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The Last Poets interview

De Last Poets gaan al een hele lange tijd mee. Al zo´n 25 jaar. Ze begonnen hun carrière in het Apollo Theater en werkten samen met artiesten als BB King, Curtis Mayfield en Aretha Franklin. We deden een interview met hen in 1997 over moderne rap en hip hop muziek.

"The Last Poets started out as Political community activists and what we wanted to do was articulate what 400 years of the legacy of slavery meant to us emotionally, psychologically and spiritually in America. Because all this was kept hidden inside our guts. And that began the birth of rap. The word rap means to place the blame on a guilty party."