The Last Poets
About the artist
The Last Poets are a spoken word/poetry group which formed in 1968 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States. The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread. Their name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The original Last Poets formed on May 19
Top songs
- When the Revolution Comes
- On the Subway
- Niggers Are Scared of Revolution
- Related To What
- Run, Nigger
- Sport
- Wake up, Niggers
- New York, New York
- True Blues
- Black Thighs
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- It's a Trip
- Gashman
- Two Little Boys
- Jones Comin' Down
- Just Because
- Black Wish
- White Man's Got a God Complex
- Surprises
- Jazzoetry
- Understand What Black Is
- Opposites
- Wake Up Niggers
- O.D.
- Black Is
- Run Nigger
- Related to What Chant
- This Is Madness
- Black People What Y'All Gon' Do
- Mean Machine
- Time
- Delights of the Garden
- E Pluribus Unum
- Tribute to Obabi
- Blessed Are Those Who Struggle
- Bird's Word
- Black Soldier
- Mean Machine Chant
- Ho Chi Minh
- Black is Chant/Black is Time
- The Pill
- Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine
- Hands Off
- Black Is Chant
- Spoon
- Tribute to Obabi (Ogun)
- The Music
- Black People What Y'All Gon' Do Chant
- Before The White Man Came
- This Is Madness Chant
- Mean Machine - Chant
- For the Millions
- Be
- Black Rage
- Related To What - Chant
- Funk
- Homesick
- Yond
- Black Is - Chant
- She Is
- Invocation
- This is Madness Chant/ This Is Madness
- Er
- Get Movin'
- How Many Bullets
- The Lone Ranger
- Panther
- North, East, West, South
- Two Little Boys - Africanism Version
- Five O
- Men-Tality
- Black People What Y'all Gon' Do - Chant
- Pelourinho
- If We Only Knew
- This Is Madness - Chant
- The Café Black Rose
- Rain Of Terror - Prince Fatty Dub
- Mean Machine (Chant)/Mean Machine
- What I Want To See
- Talk Show
- Rain Of Terror
- The Bridge
- This Is Your Life
- Illusion of Self
- We Must Be Sacred
- Freedom Express
- Mean Machine Chant / Mean Machine
- Brother Hominy Grit
- Oh My People
- Certain Images
- Parting Company
- The Shalimar
- Un-Holy Alliance
- Black and Strong (HomeSick)
- Gash Man
- Hold Fast
- Geronimo
- Tough Enough
- Last Rites
- Poetry Is Black
- James Brown
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