This Is Madness

by The Last Poets

This Is Madness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1971
  • Label: Douglas
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:41
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Tom Antona, Sissi Schulmeister, Richard Marshall, Michael Jung, Alice Donut, Stephen Moses

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The incendiary sophomore album by the pioneering spoken-word collective escalated their militant, Black nationalist rhetoric over sparse, thunderous conga rhythms. Addressing the systemic racism of America and the internal struggles of the Black liberation movement, the intensely rhythmic poetry directly prophesied the cadences and themes of hip-hop. The album's uncompromising political stance famously earned the group a spot on Richard Nixon's counter-intelligence hit list.

Genres

Descriptors: Conscious, political, protest, rhythmic, conscious, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. True Blues (2:05)
  2. Related to What Chant (1:08)
  3. Related to What (3:15)
  4. Black Is Chant (0:57)
  5. Black Is (2:31)
  6. Time (1:39)
  7. Mean Machine Chant (1:22)
  8. Mean Machine (4:02)
  9. White Man's Got a God Complex (3:42)
  10. Opposites (1:44)
  11. Black People What Y'All Gon' Do Chant (0:45)
  12. Black People What Y'All Gon' Do (3:22)
  13. O.D. (3:06)
  14. This Is Madness Chant (1:04)
  15. This Is Madness (4:51)

Credits

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