Black History Month: The Grandfather’s Of Hip Hop, The Lost Poets
” The Last Poets were, along with Gil Scott-Heron, among the most important chroniclers of the urban revolt of the 60s and early 70s.” -David Whiteis (The Chicago Reader, 1990) Spoken word group The Lost Poets laid the foundation for the music genre that we know as Hip-Hop. The original group consisting of Gylan Kain, […]
