Gil Scott-Heron: Remembering the Godfather of Hip-Hop & Fellow HBCU grad [VIDEO]

Source: Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune & Guardian News and Media In 1970, the American poet and jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron, who has died aged 62 after returning from a trip to Europe, recorded a track that has come to be seen as a crucial forerunner of rap. To many it made him the “godfather” of […]

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