BBC interview with Gil Scott Heron
Gil Scott Heron, with his early 70′s proto-rap and spoken-word series of songs highlighting inner-city life, has been labelled by some as ‘the godfather of rap’. His music over the next two decades, a fusion of jazz, soul and blues, inspired various genres and artists. He also published acknowledged classic urban texts including The Vulture and The Nigger Factory. In the early part of the noughties Heron spent time in jail on drug-related charges but 2010 sees a new album, ‘I’m New Here’, his first in well over a decade. But don’t tell him that it’s good to have him back – in his eyes he’s never been away, as he tells the BBC’s Mark Coles.
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