The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie ‎– "Delights Of The Garden" (Douglas ‎– NBLP 7051)

Sorry for inflicting more Last Poets on y'all, but this one isn't so awful,and I've got fuck all else to do because France is on Covid#19 lockdown.
There's no mentions of the 'N' word,and improved mainly because its got drum legend Benard Purdie on skins. This applies some much needed discipline on these proto-rappers,and gives it some of the Funk that was missing from their early albums.
Personally I find Purdies drum style rather boring and unadventurous, but it fits in nicely here.
Yeah, there's the usual bigging up of the need for armed revolution,and moaning about how their distant ancestors were made slaves by white mens distant ancestors.I've researched my own family tree and there were no slave owners,in fact most of my family were slaves of the British system,paid fuck all,and forced to fight and die in wars that had nothing to do with them,or any choice in the matter. 
I'm personally thinking of suing the decendants of the Roman empire for the crimes they commited in England during their occupation......and I want compensation(Financial naturally). Also i'm waiting for an apology from the British Government for World War One......there's as much chance of this happening as there is for compensation (financial,again, of course) being paid to the decendants of the victims of the slave trade.
Everyone's been fucked over by someone,be it individuals or state institutions, in the long saga of human history.Basically.....get over it FFS!?
A Fictional member of the public : "Jonny Zchivago you're a Racist and a Nazi apologist"......oh Fuck jolly well Off and ask yerself some very difficult questions dear Fictional member of the public!
One doesn't go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and slag off your fellow members for being alcoholics,your there to cure oneself;so you introduce yourself thus:
"Hi, I'm a fictional member of the public and i'm an Alcoholic"....then take it from there.So before you call me a Racist be really certain that you ain't one yerself? The time honoured excuse of "But I've got lots of Black Friends" isn't acceptable.Just as the prefix of "I'm not Racist, but....!" is almost an admission.

(PS I'm also a Homophobic Fuck too apparently...check it out here:)


Tracklist:

A1 It's A Trip 4:44
A2 Ho Chi Min 5:16
A3 Blessed Are Those Who Struggle 3:41
A4 The Pill 5:08
A5 Delights Of The Garden 3:47
B1 Be 6:19
B2 Yond 4:58
B3 Er 7:36

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The Last Poets ‎– "Chastisment" (Blue Thumb Records ‎– BTS 39) 1972

You may want them to shut up,but they sure had some cool threads maaaan!

By the third album, The Last Poets had finally cottoned on that they needed some half decent music to set their Rants to.So for a few of the tracks, we've got some Afrocentric Jazz to increase the chances of anyone actually listening to their message.

Once you've listened to their well worn out message, you probably wish you hadn't,but it kinda works.Even white guys could probably dance to the opening track,but it goes rapidly downhill after the second tune.

The closing number reverts back to Beatnik territory with the mention of the holy word "Bird";where they run through a list of black jazz musicians,like Archie Shepp,Trane,Miles,Herbie Hancock....etc. And claims that the Love Supreme That Trane was going on about was purely for the Black man.Hmmmmmmm? Not sure that was mentioned in the convoluted eastern philosophy Trane and his missus were into,but whatever, I don't have a problem with the vast universal consciousness not loving me as much as the Uber Black male,or, Uber person of colour should I say? Bring on the Chastisment baby.


Tracklist:

1.Tribute To Obabi (Ogun) 10:16
2.Jazzoetry 3:46
3.Black Soldier 5:56
4.E Pluribus Unum 4:38
5.Hands Off 4:05
6.The Lone Ranger 0:28
7.Before The White Man Came 3:43
8.Bird's Word 6:10

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The Last Poets ‎– "The Last Poets" (Douglas ‎– Douglas 3)

If you wanted to scream 'Oh Shut The Fuck Up' to Gil Scott-Heron,then you'll bust a bloodvessel after thirty seconds of The Last Poets.At least there was only one Gil Scott-Heron in his band,here we've got three,all barking at once,and some terrible afro-centric Conga bashing to further agitate your inner ear. What a confusingly annoying racket. All the Poets seem to talk at the same time, relentlessly slagging off 'People of Colour' (yeah I know!),for not wanting a bloody revolution.There's also the  liberal,and very tiresome use of the 'N' word that I cannot use because I'm a honky;but absolutly NOT in any way a proud Honky,not even proud of being human in fact.
They do grugingly admit that they love their fellow 'N#@*$%S',because ,and i quote " N#@*$%S are me!" 
Fucking gets on me titz does this album,but you gotta hand it to 'em, they sowed the evil seed of Hip-Hop, annoyed the fuck out of whitey,and once those bleeding bongo's got ditched for drum machines ten years later, slagging off your own racial grouping became listenable.
Sadly this bunch weren't the Last Poets, but the first of a very long and seemingly endless line of exceedingly bad poets. Somehow this all evolved into simplistic rhymes about how cool violence is,misogyny,homophobia and celebrating luxurious possessions to the expense of their fellow strugglers in ......oh ffs....the Ghetto. Viva Capitalism 'N#@ger!.
As for market forces, I paid thirty quid for this in the early nineties,after having a couple of their later albums,which are rather good,and vaguely funky (so don't let this album put you off!?),i decided to get the debut LP.I pretended to like it for a while to ease the pain of losing thirty notes.....but the pain was eased permanently at the end of the nineties, with the rise and rise of E-Bay.
Maybe capitalism isn't so evil after all? (er..yes it is Ed.)


Tracklist:

1.Run, Nigger
2.On The Subway
3.Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution
4.Black Thighs
5.Gashman
6.Wake Up, Niggers
7.New York, New York
8.Jones Comin' Down
9.When The Revolution Comes
10.Just Because
11.Black Wish
12.Two Little Boys
13.Surprises

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