![]() ![]() And that emphasis was really important because frankly Gil Scott Heron had a whole lot of topics to emphasize on this album. Much as with many early releases during what was known as the “united funk era” the music of this album seemed to know no label,a concept that would lend it to becomming a proto hip-hop classic with it’s mixture of political commentary,half sung lyrics and of course the occasional profanity for pure emphasis that is. ![]() Although inspired on this fron to a degree from the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and James Brown alike it was Miles’ more aggressive and sometimes angry approach that seemed to drive Heron’s musical approch at this particular point. It’s kind of amazing to look back at this, the now late Gil Scott Heron’s fourth studio album and realize that in the short three years since he’d made his debut that he’d come to embody the funk era/black power political and social consciousness of his day. ![]()
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