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- Artist: The Last Poets
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- Release Date: October 10, 2006
- Type: Compilation (best of), Contains explicit content
- Genre: Spoken Word
Review
This Charly anthology of the seminal Last Poets packages tracks from their Douglas albums recorded between 1970 and 1972 -- Last Poets and This Is Madness. There are also cuts taken from Jazzoetry and Delights from the Garden. The real treasures aside from the militant soulful rap done to a polyrhythmic beat, deep jazzed-out post-bop, and the blues are the cuts taken from a 1984 12" that was issued on Celluloid and featured Jalal Nuriddin (dubbed "Lightnin' Rod") from a vintage session he did with his guitar player named Jimi Hendrix. Those tracks smoke because Hendrix's gorgeous souled-out chords create aural textures and add rhythm to the words themselves. The sound is terrific and the price is right. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| When the Revolution Comes | The Last Poets | (2:27) | |
| Bird's World | The Last Poets | (6:13) | |
| Jones Comin' Down | The Last Poets | (2:48) | |
| Doriella du Fontaine | Lightnin' Rod | Jimi Hendrix, The Last Poets | (8:47) |
| Jazzoetry | The Last Poets | (3:43) | |
| White Man's Got a God Complex | The Last Poets | (3:39) | |
| Related to What | The Last Poets | (3:12) | |
| True Blues | The Last Poets | (2:02) | |
| E Pluribus Unum | The Last Poets | (4:38) | |
| Niggers Are Scared of Revolution | The Last Poets | (5:14) | |
| Ho Chi Minh | The Last Poets | (5:16) | |
| New York, New York | The Last Poets | (3:32) | |
| O.D. | The Last Poets | (3:07) | |
| This Is Madness Chant | The Last Poets | (1:05) | |
| Black Soldier | The Last Poets | (5:56) | |
| Two Little Boys | The Last Poets | (1:48) | |
| Black Is | The Last Poets | (2:31) | |
| Just Because | The Last Poets | (1:30) | |
| Oh, My People | The Last Poets | (7:32) | |
| Sport | Lightnin' Rod | The Last Poets | (2:36) |
