Chastisment

by The Last Poets

Chastisment cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Blue Thumb
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:02
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Obabi, Omonide, Sam Harkness, Olubiji, Okantomi, Omiyinka, Bessermer Taylor, Alafia Pudim, Stefan Bright, Jon Hart, Monjile

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Integrating fiery spoken word performance with complex Afro-Jazz percussion, 'Chastisment' presents an uncompromising critique of systemic racial injustice. The rhythmic backing is dense and polyrhythmic, providing a turbulent foundation for the confrontational, culturally urgent lyrical delivery. This seminal recording profoundly laid the foundational blueprint for conscious hip-hop and politically charged spoken word.

Genres

Descriptors: spoken-word, political, protest, percussive, conscious

Tracklist

  1. Tribute To Obabi (Ogun) (10:16)
  2. Jazzoetry (3:46)
  3. Black Soldier (5:56)
  4. E Pluribus Unum (4:38)
  5. Hands Off (4:05)
  6. The Lone Ranger (0:28)
  7. Before The White Man Came (3:43)
  8. Bird's Word (6:10)

Credits

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