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

  1. When the Revolution Comes
  2. On the Subway
  3. Niggers Are Scared of Revolution
  4. Related To What
  5. Run, Nigger
  6. Sport
  7. Wake up, Niggers
  8. New York, New York
  9. True Blues
  10. Black Thighs
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  1. It's a Trip
  2. Gashman
  3. Two Little Boys
  4. Jones Comin' Down
  5. Just Because
  6. Black Wish
  7. White Man's Got a God Complex
  8. Surprises
  9. Jazzoetry
  10. Understand What Black Is
  11. Opposites
  12. Wake Up Niggers
  13. O.D.
  14. Black Is
  15. Run Nigger
  16. Related to What Chant
  17. This Is Madness
  18. Black People What Y'All Gon' Do
  19. Mean Machine
  20. Time
  21. Delights of the Garden
  22. E Pluribus Unum
  23. Tribute to Obabi
  24. Blessed Are Those Who Struggle
  25. Bird's Word
  26. Black Soldier
  27. Mean Machine Chant
  28. Ho Chi Minh
  29. Black is Chant/Black is Time
  30. The Pill
  31. Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine
  32. Hands Off
  33. Black Is Chant
  34. Spoon
  35. Tribute to Obabi (Ogun)
  36. The Music
  37. Black People What Y'All Gon' Do Chant
  38. Before The White Man Came
  39. This Is Madness Chant
  40. Mean Machine - Chant
  41. For the Millions
  42. Be
  43. Black Rage
  44. Related To What - Chant
  45. Funk
  46. Homesick
  47. Yond
  48. Black Is - Chant
  49. She Is
  50. Invocation
  51. This is Madness Chant/ This Is Madness
  52. Er
  53. Get Movin'
  54. How Many Bullets
  55. The Lone Ranger
  56. Panther
  57. North, East, West, South
  58. Two Little Boys - Africanism Version
  59. Five O
  60. Men-Tality
  61. Black People What Y'all Gon' Do - Chant
  62. Pelourinho
  63. If We Only Knew
  64. This Is Madness - Chant
  65. The Café Black Rose
  66. Rain Of Terror - Prince Fatty Dub
  67. Mean Machine (Chant)/Mean Machine
  68. What I Want To See
  69. Talk Show
  70. Rain Of Terror
  71. The Bridge
  72. This Is Your Life
  73. Illusion of Self
  74. We Must Be Sacred
  75. Freedom Express
  76. Mean Machine Chant / Mean Machine
  77. Brother Hominy Grit
  78. Oh My People
  79. Certain Images
  80. Parting Company
  81. The Shalimar
  82. Un-Holy Alliance
  83. Black and Strong (HomeSick)
  84. Gash Man
  85. Hold Fast
  86. Geronimo
  87. Tough Enough
  88. Last Rites
  89. Poetry Is Black
  90. James Brown

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