Lots of truth to these words. "Make the money before we see it they take it" I grew up in southwest Detroit Gil isnt just talking about color he is talking about all the people who grew up in the inner city.
@irena7777777 to your information Syd (may his soul rest in peace) had more influence in PF in several albums after the piper and a saucer full of secrets, he was only involved in writing because performing was like reapeating and he wished to do some new stuff. actually the album wish you where here and dark side of the moon are all about Syd, and the start of PF starting to reapeat itself.no Syd no PF.
This track was going to be on gta san andreas master sounds but got taken off in the last minute due to the number of music you could have on each radio
@TheBobby3834 Syd before left PF in 1969, was only involved in 2 of their albums, had little to do with their formative years during which they became a prog rock band, had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with their biggest albums Dark Side..., the Wall, Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Division Bell. If you listen to Piper at the Gates of Dawn, you wouldn't think it was the same band who wrote DSOTM etc, simply because Barrett had so little input into what PF became.
ignorant people. all musicians borrow. Some for money, some for knowledge, but we learn from each other, heck charlie parker like to listen to edgar varese.
Im 18 right now, and this is great music, great poetry. I really dont care for most popular music today and few artists have my respect. The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common are about all that are good anymore.
Marvin Gaye's wonderful song with the magic touch of Gill who turned it into his typical spoken song without sacrifying rhythm and beauty.Farewell Gill
Oh oh oh I was in my 20's when this rolled through. Imagine him and Marvin in ONE generation. This is when we said sistahs and brothas and meant it. We were blood.
What happened? Make you wanna holla and throw up BOF yo' hands.
Have to say this really redefines what was already a great song. Gil was at the top of his game at this time. "Reflections" is the album anyone who's just discovered this great mans's music should start if you want to hear his genius at it's peak.One of my all-time top 10 albums, RIP Gil, thanks for leaving us your fantastic life affirming music.
Yeah answer ads in the paper about houses for sale and get treated like Charles Manson out on bail, when you start to get frustrated by the tactics they use you recognise the feeling it's the Inner City Blues, yeah make you wanna hollar some times and throw up both your hands.
Well then put on your best suit white shirt and tie and run on down town to stand in line for job washing dishes, that you may not qualify,
Walk a big hole in a brand new pair of shoes and you've had your first look at the Inner City Blues,
Go looking for a place to live and all the while remember what lurks behind the devil's smile, are we stupid or just naive that we continue to believe that money can buy us anything, including a slice of the American dream.
Gil Scott Heron may you rest in peace! He was my hero in music....we need to keep the memories artist like him alive. Folk need to wake up and fight against the powers that be... maybe the Black community can rise up out of the cycle of poverty if we can turn them (us!) on to material like this....
I've learnt alot by listening to Gil Scott Heron. He talks about Mark Essex in this tune with such passion that I had to find out who he was. The same about Karen Silkwood in "We Almost Lost Detroit". I suppose he wanted to teach through his music and so he is...even from beyond the grave. What a man, more than just a musician.
'What's the word? A fantatstic, creative, vibrant and beautiful human being that will spread the word, who will help us understand that there is learning in the mistakes we make; because we are human! Thank the divine force that placed this wonderful poet in our midst, at our time, so that we may hear. RIP Gil Scott Heron
i cant believe i call myself a fan of "real music" and just found out about this brotha yesterday ... i wuz fuckin up.. better late than never... R,I,P Gil , youll be missed...
this thing we call REALITY is NOT for the faint of heart. It takes REAL courage to even sing/rap/commentary about it much less live it out. Brother GSH was as COURAGEOUS as they come and paid a great price and suffered a lot of personal pains for being a true VOICE of those who aren't heard...many who criticized him didnt know a f'kng thing about him or the way the 'inner city blues' works on ALL of us in and out. RIP GSH, U may be gone but you'll NEVER be forgotten 'conscious scarecrow'.
RIP Brother Gil. I loved your music. I Saw you live several times each time was special.I'm 57years old . Whats really special is that my children love your music just as much as I do.You see good is good no matter what generation is listening to it.
Heavy Loss!!! To the lil waynes, Drakes of the world....Stop what you are doin for just 10min...and LISTEN!!! Not just hear but LISTEN to the spirit of this man!!! This is a true POET/WRITER & yes...MC!!!
I don't know too many people in my time, also Gil's, who did not have a depth of respect for both the Beatles and Gil Scott Heron. I mean, if you truly have an open ear and an open heart, how could you possibly not hear both? And John Coltrane and Johann Sebastian Bach too for that matter. RIP my darling brother, grateful for the many times I was able to see you and meet you.
@grossda410 You obviously have no idea what music is... I am from the same era and also grew up listening to Gil Scott, james Brown, Aretha, I never missed a motown memorial concert at the brooklyn armory, but I also listened to the stone, led zepplin and black sabbath and yes even Jimi Hendrix one of the greatest guitarists... music does not have a color and if you believe it does then you need to have a reality check.
@OfficialNsteady Maybe slightly but prog bands such as Yes, Rush, Floyd, Genesis, ELP et al created a style of music and were not inspired by blues musicians but were talented enough themselves to be musically innovative. I don't subscribe to the notion that every musical genre owes appreciation or credit to blues music. Blues is great, don't get me wrong, but so is prog and the two styles are completely different.
@irena7777777 Chuck berry, Little Richard, Muddy waters and the like influenced Elvis and th ebeatles majorly with none of those artists there simply would not be as much music as there has been
@grossda410 smokey robinson aretha franklin and the temptations where influenced from others.... so that should mean you have NO respect for them either. music influences music, not colour. to be honest if a white person said that it would be seen as racist.... its still the same the other way round, dont fight what your campaigning for!
I love Gil Scott Heron! saw him and his band at the Kuumbwa in Santa cruz.............definitely see this amazing artist, performer. Gil come back to town man, we need your energy man.
because of my transitional age (born in 68) i actually heard this before i heard Marvin's version. i dug it like a garden plot in early spring, and when i heard Marvin's i knew i was hearing the original, but Gil Scott's is a transplant from the original, not a cheap imitation, and i love it just as much and in some ways a little bit more...
@1319seconds3771 I am no grasshopper. Service industry is good too. Making things is only one element of an economy. Imagination is key. Life has changed. When I was listening to this, YouTube had not registered in even one brain cell. In fact, who had even heard of broadband or the Internet. Who knows how this thing called Life will go. We really live in the "unknown" and try to define, delineate, name, and it is all for naught. Let's just throw ourselves into it!
We should sing this after the STAR SPANGLED BANNER at all national events especially FOOTBALL And Basket BALL Games.....oh yeah GO BEARS! Could you imagine All of Soldier field Saying Make you wanna holla ....I can daydream yep...GO BEARS! l
@archangelboab@3 for $1, my peeps ain't getting tangerines. lean season. Listening to Gil to get this Spirit moving forward. Love him so much! Was so young when this came out and, boy, life has changed and then not!
@Wrightthang Well grasshopper not really, our problem is we don't make or manufacture a damn thang. and all the skilled trades are literally perona non gratafied...well we are Chinas"sweet thang"!
so um the issues are sadly the same just revamped.
They were singing about the Change way back then, Our time is NOW! Gil tells it so well! Vote Democrate you have nothing to loose we can only win if we keep control of the Senate!
rip marvin but you're kidding about mark essex right?.. i'm all for sticking it to the man but murder is as murder does... i'm sure gil wasn't bigging him up but sympathising with the frustrations that created him...
mark essex may have aligned himself with a morally legitimate movement but he was basically an unhinged copkiller... it's obviously up to you who you choose to commemorate but in my opinion he doesn't belong in such exulted company as true revolutionaries like Nat Turner, David Walker or the The KCA.
do you like the new album by the by?.. his cover of 'i'm new here' is exceptional, i'd love to hear him do some more acoustic blues...
everyone knows this is Mavin Gaye's song.RIP.i am telling you even he is looking down and giving mad props for this version of the classic.two great originators on an almost mission impossible.the mission is to raise awareness and question authority.
till have this lp in mint cond...sorry u r gone
LeVan4President 1 week ago
Would like to see Lenny Kravitz imbibe this man. I like Lenny....
FrankJEcho 1 week ago
I know he wasn't raised in Chicago but he just seems like a Chicago dude
Gunshinzero 1 week ago
Lots of truth to these words. "Make the money before we see it they take it" I grew up in southwest Detroit Gil isnt just talking about color he is talking about all the people who grew up in the inner city.
mrjubalo 1 week ago
@irena7777777 to your information Syd (may his soul rest in peace) had more influence in PF in several albums after the piper and a saucer full of secrets, he was only involved in writing because performing was like reapeating and he wished to do some new stuff. actually the album wish you where here and dark side of the moon are all about Syd, and the start of PF starting to reapeat itself.no Syd no PF.
TheBobby3834 1 week ago
not a single dislike, says it all
OX44LIFE 2 weeks ago
Rest In Peace Brotha...
koopstamc 2 weeks ago in playlist soul never dies
one of the guys who influenced me to compose music with such vibe and feeling....yeah Inner City Blues .... <3
Excelsiorwillshine 2 weeks ago
r.i.p. brotha gil scott herron
veganboxer 3 weeks ago
this man was a head of his time r.i.p. gil scott heron your words are so true
The1964mitchell 3 weeks ago
first vid ive seen without dislikes!!! =D
ATGAGn 3 weeks ago
This track was going to be on gta san andreas master sounds but got taken off in the last minute due to the number of music you could have on each radio
youlook678 3 weeks ago
We have been here before...
bydabead 3 weeks ago
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"Did Pink Floyd copy from 'black music' too, then? Did blacks create prog rock as well?"
Hell yes to both! Ever hear of James Marshall Hendrix?
yaesuman 4 weeks ago
@irena7777777 syd barrett's favorite guitar players ; pink anderson & floyd council.
blues is the mother of all modern rock music.
TheBobby3834 1 month ago
@TheBobby3834 Syd before left PF in 1969, was only involved in 2 of their albums, had little to do with their formative years during which they became a prog rock band, had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with their biggest albums Dark Side..., the Wall, Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Division Bell. If you listen to Piper at the Gates of Dawn, you wouldn't think it was the same band who wrote DSOTM etc, simply because Barrett had so little input into what PF became.
irena7777777 4 weeks ago
@irena7777777 'Syd left PF before 1969...' that is meant to read!!
irena7777777 4 weeks ago
i have never seen anything like that 909 likes 0 dislikes.....what pricks gona break that with his miserable dislike....just dont.
TheHerculeanMan 1 month ago
R.I.P Gil
youlook678 1 month ago 2
ignorant people. all musicians borrow. Some for money, some for knowledge, but we learn from each other, heck charlie parker like to listen to edgar varese.
purplecloud191702 1 month ago
1:17 kinda looks like snoop dogg
ThePaperBagProject 1 month ago
never heard the whole thing...glad i did
kickyagameup916 1 month ago
LIBERATION
ObscurumJR 2 months ago
true soul
MrRodellmoore 2 months ago
Im 18 right now, and this is great music, great poetry. I really dont care for most popular music today and few artists have my respect. The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common are about all that are good anymore.
mangaluver931 3 months ago
@mangaluver931 No cares how old you are.
coolkat613 2 months ago 25
Heavy!
MrDennis21jel 3 months ago in playlist MrDennis21jel's favorites
Hope ya'll realize this is Marvin Gaye's tune.Just givin credit where credit is do.GSH will be missed.
riffmon 3 months ago 4
666 likes , lol Gil scott rock da house !
elgrosmax 3 months ago
660 people missed the dislike button, on purpose. GIl Scott Heron. All time great. So, so much love for this man.
antmayfield 3 months ago
Gill ,his music has a meaning to life,what an artist! Nothing else you need to say,QUALITY !!!
boogieboy612 3 months ago
This is pretty good but i still like Marvin Gaye's version better... but its Marvin so what u gonna say lol
JBaileyspiderz0 4 months ago
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More than just a great musician
LP101A 4 months ago
A legend
MrChrisdrums 4 months ago
R.I.P Great poet Gil. You are THE MAN!!!!!!
ALI4138 4 months ago 3
RIP!
dearmalika 4 months ago
money can buy you anything.... including the american dream
jinsugarbrown 4 months ago
@jinsugarbrown
dont be silly.
44murdoc 4 months ago
@44murdoc its Gil Scott Heron words my friend, listen more precisely " money can buy us anything, including a slide of the american dream"
easy tiger !
jinsugarbrown 4 months ago
the guy was much much more than "a poet" he was sooooo in touch with life!!!!... best buhleeve that...
sortofsorted 4 months ago
sweeT_______
ScratchOnScratch 4 months ago
This an Brian Auger's version snap man.
adewolf 5 months ago
Still applies to my life and so many in 2011 on the cusp of 2012. We still have the wool over our eyes.
daynaGratefull 6 months ago 8
Gil Scott-Heron! His use of the language! He was a quintessential baaaad Cat!
groovinwalrus 6 months ago 4
They used to play this song on the radio around here, different times.
What's not to like? My favorite rapper.
Rock On,
mangobop
mangobop 6 months ago
Liberation!
ksc52981 6 months ago
He look's like Common in this pic
fatirthecreator 7 months ago
Marvin Gaye's wonderful song with the magic touch of Gill who turned it into his typical spoken song without sacrifying rhythm and beauty.Farewell Gill
MrPapillon65 7 months ago 4
so this is what common with a goatee would look like....
MCJay2daSun 7 months ago 3
Gil Scott-Heron, Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder's versions ????./....... Who cares., reallly, they are all so gtoovy and talented ! Just GREAT POINT !
misspetedoherty 7 months ago in playlist oldies
@misspetedoherty Stevie Wonder version??? I'm not aware of a Stevie Wonder cover version. Where can I hear this alleged recording?
friendofthefunk 7 months ago
Oh oh oh I was in my 20's when this rolled through. Imagine him and Marvin in ONE generation. This is when we said sistahs and brothas and meant it. We were blood.
What happened? Make you wanna holla and throw up BOF yo' hands.
nessa4yisrael 7 months ago 2
Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, Gil was the man musically and politically.
Imitated by many, but never bettered.
BlackBuckOne 7 months ago
Have to say this really redefines what was already a great song. Gil was at the top of his game at this time. "Reflections" is the album anyone who's just discovered this great mans's music should start if you want to hear his genius at it's peak.One of my all-time top 10 albums, RIP Gil, thanks for leaving us your fantastic life affirming music.
skeheens1 7 months ago 2
this is it MUSIC ......... LISTEN!!!
Trech24 7 months ago
this is the basis of hip hop right here...some of you young cats need to go back and study....
MastinoNapoletano420 8 months ago
Yeah answer ads in the paper about houses for sale and get treated like Charles Manson out on bail, when you start to get frustrated by the tactics they use you recognise the feeling it's the Inner City Blues, yeah make you wanna hollar some times and throw up both your hands.
lucasfunkt 8 months ago
Well then put on your best suit white shirt and tie and run on down town to stand in line for job washing dishes, that you may not qualify,
Walk a big hole in a brand new pair of shoes and you've had your first look at the Inner City Blues,
Go looking for a place to live and all the while remember what lurks behind the devil's smile, are we stupid or just naive that we continue to believe that money can buy us anything, including a slice of the American dream.
lucasfunkt 8 months ago
Love this version, coming from GSH, the song gets a new lease of life.
Song is as relevant today as it was then: the US is still causing havoc in the world and still very much "sending sons to die"
d4vstone 8 months ago
Gil Scott Heron may you rest in peace! He was my hero in music....we need to keep the memories artist like him alive. Folk need to wake up and fight against the powers that be... maybe the Black community can rise up out of the cycle of poverty if we can turn them (us!) on to material like this....
nya2009scholar 8 months ago
I've learnt alot by listening to Gil Scott Heron. He talks about Mark Essex in this tune with such passion that I had to find out who he was. The same about Karen Silkwood in "We Almost Lost Detroit". I suppose he wanted to teach through his music and so he is...even from beyond the grave. What a man, more than just a musician.
eimajecnerwal 8 months ago 2
Great great stuff. Nothing today compares.
dudeG 8 months ago
'What's the word? A fantatstic, creative, vibrant and beautiful human being that will spread the word, who will help us understand that there is learning in the mistakes we make; because we are human! Thank the divine force that placed this wonderful poet in our midst, at our time, so that we may hear. RIP Gil Scott Heron
letsbringthelolz 8 months ago
Gil and Marvin had the courage to put the truth out there.....
freein2339 8 months ago
Don't just question authority, OPPOSE it at every opportunity! RIP GIL
Jqau 8 months ago
i cant believe i call myself a fan of "real music" and just found out about this brotha yesterday ... i wuz fuckin up.. better late than never... R,I,P Gil , youll be missed...
RHthPILOT 8 months ago 3
R.I.P. Legend
DrDocking 9 months ago
this thing we call REALITY is NOT for the faint of heart. It takes REAL courage to even sing/rap/commentary about it much less live it out. Brother GSH was as COURAGEOUS as they come and paid a great price and suffered a lot of personal pains for being a true VOICE of those who aren't heard...many who criticized him didnt know a f'kng thing about him or the way the 'inner city blues' works on ALL of us in and out. RIP GSH, U may be gone but you'll NEVER be forgotten 'conscious scarecrow'.
hunn89 9 months ago
@hunn89 THANK YOU BROTHER FOR KNOWING ABOUT DEMM INNER CITY BLUE'S BECAUSE THEY R REAL
BASSEYDRAE 9 months ago
RIP..
RIPOldSchool96 9 months ago
RIP
Kheller66 9 months ago
RIP......
nvictoria100 9 months ago
RIP
realplayazkickass 9 months ago
A true bad ass.
LittleRedMenace 9 months ago 2
The poem would be considered rap today! See? Even hip hop has its roots in the BLUES baby!!! Kids, Listen and learn your history!!!!
ThePrincessDenise 9 months ago
RIP You are truely one of the greats
mellokatt 9 months ago
RIP Brother Gil. I loved your music. I Saw you live several times each time was special.I'm 57years old . Whats really special is that my children love your music just as much as I do.You see good is good no matter what generation is listening to it.
olhead54 9 months ago 2
Heavy Loss!!! To the lil waynes, Drakes of the world....Stop what you are doin for just 10min...and LISTEN!!! Not just hear but LISTEN to the spirit of this man!!! This is a true POET/WRITER & yes...MC!!!
oneluv72 9 months ago 48
@oneluv72 100 percent in agreeing with you fam!!!
Slicearoni 4 months ago
@oneluv72 its funny how you mention drake months ago, now drake covered one of his songs. Rip Gil i really loved this guy, just set a great mood.
xXfame87Xx 3 months ago 2
R.I.P. GIL. thanks for your music and legacy
veightengine 9 months ago 4
R.I.P Marvin Gaye and Gil Scott Heron Two real Soul Brothers.
marvinaz09 9 months ago 4
Two of the greatest artists who ever blessed my life and taught me how to live and work for peace & justice.
wombbat909 9 months ago
What a time in my life...to be a pre-teen and have sisters and brothers who schooled me...RIP my brother...
BeverlyJG1 9 months ago
They are singing this together in Heaven at this very moment!
Lajuan10 9 months ago
Once now a reflection, anthem, creed Gil R.I.P my brother.
MrBopgun21 9 months ago
effectivement grande perte .....
87lolo 9 months ago
another great gone too soon...makes me wanna holler, throw up both my hands. Gonna miss ya Gil, you were one of a kind!
TheKimykali 9 months ago in playlist Gil Scott Heron 4
Peace go with you brother =(
CaptainStern1 9 months ago
RIP. Love you.
peskypesky 9 months ago
R.I.P gil...
eimajecnerwal 9 months ago
I don't know too many people in my time, also Gil's, who did not have a depth of respect for both the Beatles and Gil Scott Heron. I mean, if you truly have an open ear and an open heart, how could you possibly not hear both? And John Coltrane and Johann Sebastian Bach too for that matter. RIP my darling brother, grateful for the many times I was able to see you and meet you.
tullist 9 months ago 27
@tullist
I am a Motown child of the 60's
I grew up on Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin the Temptations, etc.
I have NO appreciation or respect for the Beatles, or the Rollin Stones,etc.
British groups borrowed and copied from black people's creativity.
what else is new?
grossda410 1 month ago
@grossda410 honestly how r u gonna pull the black card on this? british people have a completely different sound? alot of music was evolved in britin
dafuck21 1 month ago
@dafuck21 WTF are you talking about??? How is he pulling the black card??? He stating the truth. Jackass
blackplaque617 1 week ago
@grossda410 You obviously have no idea what music is... I am from the same era and also grew up listening to Gil Scott, james Brown, Aretha, I never missed a motown memorial concert at the brooklyn armory, but I also listened to the stone, led zepplin and black sabbath and yes even Jimi Hendrix one of the greatest guitarists... music does not have a color and if you believe it does then you need to have a reality check.
chizchizar 1 month ago
@grossda410 Did Pink Floyd copy from 'black music' too, then? Did blacks create prog rock as well? You have warped logic
irena7777777 1 month ago
@irena7777777 blacks DID influence prog rock. the blues influenced so much stuff man.
OfficialNsteady 4 weeks ago
@OfficialNsteady Maybe slightly but prog bands such as Yes, Rush, Floyd, Genesis, ELP et al created a style of music and were not inspired by blues musicians but were talented enough themselves to be musically innovative. I don't subscribe to the notion that every musical genre owes appreciation or credit to blues music. Blues is great, don't get me wrong, but so is prog and the two styles are completely different.
irena7777777 4 weeks ago
@irena7777777 Chuck berry, Little Richard, Muddy waters and the like influenced Elvis and th ebeatles majorly with none of those artists there simply would not be as much music as there has been
jaffabeans 4 weeks ago
@grossda410 smokey robinson aretha franklin and the temptations where influenced from others.... so that should mean you have NO respect for them either. music influences music, not colour. to be honest if a white person said that it would be seen as racist.... its still the same the other way round, dont fight what your campaigning for!
laceythepoon 3 weeks ago
when you were listening to the beatles, i enjoyed gil scott´s music yeahhh!!
rudewey 9 months ago
@rudewey should've been listening to both.
TheQwerty92x 9 months ago
Rest in Peace...u made a difference with ur music, unlike lil Wayne and the rest of them, whose music have no substance whatsoever!
hoodiemoney24 9 months ago
R.I.P Gil Scott-Heron... Thank you for leaving some of your soul in the music!
ArmatiMusica 9 months ago
R.I.P
gangstamind187 9 months ago
sounds even better on wax!
thedezoe 9 months ago
Brilliant! I've loved this version of this song for I guess 30 years now, and it still has the power to nail me to the wall, every time.
tandmark 10 months ago
didn't know he re-made this song. He did it justice for real
realizm86 10 months ago 3
liberation!!
BadVizion 11 months ago
I love Gil Scott Heron! saw him and his band at the Kuumbwa in Santa cruz.............definitely see this amazing artist, performer. Gil come back to town man, we need your energy man.
charlesidler1 11 months ago
wonderful !!!
FunkyTestone 11 months ago
He ain't lying about one.
sandralawson18 11 months ago
"trigger happy policing"
3azabb 11 months ago
I'm a 58 year old whiteman and I love this song. Rappers...huh!
Surf clean.
mangobop
mangobop 11 months ago
30 years and this song is still relevant as hell. Sad that we're still in this state. Gill Scott-Heron is a prophet of our times.
1111che 11 months ago 2
because of my transitional age (born in 68) i actually heard this before i heard Marvin's version. i dug it like a garden plot in early spring, and when i heard Marvin's i knew i was hearing the original, but Gil Scott's is a transplant from the original, not a cheap imitation, and i love it just as much and in some ways a little bit more...
flownogard 1 year ago 3
Gil Scott tells the Truth about everything Everybody!
But they asked him about the New Breed & what they've done to us!
And he walks off saying, (NOW DON'T BE GETTING ME INTO TROUBLE WITH DEM BROTHERS!
How come when it's something BLACKS do to themselves, no one seems to want to acknowledge or recognize it??
jor99912 1 year ago
@jor99912 i guess you see the world through monochrome, grey scale or black-and-white glasses. also known as a monochromatic view of life.
Free Palestine
mauritiusbleu 1 year ago
@mauritiusbleu Humans" call it "HUMAN".
jor99912 1 year ago
@jor99912 i guess you took that from the Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina book of intelligent quotes and phrases.
mauritiusbleu 1 year ago
@mauritiusbleu You have to be Human!
jor99912 1 year ago
@1319seconds3771 I am no grasshopper. Service industry is good too. Making things is only one element of an economy. Imagination is key. Life has changed. When I was listening to this, YouTube had not registered in even one brain cell. In fact, who had even heard of broadband or the Internet. Who knows how this thing called Life will go. We really live in the "unknown" and try to define, delineate, name, and it is all for naught. Let's just throw ourselves into it!
Wrightthang 1 year ago
We should sing this after the STAR SPANGLED BANNER at all national events especially FOOTBALL And Basket BALL Games.....oh yeah GO BEARS! Could you imagine All of Soldier field Saying Make you wanna holla ....I can daydream yep...GO BEARS! l
1319second3771 1 year ago
Rockets n moon shots
3azabb 1 year ago
Makes me wanna holler sometimes, I've got the inner city blues.
sohltofang 1 year ago
@archangelboab @3 for $1, my peeps ain't getting tangerines. lean season. Listening to Gil to get this Spirit moving forward. Love him so much! Was so young when this came out and, boy, life has changed and then not!
Wrightthang 1 year ago
@Wrightthang Well grasshopper not really, our problem is we don't make or manufacture a damn thang. and all the skilled trades are literally perona non gratafied...well we are Chinas"sweet thang"!
so um the issues are sadly the same just revamped.
1319second3771 1 year ago
Struggling with my taxes too Gil. And the bills. And the rent. People are getting tangerines in socks for their Christmas.
ArchangelBoab 1 year ago
Be in top 50 covers id say
bwitaib 1 year ago
Holy shit man
thegoodusernameman 1 year ago
Thanks for posting!!
kempo9jo 1 year ago
That poem is cold right on it!!!
3kingkool 1 year ago
They were singing about the Change way back then, Our time is NOW! Gil tells it so well! Vote Democrate you have nothing to loose we can only win if we keep control of the Senate!
TrustandBelieveEmpow 1 year ago
Reminds me of Chevrolet by Robben Ford...
Mowgli1000 1 year ago
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss
many thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
xxxyy69 1 year ago
poem in the middle is the f'n bomb....relevent still today
mello39 2 years ago
the poem in the middle is da f'n bomb....relevent still today........
mello39 2 years ago 29
@mello39 foreal man, all his poetry is mad relevant today
boombap420 9 months ago
R.I.P. Mark Essex and Marvin Gaye
IPrinceMajestic 2 years ago
rip marvin but you're kidding about mark essex right?.. i'm all for sticking it to the man but murder is as murder does... i'm sure gil wasn't bigging him up but sympathising with the frustrations that created him...
rupestube 1 year ago
@rupestube
R.I.P. Mark Essex and Marvin Gaye. I meant what I said. This isn't Forrest Gump, "murder is as murder does." This is a movie.
R.I.P. Nat Turner, David Walker, The Mau Mau Soldiers and MARK ESSEX.
IPrinceMajestic 1 year ago
mark essex may have aligned himself with a morally legitimate movement but he was basically an unhinged copkiller... it's obviously up to you who you choose to commemorate but in my opinion he doesn't belong in such exulted company as true revolutionaries like Nat Turner, David Walker or the The KCA.
do you like the new album by the by?.. his cover of 'i'm new here' is exceptional, i'd love to hear him do some more acoustic blues...
rupestube 1 year ago
@rupestube id lik to hav a command off the english language jst lik this and it sounds like u got the knowledge to back it
bwitaib 1 year ago
John Allen Muhammad is on the other side. His thun has to do all his life.
I saw reference that Esc inspired him.
Brotherman7 2 years ago
everyone knows this is Mavin Gaye's song.RIP.i am telling you even he is looking down and giving mad props for this version of the classic.two great originators on an almost mission impossible.the mission is to raise awareness and question authority.
RJhonda14 2 years ago 54
@RJhonda14 R.I.P. to Gil Scott-Heron now !
TheLukieBoi1 9 months ago
@RJhonda14 Was his before etta james???
LifeXHipHop 7 months ago