The Last Poets - When The Revolution Comes

[yzebergcatzola]

PARTY AND BULLSHIT AND....

[geeman856]

RREAAALLLLL

[snoopatomicdog]

Black people are awesome, I've always loved them. They've had rhythm for so many years. I mean rapping goes all the way back to Africa, they were doing things like this.

[KAUAIhiLIFE]

this has less than 200,000 views and bieber routinely gets 10,000,000+

oh and so do people "failing"

Whats wrong with the world?

[Swope97]

@KAUAIhiLIFE In the words of my dearly departed father

"Never underestimate the POWER of BULLSHIT!"

Justin Beiber at its finest. More importantly this is the matrix dude we walk amongst a bunch of sleeping sheep. . ..

[narlyboi4]

Black pride is so ever needed at this point being a young person/college student i watch the self anniolathion us as black people commit to one another u cant have ppl power if u dont have self knowledge or love black history has been a mystery and the various truths of our people have been disclosed nd these brothers knew this in 1970 its 2011 nd the same things are occuring if not worse because we now believe the mental part of slavery is over

[EsteLFresco]

The NDAA bill will be met with STAUNCH opposition...by any means necessary.

[BlasphemousVendetta]

Earl Sweatshirt Brought me here.

[HueStonePress]

Word.

[milesdevlon]

Young brothers need 2 stop the killin' and start buildin', cause we way behind the rat race of America. Black people adhere this message, it may happen sooner than u think, the whites aren't the only aggressors, there r others that plot against us, jus ask the black men in L.A.

[etzahi16]

i wanna share dis video but it dont let me....ppl need to hear this before the revolution comes =c

[madamemazuni]

BRILLIANT!



[analisedejogos]

9 pepole are fascists haha

[HAKKING20]

this song kind of deep, they could c how the world was, but didnt understand what that meant, especially the end of the song, "somebody gotta die before there's a revolution.." cuz, Martin died, Malcolm died, Huey died, and there was no revolution, you know why? cuz niggas was too busy partyin and bullshittin, until we have a movement to stop pursuin the world but to pursue the development of a structure our people can build on, there will be no change in the way things are, we'll just fade away

[montage3742]

@HAKKING20 - I hear you.

Artforjustice

[montage3742]

@HAKKING20 - I hear you.

Artforjustice

[52stav]

c'était génial et le début du RAP , mais avec force !! pas ce rap de merde de ce jour !!!

c'est vraiment bon !!!!

[marcusguernsey]

9 people dont have a clue where they are in this world

[carioca56]

One can see from where Brother Gil got his inspiration for his classic hit.

[lbjoshbal]

how many years and still no revolution!

[lbjoshbal]

@lbjoshbal im not african american

[Scum71succer]

white powah black powah red powah green powah how about some ppl powah?

[khoroshoorange]

@Scum71succer

right on!

[flesh86]

@Scum71succer

How about a power-outage?

[TheSharonHarman]

@Scum71succer Back then it needed to be black power. But you're absolutely right, today it has to be people power. We're all in this together.

[JonusLies]

@Scum71succer best youtube coment ever

[terrychr11]

Genius and humanity belongs to all of us if a truth isn't universal its not the truth. You don't have to be black to feel Bob Marley , don't have to be white to get Lennon or Dylan etc

[432F01]

Word. Nigger, my Nigger! Word. My Nigger, my Nigger! Word. My Nigger! Niggers! All Niggers! All Niggers, My Niggers! Jesus was a Nigger! Jesus is a Nigger! Jesus was crucified because he was a Nigger. My Nigger! All Niggers! My Nigger!

[brandonandrewdad]

and we still party and b.s.

[glaeken14]

white power!! and Black

[glaeken14]

white power!!

[suvaloo]

This is real Hip-Hop! Respect

[Animosity2UandU]

Where are our "Last Poets'?

[puru397]

Rest In Peace, Brother Gil Scott-Heron.

[TheSoundNeverSleeps]

Earl Sweatshirt's Dad inspired these guys.

[TheRappists6996]

@TheSoundNeverSleeps wow really? haha

[DaddyKyan]

And Puffy always talkin about "Party and Bullshit". That is why he makes the millions, like every other sold out entertainer. They promote a life of "Party and Bullshit" instead of revolution.

[daboe0909]

R.I.P Gil-Scott you spoke TRUTH TO POWER!!!

[tombeecher]

Awesome. This blew my mind when I first heard it in 1970 and it is as relevant today as it was then. I hope the younger kids dig on this and grow.

[swaggakingsdotcom]

Rib bro Gil from maddpoets see us on the web for a future tribute show

[1dudefromdetroit]

R.I.P Gil Scott-Heron

[1dudefromdetroit]

Standing with one fist raised, and head bowed.

[PHAEDRIDER]

just got the news.



[MrBrownskin07]

R.I.P. Gill Scott-Heron you will be missed......

[Thejohnjackjoe]

Its time for Greece to show how its done..... peace & love!!!

[amahabim]

These guys were the first. We played this in Egypt recently.

[dusknugz]

Earl led you here?

[cha1tman]

earl sweatshirt's dad is possibly the reason that hip hop exists.

O M G

[PeezyOnDeck]

its in the bloodline #FREE EARL

[Mateo92s]

This is how earl is so good

[DuhHoodMaverick]

@TranshumanCyborg They Almost Fooled My Young Mind smdh

[whitefawn87]

this is beautiful.

[daboe0909]

THIS MESSAGE IS NEEDED TODAY MORE THAN IT WAS BACK THEN!!!!! FUCK YOU 50CENT,LIL WAYNE AND SOULJA BOY!!!

[juslikejesus]

@daboe0909 What message? These guys were straight from Africa lol in 1971. you want us to have the same messages as Mozart? Well true art does, but true art changes and yet remains timeless. Don't dis it cause you don't like it.

[daboe0909]

@juslikejesus I wasn't dissing this I was PRAISING this.

[isaactaylor08]

@daboe0909 Amen to that Brother!

[redwolf481]

@daboe0909

there is great hip hop being made in the underground right now

[MrSurfingAround]

@redwolf481 like what?



[mosily1313]

@MrSurfingAround kendrick lamar talib kweli common jay electronica phaorahe monch macklemore the blue scholars, i could go on.

[redwolf481]

@MrSurfingAround shad,blue scholars, macklemore, blu, nujabes, shing 02..man theres sa whole golden age.. isend me your e-mail in my inbox and i will send you a list i have..there is amazing golden age going on underground

[liptakinator]

@redwolf481 U wana send me that list?

my email's liptakinator@gmail.com

[1lifestyle]

i have a cold ass mix for this song

[simsim1954]

I loved it then and I love it now. Period. Peace Out.

[cowboychrissy]

this is the shit!

[tintorriko]

wow!! finally i've found it, i've been looking for it since 2002, yeah!! afro's they will try to wear straigthed head, straigthed they will try to wear afro!! when the revolution comes. some may even die before the revolution comes.

thanks a million Zarndi!!

[RobRobertTheMusicMan]

this is a great speech.

[BlkManonTheInternet]

what is this wickedly cool shit I just found!

[lavenderraines]

party and bullshit and party and bullshit and party and bullshit

[Envee211]

This isn't rapping this is spoken word.

[islandwarrior16]

Oh so thats where Biggie Smalls got that "party and bullshit" from.

[STuRMBR1NGER]

the guitar came and gospel became the blues, then jazz hit the drum, and bebopped the word into scat. and then man got serious and selfconfident. and made 'em rap. and then LA came and sugarcoated the blood and the bullshit. and senseles gangsta rap was born to teach the way of making money!

[snakespot]

we have toochoose. freeedomm or slavery

[darronjerome]

The late 1960's, True Pioneers Of Hip Hop.

!Celebrate Black History Month!

[iwasthor]

My God! You tube has everything. This is straight up late 60's the very peak of the black power era.

[lupita5658]

Hip Hop's Grandpa!

[RyanCangemi]

quaaaaaaaddddddddddd

[amahabim]

It was called "rapping" or "rappin'" or "rap" back then, certainly eons before hip hop, but sadly, few hip hop artists have referenced their genius. I'm, telling you, everything we have in hip hip today comes from the sixties, particularly, "The Last Poets."

[iradan64]

all races need to unite and brind down the corrupt facist capatilist governments

[tanvo93]

im covering this song w a heavy guitar fallowing the rythm..but keep the poet rappin..then at the end kill the track w a sexy heavy riff..

hardcore punk and rapping fit so perfectly..

btw

the revolution needs to come soon..the crusades are still happening..natural rights are gone..we have the right to revolt

[LadyPaulaMata]

These are the forefathers of hiphop!

[lollypasam]

Circa' 68/69, wow, how powerful, makes you wonder how it was back then when all those struggles were going-on. Simplistic but 'Direct-As-Hell', captured the mood of those times perfectly. One of my all-time faves. Music With Conscience. Love it !.

[GeorgieHustle]

That's tight even though black people aint the same no moe,now they make thes o highsiddity thinkn they better then other folk hood figures,I could of sworn if u was from the ghetto ur automaticaly labled as kool now its about who doin the most or whateva

[TheKStar010]

and party and bullshit and party and bullshit and party and bullshit, still to this day #smh

[abaex]

@TranshumanCyborg it actually comes from Jamaica and started with toasting on the music

[sebcoe1990]

produced by jimi hendrix

[cornholio530]

my teach said tht their albums are expensive as fuck

[Nahoyy]

Is that Gil Scott Heron singing on this one and New York New York ?

[DNotes06]

@Nahoyy: Gil was never a member of the Last Poets...he never perofrmed any of their poems nor appear on any of their albums.

[Nahoyy]

@DNotes06 Thanks man. I'm actually relieved, I don't really dig the last poets, just an opinion. Still, crazy how similar their voices are.

[sex6cult9revolution]

@Nahoyy That's Abiodun Oyewole (obby-oh-dune oh-yay-woe-lay). Yeah, he does have a somewhat similar voice to Gil. I used to think that this was him too, many years ago. Like this was like an older version of "The Revolution will not be Televised" or something, but there's no connection.

[falsepride]

@TranshumanCyborg Last Poets didn't invent it either! Langston Hughes was spitting poems over Jazz tracks in the back since the 1920's in Harlem.

[casual29]

Voice sounds like Samuel L. Jackson.

[carabistou]

There was a movie, which was made in the wake of this first album. I remember seing this movie at the end of the 1970's in Paris, in a cinema called "Le Luxembourg". It featured the original Last Poets playing in New York. I've never seen any mention of this movie ever still!

[Babacgms]

This was... is one of my all time favorites... The message still resonates today!

[pininfrna]

This is bad poetry. Pseudo-intellectual artsy nonsense, zero substance.

[Kyp0]

@pininfrna Oh, you.

[billheslop]

@pininfrna

and you keep listening to emerson lake & palmer records you utter clue !

[digitaltrain]

did i hear the line "faggots will not be so funny anymore"?

what is that about?

homophobia?

is there an excuse?

party???????..................­.or just bullshit?

[lancevancedance]

@digitaltrain I think he's talking about how preachers, or "preacher pimps", ostracize homosexuals. I think he mean's white preachers too, given the tone of the song.

In that same line he says "and all the junkies will quit their nodding and wake up". I think this means that the church people,or "junkies" will wake up and quit listening to the nonsense he is speaking. But, I could be wrong. This is just my intepretation.

It may be benefit you to read the lyrics while listening to the poem.

[digitaltrain]

faggot will not be so funny then?

what is that about?

homophobia?

[grifitti]

@digitaltrain No -- I think they mean homosexuals usually referred to as "gays" --- they won't be so funny anymore....meaning there will be so much chaos that even they will forget about their same sex tendancies and "man" up

[digitaltrain]

@grifitti am not sure what "man up"means?

does this mean all gay men are camp queeens?

stereotype or what?

i think the questions i have asked make for uncomfortable reading.

i have to say non of the replys i have had in return have been nasty.

[UmmAzizaJamila]

@digitaltrain Man up = stand up.

[RaynMan718]

@digitaltrain I see where you coming from but I don't think the word homophobia existed when this sound came out.

[scorinaldi]

this is very, very good

[SinisterSister1]

biggies song party and bullshit came from ths

[richarquis]

@ bellacnella - Not sure where it might be found on yt, but it's on the same album as this track, the self titled album. It comes in a double cd with the "This is madness" album. "Delights of the garden" and "Beyonder" are my personal favourites, and they also put out the fantastic "Hustler's Convention" under the name Lightnin' Rod, which was later covered by Grandmaster Flash, though his version really didn't have the style and flair of the original.

[richarquis]

@ Bellacnella - You're gonna have to listen to a lot more than one song if you wanna hear these guys properly - But they were absolutely the (or well among the) progenitors of the scene that eventually led to hip-hop as we know it today. Try the "Delights of the garden" album, most particularly the "Be-yond-er" ep that appears on the CD version. These guys were frikkin amazing. The solo work by Jalal, one of their many members, is also pretty mad.

[bellacnella18]

@richarquis hey I been listening. "Wake up" is my favorite, but I cant find it here on youtube.

[bellacnella18]

are yall comparing this to rap because they are black because other than that i see no resemblance.

[FEWED24]

@bellacnella18 This was sampled by biggie at the beggining of his career. thats where the references to rap come from.

[bellacnella18]

@FEWED24 i was referring to those that think that these were the "seeds' of rap. the irony is that (c)rap is preventing any type of revolution :(

[FEWED24]

@bellacnella18 lol yeah this material by last poets is in no way part of the beggining of rap or as referred by you crap lol biggie flipped the purpose of this song as a mockery i would say

[bellacnella18]

@FEWED24 amen to that

[ugotstobkidn]

The Last Poets first album had an awesome effect on the GIs patronizing the "Nest Club" in Ascom Korea, 1970

[HighSocietyEnt1]

wow this really open my eyes

[garethac81]

@TranshumanCyborg

Sugarhill Gang WERE the first hip hop act to break out on the charts...that's no lie. They didn't singlehandedly invent the genre of course, but I've never heard anyone claim that anyway. They had the first real hip hop hit, and after "Rapper's Delight", the doors were open for other rappers to break into the charts...which was a key moment in the early history of hip hop.

[fcow007]

WOW

Poetry X10

Makes me want to burn my Shakespeare.....

[malikabooboo]

how dare this display of verbs of power be labeled as racism or hate. It took strong men and women to stand up an not beg to be treated equal but demand our god giving rights as human beings, and the world should be thankful that some brothers used Verbs of Power to express themselves, because there were a growing number of brothers who were ready and willing to Die for the rights that other socalled minorities take for granted now. While most Niggas remain Scared Of Revolution.

[antigoniem06]

Now we all know where Biggie got his hook from for "Party and Bullshit".

[bellacnella18]

@antigoniem06 and some might even die....before the revolution comes,.....

[Scum71succer]

Still this is very rasist, tribal thinking is the whole trouble with this world unless we let go of this we will never find peace.

[mjjcng8958]

@Scum71succer how is this racist when this was made for the very people who where hated and used? it gave blacks pride. you may not think this is important now but it's our true history book into the emotions that where present during these times. we can learn a little bit about these things now. about pride and love for who and what we where made to be. peace doesnt come if our leaders dont want it.

[Scum71succer]

@TranshumanCyborg Rap used to be the colored peoples punk they made it into blink and pink

[shadzzz441791]

this is what rap was supposed to be about.

[smarty3000]

@shadzzz441791 you're right...not that auto tuned shit

[1113stve]

@shadzzz441791 Couldn't have said it better myself, my friend.

[juslikejesus]

Rap is as and remains as intellectual as it's always been, and African Americans still have a style and "swag" that we can admire.this was a long time ago obviously this rap is different than our rap this was the start. You're right about one thing though, these guys are the last poets...

[keilyngodson26]

saul williams

[antigoniem06]

@keilyngodson26 Love that guy.

[guitar16]

simply a phenom

[dudeface59]

we need to start this up again

[LLduckF]

Great Poems!!!

[HoldOnTightxx]

I had no idea party and bullshit by biggie came from this... its kinda ironic

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

@HoldOnTightxx Real Hip Hop is all allusion (not illusion). That is where the intellectual part comes in, the metaphor, abstract references, allusions, prose and similes thus Irony and audacity.

So, by definition there is little in 2010's mainstream so-called Hip Hop to even be bothered with. Also, this makes most so called artists under a certain uniquely disqualified to make True Hip Hop. They have not/won't do their homework. One

[HoldOnTightxx]

@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO That was well said and true. thank you

[borchabronx]

@HoldOnTightxx

it is really, but I admire Biggie's sense of self-irony, he totally understood what inclusion of this song in his song means, he accepted it and did not give a fuck about all these moralists coming here, preaching their righteous shit about "anti-revolutionary" rap music... holmes, get a grip, music has nothing with politics and whether revolution is gonna or not happen depends the least on what music is then in the circulation

[HoldOnTightxx]

@borchabronx your completely right. well said

[HoldOnTightxx]

you'll know that it will be revolution because there wont be no commercials...

[Jamal249999]

The Notorious B.I.G. - Party And Bullshit

[zuzuxwater]

BLACK POWER! RA.

[TheCannonofMohammed]

I used to work tirelessly for revolution Then I saw what happened in Zimbabwe. Great revolution. Black brothers and sisters in charge---and starving. Turned the breadbasket of Africa into a basket case. Sad.

[shortcakeslicious]

@TheCannonofMohammed

all TRUE my Brother!!!

[PiErRe6363]

nice!

i like it

[Jamal249999]

Brand Nubian - Concerto In X Minor

Brand Nubian Used This Too.

[dundura123]

@TranshumanCyborg i don't think MTV cares where people think Rap comes from...one way or the other

[groalerable]

sorry, but how is this hip hop?

i doesn't sample or even rhyme.

[xSPLENDAx]

@groalerable Jazz influenced lyrics over prominent drums. This was a good 15 to 20 years before sampling came in. This was before anyone called it hip hop. I guess it's more proto-hip hop than hip hop.

But that's like saying Richard Hell wasn't punk rock...

[JaLomangino]

one this is from way back in the day and biggie smalls sampled the end of this song for party and bullshit

[santero9999]

Freedom !!!

[EdSZiomek]

Who owns this piece? Who can I contact regarding re-using this script?

[Bluuwise1]

THE LAST POETS!!!!!

[sugarfrankjr]

nice... to know how the rap evolued.. there is some rhyms on the song but the beat still suck lol

[controllervinyl]

RUN RUN - REVOLUTION A  COME!!!!!!!!!

[kingfarid1990]

respect very deep respect from the heart thanks for this africa united

[iamerighi]

Produced by Jimi Hendrix

[nandusell]

@iamerighi are you seriously

[iamerighi]

@nandusell yep!

[stronga1999]

Amazing!

[nazno]

Definitely, they were massive influence on rap. Along then with Gil Scott Heron. Even rap came out of the sixties.

[furbybabbi]

i met abiodun oyewole and my life has been changed.. amazing

[adopaz]

I have this album in storage. I also think this came out before Gil Scott-Heron's recording of any "revolution" lyrics. Put up "Jones Coming Down," if you have it.

[theNotSoDivineMsM]

The Last Poets were before Gil Scott Heron and paved the way for hip hop and rap....

[soterios11]

i loved the song "party and bullshit" from the Notorious BIG, i didn't know it came from this!

[waynem37]

I love chicken !!

[Cordero787]

If there weren't so many house niggaz and pussy ass niggaz, revolution would've been done by now, str8 up!

[Scum71succer]

there will be no comercials :D

[harddivej]

biggie...

[rastaroots86]

kiedy przyjdzie ta jeba... rewolucja ... respect ... PL

[lala0578]

bows