THE LAST POETS: Made in Amerikkka

Harlem 1968 a group of young poets get together and found THE LAST POETS. With jazz or funk as a backdrop, percussions rolling and words shooting out like bursts of machine gun fire, the group denounces the oppression of African Americans, while painting a devastating yet humorous picture of life in the ghetto. Nearly forty years after their separation, the members of this legendary group - the founding fathers of today's hip hop, rap and slam - come together in Paris for a one-time concert at the 2008 Banlieues Bleues Festival.

From the intimacy of their Parisian rehearsal room, they evoke the past: the birth of the collective, the years of political unrest, their high-risk creative madness. THE LAST POETS: Made in Amerikkka is a film that erases the boundaries between different genres. It's a live recording, a musical documentary and an art film, all combined into one, and yet it goes beyond any of these. It is a film event, faithful to the spirit and the image of The Last Poets.

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Film & Animation

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• Amerikkka

[rappingslapper]

This.... the origin of rap in the united states... has not even 4,000 view, and yet our radios are tainted with the greed and selfishness of egotistic rappers without a revolution, meaning, or even reason behind their words.

Hip hop isn't dead, but it's sad that not even 4,000 people know that this is where it was birthed. Come on people - RAP FOR A CAUSE

[amd1588]

Revolutionary!

[ego15]

The ancient Rap

[fuckingsickadventure]

"Rap is hip hops demon seed conceived when she was raped by greed." - Ruffmic from Precise Science

[MrPookah777]

@MisoSusanowa well said!

[sambam2694]

@MrPookah777 I hate Eminem's white ass

[B3L3N777]

R.A.P. has a meaning, an essence, pople have forgotten that, now its only used for the money...it was a way to cry out for liberty!

[MrPookah777]

i hope these guys meet jay-z on the street and throw him under the next limo to pass by,then go find eminem and set fire to him.

[MisoSusanowa]

I'm white. I heard The Last Poets when I was pretty young. I was also involved in the punk/wave scene from the beginning to the end. When I heard The Last Poets I was ecstatic - this was truly an art form; it had an authentic voice.  What I hear now is rap polluted by the same forces that always try to co-opt authentic art for commerciality. There's only a few people I really would put in the same class and tradition as The Last Poets.

Kids need to learn this stuff.Thx for posting it.

[carioca56]

@rappingslapper Most people are shallow, and all they care about is convenience.

[iamKingCourtney]

fascinating

[villy8778]

Thanks for sharing this.

Its really nice and pure