Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson "H2Ogate Blues''

[@tonimcclain1180]

This is still iconic, and yes I'm 70 years old and love me some Gil Scott Heron ❤️🆗🙏

[@dennisbattle9406]

I'm 68 and saw him every time he was in Los Angeles at the Roxy!!

[@theronbeamon6405]

H2O water gate blue's 🎹 🎷🎸 🌏 🎺🎻🪘

[@jeanniehughes1761]

I’m still listening to Gil my son is 35 and my daughter is 48 with a PHD and I played & explain Gil Scott music and today my son & daughter were in a deep conversation about how others are so behind and they thank me for introducing them the real history of the 60’70’ I’m proud to be able to teach my nieces and nephews about our true heroes it sad because this generations of youths don’t have Musicians spreading knowledge well they introduce me to a lot of great rappers My favorite Tu pac, Wu tang & ice cube and many more Bay Area rapper Richie Rich E 40 Mac Dre and the Group that sang 5 on it there many more but it shows from music come knowledges if it’s positive and I’m 71 thanks for this tape youth today don’t know about the war Viet Nam or Anew or even Regan it a shame because US isn’t great anymore it like 41 hitler times

[@gregoryyancey6081]

Still very relevant today.

[@PaulReed-lj2ym]

You got that right.

[@petalthecryptid6109]

Could we just take a moment to appreciate the bassist?

[@DavidDavidson-tristar500]

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

[@richardmbowman]

Gil......one of America's greatest poets....living or dead

[@contextmatters8243]

Youngers think Hip-hop and Rap was some new But Here's one of the many ancestors... The late, great Gil-Scott Heron

[@aThompsonTrainer]

Yesterday all over again "We beg your pardon America"

[@jenniedavenport5381]

NEEDS TO BE HEARD AGAIN

[@jonathanharraway8639]

Young brothers and sisters need to know about the last poets

[@theronbeamon6405]

H2O water gate blue's 🎹 🎷🎸🎺🎻🪘🗿🎧 🎶 🎼🎵

[@j.brianmccormick2641]

Saw Gil standing in front of the post office in Virginia. Happy to say I thanked him for his work. True giant in music and literature and the spoken word🎶💔

[@CopperAboriginies]

I have this Lp., most of ya'll weren't born when this was recorded. This is real rap.

[@tonimcclain1180]

Me toooo 🆗⁉️this is when Black Voices really meant somethin' to Our Community, an' I still listen to Our Ppl who were talkin' THEN CUZ' it's just as RELEVANT TODAY, if not more👍🙏

[@paulawhannell18]

No argument here . No argument here.

[@michellesmith5593]

First time I heard of Gill was on 29th Dec. 2021 on the radio coming back from Cornwall. Love Whitey on the Moon, always thought the same myself. Loads of money spent on going to space and now Mars ect, while people struggling and dying etc, seems just crazy.

[@majorkong2000]

Amazingly briliant in the day, but even more so today!

[@WELLBRAN]

And this is STILL bang up to date...just different actors in this horror show

[@ChickenChowMein77]

my mom would play this every friday night when i was growing up.

[@jonathanharraway8639]

God always look after you brother Gil rest in peace

[@justinchetham-strode5234]

I'm 66, and I discovered Gil Scott-Heron when I was about 19, and have loved him ever since. I've often wondered what he might have said about Trump !

[@abigailpoppins6183]

6 colors. 3,000 shades. 500 shades of the blues. I aint got me no money blue. I aint got no woman blue. U.S. energy crisis blues. #SPEARHEADX

[@mizpahboy7513]

From "Watergate to Mueller" ( A deeper, darker shade of the blues ) Just how blind America?

[@deanrao7554]

I'm of Gil Scott-Heron's generation but only recently came across his work. After hearing some of his brilliant pieces I wondered why I'd never heard of him or his spot-on analyses of events back in the day. But I guess we know why...

[@jnagarya519]

You're wrong with your paranoid "why": his "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "The Bottle" were all over mainstream radio during their times.

[@basjansen1864]

@@jnagarya519 Yeah and he is not only talking about the 2 most famous ones, you do.

[@gmcfarland4341]

I too was of Gil Scott-Heron's generation, and I knew of him from my teen age years. I still all of albums from back in the day. I have always believed he was one of our original rappers with a true message.

[@floydskinner5945]

WOW ITS LIKE HE TALKN BOUT AMERICA 2DAY

[@maxthesax2807]

It only gets worse and worse.......

[@BranMarPercussion]

"I'm sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative...click...inoperative..." "Very surprising that we all could see the plot and claimed that we could not..." "Just as Vietnam exploded in the rice snap, crackle and pop could not stop people determined to be free just how blind will America be?" "Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean it follows a pattern if you dig what I mean... Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean it follows a pattern if you dig what I mean" "And if this is so and who we got didn't win let's do the whole goddamn election over again"

[@basednigel]

inoperative - in OPERATIVE

[@sadomaz0]

Damn, how did he remember all this

[@owussubrother515]

We need Gill Scott to speak on this to day trumparump gate

[@larrychamberlain8155]

Owussu Brother AS RICHARD PRYOR ASKED,,,HOW LONG WILL THIS BULLSHIT GO ON????

[@keithholland5965]

I wish he was still alive so he could go in on Trump just like he did Nixon and Reagan.

[@richardmbowman]

One of America's greatest poets.....living or dead.

[@gregorycummings8827]

Same today as then

[@GranvilleGarner-pd4nz]

Just brilliant

[@bsshh]

Powerful!! Powerful!! Now Reality!

[@jonathanharraway8639]

Time is right up on us brother's and sister's The Awakening is here

[@richardmbowman]

If Nixxon knew....then Agnew

[@ashleywhatley8238]

Actually, the album was released in 73.

[@siaalpha]

Wow...Not Much has changed..just replace them with Trump and Bannon

[@larrychamberlain8155]

Eric Henderson.... WORD

[@larrychamberlain8155]

Eric Henderson .....THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME ✌✌✌✌✌✌✌

[@redchina3373]

Only the names have changed

[@richardmbowman]

2 fiends....Nixxon & J Edgar Hoover

[@jnagarya519]

Call out Route-o-Rooter To investigate Mr. Hoover To find out why he's got to be The man investigating me.

[@stan4now]

Gil Scott-Heron was a prophet and still is. Look at the damn thing now."Trump's ignorance is exceeded only by those who voted for him."

[@mariahyman2025]

Rap artist can learn to use their art of words to educate and elevate instead of spreading death to young minds.

[@maggierae9918]

Yes they could and I wish that they would.

[@michaelcarter5024]

You are most correct!

[@maggierae9918]

@Alexandra Are you comparing "To Pimp a Butterfly" to "H20gate Blues"?

[@jnagarya519]

The over-focus on over-rhyming is illiterate. The rest of the line ends up being unfocused and trite.

[@basjansen1864]

@@jnagarya519 "illiterate", now really? Better "rset" yourself, presumptious pretender.

[@BeastNationXIV]

2:09 - Sorry to bother you 2:15 - "GOT EEM"

[@richardmbowman]

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon & (FBI Director) J Edgar Hoover

[@dotspink5136]

Its not just USA

[@maggierae9918]

It may not be just USA but we are more concerned about what is happening in our country because we are the ones that are effected and affected by what is going on here and not in some other country. Let's focus on ourselves and not people living in other countries.

[@YTHatesMe-999]

The 2024 MAGA Blues. Four more years of that? Gotta be kidding me.

[@jonathanharraway8639]

Trump's mind is on vacation and his mouth is working overtime

[@richardmbowman]

Classic shit...this.

[@cron0113]

some, especially in this era, may say "timeless"

[@felixpeters2394]

The GOP Trump 2020 Presidential Election Blues

[@dr.gildabribieseca4984]

Same Game different peoples' Names. Nothing has change he speaks for the day. The Quran says speak not of those who have worked for Allah (God) as dead. No they are living! The only difference is name and the numbers in the year. Oh and here is how it will go. "No Reparations (Tangible) No vote1" dedicated to Gil Scott Heron ! Boycott 2020.

[@jonathanharraway8639]

Never forget brother Frank Willis he was a security guy doing his job

[@jonathanharraway8639]

Frank Willis was just a security job doing his job

[@jnagarya519]

To boycott 2020 is to boycott stopping Trump. Those who will not participate in the democratic process are enemies of that process. All it does otherwise is perpetuate one's sense of helplessness. But, that gives one an excuse to continue to complain as excuse not to act. VOTE BLUE 2020.

[@jnagarya519]

@@jonathanharraway8639 And I don't recall him ever NEEDING a pardon.

[@jnagarya519]

@@jonathanharraway8639 And I don't recall that he was ever arrest or charged with anything, therefore NEEDING a pardon.