Gil Scott-Heron - Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul? (Official Audio)
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In my older age I now think back to a teacher of mine (who was a Caucasian) and when I asked about doing a report featuring Gil Scott Heron as a godfather and architect of modern rap music he said no, and proceeded to tell me to do a report on the band Blondie as if they were pioneers of some sort and not culture vultures and thieves like many of their contemporaries. It disgusts me to think that this man isn't held in higher regard. He even did the half singing half rapping that is popular popular now back in the 60s 70s and 80s. Brother Gil Scott Heron, your legacy will remain forever and you will be remembered as the voice and soundtrack of a revolutionary generation. Rest in power good brother.
Sorry your idiot teacher said this to you. I'm white British and GSC is a genius, it's his issue that he couldn't see this...
I, a Caucasian, completely agree with you. He was an absolute genius, poet, musician, activist. Genuinely think there s a strong shout for him to be taught in schools
Gil Scott-Heron is one of my favorite artists, Black Wax is my favorite movie, but that’s no reason to diss Blondie they’re pretty goood.
@cysilversoul I think blondie was cool and had some novel appeal but comparing blondie to Gil Scott-Heron is like comparing the movie Titanic to Dude where's my car?.
@@genethornton453Tell that truth!!
"And what about the red man, who met you at the coast, you never dig sharing, always had to have the most..." God I love this song, the piano, the drums, the harmony, lyrics, the message, Gils voice is like water, so good.
Ah I know right, when that intro comes in I get goosebumps, as you say everything from the lyrics, piano, drums etc is great!!
Please buddy more lyrics I can't understand well english
this man was a lyrical genius.
Facts 💯💯💯
And he was able to do so without using the F word a single time!
So right, I played 🏀 in college & my roommate had 125th & Lenox album. The Vulture a masterpiece & the Bottle on there too. Good call.
I can listen to him Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye all day long everyday ✊🏿❤️🖤💚✊🏿
Yup you got that right. The terrific trio
Facts! ALL Musical Geniuses and Respective Genre Masters.....😎
The first rappers
And bill withers !! There are 2 or 3 songs from this guy sung by GSH
@@theherbpufferdon T Forget Bill Withers . There are 2 or 3 songs by bill withers that s GSH sung
Put together a nina simone, Gil scott heron, last poets Playlist and you will feel very revolutionary
This addictive tune will never sound dated. It is a wonderful musical accomplishment.
Many suggestions
And documents written.
Many directions
For the end that was given.
They gave us
Pieces of silver and pieces of gold.
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Many fine speeches (oh yeah)
From the White House desk (uh huh)
Written on the cue cards
That were never really there, yes,
But the heat and the summer were there
And the freezing winter's cold. Now
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Call my brother a junkie 'cause he ain't got no job (no job, no job).
Told my old man to leave me when times got hard (so hard).
Told my mother she got to carry me all by herself.
And now that I want to be a man (be a man)
Who can depend on no one else (oh yeah).
What about the red man
Who met you at the coast?
You never dig sharing;
Always had to have the most.
And what about Mississippi,
The boundary of old?
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Call my brother a junkie 'cause he ain't got no job
Told my old man to leave me when times got hard (so hard).
Told my mother she got to carry me all by herself.
Wanna be a man that can depend on no one else (oh yeah).
What about the red man,
Who met you at the coast?
You never dig sharing,
Always had to have the most.
And what about Mississippi,
The boundaries of old?
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Many fine speeches (oh yeah)
From the White House desk (uh huh)
Written on the cue cards
That were never really there. Yes,
But the heat and the summer were there
And the freezing winter's cold.
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Who'll pay reparations,
'Cause I don't dig segregation, but I
Can't get integration
I got to take it to the United Nations,
Someone to help me away from this nation.
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
It's "For the aid that was given."
This is a Master Class Of Soulfulness...
This in when we made music that spoke to our souls.
Did an impromptu interview with GSH, after giving a performance at Xavier U.-New Orleans, LA. circa April 1980, others joined in, and we all chatted for about 90 minutes on various issues that were pertinent at that time. GSH was well informed on all the topics that was asked his way.✊💪**Excellent NOLA memories
So tragic that we lost him.
We all will go, what matters is what you leave behind. I'm not talking about material things.
Listening to his music truly missed but never forgotten RIP you are truly missed, All he's singing about is still going on today
The original urban troubadour. His insights, illustrations, and communications were uniquely all his own. His delivery coming forth from the richest baritone vocals of generations gone by will be forever etched in the minds and soul of the public conscience. Rest in peace my brother. The drum still beats.🪘
5 minutes and 15 seconds of goosebumps
Yes!
The great artist of the 20 century .
I love GSH since 1982 …
. Peace goes with you brother . RIP
Tragic song but sound is amazing. Listening to Gil Scott-Heron's voice is like water, someone said it already but it is so true. I've listened to this like 20 times in one sitting because it is truly beautiful sound these voices and the instruments. I hope justice is brought to those who made the nonsense in this song, humans are terrible. I wish better for all people.
Gil is rightly revered for his forthright lyrics and impassioned singing on this and many other tracks, but on this particular tune he shares the vocals with David Barnes who also played percussion. The first few times i heard the song i did'nt realise they sang alternate verses and not just the chorus. Their voices complementing each other so well.
Wow, you were way ahead of the times, brother!!💕💯
Gil, the anointed one. We Thank The Most High for this brother's talent, knowledge and wisdom and dedication to the struggle that he has so brilliantly blessed the world with. May this poem from my book pay homage this young God.
REPARATIONS
Stop interfering with our way...
Can the one that destroys, ever really repair?
Do we have it within us to repair ourselves
or have we been so destroyed, there is no hope and the God has to settle this?
Niggas been crying for reparations for the longest... Will The ones whose economy that is built on free labor now construct a new way, and tear down the old?
Can the one who's education is constructed on half truths and lies, now be humble and honest? Can the nature of the beast, who has perpetuated endless horrors, now change its nature and start doing good?
Have we've been so fooled into thinking it's appropriate to put a Band-Aid on a gushing wound?
Reparations... ask the native Americans and the Indigenous people all over our planet, about how reparations are working for them.
from the book;TRYIN TIMES from the Pyramids to the Projects. (support Black Art/available on Amazon)
Touched by god, miss him so much!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 been banging this since 17 🐐
❤⚡💚👣
Lonè !
💫💥💦🌴
From Martinique
As good now, great, as it was when he sang it in my freshman/sophomore years at my college. He came pretty frequently from Lincoln “just up the road a piece.”
Makes be think of our religion, and spirituality being stolen as we exited the slave ships, and give the beliefs of our oppressor's having studied Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and many others I can feel the message of who'll pay reparations on our soul... nothing against my beautiful Christian brothers and sisters, but we got to wake up to our own African spirituality. Peace!! Love Ya'll!!
LU, Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, Gil Scott n ME.
💯💯 what about the red man that met you at the coast...many fine speeches from the White House desk! WOW this is fire like it was originally!
2022, August checking in!
AWESOME.!! AND FITTING !!! RESISTANCE!! RESIST!! RESISTANCE!!
@G.A.P. ..you wish!!!!!!
04 10 24 GRATITUDE!
Einer der besten Songs ever
Lord Jesus. 2020.... Here we are again.
Omg ♥️♥️ he all I listen to now
And what about MISSISSIPPI ?
no words !
class act with a message more relevant today ... to think this U.S. citizen was forbidden U.K. entry
Who
Tell Me Who
And
When
Dammit
When
" who'll pay Reparations on my soul"
Wisdom and Truth✊🏾
Here for Pablo
i love ghis song
❤️
The God Of Poetry 👑
2021
**Gil Scott-Heron - Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul? (Official Audio) Yes Tell Me About Mississippi? Oh My Soul__YEAHHHHHH!!**
who........!!!
Did Bob Dylan steal the cadence from this for The Hurricane????
Bob Dylan stole alot of music. Watch the folk music doc from PBS. Bob Dylan ain't shit
@@emgee7This racist song is demanding money from white people who did nothing wrong.
This should be the new Black national Anthem in America as we lift every voice and sing until reparations becomes a reality.
Well why not The revolution will not be televised?
You are missing the point of the song.
Dig it!!!
Tell us you don't know how horrific the Civil War was without telling us you don't know how horrific the Civil War was. Tens of thousands of white men(the vast majority of whom were poor and had nothing to do with slavery) fought and died in some of the most horrific warfare ever experienced by humans. The sin of slavery was atoned for from 1861-1865.
Fuck you. I didn't own no slaves and you didn't pick no cotton. How about reparations for y'all turning a great country into a criminal shithole in all of the cities y'all occupied.
Ich weiß nicht.
Aber findest du die Musik toll?
who’s on piano??? Brian Jackson?
Himself
Cant you "SEE" the photo?If blind,no harm intended
Good guess though, since Brian Jackson always collaborated with him on keys
@@marcosramos5117 Brian Jackson usually played a killer jazz flute with GSH.
crunkaholic81
Really I can’t recall-I typically thought he was on keys and vocals with Heron. I thought Hubert Laws backed him on most of his flute parts. Too many good artists and collabs from that time hard to keep track of!!! Thanks though, I’m going to have to look back at my vinyl sleeve when I give them a spin.
Yeah, how do you compensate that type of damage? All the black people who got fucked up
and then lay down to die, how is that fixed?
Nobody living today is responsible for their ancestors' actions.
@@danepain Yet you speak English. What an intellectually bankrupt statement.
YEAR ?
The song comes from the album Small Talk at 125th st and Lenox. Released in 2001. Heron passed away in May 2011. ( Age 62 ).
1970
@@deecastaneda9820 thanks
1971
Who???😡😠
#ADOS
Drop the congas down a lil bit please, engineer... I love the song, but the mix is annoying, sadly...
Sadly have to disagree, love that sound
I love the congas. It reminds me of what we were not allowed to do and the dangers of what we faced coming off those ships.