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The Last Poets
photo credit: Philip Greenberg

Active

1960s - 2010s

Formed

May 16, 1969 in New York City, NY

Genre

Jazz

Styles

Poetry Political Rap Spoken Word

Group Members

Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin Suliaman el Hadi Abiodun Oyewole Nilaja Omar Ben Hassen Umar Bin Hassan
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The Last Poets

Biography by Jason Ankeny

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Coming out of Harlem in the late '60s, their fiery, revolutionary spoken word routines directly paved the way for rap.
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