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Spoken Word Pioneers The Last Poets
The Last Poets are more than a band, although, you could call them that as well. A collective? An idea? A movement? Sure!
Hear the Last Poets’ Sobering New Rallying Cry ‘For the Millions’
Proto–hip-hop collective returns in May with new LP ‘Transcending Toxic Times’
50 Years On, The Last Poets Keep Telling The Truth To Unite The Black Community
Before A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy or the rapper Common, there was The Last Poets — one of the most influential spoken-word groups that pioneered the hip-hop genre.
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the 'grandfather of rap'
As the founder of the Last Poets, Nuriddin, who has died aged 73, was a hero to everyone from Tupac Shakur to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis
The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice
It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At an intimate open house session, they explain why their revolutionary words are still needed