RE: Kind of Hip-Hop

Jim Kerr
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:39:15 -0400


Yes - point taken. Actually now I come to think of it I've heard
Langston Hughes reciting over Charles Mingus basslines. Pure Acid Jazz
Poetry!

> As to the Last Poets and Gil
> Scott Heron being the 'firsts'....I dunno know about that. What about
> the
> Beat poets of the 50s and 60s......they were speaking over Coltrane,
> Davis, Monk and others.......AJ has been around a long time.....just
> that
> no one was calling it that then....
>
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