this was on a tape along with Nino Tempo's Hooked On Young Stuff that was always played in a gym I went to in the early 90's. Loved it then, still do now.
This video about Mind Control (5 of 6) will arm you. It's the blue and orange video posted by NRH117. Dr. Ron Paul will save the world by you. This is not political. Zero doubt. God speed. youtube.com/#/watch?v=UrVVsESmpBo. Learn!
I have never heard of this artist. Just made aware of him because a friend artist on his website did a painting tribute to Gil Heron & it is an amazing piece! I just heard the Revolution Song & love it! Love this one 2! This is the kind of stuff we need 2 education our children on. So I will b letting my kids listen & see this! African Americans educate ur kids on Black History! This is Excellent Black History 2 teach them!
common is a very intelligent man.he is a very aware man and a very possitive artist.he does not rap about bitches,money cars,things that can all be lost or just thrown away. he does not flash bling.in other words he is a brother with his head together.i was pleased to learn he and eryka were having a romance.common is an off spring of gils.not by blood but by their art.now i try to catch hell on wheels every week stay possitive common. carry on for gil
i remember buying this album playing it over and over. my freind tweety and i were attending udc when gil was teaching there.tweety was crazy about gil.i loved the revolution will not be televised.as so many artist i feel he was not given his props enough for his work.he meant so much to the struggle and to us.he opened the doors to rap.he and the last poets.i do not believe he was given his props because he told the truth with his music and shared his heart this is who common reminds me of .
GSH, wrote about what he saw, and it is for us all to see , Our Poet coming from the inner City Perfect. its for all human enlightenment Mr GSH. Thank You,
A classic. Years ago had the 12" version on vinyl version - god know's what it would be worth now! At the time I was a 70's metal/rock freak but this just blew me away when I heard it.
Don't you think it's a crime, there's people livin in the bottle....they ask sweet Gil now, don't you think it's a crime, people showing up in the bottle....look around on any corner, it's gonna be me, it can turn you inside out...sho nuff, yeah ...right here.
Hmmmmm man the way it was!! I remember these days like yesterday. So many have no clue how good you have it today. RIP father to many and voice of an era!!
Old school is real cool, real music with excellent groves, timeless songs sang from the heart , shows raw talent and great art, fun to dance by and sometimes cry, master pices that will not die, some went gold with thier classics soul, this kind of music will never grow old, true meaning and purpose is what you'll find, when you listen to the old school grind, I listen to this song a lot, because I love that Gil Scott.
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Brilliant artist but not without problems. The son of a famous Jamaican footballer, Gil Heron and an American opera singer, Bobbie Scott-Heron. He suffered from cocaine addiction and was sent to prison for drug related charges. Admitted to be HIV positive and may have died this year from HIV related complication. His music was simply fantastic. Rest-in- Peace my friend.
Brilliant artist but not without problems. The son of a famous Jamaican football, Gil Heron and an American opera singer, Bobbie Scott-Heron. He suffered from cocaine addiction and was sent to prison for drug related charges. Admitted to be HIV positive and may have died this year from HIV related complication. His music was simply fantastic. Rest-in- Peace my friend.
@thegrandwazoooo because he preaching the truth of the time, according to my pops this was big in all the black clubs up in NY to NJ... Gil is the father of HIPHOP when it was honest not caught up on this bling bling coon tap dancing lyrics...
@nightfall22 thanks man but its a stone cold fact..I loved GSH for all his problems it was his music and poetry that will ring thru the ages my friend..Such a sad miss in my life....pl;atforms,patchpockets and 3 star jumpers still make me laff endlessly...GOODBYE GIL YOU'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN IN MY GEORDIE HOUSEHOLD..Even my kids are playin him to my grandkids and that speaks volumes for Gils gift to us all...
Pause and reflect indeed. I heard this sound many times over the years but never thought to really listen to what was spoken. I am sorry I awaken so late, but I am happy to be Awake and Aware now.
RIP Brother...you made a lasting impression on us all!
I often feel personally responsible for the perverse ways people have treated music recently...
But then I put things into perspective and say to myself "They're just expressing themselves, doin their thing, that's what music is, another language"
Then everything is okay.
But the question always nags me...
Why don't I hear any artists pouring their hearts out like this anymore?
@MrHoldis You are so right, my heart just broke into when I found about his life story, sing that song baby, now he can rest in peace.This song takes me back when my brother use to play all of the greats black in the day, and I remember this song was one of them.
Mr Gill Scott. What. beautiful .words. for our inner city. real. alive.the pluses . hope. to make it a better place,,,for all ..LOTS OF WORK TO DO!! THANK YOU .GSH
@deeplistgaming, "what genre of music would this be"? I'm not exactly sure because I had NO idea until now that it was a 'mixture' of various things. Check Wikipedia or some other 'music site', would have perhaps have more of definition for you. This really brings back some good memories for me though.
You have to remember, hes singing about his own surroundings. This is what he saw everyday. Whites sing the same thing but, call it country music. Southern poor call it blues. The whiye seventies youth called it rock and or punk or ska. All cultures have there own way of voicing their surroundings thru some type od music.
Don't think the colour of your skin protects you from poverty,I'm white and we lived from day to day in the 60's and early 70's in England with absolutely fxxk all.I saw Harold Wilson hob-knobbing with the Beatles very much like Tony Blair and Oasis and memories came flooding back.
This man stood for truth...he will always be by definition... poetic justice...rest in peace..I was 18 when this song came out and loved it then & now.
I was actually a really good friend of Gil...it saddens me that he is gone BUT I am relieved that he is FINALLY Free!!! I love you Gil...your music WILL live on!!!!!
@OptimizticDiva I was 18 years old when this song came out in the mid 70's-Gil Scott Heron's music was very indicative of the struggles of the black man in America especially Harlem-As a poet he was very inspiring-may he rest in peace
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Hello people of YouTube. I'm a female MC from Dallas, Texas. I have a song/video of me rapping to I Use to Love H.E.R. by Common(REAL HIP-HOP). Check it out and let me know what you think. Thank you! By the way, GIL is the TRUTH!!
gil scott heron was touring the uk around the same time dan le sac v scroobius pip was doing a gig , and i had to pick one , and i chose dan le sac v SP , biggest regret of my life , i be able to see them again , never saw GSH play and wished i had
@plfpaint No. That's your opinon. I don't `need` to listen to it again,. I like the song. If I choose not to click a button it's no concern of yours unless you're a fascist.
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The so called Jews of ISRAEL (IS)IS (RA) (El)OHIM. Financed and perpetuated the The Great Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.... the Jig is up Sun we Rising to our proper status The TRUE SUNS OF THE UNIVERSE ATUM RA... No person with recessive genes are the ORIGINAL CHILDREN OF THE ONE!!!! Melinin is the BIRTH MARK OF GOD!!!
@RichardBPOliver , I am familiar with Protocols of the ZionElders, how ever that is not my source of information so i shall point you sun to the truth so YOU may dismiss your homosexual relationship with serapis (jesus) of the roman Jesuit Nazi NEW WORLD Order!!! the title of these Volumes 1 & 2 , plus actual advertisements of those news papers of that time period all JEWS SELLING AND ENSLAVING MOORS BKA. BLACKS, NEGRO, COLORED. : The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews. Vol 1&2
Whatever the race, whatever the country, whatever the religion, it is always the ones who already control the money that are responsible for the everything from the slave trade to keeping people on low pay within that same economic bracket. Today, I don't personally think it matters whether you are black or white. The ruling classes are happy to take from you. They are also happy for black and white poor people to hate each other, it keeps the attention away from themselves.
Jews financed The great transfer Atlantic slavetrade.....and created Judaic christainity so they could worshipped by the black melinated race this is fact. Buy the book the secret relationship between black and Jews and Jesus is zeus
@MrBluntbox420 .. That reads like the words of a nutcase! It's people like you who say that this, or that, is "FACT" who we should be worried about! I'll hazard a guess that you believe "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to be a genuine historical document?
I'm Scottish and White and this brilliant track and video on the one hand is a million miles away from me but on the other hand I can relate to the social aspects of this. The people arguing about racism need to look at the bigger picture.
@a1974h im hip hes talking addiction and life choices in a black setting but it could be in any culuture or mind were despair and need of exscape from reality is a necesity.
Look at all these hateful comments makes me think Hitler was right, but he had the wrong demographic. So much hate on Youtube. I hope it sits well with you that you're a soldier of every villain in human history by continuing the spread of hate because you're bored. Enjoy the music and learn from the experience, because it's clear that you haven't quite all learned that hate has not set us free....
We black people never judge, never targeted, and never wanted war against the white man. We only asked for peace and you all take it as an insult. And you take it so offensively that you talk about it on a video of one of our freedom fighters that asked for the same thing. Slavery is like a scar, even when it stops, we are still hurt. So unless YOUR people or YOUR ancestors went through what ours did, never, EVER tell us to get over it.
@tyzoone104 You know, I didn't wanna post anything negative on this video, but "We black people never judge?", get your head out of your arse, people of every race judge. Another thing, your ancestors might have been through it, but you didn't go through it, no one you know who's alive went through it. The Jews went though the Holocaust, but they don't constantly bring it up and whinge at the Germans constantly.
@BlitzThem Alright, I'll play devil's advocate with you.
1) Your right, my ancestors did go through it, but not me. Okay. So if some in your family was raped or killed, you wouldn't feel pain too?
2) I'm black and I don't judge people. I'm not judging you because of what your people might have done. I never judge, and I know other people of OTHER races don't judge. So that fact is false.
3) (adding on to number 2) So are you saying that you yourself judge people on their race? So your racist?
@tyzoone104 Hmm. I'm white and some of my ancestors were black. Pretty sure they were slaves. (White came later, after they moved to Europe). A bit of differentiation, please.
@sclapione Well, I'm actually Irish (not from slavery. My great-great grandmother married an Irish man). But I consider myself Black.
And, in my opinion, I agree with you guys: Slavery was a big deal, but black people should stop using it as an excuse why they can't do anything. My great-great-great grand parents might be slaves, but I don't let that stop me. I just feel like it shouldn't have been done.
@tyzoone104 Preach, Preach, Preach It, you have said nothing but words spoken like a trooper, I agree with you 500%, when we get upset. they look at us like you said get over it, if we can find a way to heal the scars then we can, but the only way to erase the pain of unjust and hatred bestowed upon us, will take a miracle, we can let it go, but it will never be forgotten, not in this life time, only in God's new world would we be able to heal.
@worlee60 Obviously u been forced fed that bleeps n effects tish, probably from the U.K. often called Techno which gets confused wit HOUSE. I'm from da Chi (Chicago) where House Music was coined but the old skool djs played stuff like this and mixed it with other classics. So if anything HOUSE MUSIC as I know it is really Disco or music from the 70s taken to the next generation. Go on somewhere with ya negative cynicism. Keep it movin'
@ConciousEcho unfortunately the revolution was televised - and we watching the sitcom right now - its called MTV and BET and all the dumbass swagging pants - crotch holding and booty shaking youngins trying to talk about how hard THEY had it ....
this was on a tape along with Nino Tempo's Hooked On Young Stuff that was always played in a gym I went to in the early 90's. Loved it then, still do now.
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philagerryberry714 5 days ago
This video about Mind Control (5 of 6) will arm you. It's the blue and orange video posted by NRH117. Dr. Ron Paul will save the world by you. This is not political. Zero doubt. God speed. youtube.com/#/watch?v=UrVVsESmpBo. Learn!
ManosOceano 6 days ago
Always such an inspirational writer for the best quality tunes.
chasmedia1 6 days ago
Gil was a deep thinking brother, rest his soul. 42 chumps need to be hit upside the head with a Bottle.
SuperFiveAces 1 week ago 2
@SuperFiveAces shonuff upside the head with the bottle
oneloveT2 6 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
This was like a good sunday night tune in Glasgows better clubs as you dont get muppets out on a sunday ,such a classic so many mixes.
chasmedia1 1 week ago
a goup called brother to brother offered up a version of this tune that i;ve looked to replace for decades, but, so far, no luck.
jcmmerriweather 1 week ago
they sure don't make them like this any more. shame on us
adikaheavyweight 1 week ago
I have never heard of this artist. Just made aware of him because a friend artist on his website did a painting tribute to Gil Heron & it is an amazing piece! I just heard the Revolution Song & love it! Love this one 2! This is the kind of stuff we need 2 education our children on. So I will b letting my kids listen & see this! African Americans educate ur kids on Black History! This is Excellent Black History 2 teach them!
JourniHeart23 1 week ago
common is a very intelligent man.he is a very aware man and a very possitive artist.he does not rap about bitches,money cars,things that can all be lost or just thrown away. he does not flash bling.in other words he is a brother with his head together.i was pleased to learn he and eryka were having a romance.common is an off spring of gils.not by blood but by their art.now i try to catch hell on wheels every week stay possitive common. carry on for gil
pissedoff7771 1 week ago
i remember buying this album playing it over and over. my freind tweety and i were attending udc when gil was teaching there.tweety was crazy about gil.i loved the revolution will not be televised.as so many artist i feel he was not given his props enough for his work.he meant so much to the struggle and to us.he opened the doors to rap.he and the last poets.i do not believe he was given his props because he told the truth with his music and shared his heart this is who common reminds me of .
pissedoff7771 1 week ago
41 people are living in the Bottle
JayDee284 2 weeks ago in playlist Liked videos 2
GSH, wrote about what he saw, and it is for us all to see , Our Poet coming from the inner City Perfect. its for all human enlightenment Mr GSH. Thank You,
1212amore 2 weeks ago
legend
ohreallywho 2 weeks ago
A classic. Years ago had the 12" version on vinyl version - god know's what it would be worth now! At the time I was a 70's metal/rock freak but this just blew me away when I heard it.
MACHAWK123 2 weeks ago
who the hell are the 41 disliking this video?
dgoughnour16 2 weeks ago
Drunk as f*ck nice as twice 1L RIP
tariqdajoint 2 weeks ago
Don't you think it's a crime, there's people livin in the bottle....they ask sweet Gil now, don't you think it's a crime, people showing up in the bottle....look around on any corner, it's gonna be me, it can turn you inside out...sho nuff, yeah ...right here.
ODAAT1120 3 weeks ago
Classic ,another classic,Gill Scott Heron
jay55also 4 weeks ago
Gil Scott Heron is seriously missed.
medjoe66 1 month ago 9
awesome pure awesome...........tune.
008BUCKINSSR 1 month ago
Alcoholism still exists 30 years later... sad.
djikasu 1 month ago 4
@djikasu #1 American made addiction.
Ripprock1 2 weeks ago
R.I.P
DragonBruceLee27 1 month ago
THATS the phattest bass I've heard all day
MacDillaz 1 month ago in playlist SoulFunk 3
LOVE YA REALLY.......YOU FUNK, TO ME YOU'RE STILL AND WILL ALWAYS BE ALIVE,ALWAYS IN MY MUSIC AND MY LIFE.
sleefunk 1 month ago
He was so fine!
SharelB1 1 month ago
@CityGov
If all of us thought that way there would be change around the corner. Respect.
msasiadc83 1 month ago
The way this song illustrates alcoholism is powerful.
1911Ryguy 1 month ago
@1911Ryguy There are 40 ppl who are alcoholics
dal4018 1 month ago
nice 70s soul music
geokaymojo 1 month ago
Gil just passed recently. Very sad. He lives on in his music, which is timeless.
KurtsCorpse 1 month ago
Damn I was born in the wrong era. Music just isn't made like this anymore
SeanM494 1 month ago 21
@SeanM494 DUDE, we have RADIOHEAD!!
ambrishgok 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos 4
@86vocab YOU ARE A KINGSIZE PRICK..GO BACK TO YOUR CRACKPIPE AND MUGGIN OLD LADIES YOU LOWLIFE
worlee60 1 month ago
Hmmmmm man the way it was!! I remember these days like yesterday. So many have no clue how good you have it today. RIP father to many and voice of an era!!
Nova9581 1 month ago
why is nobody discussing the issue addressed in this song?
ffxplayer95 2 months ago
I CANT STOP DANCING PHILLY STAND UP
TheTEDDYSTONE 2 months ago
Old school is real cool, real music with excellent groves, timeless songs sang from the heart , shows raw talent and great art, fun to dance by and sometimes cry, master pices that will not die, some went gold with thier classics soul, this kind of music will never grow old, true meaning and purpose is what you'll find, when you listen to the old school grind, I listen to this song a lot, because I love that Gil Scott.
Indigo558 2 months ago 2
Brian Jackson on flute....Starter for ten.
lors999 2 months ago
39 People got hit with a bottle
TheRubronegro85 2 months ago
He was the living brutal beauty of African American living in America his duality of giving us truth and him recieving poison he warned us about
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Brilliant artist but not without problems. The son of a famous Jamaican footballer, Gil Heron and an American opera singer, Bobbie Scott-Heron. He suffered from cocaine addiction and was sent to prison for drug related charges. Admitted to be HIV positive and may have died this year from HIV related complication. His music was simply fantastic. Rest-in- Peace my friend.
lmtenn1 2 months ago
Brilliant artist but not without problems. The son of a famous Jamaican football, Gil Heron and an American opera singer, Bobbie Scott-Heron. He suffered from cocaine addiction and was sent to prison for drug related charges. Admitted to be HIV positive and may have died this year from HIV related complication. His music was simply fantastic. Rest-in- Peace my friend.
lmtenn1 2 months ago
Fuck...this music is depressing
thegrandwazoooo 2 months ago
@thegrandwazoooo So is living with a drunk for 17-18 years.
999Atwood 2 months ago
@thegrandwazoooo because he preaching the truth of the time, according to my pops this was big in all the black clubs up in NY to NJ... Gil is the father of HIPHOP when it was honest not caught up on this bling bling coon tap dancing lyrics...
noirnoticvibe 2 months ago
@noirnoticvibe Word!!! He spoke the truth! hipasn't about this madness that you see today!
gjohnsoningary 2 months ago
@nightfall22 thanks man but its a stone cold fact..I loved GSH for all his problems it was his music and poetry that will ring thru the ages my friend..Such a sad miss in my life....pl;atforms,patchpockets and 3 star jumpers still make me laff endlessly...GOODBYE GIL YOU'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN IN MY GEORDIE HOUSEHOLD..Even my kids are playin him to my grandkids and that speaks volumes for Gils gift to us all...
worlee60 2 months ago
Pause and reflect indeed. I heard this sound many times over the years but never thought to really listen to what was spoken. I am sorry I awaken so late, but I am happy to be Awake and Aware now.
RIP Brother...you made a lasting impression on us all!
DoMoreGoodDeeds 2 months ago
didn't know gill played the keyboard.. rip good brother
felixicon 2 months ago
Gil Scott Heron should be profile on the show UnSung.
LUVJONZ99 2 months ago
@LUVJONZ99 I strongly agree. I don't know why TVOne won't profile this prolific talent.
nutothis1 2 months ago
@nutothis1 I agree, Lets keep our hopes up, someone was trying to get an unsung on him before his death, hope that tvone profile him anyway.
Indigo558 2 months ago
This song is about bad habits. Evaluate yourself once in a while.
jlm12a 2 months ago
I often feel personally responsible for the perverse ways people have treated music recently...
But then I put things into perspective and say to myself "They're just expressing themselves, doin their thing, that's what music is, another language"
Then everything is okay.
But the question always nags me...
Why don't I hear any artists pouring their hearts out like this anymore?
What happened?
Don't mind me I'm just writin.
B0ULLIE 2 months ago 2
@B0ULLIE There are a lot of people like this, I write about it too.
AsphaltClub 2 months ago
@AsphaltClub Sure, but no one like THIS.
B0ULLIE 2 months ago
@B0ULLIE And even if there are people writing about some real shit, they don't much shine man.
As chuck D once said "Cursing pyramids, while praising projects".
B0ULLIE 2 months ago
A 1.09 some yuppies take songs like these as jokes but if your from where hes from this song makes you pause and reflect.
MrHoldis 2 months ago
@MrHoldis You are so right, my heart just broke into when I found about his life story, sing that song baby, now he can rest in peace.This song takes me back when my brother use to play all of the greats black in the day, and I remember this song was one of them.
Indigo558 2 months ago
what exactly does the doctor do? lmao
headbangaboogie1 2 months ago
39 people doesn't drink
MrMaschingewere 2 months ago
He looks like the guy who did that 'bed intruder' song.
richietnh 2 months ago
His face is combination of Jimi Hendrix & Thierry Henry
johnrizal 2 months ago
What happened?? Where are the Gil of today?? People are still living in a bottle...SAD
keemimani 2 months ago
that afro is friggin awesome
springdom 3 months ago
Mr Gill Scott. What. beautiful .words. for our inner city. real. alive.the pluses . hope. to make it a better place,,,for all ..LOTS OF WORK TO DO!! THANK YOU .GSH
1212amore 3 months ago
Amazing
galoc64 3 months ago
Please find yourself ,,and understand the feeling of being back
dundeebebe 3 months ago
I dare you to not tap your foot to this tune.
JoshuaFVrooman 3 months ago 38
@JoshuaFVrooman you win!
chaosofscotty 3 months ago
Thanks for posting, what great (and sometimes sad) memories from back in the day.
jebeja 3 months ago
@deeplistgaming, "what genre of music would this be"? I'm not exactly sure because I had NO idea until now that it was a 'mixture' of various things. Check Wikipedia or some other 'music site', would have perhaps have more of definition for you. This really brings back some good memories for me though.
jebeja 3 months ago
You have to remember, hes singing about his own surroundings. This is what he saw everyday. Whites sing the same thing but, call it country music. Southern poor call it blues. The whiye seventies youth called it rock and or punk or ska. All cultures have there own way of voicing their surroundings thru some type od music.
TheBladernnr 3 months ago
rest in peace brother
paniatka 3 months ago
@deeplistgaming This song came out around 1974-1975
curtisjones400 3 months ago
Don't think the colour of your skin protects you from poverty,I'm white and we lived from day to day in the 60's and early 70's in England with absolutely fxxk all.I saw Harold Wilson hob-knobbing with the Beatles very much like Tony Blair and Oasis and memories came flooding back.
kramyelir 3 months ago 2
@kramyelir go on man
t1000eg 3 months ago
Pickin out my afro puffs, doing the funky chicken...this was/is a jam!
NewMillionaire 3 months ago 3
bass line is killin'
itaccen 3 months ago 50
His old man got a problem...and it's a bad one
ozzyunoe 3 months ago
it upsets me that The Pussycat Dolls - Bottle Pop is the top featured video
123snoman123 3 months ago 3
This man stood for truth...he will always be by definition... poetic justice...rest in peace..I was 18 when this song came out and loved it then & now.
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BWASPADUBSTEP 4 months ago
@brooklynfc
What a fantastic fact, I'm astounded.
Great stuff
a1974h 4 months ago
this all i jam!!! R-I-P GILL SCOTT HERON, U A BAD BROTHA!!!
aturner5841 4 months ago
Mr Gill Scott Heron, Our Nations Treasurer, 21 Century Great Poet,
1212amore 4 months ago
omg the father of rap
CariagaXIII 4 months ago 2
Gil Scott Heron gave the world a clear look into black life
His music will live forever
We will dearly miss our brother
R.I.P.
Love and respect
Mike Vick aka The Truth
Gypsyman813 4 months ago
UNO-DOS-TRES-CUATRO-see that black boy over there running scared his old man is in the bottle
curtisjones400 4 months ago
Rest in Peace Gil you are greatly missed
daedley 4 months ago 18
Sunz of Man - Flaming Swords
PietRock85 4 months ago
One of my all time favourites...........brilliant!
ThehonourableT 4 months ago
One of my all time favourites...........brilliant!
ThehonourableT 4 months ago
I was actually a really good friend of Gil...it saddens me that he is gone BUT I am relieved that he is FINALLY Free!!! I love you Gil...your music WILL live on!!!!!
OptimizticDiva 4 months ago 2
@OptimizticDiva I was 18 years old when this song came out in the mid 70's-Gil Scott Heron's music was very indicative of the struggles of the black man in America especially Harlem-As a poet he was very inspiring-may he rest in peace
curtisjones400 4 months ago 3
heck of a song
acarouselofantics 4 months ago
39 people never had a bottle
ttdean 4 months ago 3
Very good tune! I like it.
Dave17541763 4 months ago
Rest Deeply Gil,I'll Catch You Soon!
jsphjohnson 4 months ago
Amazing music R.I.P
Kelston818Thug 5 months ago
Respect to to the man.
1964LedZep 5 months ago
@1964LedZep - Respect
scarrmd 4 months ago in playlist 2
Superb !
gottatellit 5 months ago
i am white 45 and this song is one for he best
doingok42 5 months ago
flukkin brilliant tune.
MrMilicaSRBIJA 5 months ago
I OVERSTAND !!!!
kinstube 5 months ago
Amazing music to my ears!!!
69pontiacfirebird 5 months ago
yo siempre escuche los rolling stones .hasta que escuche a este hombre .tiene algo loco
hiss73 5 months ago
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Hello people of YouTube. I'm a female MC from Dallas, Texas. I have a song/video of me rapping to I Use to Love H.E.R. by Common(REAL HIP-HOP). Check it out and let me know what you think. Thank you! By the way, GIL is the TRUTH!!
SpokenWord89 5 months ago
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Disable automatic updates * This brother was one of the More Prolific Thinkers and speaker of truths of this are ANY generation...PERIOD
sharedsessions 5 months ago
I LOVE IT ........awsomeeeeeeeee!!!!!
right,legends never die!!
zafrob 5 months ago
3:36 Frank Zappa
Reggi3x 5 months ago
luv it all!!!!!!!!!
blackhumanity103 5 months ago
an inovator , sometimes equaled , never bettered x
riptide39 5 months ago
this is the god damned funkiest bassist ive ever heard in my life
Eirikursson 5 months ago
what a fabulous video! I miss Gil very much, he was the voice of my political conscience for most of my life.
kingcake54 5 months ago
100% Legend !
mr01FABIO 5 months ago
gil scott heron was touring the uk around the same time dan le sac v scroobius pip was doing a gig , and i had to pick one , and i chose dan le sac v SP , biggest regret of my life , i be able to see them again , never saw GSH play and wished i had
mycribapple 5 months ago
the 38 people who dislike this dont know good music
trapperpiatt 5 months ago
Heard this for the first time on Sirius Soul Town, amazing sound had to download. Not sure I missed Gil in the '70's, but my loss till now...
FrankieD92 5 months ago
Excellent Clip... words can't describe the truth to this Legend.. :)
Yemaya170 5 months ago
I wonder how many times that count down has been sampled
lamareaton 5 months ago
so many cool memories....shout out to old school Bennett Homes Project...Chester PA
enebody 5 months ago
dope
MacNothing 5 months ago
Saw Gil Scott Heron last year in Finland.
vanhavihamiehesi 5 months ago
Tribute in Baltimore to Gil Scott this Saturday. Check me out on Facebook.
BroHakiA 5 months ago
I miss you Gil. Your music was so wonderful and spiritual! Thankyou.
TheCalebson 5 months ago
great lost RIP
cepierce100 6 months ago
class mofuka xx
jm111100 6 months ago
35 people need to listen to this one more time.
plfpaint 6 months ago
@plfpaint No. That's your opinon. I don't `need` to listen to it again,. I like the song. If I choose not to click a button it's no concern of yours unless you're a fascist.
luke2963 5 months ago
@luke2963 It's the people who clicked "dislike" that I was referring to.
plfpaint 5 months ago
Your words were beautiful and relevant to denounce the moguls who lead us like puppets on a daily basis. To me you'll stay a great artist!
I hope to see you again one day Mr Gil Scott Heron!
sabelsab 6 months ago 2
all i know this song brings back good memories of The Spiders Web in Watford UK where i first heard it and was played a LOT.
Entrance fee to the club was £1.25 inc a slice of pizza !!!
A bottle of wine seems nothing nowadays seeing whats out there on the streets now!
rusship 6 months ago
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MrBluntbox420 6 months ago
The so called Jews of ISRAEL (IS)IS (RA) (El)OHIM. Financed and perpetuated the The Great Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.... the Jig is up Sun we Rising to our proper status The TRUE SUNS OF THE UNIVERSE ATUM RA... No person with recessive genes are the ORIGINAL CHILDREN OF THE ONE!!!! Melinin is the BIRTH MARK OF GOD!!!
MrBluntbox420 6 months ago
@MrBluntbox420 what a thick twat u are...an idiot of the highest order..you should have signed it HITLER you kunt
worlee60 1 month ago
@RichardBPOliver , I am familiar with Protocols of the ZionElders, how ever that is not my source of information so i shall point you sun to the truth so YOU may dismiss your homosexual relationship with serapis (jesus) of the roman Jesuit Nazi NEW WORLD Order!!! the title of these Volumes 1 & 2 , plus actual advertisements of those news papers of that time period all JEWS SELLING AND ENSLAVING MOORS BKA. BLACKS, NEGRO, COLORED. : The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews. Vol 1&2
MrBluntbox420 6 months ago
@MrBluntbox420
Whatever the race, whatever the country, whatever the religion, it is always the ones who already control the money that are responsible for the everything from the slave trade to keeping people on low pay within that same economic bracket. Today, I don't personally think it matters whether you are black or white. The ruling classes are happy to take from you. They are also happy for black and white poor people to hate each other, it keeps the attention away from themselves.
CityGov 1 month ago 3
Good music with a real cognitive message in it- alcohol kills, pacifies & disables people on the daily!
RIP
IceManLikeGervin 6 months ago
Shut I fucking hate racist kids. Black and white.
eric2dea 6 months ago
34 people don't live in a bottle.
MrShift54 6 months ago
This song should be played on history classes. It's a definition of the period it was written in. Sweet groove.
luke86272 6 months ago
Jews financed The great transfer Atlantic slavetrade.....and created Judaic christainity so they could worshipped by the black melinated race this is fact. Buy the book the secret relationship between black and Jews and Jesus is zeus
MrBluntbox420 6 months ago
@MrBluntbox420 .. That reads like the words of a nutcase! It's people like you who say that this, or that, is "FACT" who we should be worried about! I'll hazard a guess that you believe "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to be a genuine historical document?
RichardBPOliver 6 months ago
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mrmojorisin291278 6 months ago
Great Song and the video is great, sound is horrible & off... Anyway to re-up to do this song Justice?
wesleywayne1 6 months ago
This is real music for the soul.
I'm Scottish and White and this brilliant track and video on the one hand is a million miles away from me but on the other hand I can relate to the social aspects of this. The people arguing about racism need to look at the bigger picture.
a1974h 6 months ago 36
@a1974h well said
echo680 6 months ago
@a1974h im hip hes talking addiction and life choices in a black setting but it could be in any culuture or mind were despair and need of exscape from reality is a necesity.
thunder4555 4 months ago
@a1974h Gil Scott Heron's dad Gil "The Black Arrow" Heron actually played for Celtic and was the first Black player in Celtic history
BrooklynFC 4 months ago
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BrooklynFC 4 months ago
@a1974h wtf? who the hell cares if you are black or white man? god...
fargu1to 3 months ago 2
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@a1974h wtf? who the hell cares if you are black or white man? god...
fargu1to 3 months ago
YUP! Dis was a favorite song of DJs to mix this song with HOUSE MUSIC mixes n Chicago back n da day.
PHAT4LifeTV 6 months ago
been searching for this record for years, cheers youtube and google
nacre99 6 months ago
Look at all these hateful comments makes me think Hitler was right, but he had the wrong demographic. So much hate on Youtube. I hope it sits well with you that you're a soldier of every villain in human history by continuing the spread of hate because you're bored. Enjoy the music and learn from the experience, because it's clear that you haven't quite all learned that hate has not set us free....
allmtrwhor3 6 months ago
I'm getting mad, so I will just say these words:
We black people never judge, never targeted, and never wanted war against the white man. We only asked for peace and you all take it as an insult. And you take it so offensively that you talk about it on a video of one of our freedom fighters that asked for the same thing. Slavery is like a scar, even when it stops, we are still hurt. So unless YOUR people or YOUR ancestors went through what ours did, never, EVER tell us to get over it.
tyzoone104 6 months ago 3
@tyzoone104 You know, I didn't wanna post anything negative on this video, but "We black people never judge?", get your head out of your arse, people of every race judge. Another thing, your ancestors might have been through it, but you didn't go through it, no one you know who's alive went through it. The Jews went though the Holocaust, but they don't constantly bring it up and whinge at the Germans constantly.
BlitzThem 6 months ago
@BlitzThem Alright, I'll play devil's advocate with you.
1) Your right, my ancestors did go through it, but not me. Okay. So if some in your family was raped or killed, you wouldn't feel pain too?
2) I'm black and I don't judge people. I'm not judging you because of what your people might have done. I never judge, and I know other people of OTHER races don't judge. So that fact is false.
3) (adding on to number 2) So are you saying that you yourself judge people on their race? So your racist?
tyzoone104 6 months ago
@tyzoone104 Hmm. I'm white and some of my ancestors were black. Pretty sure they were slaves. (White came later, after they moved to Europe). A bit of differentiation, please.
sclapione 6 months ago
@sclapione Well, I'm actually Irish (not from slavery. My great-great grandmother married an Irish man). But I consider myself Black.
And, in my opinion, I agree with you guys: Slavery was a big deal, but black people should stop using it as an excuse why they can't do anything. My great-great-great grand parents might be slaves, but I don't let that stop me. I just feel like it shouldn't have been done.
tyzoone104 6 months ago
@tyzoone104 Preach, Preach, Preach It, you have said nothing but words spoken like a trooper, I agree with you 500%, when we get upset. they look at us like you said get over it, if we can find a way to heal the scars then we can, but the only way to erase the pain of unjust and hatred bestowed upon us, will take a miracle, we can let it go, but it will never be forgotten, not in this life time, only in God's new world would we be able to heal.
Indigo558 2 months ago
DIS MA SHIT! OLD SKOOL HOUSE CLASSIC!
PHAT4LifeTV 6 months ago
@PHAT4LifeTV House ? lol
sclapione 6 months ago
@PHAT4LifeTV hahahaha house lmfao ..get a grip lad this is music not bleeps and effects..
worlee60 1 month ago
@worlee60 Obviously u been forced fed that bleeps n effects tish, probably from the U.K. often called Techno which gets confused wit HOUSE. I'm from da Chi (Chicago) where House Music was coined but the old skool djs played stuff like this and mixed it with other classics. So if anything HOUSE MUSIC as I know it is really Disco or music from the 70s taken to the next generation. Go on somewhere with ya negative cynicism. Keep it movin'
PHAT4LifeTV 1 month ago
1.09 you get a bottle of wine..got love that.
CaronAplus 6 months ago
fooking amazing!
djkarenadams 6 months ago
I grew up on Gill Scott-Heron's music and poem.
dfreephoto 6 months ago
coooooL
1beatmaker2many 6 months ago
Amazing how the revolution will not be televised has like 700,000 less views than this.
ConciousEcho 7 months ago
@ConciousEcho unfortunately the revolution was televised - and we watching the sitcom right now - its called MTV and BET and all the dumbass swagging pants - crotch holding and booty shaking youngins trying to talk about how hard THEY had it ....
wushuloco 7 months ago 2