{"id":431884,"date":"2011-05-28T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/28\/gil-scott-heron-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:30:00","slug":"gil-scott-heron-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/28\/gil-scott-heron-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Scott-Heron Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72.7396593674\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2011\/news\/110613\/gil-scott-heron-300.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Scott-Heron Dies | Gil Scott-heron\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gil Scott-Heron<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Barboza\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Godfather of Rap&#8221; Gil Scott-Heron, who in 1970 mixed poetry and music for his militant song &#8220;The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,&#8221; died Friday afternoon in a New York hospital, his publicist told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/28\/gil.scott.heron.dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was 62, and the cause of death was not immediately stated. Scott-Heron was known to be HIV positive and had struggled with drug addiction throughout a large part of his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will not be able to stay home, brother\/You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out\/You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip\/Skip out for beer during commercials\/Because the revolution will not be televised,&#8221; went one stanza of the work. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago-born, the iconoclast was named after his father, Gilbert Heron, a Jamaican football (soccer) player who had settled in America and was signed by Glasgow&#8217;s Celtic FC, earning the nickname &#8220;The Black Arrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the Windy City, Senior met Gil\u2019s mother, Bobbie, a librarian who had once sung with the New York Oratorial Society. It was she, along with his grandmother, who raised the young Scott-Heron in Jackson, Tenn. While in college, he was heavily influence by the poet Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Revolution&#8221; was released when he was only 18, and within five years he had also recorded three albums and published two novels and a book of poetry. Among his other nicknames was &#8220;The People&#8217;s Poet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott-Heron&#8217;s influence was immense. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/usher\">Usher<\/a> Tweeted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritytweet.com\/UsherRaymondIV\/link\/74305638540382209\/#axzz1NepHPLlM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friday night<\/a>: &#8220;I just learned of the lost of a very important poet&#8230;R.I.P. Gil Scott Heron. The revolution will be live!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2011\/news\/110613\/gil-scott-heron-2-320.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Scott-Heron Dies| Tributes, Music News, Gil Scott-heron\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>Gil Scott-Heron in the late &#8217;70s<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ochs Archives \/ Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.people.com\/~r\/people\/headlines\/~3\/uKXaQGfwfPw\/0,,20498706,00.html\" title=\"Gil Scott-Heron Dies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gil Scott-Heron Dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Gil Scott-Heron Anthony Barboza\/Getty &#8220;Godfather of Rap&#8221; Gil Scott-Heron, who in 1970 mixed poetry and music for his militant song &#8220;The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,&#8221; died Friday afternoon in a New York hospital, his publicist told CNN . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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