“If there was any special initiative that I was guilty for it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine,
The musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped present the base for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, bureaucratic expression and spoken-word c poesy on songs like "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday. A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the give listed for his Manhattan recording company, said Mr. Scott-Heron, 62, died in the afternoon at St. Luke's Hospital after meet gruesome upon returning from a European trip. "We're all lot of shattered," she said. Mr. Scott-Heron was from time to time referred to as the Godfather of Rap, a crown he rejected.
"If there was any single drive that I was culpable for it might have been that there was music in confident poems of mine, with culminate progression and repeating 'hooks,' which made them more in the mood for songs than just recitations with percussion," he wrote in the introduction to his 1990 gleaning of poems, "Now and Then." He referred to his signature go round of percussion, civil affairs and performed verse as bluesology or Third World music. But then he said it was unpretentiously "black music or treacherous American music." "Because Black Americans are now a tremendously divergent essence of all the places we've come from and the music and rhythms we brought with us," he wrote. Mr. Scott-Heron recorded the air that would turn him famous, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," in the 1970s in Harlem.
He followed up that recording with more than a dozen albums, initially collaborating with the musician Brian Jackson. His most late album was "I'm New Here," which he began recording in 2007. It was released in 2010.
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