This Is Madness

RELEASE
1971
LABEL
Metrotone
GENRES
Jazz, Spoken Word, Poetry, Political Rap

Album Review

A legendary set featuring a group of extremely controversial street poets. The Last Poets used offensive language brilliantly, talked in graphic detail about America's social and racial failures, and helped expose a wider audience to the sentiments of the '70s black nationalists. They were the forerunners of today's Afrocentric rappers, and also showed the way to a jazz/rap union now being explored on both sides of the Atlantic. This has been reissued on CD.
– Ron Wynn, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. True Blueshttp://itunes.apple.com/album/true-blues/id49925953?i=49925671&uo=5
  2. Related to What Chanthttp://itunes.apple.com/album/related-to-what-chant/id49925953?i=49925675&uo=5
  3. Related to Whathttp://itunes.apple.com/album/related-to-what/id49925953?i=49925678&uo=5
  4. Black Is Chanthttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  5. Black Ishttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  6. Timehttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  7. Mean Machine Chanthttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  8. Mean Machinehttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  9. White Man's Got a God Complexhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  10. Oppositeshttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  11. Black People What Y'all Gon' Do Chanthttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  12. Black People What Y'all Gon' Dohttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  13. O.D.http://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  14. This Is Madness Chanthttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
  15. This Is Madnesshttp://itunes.apple.com/album/this-is-madness/id454541653?uo=5
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