The Best Of Gil Scott-heron

15 track best of. without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, gil scott-heron has been called a vietnam-era langston hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and the black bob dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither black-power phonies or scheming presidents. in 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky, bad-as-fuck anthem 'the revolution would not be televised' - on which the then 23 year old poetically dismantled the entire 70s culture - while throughout a career spanning five decades, scott-heron's deep, soulful voice spoke of nukes, reaganomics or apartheid, always from deep inside the tradition.