Gil Scott-Heron: Spoken Word? Jazz? Or, the first rapper?

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly #LangstonHughes

My people speaks My people speak of gutters Yawning besides torn asphalt And the hungry feet of concrete eyed kids. My people speak of puddles, Of frogs and mosquitoes holding concertos And scoffed knock

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes came to fame back in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and much of his poetry focused on the struggles of African American. I