I love Gil - I know what he's saying - but the Stones are white and when they came to America they said 'we ain't no new thing' and brought black artists to the attention of American whites - same with Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Peter Green - the list is long and all these people felt the music and payed tribute to Black American culture... calm down - there just might be one or two good white folks around. Power To The Music.
I was born in Copiague in 58. I went to Mill Lane Junior High and Farmingdale High in the 70's. I knew Gil and his music very well. We all hustled to The Bottle back then. The Last Poets, Nikki Giovanni, Bama The Village Poet, Wanda Robinson, Hugh Masekela, Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Santana, Miriam Makeba, EWF, War, Cymande... You name it we had it in our house. A very social, political and spiritually conscious household.
Janis Joplin and Eric Burden I imagine were promoted over Black artists, yes, I don't doubt that. But that's not their fault, and I don't imagine Gil Scott-Heron would downgrade them as people for it.
I live on long Island, nobody knows who he is, thats a MUTHAFUCKIN SHAME. one hour from NYC and nobody, black or white. It's like not knowing who George Washington is. Louie Armstrong landed on the moon in like the eighties man
Impressive that the denial of racism at the beginning of your comment, is only contradicted by the end of it. Elvis was not hated by the white man he was shunned for his lewd act on stage. Elvis never experienced the hate that blacks endured and he opened no doors for blacks~ Blacks opened thier own doors and created and recreated venues to play music that express thier culture. You are really in denial if you dont think you are racist~
This man is/was recognized enough for his work. He's one of the most influential people to ever walk the Earth. He deserves more than a shot out on the B.E.T. awards. If any, his memory and work should immortalized in mind and taught for generations to come.
I agree with him on most issues, but not on the one of music. First I think he was right that music and media has reflected the racist culture of the times, with examples like Elvis,etc,but here he attacks a singular "white man" as having intentionally controlled these rip-offs, when they were really the product of a racist culture. And as for copying profitable musical styles, that has been the core of music since the start of the common era. This is not a result of racism, and blame wont help.
@Jazzbellamedia- Hold up? No disrespect but there were no horns in Congo Square. What makes Jazz is not the instruments but the syncopation, interpretation, improvisation... the rhythm and the intelligence to tie it all together.
As much as I love Gil Scott-Heron, this Greek girl knows that Jazz has as many roots in Klezmer music as it does in African...THAT's where the horns come from.
Second, Gil Scott obviously protected black race because in that time (and still today) white people are racist towards black people, but I don't have any doubt that Gil had white friends and so, because he hated the racists and the system.
Third, I'm white, I love Gil Scott-Heron music and I hate racists.. So shut the F*** up, and LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC, the man is (forever) a genius
Galliano used the beginning of this speech back then in the 90s - I loved it !! Now that I know the lyrics are actually from Gil Scott-Heron I love it even more !!!
Rest in peace, Gil Scott Heron. You were an icon who paved the way for many poets, and modern rap(not the shit on the radio). If a poet, soul/jazz artist or anyone who belongs to part of the movement which is hip hop doesn't know of your legacy then they need to learn to be able to truly continue in their craft.
Let's not pretend that every race of people doesn't have it racist arseholes, that wouldn't even blink an eye at laying down the same dominance and injustice that they have suffered under the reasoning that any race other than theirs is less deserving
add to this, it ain't race thats the problem, look at what people do to eachother in tribal Congo, or the Muslim and Muslim civil wars you don't hear about in the Middle East or the Christian on Christian fight that is the Northern Irish unrest
@jenanderic3983 Now Gil is dead. I know a fella that had a tumor on his back, then in his lungs, and two in his brain. Now he is dead. HE WAS WHITE. Learn about Cancer and stop making it something else entirely.
On the one hand you're right, but on the other, it's the same way Elvis get's all his adulation despite the fact that his style of song and dance were stolen from black artists back then. The slap in the face is the disregard he had not only for those artists and black people, but the music as well. So it's not about color, from an intelligent artist like Heron's perspective, it's about the hypocracy. Period! But just the same, I feel where you're coming from too.
dude this is all high school history teachers need to get their students interested and engaged again. just whip out the MP3 player of Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets and we get one song a day. Drop a pair and do it, people! future spanish teachers got your back!
@ExitosGnosis They are trying to block that right now. Just look at how they won't let Latinos learn their culture in school in AZ even though students who learn about their history and culture go to college at a 75% rate while students who don't learn it go to college at a 20% rate. The same is true for African American students. But we can celebrate Columbus who was a slaver since age 14, or how the West was won (stolen), or now in Texas making Confederate slavers heros, I could go on and on..
MAN! I REMEMBER WHEN GIL SCOTT HERON CAME TO PURDUE UNIVERSITY WHERE I WAS STUDYING FROM THAT POINT ON I BECAME A REBEL FOR CHANGE AND A LOVER OF ART. TODAYS RAPPERS NEED TO TAKE NOTE.2PAC WAS ON THAT VIBE
LOOK where we are today. LOOK what our once prided musical heritage has turned into. LOOK at our black male youths, all dressed in white tees, baggy jeans & crooked cap, like white sheep desperately trying to look alike. LOOK at our inept use of the english language.85% of our black men are in prison. If MLK / MX were alive, they'd ask for another shovel of dirt to blind their vision. I don't give a damn what anybody says. I've lived nearly 50 years, and I see that we are going backwards...
Even THIS version of what he mentioned in the beginning was edited. Look at the artist nowadays. He speaks the truth. The modification of history books...etc is a result of America's denial of it's ugly truth. "Ain't no new thing!" But we're expected to just like these invented artist that are out now. To the "All American", all minorities can only be spectators of white influence. Blacks have been duplicated all the way down to the double-helix... shit.... sub-atomic level even. Sad.
We inspire us each other with music. Because, more or less everybody is born with music. Black and White . That word "Stealing" is often a cliche, and arrogant. Nobody is the owner, from a music style. It is in us !!! no matter what colour.
im white and im not racist, the laws are no longer in place which directly hold back people who are not ethnically white but i agree that there is still inequality, especially in america, where it seems to me that there is still quite a lot of systematic inequality, policies designed to hold black people back.
@salsa02 We civilized the planet. Quit being a victim. Get out there and try to change things if you don't like them. My black friends agree with me: it's time blacks stopped citing racism as the cause for all their problems. I was discriminated against heavily because I was the only female doctor in my med school class of '7l; so get over it and get on with your lives.
@57IAM we civilized the planet? that sound like some white supremacy shit, and you didn't civilized shit it was your ancestors who when around killing people claiming to civilized them as an excused to rape their culture and land. though i do agree with you discrimination is not as prominent, but u cant take away the hundreds of years that people of color having been discriminated against and remember the civil rights movement wasn't too long ago.
Your experience of discrimination bears no comparison to racial discrimination. Sure, you might have been discriminated against as a woman in med school. But when you went out on the street, people didn't cross the street when they saw you because you were a woman. When you got on the bus, chances are someone would give you a seat (in the "civilized" chivalrous tradition) instead of forcing you to stand up and go to the back. Get over yourself and quit rationalizing white privilege.
hahahaha white peopel ALWAY be like y yall jusss cant forget about it awready racism over which it aint...yal should kill that shit it juss shows ur lacc of understanding of ur own system
JUSTIN BIEBER...JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE....EMINEM....ELVIS PRESLEY....ROLLING STONES... ZZ TOP... BRITTANY SPEARS... THOMAS EDISON....PATHAGORIS... UB40... SCOTT STORCH... THE POPE...MAN IS THERE NOTHING STOLEN FROM AFRIKA N HER NATIVE BLACK CHILDREN THAT ISNT STOLEN...REMIXED... AND SOLD BY EUROPES WHITE OFFSPRING
To blame an entire race. You are no better than the people you are blaming. To think there are no elite black men who prey on the downfall of his own man, is quite ignorant. The truth is, while calling yourself a freedom fighter. You are reinjecting hatred into the young minds and souls of this country. Learn to love all. Or, shut the fuck up!
Ain't no arguement with the description. You Are Exactly Right. You can, however, OutCreate. You have more magic in the last digit of your little finger than 99% of the folk I have ever seen. Hendrix, Morrison 50yearoldmidwesternwhiteboy,proudofmyAfricanAncestry
Elvis did not say that! Elvis was NOT a racist. I don't know who started that lie, but it wasn't true. Google Elvis videos. Elvis said that his vocal coach was a black man, Elvis' loved deeply black people, he actually embraced our culture. Elvis loved to go to black neighborhoods to shop. Elvis had black back up singers who he loved. Elvis wasn't not a new thing, but he wasn't a racist.
Elvis said the only thing a black man can do for him is shine his shoes.....Racism was alive and well then and still is today in 2010 with a Black man in the White House. Racism is alive and well!
This man is a bit of an idiot. He's right about some things like black music being suppressed but music can be changed any way any one wants putting on restrictions on music and saying certain genres belong to different races is creating unnecessary conflict.
You people make me laugh .... each side to this argument is the very reason things will never change. Me, ive always just loved people. I may not be able to relate to Gil-Scott Heron in the same way a black person does. I can never know what racism and opression feels like. But can i hear amazing music from an amazing artist/man. and i can also try to understand what he is saying. Im white, and yet i feel more connected to artists like this.
What saddens me most is the fact that today's culture is brainwashing the youth with false, shit artists like Gaga, Miley, etc. Man, in the 70s, the kids were also listening to Gil. It's like were devolving as a culture. Music, New York City, Art and so much of the world has been legally hijacked by healthy, white yuppies with good teeth, good credit scores and no conception of human suffering.
@IzzyIsou all you say about today's culture is right on, but people were listening to a lot of shit in the 1970s too. More people know about Gil dying than knew about Black Panthers getting shot by the cops back then. I think we are progressing gradually. But the constant message is that we're failing. If we are failing at least way more people are aware of it. Gil wasn't selling out stadiums in the 70s either
untrue, untrue and untrue. White Rappers aren't stealing the culture they're elevating it only out of respect. Why hate on any fan, live and let live. If you were a teacher why would u hate on a student following in ur footsteps. white black purple yellow gold green, who gives a fuck! just enjoy what sounds good. UNDERGROUND FOREVER!
@keilyngodson26 Well I'm white and i definitely respect the pioneers of hip hop. The only reason you don't see the respect is because most people are afraid of this anti white message going around, and think they're gonna get jumped if a black guy hears them listening to something like Gil Scott Heron on their headphones. On the other hand the respect is clearly seen through the music. The greatest compliment is following in ones footsteps.
@patt1968 Following in one's footsteps is not a compliment, its stalking. White people should all but bow to their knees as much culture they have GIVEN to whites while black people sell their souls wholesale just to be accepted by whites.
@keilyngodson26 you or any other black person in this generation had nothing to do with the creation of hip hop, so why is it even an argument. Just because u were born with black skin doesnt give u the right to say shit. The way you talk is as if it would be ok if there was mass genocide on white people. You make everything negative, and that makes u weak.
@patt1968 Its a part of black culture. Michael Jackson said he got the moonwalk from going to the ghetto and watching the little black kids. You have no argument. Its like me trying to argue who wrote the constitution. These particular art-forms are created and crafted in black communities. Its white people who make them into "celebrities" to us they are just like our uncles aunties and people we relate to. There are so many talented black children, the white musician should not even exist.
@patt1968 It makes Black people mad to see stupid white people like you listening to Black soul music because white people hate to admit that they need Black people to survive this cold world, yet they wont help them get free. And you get to just leech off Black Souls while the Kracker slavemaster continues to plunder and pillage black children right before our very eyes. And you listen to Gil, and Marley and you still are stupid as fuck.
@keilyngodson26 whatever man, you just keep going back to the same argument. I'm talking about how things have changed and improved, but i guess you still want to latch onto the slave days. Do you really think white people are out to get you?!?!
There's a damn black president now; voted by a lot of white individuals who decided race isn't a negative thing anymore. Times have changed man...
@patt1968 Did I refer to slavery? Thats in the past, get over it.Im talking about whats happenin' now. Everything Gil speaks of in this song is still relevant, if not more pertinent today. Just substitute Elvis Presley with Krackas like Justin Timberlake and the third..You can't even think for yourself. I've heard your weakminded attempt at an argument 1000 times. I purposely omit references to slavery just to see how soon one of you Krackers will bring it up. You dont know anything bout slavry
@keilyngodson26 Some may argue that Elvis actually helped the black community by opening the door for many black musicians. Before Elvis they were never given a chance. Also, Public enemy became famous with songs like fight the power, where they bashed Elvis.
I know that there was a few racist comments that came from Elvis, but you cant judge the man based on that. He respected the black culture and loved many black musicians like fats Domino, and Mahalia Jackson.
@patt1968 Elvis only helped himself to Black culture. You sound stupid. Black artists dont make music for white people. White people HAPPEN to like Black music because its the shit. Give props. You sound like me trying to say "Arsenio Hall invented electricity. "
@keilyngodson26 All im saying is the black artists at the time actually encouraged Elvis and hung out with him. It wasn't till later when he made millions that people started to resent him. He would make 5 times as much as any black artist, but that wasn't his fault that was the fans. Elvis wasn't the problem. It was society's fault that black artists weren't given a chance. You can say that the white entertainers embracing different cultures was positive because it made people less conservative
@patt1968 The issue is that everytime a white person steals from a Black artist, not only is he opportunistically capitalizing, but he is also stealing money and opportunity from Black artists. Arent you listening to the song as you type?
@keilyngodson26 Elvis was also a very close friend to BB king and would hang out with him around the sun studios. BB king said Elvis was just a great fan, and he respected his talent as well. Jackie Wilson said,"almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis". James Brown was also a fan of Elvis and he said, "There'll never be another like that soul brother. And Little Richard was the one who brought up the fact that Elvis was opening doors not closing them.
@keilyngodson26 What I'm trying to say is... Back in the day the black community liked that someone was taking an interest in their style of music. There was communion and love. Muhammad Alli said"Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know". There wasn't close mindedness when it came to the entertainers. All the racism came strictly from the fans and producers. Sure Elvis made a lot of money, but he was just doing what he loved, and he loved black culture.
We need him to come out now with the what the US is now doing. The zionist control of the US means it don't matter if a black man is there, it's who's controlling him that matters. Black America is still suffering. God Bless you Gill.
'blablabla black here black there, white here white there, who the fuck cares what color u have.. i cant understand how people can judge another man because of his color.'
I undesrtand people who cant understand the evidence of their own eyes. Colour of skin has determined the brute inhuman exploitation of much of humanity by a small group who invested themselves with great superiority to serve their psychopathology, their psychotic brutal exploitation of particularly those of black skin
blablabla black here black there, white here white there, who the fuck cares what color u have.. i cant understand how people can judge another man because of his color.
@niclashbg No disrespect, but you're talkin' out the side of your neck!!! What kind of shell you been livin' in??? You can't be that naive??? Sadly to say, racism has, and will, always exist on some level until the end of time. Question.. have you ever been called a "Nigger"? Well, I have, more than once, as a kid. They always meant it, and it always hurt!!! I got into a few fights over this. Won some, lost some and actually excaped a fight or two.
@lxolxo7 No, i hav´nt been called that because im white. Thats why i said "black here, black there, white here, white there".. why so upset? i didnt say anything disrespecting or offensive.
@niclashbg WE DO NOT...YET WE DO JUDGE HISTORICAL EVENTS AND THE MAJORITY OF THIS WORLDS WORST UNNATURAL DISASTERS WERE SPONSORED CONCIEVED CONDUCTED AND COVERED UP BY EUROPEAN ARISTOCRATS WORLDWIDE....AND THEIR AMERICAN COUNTERPARTS...IF YOU ARE A POSITIVE CONCIOUS WHITE PERSON YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SPEAKING IS TRUE
@KILLBETTV Yes of course I do, I do agree. Just because im white it doesnt mean that I have to say that the white people did the right thing, because they didnt.
@niclashbg You are showing tremendous disrespect to the struggle of people like Gil-Scott Heron. Enough of your 'We are all human' crap. Get real brother, or else get off this. Its m****f**s like you who need to be thought some history, and some well-placed consideration.
@niclashbg It's the culture vulture aspect that is jacked up. Steal innovations, monetize them and then don't even allow an avenue for you to get your original material out and get reasonably paid for it. Same thing that happened to all the black inventors during and after slavery when their inventions made millions and they got little or nothing. You may not understand why Gil puts so much on it because perhaps you, like most people have been misinformed about the magnitude of the rip off.
The message this man has presented is still relevant and part of "moving on" is keeping his message clear. What blacks(which really means minority/those "they" will not speak of in this day and age) create is what we create and the problem is when what we have offered to culture is denied to us, future generations of blacks aren't shown what black people have offered to America/the world. Black culture denied speaks on the mindset of black children who think Lil Wayne is the "black standard".
??????You can't steal music? Seriously? There's a reason why we have copy write and stress is put on using it. Don't get me wrong. I don't believe that anyone owns any genre of music or expression of it but many black artist had music stolen from them and given to white artist because it was more "commercial" and passable to mainstream America. It's not being racist it's reality and reality is that much of what blacks have given life to and offered to America has been stolen and/or denied ours.
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Fuck that - You can't steal music,
True artist release there music out unto the wolrd,
music is a gift of peace to all people with the heart to hear it. besides, blacks didnt invent the flute! if that was the case, he just stole the flute!
you mean the first flutes found in china, or the modernization of them in france, my point is nobody invents sound or how their used, theres a white person could have just as easily made this song quoteing blacks that had used whites music, or any other race for that matter, you still cant steel music, maybe you just got the same old shit cause your answer to black oppression is to be racist right back. blacks didnt invent the microphone either, so how did record this? you cant steal music
I like your resonse Not 1 N word.NOW Lets talk like people.We all come from Africa.Its the begaining of life for man. When I said a color man invented the flute I was right .We are all One color in many shades.The problem comes when a part of the group clames to be better then the rest of the color people and renaming its self white,red,yellow,brown just to prove its better.This doesnt change the history of color people and when they try well thats what we call STEALING keep tutin on em
White artists have taken original compositions from black artists, softened them up, and injected them with their bourgeoise advertising money, and smothered the original with their pitiful carbon copy for the white buying public's consumption. This has been the American way, and while the black artists were forced into slummy and shady late-nite jazz clubs, the white emulators were accepted to sold out amphitheaters and TV specials.
So what are you saying? You wish it was the Black artists that got the bourgeoise advertising money? A problem such as the oppressor taking the the oppressed ideas for their own financial gain "aint no new thing" .. Society rewards monetary gain hence the "bling" generation worshiping the dollar like it's some kind of answer. Looking deeper into the problem is what we need instead of tired 20th century ideology. Gil was a master and said everything that should have been said.. Time to move on.
"So what are you saying?" - I'm saying that it would have been nice if the artist who created the art could have gotten the fame and money attached to it, rather than rip-off artist. You are right, it ain't no new thing, wasn't saying it wasn't. What would you suggest as a "deeper" look into the problem? "Time to move on" - We should move on, but unfortunately, the media is still recreating and exploiting original art and styles for a few extra bucks.
@araless Beatles and Stones went to the USA and when asked where they got their ideas from told the US press that they listened to black musicians from the US...
@araless true dat they wudnt give black artists any radio play and take their ideas and mix it up a tiny bit give it to a white artists who wud get radio play
sure you can steal music and the Ideals of their structure, But I think you miss the point of what he is saying he is saying that the artist are being rip off and are treated like shit.
Gil Scott Herons music inspires me. Im Latino. Does that make me a rip off? Its a FACT that certain individuals were created by white society to specifically commandeer the black pioneers who were viewed as a corruptive influence at the time. But the whites & other ethnic groups who came up on this kind of music mimic the style out of homage. I sincerely feel that what white and other non-black soul artists are trying to express is their own appreciation for the genre not cultural pirating
your intent to salvage this is good, but false. Lets go back to Little Richard and Pat Boone Little Richard worte and recored songs that got little or no air play.P.B.records the same songs that get so much air play that each 1 breaks into the top 40 and this has happen to plenty of artist not just black ( but the majority of it is)
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What about the blacks stealing whitey's technology (microphones and recording instruments)? What about blackies stealing musical instruments like the guitar and the flute used in this track? Are these black owned or did you 'steal' them from whites?
Blacks even stole whitey's language and are now selling it back to us in new concoctions like Ebonics.
actually a black man, help invent the common PC, and a Nigerian developed the supercomputer that brought on the internet, maybe you need a history lesson , not only that if you know the guy who helped make Macromedia a media icon , youd know he's black, so you lose on the Flash too, and i have names, are you sure you want to look stupid on youtube,
the earliest evidence of a programmable computer was dated back to 1216. from what is now part of iraq and syria. not really whitey's computer. but, an arabs computer. so, do some research before you make such a blind statement. makes you look unintelligent. you have a computer. there is know excuse for not being able to learn about anything.
Oh here we go... reduce everything down til a 'computer' becomes a counting board with a wheel or something. LOL.
Why not go the whole hog and say a 'computer' is a set of fingers if you're that desperate.
Since you're so thick, let me reiterate: Before blacks start saying their culture has been 'stolen', they had better look around at everything they 'stole' from the whites first and in this case it starts at the instruments and technology they used to make this track.
2012 - still no new thing! usa is always the same ol' shit!
julo19 4 days ago
"why don't they try stealin some of this poverty?...ain't no new thang.."
futurebroadwaycoverg 2 weeks ago
I love Gil - I know what he's saying - but the Stones are white and when they came to America they said 'we ain't no new thing' and brought black artists to the attention of American whites - same with Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Peter Green - the list is long and all these people felt the music and payed tribute to Black American culture... calm down - there just might be one or two good white folks around. Power To The Music.
mickjamm 2 months ago
I was born in Copiague in 58. I went to Mill Lane Junior High and Farmingdale High in the 70's. I knew Gil and his music very well. We all hustled to The Bottle back then. The Last Poets, Nikki Giovanni, Bama The Village Poet, Wanda Robinson, Hugh Masekela, Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Santana, Miriam Makeba, EWF, War, Cymande... You name it we had it in our house. A very social, political and spiritually conscious household.
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afrikanrecoveryatmsn 2 months ago
Janis Joplin and Eric Burden I imagine were promoted over Black artists, yes, I don't doubt that. But that's not their fault, and I don't imagine Gil Scott-Heron would downgrade them as people for it.
mookins45 3 months ago
r. Gill Scott Heron , Our 21st Cenrury Poet, Composer. Music .Voice.
Our National Treasure, Wonderful . for us all.
..Poof Perfect..Mr. GSH
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I live on long Island, nobody knows who he is, thats a MUTHAFUCKIN SHAME. one hour from NYC and nobody, black or white. It's like not knowing who George Washington is. Louie Armstrong landed on the moon in like the eighties man
robertmassucci1 4 months ago
r.i.p Gil Scott-Heron..all he said was true
slivercord 5 months ago
fav.song by Gil Scott-Heron,RIP
kush11999 6 months ago
Gil Scott-Heron will live on. The truth shines when he speaks.
Sheerkat7 6 months ago
Tuff spoken word...wow
mixedbreed19 6 months ago
Im white and I agree with this, racism is stupid
tragedykh 6 months ago 3
I've got a whole page of cultural rape! They don't just do it with Egypt but with the indus river valley civilization!!
ellisonwrigh60srage 6 months ago
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elrobbie1919 6 months ago
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Impressive that the denial of racism at the beginning of your comment, is only contradicted by the end of it. Elvis was not hated by the white man he was shunned for his lewd act on stage. Elvis never experienced the hate that blacks endured and he opened no doors for blacks~ Blacks opened thier own doors and created and recreated venues to play music that express thier culture. You are really in denial if you dont think you are racist~
MrLchilders 6 months ago
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I dont like when people talk bad about elvis
elrobbie1919 6 months ago
@elrobbie1919 elvis is booty
kush11999 6 months ago
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@elrobbie1919 Wow, could you be more idiotic?
AYOITS3030 6 months ago
This man is/was recognized enough for his work. He's one of the most influential people to ever walk the Earth. He deserves more than a shot out on the B.E.T. awards. If any, his memory and work should immortalized in mind and taught for generations to come.
Rawverian 6 months ago
R.I.P. TO THE LEGENDARY GIL SCOTT HERON "
missbougiebee 6 months ago
Immortal not mortal!
roburo2002 7 months ago
Gil Scott-Heron Will Live On!!!
sweetiepie567 7 months ago
good message for the whites. Gil Scott-Heron is a Great man!
Futang808 7 months ago
R.I.P. Gil Scott
mssquirrely 7 months ago
Damn shame I wasn't hearing this man on the radio untill he died! Now the radio is on his dick, he knew how the media worked! A poet.
JakeTheRipper3V 7 months ago
Still telling the truth RIP
roburo2002 7 months ago
I agree with him on most issues, but not on the one of music. First I think he was right that music and media has reflected the racist culture of the times, with examples like Elvis,etc,but here he attacks a singular "white man" as having intentionally controlled these rip-offs, when they were really the product of a racist culture. And as for copying profitable musical styles, that has been the core of music since the start of the common era. This is not a result of racism, and blame wont help.
pujolsnumber1 7 months ago
What a whiner. Loser. Go sell your resentment, hate, and victimization drivel to some suckers willing to listen to this crap.
dreed007 7 months ago
RIP Gil Scott-Heron
KatrinaRenee12991 7 months ago
@Jazzbellamedia- Hold up? No disrespect but there were no horns in Congo Square. What makes Jazz is not the instruments but the syncopation, interpretation, improvisation... the rhythm and the intelligence to tie it all together.
clh2192 8 months ago
America is he same old SHIT!!
R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron
janesaddiction1 8 months ago
As much as I love Gil Scott-Heron, this Greek girl knows that Jazz has as many roots in Klezmer music as it does in African...THAT's where the horns come from.
jazzbellamedia 8 months ago
I don't understand all the mess about this.
First, have respect for the man.
Second, Gil Scott obviously protected black race because in that time (and still today) white people are racist towards black people, but I don't have any doubt that Gil had white friends and so, because he hated the racists and the system.
Third, I'm white, I love Gil Scott-Heron music and I hate racists.. So shut the F*** up, and LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC, the man is (forever) a genius
fxc3 8 months ago 3
Galliano used the beginning of this speech back then in the 90s - I loved it !! Now that I know the lyrics are actually from Gil Scott-Heron I love it even more !!!
spielmountain 8 months ago
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Rest in peace, Gil Scott Heron. You were an icon who paved the way for many poets, and modern rap(not the shit on the radio). If a poet, soul/jazz artist or anyone who belongs to part of the movement which is hip hop doesn't know of your legacy then they need to learn to be able to truly continue in their craft.
Repost this on many videos if you can.
pmrooter 8 months ago in playlist gil
GIL SCOTT-HERON WILL LIVE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ljames418 8 months ago
amen brother n may u R.I.P.
phdseuss 8 months ago
What album was this song on?
Justmaiben 8 months ago
RIP Brother. We love you. We always will.
carioca56 8 months ago 12
The same BS still applies today. I have said this for years. That was deep.
Maxx3200 8 months ago
The key is the human suffering that doesn’t touch most of us until we can’t wash the Blood off.
la9777 8 months ago
niclashbgWhat saddens me most is the fact that today's culture is brainwashing the youth with false, shit artists like Gaga, Miley, etc.
Amen to that!
jerseyjudi1 8 months ago
LMAO!! Elvis Presley. Project Whitey.
SBMPLYMA 8 months ago
The rawness... it's compelling! No words can express the joy I feel at celebrating this man's life on today! RIP.
Classyjazzlady 8 months ago
RIP Gil Scott-Heron. You were truly one of a kind,
TheDudeMinds89 8 months ago 2
@TheDudeMinds89 i say the same thing
phdseuss 8 months ago
biiiiiiit
elswaino 8 months ago
Let's not pretend that every race of people doesn't have it racist arseholes, that wouldn't even blink an eye at laying down the same dominance and injustice that they have suffered under the reasoning that any race other than theirs is less deserving
add to this, it ain't race thats the problem, look at what people do to eachother in tribal Congo, or the Muslim and Muslim civil wars you don't hear about in the Middle East or the Christian on Christian fight that is the Northern Irish unrest
goonbot3030 8 months ago
isnt really Obama just pretended to be Irish.
joebstarsurfer 8 months ago
@jenanderic3983 Now Gil is dead. I know a fella that had a tumor on his back, then in his lungs, and two in his brain. Now he is dead. HE WAS WHITE. Learn about Cancer and stop making it something else entirely.
cmrnmcld 8 months ago
On the one hand you're right, but on the other, it's the same way Elvis get's all his adulation despite the fact that his style of song and dance were stolen from black artists back then. The slap in the face is the disregard he had not only for those artists and black people, but the music as well. So it's not about color, from an intelligent artist like Heron's perspective, it's about the hypocracy. Period! But just the same, I feel where you're coming from too.
medinathedon 8 months ago
dude this is all high school history teachers need to get their students interested and engaged again. just whip out the MP3 player of Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets and we get one song a day. Drop a pair and do it, people! future spanish teachers got your back!
ExitosGnosis 8 months ago
@ExitosGnosis They are trying to block that right now. Just look at how they won't let Latinos learn their culture in school in AZ even though students who learn about their history and culture go to college at a 75% rate while students who don't learn it go to college at a 20% rate. The same is true for African American students. But we can celebrate Columbus who was a slaver since age 14, or how the West was won (stolen), or now in Texas making Confederate slavers heros, I could go on and on..
davidgoodlettmusic 8 months ago
MAN! I REMEMBER WHEN GIL SCOTT HERON CAME TO PURDUE UNIVERSITY WHERE I WAS STUDYING FROM THAT POINT ON I BECAME A REBEL FOR CHANGE AND A LOVER OF ART. TODAYS RAPPERS NEED TO TAKE NOTE.2PAC WAS ON THAT VIBE
FBHOME1 9 months ago
color?
ManosOceano 9 months ago
LOOK where we are today. LOOK what our once prided musical heritage has turned into. LOOK at our black male youths, all dressed in white tees, baggy jeans & crooked cap, like white sheep desperately trying to look alike. LOOK at our inept use of the english language.85% of our black men are in prison. If MLK / MX were alive, they'd ask for another shovel of dirt to blind their vision. I don't give a damn what anybody says. I've lived nearly 50 years, and I see that we are going backwards...
btinsley1 9 months ago
Even THIS version of what he mentioned in the beginning was edited. Look at the artist nowadays. He speaks the truth. The modification of history books...etc is a result of America's denial of it's ugly truth. "Ain't no new thing!" But we're expected to just like these invented artist that are out now. To the "All American", all minorities can only be spectators of white influence. Blacks have been duplicated all the way down to the double-helix... shit.... sub-atomic level even. Sad.
gideonsuitebread 11 months ago
People influence each other regardless of their colour.
Take it as a compliment Gil.
No need to be so generally offensive and racist towards people with paler skin.
Taken it a step too far with this song.
JaguarEarlobe 11 months ago
We inspire us each other with music. Because, more or less everybody is born with music. Black and White . That word "Stealing" is often a cliche, and arrogant. Nobody is the owner, from a music style. It is in us !!! no matter what colour.
malunamaba 11 months ago
im white and im not racist, the laws are no longer in place which directly hold back people who are not ethnically white but i agree that there is still inequality, especially in america, where it seems to me that there is still quite a lot of systematic inequality, policies designed to hold black people back.
things are a lot better in the uk though
manfork 11 months ago
damn white people stop stealing other cultures culture. damn you white devil.
salsa02 11 months ago
@salsa02 We civilized the planet. Quit being a victim. Get out there and try to change things if you don't like them. My black friends agree with me: it's time blacks stopped citing racism as the cause for all their problems. I was discriminated against heavily because I was the only female doctor in my med school class of '7l; so get over it and get on with your lives.
57IAM 10 months ago
@57IAM we civilized the planet? that sound like some white supremacy shit, and you didn't civilized shit it was your ancestors who when around killing people claiming to civilized them as an excused to rape their culture and land. though i do agree with you discrimination is not as prominent, but u cant take away the hundreds of years that people of color having been discriminated against and remember the civil rights movement wasn't too long ago.
salsa02 10 months ago 2
@57IAM
Your experience of discrimination bears no comparison to racial discrimination. Sure, you might have been discriminated against as a woman in med school. But when you went out on the street, people didn't cross the street when they saw you because you were a woman. When you got on the bus, chances are someone would give you a seat (in the "civilized" chivalrous tradition) instead of forcing you to stand up and go to the back. Get over yourself and quit rationalizing white privilege.
lordxenu666 9 months ago 2
hahahaha white peopel ALWAY be like y yall jusss cant forget about it awready racism over which it aint...yal should kill that shit it juss shows ur lacc of understanding of ur own system
JcCake112 11 months ago
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JaguarEarlobe 11 months ago
This was racist!
musicfan088 1 year ago
@musicfan088 the truth is not racist
kush11999 11 months ago
@musicfan088 You would only know if you lived as a black man in that time period.
Pesolord13 8 months ago 2
This man is simply incredible. He never dissapoints me.
TheKStar010 1 year ago
JUSTIN BIEBER...JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE....EMINEM....ELVIS PRESLEY....ROLLING STONES... ZZ TOP... BRITTANY SPEARS... THOMAS EDISON....PATHAGORIS... UB40... SCOTT STORCH... THE POPE...MAN IS THERE NOTHING STOLEN FROM AFRIKA N HER NATIVE BLACK CHILDREN THAT ISNT STOLEN...REMIXED... AND SOLD BY EUROPES WHITE OFFSPRING
KILLBETTV 1 year ago 2
To blame an entire race. You are no better than the people you are blaming. To think there are no elite black men who prey on the downfall of his own man, is quite ignorant. The truth is, while calling yourself a freedom fighter. You are reinjecting hatred into the young minds and souls of this country. Learn to love all. Or, shut the fuck up!
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mrwhatthepho2012 1 year ago
Ain't no arguement with the description. You Are Exactly Right. You can, however, OutCreate. You have more magic in the last digit of your little finger than 99% of the folk I have ever seen. Hendrix, Morrison 50yearoldmidwesternwhiteboy,proudofmyAfricanAncestry
612franklin 1 year ago
The Mind Of A Genius!!!..Let the "Truth" be told!!!!
SuperXavier30 1 year ago
Elvis did not say that! Elvis was NOT a racist. I don't know who started that lie, but it wasn't true. Google Elvis videos. Elvis said that his vocal coach was a black man, Elvis' loved deeply black people, he actually embraced our culture. Elvis loved to go to black neighborhoods to shop. Elvis had black back up singers who he loved. Elvis wasn't not a new thing, but he wasn't a racist.
KiiKiiCR 1 year ago
What you abhor in others is what you once have been. Don't look at one life. Grow. It really aint no new thing.
placesNspaces 1 year ago
Elvis said the only thing a black man can do for him is shine his shoes.....Racism was alive and well then and still is today in 2010 with a Black man in the White House. Racism is alive and well!
DeRich12 1 year ago
This man is a bit of an idiot. He's right about some things like black music being suppressed but music can be changed any way any one wants putting on restrictions on music and saying certain genres belong to different races is creating unnecessary conflict.
mosesman01 1 year ago
You people make me laugh .... each side to this argument is the very reason things will never change. Me, ive always just loved people. I may not be able to relate to Gil-Scott Heron in the same way a black person does. I can never know what racism and opression feels like. But can i hear amazing music from an amazing artist/man. and i can also try to understand what he is saying. Im white, and yet i feel more connected to artists like this.
Dplaysitcool 1 year ago
What saddens me most is the fact that today's culture is brainwashing the youth with false, shit artists like Gaga, Miley, etc. Man, in the 70s, the kids were also listening to Gil. It's like were devolving as a culture. Music, New York City, Art and so much of the world has been legally hijacked by healthy, white yuppies with good teeth, good credit scores and no conception of human suffering.
IzzyIsou 1 year ago 17
@IzzyIsou yep, they stayed smart and worked hard for that position
oodles86 8 months ago
@IzzyIsou all you say about today's culture is right on, but people were listening to a lot of shit in the 1970s too. More people know about Gil dying than knew about Black Panthers getting shot by the cops back then. I think we are progressing gradually. But the constant message is that we're failing. If we are failing at least way more people are aware of it. Gil wasn't selling out stadiums in the 70s either
myroncope 8 months ago
@IzzyIsou like he said in the last line "aint no new thing... america is always the same old shit"
myroncope 8 months ago
i wonder if Baskiat took something from Gil Scott-Heron , when he wrote samo.
sorektv 1 year ago
untrue, untrue and untrue. White Rappers aren't stealing the culture they're elevating it only out of respect. Why hate on any fan, live and let live. If you were a teacher why would u hate on a student following in ur footsteps. white black purple yellow gold green, who gives a fuck! just enjoy what sounds good. UNDERGROUND FOREVER!
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 but i dont see no white people paying respect to black people who created it.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 Well I'm white and i definitely respect the pioneers of hip hop. The only reason you don't see the respect is because most people are afraid of this anti white message going around, and think they're gonna get jumped if a black guy hears them listening to something like Gil Scott Heron on their headphones. On the other hand the respect is clearly seen through the music. The greatest compliment is following in ones footsteps.
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 Following in one's footsteps is not a compliment, its stalking. White people should all but bow to their knees as much culture they have GIVEN to whites while black people sell their souls wholesale just to be accepted by whites.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 you or any other black person in this generation had nothing to do with the creation of hip hop, so why is it even an argument. Just because u were born with black skin doesnt give u the right to say shit. The way you talk is as if it would be ok if there was mass genocide on white people. You make everything negative, and that makes u weak.
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 Its a part of black culture. Michael Jackson said he got the moonwalk from going to the ghetto and watching the little black kids. You have no argument. Its like me trying to argue who wrote the constitution. These particular art-forms are created and crafted in black communities. Its white people who make them into "celebrities" to us they are just like our uncles aunties and people we relate to. There are so many talented black children, the white musician should not even exist.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 This seriously is one of the stupidest, most ignorant comments I have ever read. Get a fucking clue.
AYOITS3030 6 months ago
@patt1968
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@patt1968 It makes Black people mad to see stupid white people like you listening to Black soul music because white people hate to admit that they need Black people to survive this cold world, yet they wont help them get free. And you get to just leech off Black Souls while the Kracker slavemaster continues to plunder and pillage black children right before our very eyes. And you listen to Gil, and Marley and you still are stupid as fuck.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 whatever man, you just keep going back to the same argument. I'm talking about how things have changed and improved, but i guess you still want to latch onto the slave days. Do you really think white people are out to get you?!?!
There's a damn black president now; voted by a lot of white individuals who decided race isn't a negative thing anymore. Times have changed man...
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 Did I refer to slavery? Thats in the past, get over it.Im talking about whats happenin' now. Everything Gil speaks of in this song is still relevant, if not more pertinent today. Just substitute Elvis Presley with Krackas like Justin Timberlake and the third..You can't even think for yourself. I've heard your weakminded attempt at an argument 1000 times. I purposely omit references to slavery just to see how soon one of you Krackers will bring it up. You dont know anything bout slavry
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 Some may argue that Elvis actually helped the black community by opening the door for many black musicians. Before Elvis they were never given a chance. Also, Public enemy became famous with songs like fight the power, where they bashed Elvis.
I know that there was a few racist comments that came from Elvis, but you cant judge the man based on that. He respected the black culture and loved many black musicians like fats Domino, and Mahalia Jackson.
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 Elvis only helped himself to Black culture. You sound stupid. Black artists dont make music for white people. White people HAPPEN to like Black music because its the shit. Give props. You sound like me trying to say "Arsenio Hall invented electricity. "
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 All im saying is the black artists at the time actually encouraged Elvis and hung out with him. It wasn't till later when he made millions that people started to resent him. He would make 5 times as much as any black artist, but that wasn't his fault that was the fans. Elvis wasn't the problem. It was society's fault that black artists weren't given a chance. You can say that the white entertainers embracing different cultures was positive because it made people less conservative
patt1968 1 year ago
@patt1968 The issue is that everytime a white person steals from a Black artist, not only is he opportunistically capitalizing, but he is also stealing money and opportunity from Black artists. Arent you listening to the song as you type?
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 Elvis was also a very close friend to BB king and would hang out with him around the sun studios. BB king said Elvis was just a great fan, and he respected his talent as well. Jackie Wilson said,"almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis". James Brown was also a fan of Elvis and he said, "There'll never be another like that soul brother. And Little Richard was the one who brought up the fact that Elvis was opening doors not closing them.
patt1968 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 What I'm trying to say is... Back in the day the black community liked that someone was taking an interest in their style of music. There was communion and love. Muhammad Alli said"Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know". There wasn't close mindedness when it came to the entertainers. All the racism came strictly from the fans and producers. Sure Elvis made a lot of money, but he was just doing what he loved, and he loved black culture.
patt1968 1 year ago
cause white people, do it better.
thewiganjoker 1 year ago
not really something to dance to though just more blah down trodden sounds
chrisschef 1 year ago
whites stop hating blacks blacks stop hating whites lets live life... hahaha i love the ending america is the same old SHIT
ilovebmx27 1 year ago
fuck white people this is real shit. like it or not its true
redmanclass05 1 year ago 3
Speak on Brother!
ZhenyaYufanov 1 year ago 6
Talk to Sly Stone.....he's got a story...
WALNUTS52 2 years ago 2
Wow how true is this bro.
We need him to come out now with the what the US is now doing. The zionist control of the US means it don't matter if a black man is there, it's who's controlling him that matters. Black America is still suffering. God Bless you Gill.
d4vstone 2 years ago 3
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'blablabla black here black there, white here white there, who the fuck cares what color u have.. i cant understand how people can judge another man because of his color.'
I undesrtand people who cant understand the evidence of their own eyes. Colour of skin has determined the brute inhuman exploitation of much of humanity by a small group who invested themselves with great superiority to serve their psychopathology, their psychotic brutal exploitation of particularly those of black skin
FrnzFanon 2 years ago
"no geogrophical boundaries on white hate"
D39MUSIC 2 years ago 3
This must have been before the rap era.
grandmasteroy 2 years ago
@grandmasteroy It was; it was from 1970
MikeHL78 1 year ago
blablabla black here black there, white here white there, who the fuck cares what color u have.. i cant understand how people can judge another man because of his color.
niclashbg 2 years ago 30
@niclashbg you're white.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 yes i am so what+
niclashbg 1 year ago
@niclashbg Only white people say stupid things as such.
keilyngodson26 1 year ago
@keilyngodson26 what the fuck was stupid about what i said?
niclashbg 1 year ago
@niclashbg because of the rasicm the people of color still face
dewan247 1 year ago
Ask the white man he started it
Play215 1 year ago
@niclashbg No disrespect, but you're talkin' out the side of your neck!!! What kind of shell you been livin' in??? You can't be that naive??? Sadly to say, racism has, and will, always exist on some level until the end of time. Question.. have you ever been called a "Nigger"? Well, I have, more than once, as a kid. They always meant it, and it always hurt!!! I got into a few fights over this. Won some, lost some and actually excaped a fight or two.
lxolxo7 1 year ago
@lxolxo7 No, i hav´nt been called that because im white. Thats why i said "black here, black there, white here, white there".. why so upset? i didnt say anything disrespecting or offensive.
niclashbg 1 year ago
@niclashbg Neither could we, meaning black people who were judged because of their color.
jeweljenay 1 year ago
@jeweljenay Could what?
niclashbg 1 year ago
@niclashbg neith could we understand how "people can judge another man because of his color."
jeweljenay 1 year ago
@niclashbg white people was the first to do that and got all other ethnics lookin at us with hate blame the fucking racist white man
whatigottado2 1 year ago
@niclashbg WE DO NOT...YET WE DO JUDGE HISTORICAL EVENTS AND THE MAJORITY OF THIS WORLDS WORST UNNATURAL DISASTERS WERE SPONSORED CONCIEVED CONDUCTED AND COVERED UP BY EUROPEAN ARISTOCRATS WORLDWIDE....AND THEIR AMERICAN COUNTERPARTS...IF YOU ARE A POSITIVE CONCIOUS WHITE PERSON YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SPEAKING IS TRUE
KILLBETTV 1 year ago
@KILLBETTV Yes of course I do, I do agree. Just because im white it doesnt mean that I have to say that the white people did the right thing, because they didnt.
niclashbg 1 year ago
@niclashbg you can't, but I can.
PeeteyP 1 year ago
@niclashbg blah blah it was real t is real blah blah i wint go away
reese1990drm1 1 year ago
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@niclashbg blah blah it was real blah blah it wont go away
reese1990drm1 1 year ago
@niclashbg you forgot brown, yellow and variations of those colors.
salsa02 11 months ago
@niclashbg I think race was more of a big deal back then. I do agree with you though, it make's no difference to me :)
Jmcinally94 8 months ago
@niclashbg
You are clearly young and / or not from the USA ... or you'd know the answer to your question
This wasn't written yesterday ... it was the 1970s ... look into it
runner15 8 months ago 2
@niclashbg You are showing tremendous disrespect to the struggle of people like Gil-Scott Heron. Enough of your 'We are all human' crap. Get real brother, or else get off this. Its m****f**s like you who need to be thought some history, and some well-placed consideration.
JimmyJoseph91 8 months ago 9
@niclashbg It's the culture vulture aspect that is jacked up. Steal innovations, monetize them and then don't even allow an avenue for you to get your original material out and get reasonably paid for it. Same thing that happened to all the black inventors during and after slavery when their inventions made millions and they got little or nothing. You may not understand why Gil puts so much on it because perhaps you, like most people have been misinformed about the magnitude of the rip off.
davidgoodlettmusic 8 months ago
@niclashbg
You can't understand, I can't understand but it's reality.
PrAnG2000 8 months ago
The best word spoken since "The Revolution
will not be televised.
cwartis 2 years ago 2
The message this man has presented is still relevant and part of "moving on" is keeping his message clear. What blacks(which really means minority/those "they" will not speak of in this day and age) create is what we create and the problem is when what we have offered to culture is denied to us, future generations of blacks aren't shown what black people have offered to America/the world. Black culture denied speaks on the mindset of black children who think Lil Wayne is the "black standard".
MicrophoneRebel 2 years ago 3
??????You can't steal music? Seriously? There's a reason why we have copy write and stress is put on using it. Don't get me wrong. I don't believe that anyone owns any genre of music or expression of it but many black artist had music stolen from them and given to white artist because it was more "commercial" and passable to mainstream America. It's not being racist it's reality and reality is that much of what blacks have given life to and offered to America has been stolen and/or denied ours.
MicrophoneRebel 2 years ago 8
Fuckin' right.
araless 2 years ago
Love gil...Though I am white...Feel where he's commin' from
MasonTVonline 2 years ago 4
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Fuck that - You can't steal music,
True artist release there music out unto the wolrd,
music is a gift of peace to all people with the heart to hear it. besides, blacks didnt invent the flute! if that was the case, he just stole the flute!
mikcross 2 years ago
sorry mikcross But a man of color man did invent the flute . (You just keep given me more of the same old shit)
keep tutin on em
kingboogalootut1 2 years ago 2
you mean the first flutes found in china, or the modernization of them in france, my point is nobody invents sound or how their used, theres a white person could have just as easily made this song quoteing blacks that had used whites music, or any other race for that matter, you still cant steel music, maybe you just got the same old shit cause your answer to black oppression is to be racist right back. blacks didnt invent the microphone either, so how did record this? you cant steal music
mikcross 2 years ago
I like your resonse Not 1 N word.NOW Lets talk like people.We all come from Africa.Its the begaining of life for man. When I said a color man invented the flute I was right .We are all One color in many shades.The problem comes when a part of the group clames to be better then the rest of the color people and renaming its self white,red,yellow,brown just to prove its better.This doesnt change the history of color people and when they try well thats what we call STEALING keep tutin on em
kingboogalootut1 2 years ago
White artists have taken original compositions from black artists, softened them up, and injected them with their bourgeoise advertising money, and smothered the original with their pitiful carbon copy for the white buying public's consumption. This has been the American way, and while the black artists were forced into slummy and shady late-nite jazz clubs, the white emulators were accepted to sold out amphitheaters and TV specials.
araless 2 years ago 33
So what are you saying? You wish it was the Black artists that got the bourgeoise advertising money? A problem such as the oppressor taking the the oppressed ideas for their own financial gain "aint no new thing" .. Society rewards monetary gain hence the "bling" generation worshiping the dollar like it's some kind of answer. Looking deeper into the problem is what we need instead of tired 20th century ideology. Gil was a master and said everything that should have been said.. Time to move on.
petepamf 2 years ago
"So what are you saying?" - I'm saying that it would have been nice if the artist who created the art could have gotten the fame and money attached to it, rather than rip-off artist. You are right, it ain't no new thing, wasn't saying it wasn't. What would you suggest as a "deeper" look into the problem? "Time to move on" - We should move on, but unfortunately, the media is still recreating and exploiting original art and styles for a few extra bucks.
araless 2 years ago 3
@araless Beatles and Stones went to the USA and when asked where they got their ideas from told the US press that they listened to black musicians from the US...
Elvis - what a tosser.
welshpenguin 1 year ago
@araless Compare Sonic Youth to DMX and get back to me
ibelieveicansoar 1 year ago
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araless 1 year ago
@araless true dat they wudnt give black artists any radio play and take their ideas and mix it up a tiny bit give it to a white artists who wud get radio play
makavelisaucy 1 year ago
@araless TRUE THAT BROTHER SHO NUFF !!!
Ashween070 1 year ago
@araless I'm white and yea your fukin right on!
qqqTOXICqqq 1 year ago
@araless are yu white
reese1990drm1 1 year ago
@reese1990drm1 What difference would it make? Would it affect the way you perceive my argument?
araless 1 year ago
@araless They just did it better
duncabbin 11 months ago
sure you can steal music and the Ideals of their structure, But I think you miss the point of what he is saying he is saying that the artist are being rip off and are treated like shit.
FBHOME1 2 years ago 2
If you don't like what he is saying then this is not for you. This is for brothas that have had to deal with White supremacy with music. That's all.
rbgsolomon 2 years ago 4
no lovelorn, he's only talking about white artists who stole good ideas while the black artits they sole those ideas starved; like the Beatles.
thuthmosis 2 years ago 3
Gil Scott Herons music inspires me. Im Latino. Does that make me a rip off? Its a FACT that certain individuals were created by white society to specifically commandeer the black pioneers who were viewed as a corruptive influence at the time. But the whites & other ethnic groups who came up on this kind of music mimic the style out of homage. I sincerely feel that what white and other non-black soul artists are trying to express is their own appreciation for the genre not cultural pirating
LovelornGraduate 2 years ago
Exactly, Lovelorn.
White jazz, white blues, white rock 'n roll, were homages to the styles and artists they loved but these niggas are in perpetual victim mode.
They're hypocrites as racists as any red neck.
cytuber 2 years ago
your intent to salvage this is good, but false. Lets go back to Little Richard and Pat Boone Little Richard worte and recored songs that got little or no air play.P.B.records the same songs that get so much air play that each 1 breaks into the top 40 and this has happen to plenty of artist not just black ( but the majority of it is)
youmeequalus 2 years ago
"whities" stealing music, "blackies" stealing instruments... hope ill still be alive the day when we will all just freaking be people
obibullett 2 years ago 6
I blame the Martians!!
troytempest64 2 years ago
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What about the blacks stealing whitey's technology (microphones and recording instruments)? What about blackies stealing musical instruments like the guitar and the flute used in this track? Are these black owned or did you 'steal' them from whites?
Blacks even stole whitey's language and are now selling it back to us in new concoctions like Ebonics.
There are two side to the story. Don't forget it.
cytuber 2 years ago
You need a history lesson. If whitey invented instruments, why do they not have any goddamn ryhtm? huh!
amunamon 2 years ago
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Saying whites don't have rhythm is as racist as saying blacks don't have intelligence so if it's OK for you then....
Why don't blacks have any goddam intelligence? huh? Your comment about 'needing a history lesson' made me laugh though.
Now get off whities computers and go back to your message drums. You ignoramus LOL
cytuber 2 years ago
actually a black man, help invent the common PC, and a Nigerian developed the supercomputer that brought on the internet, maybe you need a history lesson , not only that if you know the guy who helped make Macromedia a media icon , youd know he's black, so you lose on the Flash too, and i have names, are you sure you want to look stupid on youtube,
gm78cc 2 years ago 4
the earliest evidence of a programmable computer was dated back to 1216. from what is now part of iraq and syria. not really whitey's computer. but, an arabs computer. so, do some research before you make such a blind statement. makes you look unintelligent. you have a computer. there is know excuse for not being able to learn about anything.
woogleslap 2 years ago
Oh here we go... reduce everything down til a 'computer' becomes a counting board with a wheel or something. LOL.
Why not go the whole hog and say a 'computer' is a set of fingers if you're that desperate.
Since you're so thick, let me reiterate: Before blacks start saying their culture has been 'stolen', they had better look around at everything they 'stole' from the whites first and in this case it starts at the instruments and technology they used to make this track.
cytuber 2 years ago