{"id":33250,"date":"2011-05-28T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=33250"},"modified":"2011-05-30T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:25:07","slug":"gil-scott-heron-dies-at-age-of-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/gil-scott-heron-dies-at-age-of-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Scott-Heron dies at age of 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kdevhUCn7o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Legendary musician Gil Scott-Heron, &#8220;the godfather of rap&#8221; and author of <em>The Revolution Will Not Be Televised<\/em>, died &#8220;around 4pm NY time&#8221;, as reported by Jamie Byng (Gil&#8217;s publisher in the UK, read his article from last year on Gil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/apr\/17\/gil-scott-heron-byng\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>).<br \/>\nContinue reading for other clips of the documentary and interview recorded last year in Hungary.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyswarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Swarm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron, thank you for your music contribution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LeGukR7b1s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kCvpBoVcQFI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYOfaWev4gQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8UBi7ncS_s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpBWtSoWrEA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IwmTqEr4zc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wxz7oIX9Ak\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V5vf0o3lKwI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCncq-6g4Co\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TArRRZp7Vak\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RTm5x9jogO4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gil-scott-heron.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-8Ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}