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    • Gil Scott-Heron - LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Gil Scott Heron's family accept his award at the 54th Annual Grammy Special Merit Awards at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
    • Gil Scott-Heron - LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Members of Gil Scott Heron's family accept Honoree Gil Scott-Heron's Lifetime Achievement award during The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Special Merit Awards Ceremony And Nominee Reception at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
    • Gil Scott-Heron - LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 11: Honoree Gil Scott Heron's family and President/CEO Recording Academy Neil Portnow presents Lifetime Achievement Award during The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Special Merit Awards Ceremony And Nominee Reception at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
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    Without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, Gil Scott-Heron has been called a Vietnam-era Langston Hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and - offensively but not inaccurately - the black Bob Dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither black-power phonies or scheming presidents. In 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky, ...more
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