Last Poets-This Is Madness

The Last Poets - This Is Madness @ 320kbps
This is Madness
The Last Poets are a group of poets and musicians who emerged from the Black Nationalist movement of Harlem, New York in the late 1960's. The name Last Poets was taken from a poem by a South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was living in the last era of poetry before violence would become the chosen weapon of dissension.
Following the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., universal civil unrest along with inner city riots enshrouded much of America’s landscape. It was from this sweltering rage that original members Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, David Nelson, decided to form a group (on Malcolm X's birthday, May 19) that would allow them to express their anger through music instead of violence. Cognitive dissonance became their weapon of choice.
In 1969, a new breed of poets and musicians joined the group, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan, and Abiodun Oyewole, along with percussionist Nilaja Obabi. Their inspiration came from a deep-seated desire to “awaken the black community” — or heighten the spirituality and cultural consciousness of the black community by speaking in the polemic poeticism of the Black Revolutionary.
Their first commercially successful album, This is Madness , was so politically charged that the Nixon Administration listed the group under the counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO). Historically, COINTELPRO only listed those groups or individuals who were perceived as a terrorist threat or dangerous to American interests.
In actually, The Last Poets were none of the above. They did not espouse violence in the same sense of the Black Panther Party (a group they sympathized with). Still featured titles like “Black Is”, “Black People What Y’all Gon’ Do,” and “White Man’s Got A God’s Complex” were considered by many highly controversial, dangerous and volatile towards American sovereignty.
Ironically cognitive dissonance along with culture shock was the groups intended outcome and in many ways they accomplished that. By the time of their 1972 debut album Chastisement the Last Poets had indeed created an even greater seismic rift with their contentious title, Niggers Are Scared of Revolution.
Track listing
1)"True Blues" (Pudim) – 2:00
2)"Related to What Chant" (Nilaja, Pudim, Ben Hassen) – 1:08
3)"Related to What" (Ben Hassen) – 3:09
4)"Black Is Chant" (Nilaja, Pudim, Ben Hassen) – 0:56
5)"Black Is" (Ben Hassen) – 2:29
6)"Time" (Ben Hassen) – 1:39
7)"Mean Machine Chant" (Nilaja, Pudim, Ben Hassen) – 1:22
8)"Mean Machine" (Pudim) – 4:03
9)"White Man's Got a God Complex" (Pudim) – 3:35
10)"Opposites" (Pudim) – 1:43
11)"Black People What Y'all Gon' Do Chant" (Nilaja, Pudim, Ben Hassen) – :46
12)"Black People What Y'all Gon' Do" (Ben Hassen) – 3:20
13)"O.D." (Pudim) – 3:06
14)"This Is Madness Chant" (Nilaja, Pudim, Ben Hassen) – 1:04
15)"This Is Madness" (Ben Hassen) – 4:50
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