reagan terms i believe they shut him down because they could not aford to have someone takeing like him around and making people think for themselves

When we realize we part of the human race and practice equality. The world would be better.

Should have been Barak Obama's campaign theme song!

still true to this day

TJ Hudson on trumpet; Zane Musa on sax; Nick Smith on keyboards; Jamie Silverstein on bass; and Tony Austin on drums. Farnsworth Park, Altadena, CA.

I love this song...if u need a release shed tears and stress this is the song this is the artist!!!