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| The Watts Prophets
When Watts was burning
and roiling with rage back in the 60s a group of street poets got together to
rap. Their subjects were drugs, sex, police oppression, violence, blood, racism
and every other form of urban shit ever invented.
This is one of the
albums of the Watts Prophets, a
group that shares the sobriquet, inventors of rap music, with Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets.
As the great American
election circus glows white hot in the final dash to the first Tuesday of
November, this collection of songs by local street politicians and
philosophers, is a timely reminder of how much things have or have not changed.
Essential listening.
Repeat.
 
Track Listing:
01
Listen
02 Part – E.S
03 Black Pussy
04 Kill
05 Funny How Things Can
Change
06 Falstaff
07 Pimping, Leaning and
Feaning
08 Keep You Doing
Things
09 The Meek Ain't Gonna
10 The Days, the Hours
11 Taste.
12 We Must Love Black
People
13 I'll Stop Calling
You Nigger
14 Saint America
15 They Shot Him
16 Nearer My God To
Thee
17 Clowns All Round
18 Response to a Bourgeois
Nigger
19 Things Going to Get
Greater Later
20 Trees and Del
Prodo's
21 Pledge of Allegiance
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
There is No Hope for White America: The Watts Prophets
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