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The Last Poets is the debut studio album by spoken word recording artists The Last Poets. It was released in 1970 through Douglas Records. Recording sessions took place at Impact Sound Studio with production by East Wind Associates, managers of The Last Poets at the time of recording. The album peaked at on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States.

The Last Poets are several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement's black nationalism. The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The original users of that name were the trio of Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson.

All that is missing are pointless party anthems. But running through all the songs on the Last Poets' debut is an urgent sense of the need for radical action in the nation as well as the black community

The Last Poets is the debut spoken word album, released in 1970, by The Last Poets. The song "Wake Up, Niggers" is featured on the Performance soundtrack album, also released in 1970. 1 Critical reception. A few weeks ago I saw an incredible performance at the Apollo by a group comprising two shouting poets and an Afro-percussionist, the first time I'd ever really dug on the 'jazz poetry' idea. The recorded version, on Douglas, is a hot seller (over 350,000) and highly recommended; acerbic and exciting and as politically uncompromising as anything ever recorded. Name of group and record: The Last Poets. Frightening and beautiful.

The Last Poets are one of the first groups said to influence the beginnings of hip-hop. 4. Black Thighs (Ft. Umar Bin Hassan) Lyrics. Featuring Umar Bin Hassan.

Last Poets drummer Baba Donn Babatunde drops by and Oyewole introduces him as the heartbeat of the group. Impressively tall, he wears a gold pendant on his dress shirt in place of a tie and speaks in a serious, mellifluous baritone. When he was 11, his activist mother turned him on to the Last Poets; since 1991, when he joined the group that so inspired him, he tries to summon in his drumming the spirit, the anger I felt when I first heard those poems. What I do is the dramatisation of those words, carrying them rather than fighting them. The Last Poets will appear in concert at the British Library, London, on 18 May. Their new album, Understand What Black Is, is out now on Studio Rockers.

Album by The Last Poets. Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution. When The Revolution Comes.

1 Jun 1970 · 13 tracks.