Gil Scott-Heron might not have been a journalist, but the poet and musician was sure enough a social commentator who could “make it sing,” and his subjects included the media. His most quoted piece ...

The Gil Scott-Heron that showed up at the radio studio in Los Angeles for the scheduled interview with me in the mid-1970s was not at all like the man I expected. The Heron I expected was a hard edged ...

Since the death of spoken word musician Gil Scott-Heron on Friday, more than one post-Boomer – Scott-Heron was 62 – confessed online that the so-called “godfather of rap” was unknown to them. Savvy ...

Music lovers around the world were shocked to hear of the sudden death of Gil Scott-Heron yesterday at the age of 62. Richard Russell, who was the musician and poet's label manager at XL Recordings, ...

Get our weekly picks of what to do this weekend and the latest on Philly's arts and entertainment scene. A version of this article ran on phillymag.com in March 2012. When he first told America in ...

Kanye West performed at an intimate memorial service for pioneer musician Gil Scott-Heron at Riverside Church earlier today. "Gia Scott-Heron and family, Kanye West and GSH's band offered wonderful ...

IT HAS been a week since Gil Scott-Heron died, aged 62. When the reckoning comes, there will be few musicians who will compare as commentators on social strife, racism and the lot of American ghetto ...

Washington, D.C. reggae group the Archives have announced their new LP Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, a reggae tribute to the two artists on what would have been ...

Gil Scott-Heron died Friday, at the age of sixty-two. The cause of his death isn’t yet clear, but Scott-Heron had a long struggle with substance abuse, which Alec Wilkinson traced in a painful Profile ...

“He was a renaissance man,” the late Gil Scott-Heron once said, of Langston Hughes. “He wrote songs; he wrote poetry; he wrote columns; he wrote essays. And as a writer myself, I knew that you ...

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“I consider myself neither poet, composer, nor musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth they hope may lead to peace and salvation.” He has been ...