When the talents of Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx clash together, you know you’re in for some high-end quality music. Guardian now provides the full stream of their collaborative project We’re New Here ...

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician who was a primary influence for generations of hip-hop artists, died on May 27 at the age of 62. Scott-Heron has been called "the Godfather of Hip Hop music," ...

In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron became one of the godfathers of hip-hop with the release of his debut album, Small Talk at 125th & Lenox. His playful wit and incisive rhetoric developed more fully on later ...

Today, XL announces that they will release a posthumous Gil Scott-Heron album called Nothing New on April 19 for Record Store Day, limited to 3,000 12″ vinyls. Read about the album’s origins below, ...

Perhaps most famous for his composition “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” ’70s and ’80s spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron has had a wide-reaching influence on hip-hop. Now that influence is ...

Musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron, whose biting and lyrical fusion of verse and rhythm made him a formidable forefather of rap and hip-hop, died Friday in New York. He was 62. Scott-Heron had become ...

Gil Scott-Heron wrote „Angola, Louisiana“ in 1978 about a Black teenager on death row for a crime he probably didn’t commit.