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Gil Scott-Heron, ‘godfather of rap’ who lives on despite years lost to drug addiction - Face2Face Africa

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Although Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949 to mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, an opera singer and father, Gil Heron, it was his maternal grandmother, Miss Lily, in Tennessee who raised him and imbibed in him his ‘wokeness’ which reflected his life’s work for which he was hailed as well as castigated. Scott-Heron’s father was...

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