Last Friday the world and more specifically the black community suffered a great loss when poet, musician, and author Gil Scott- Heron passed away at the age of 62. Lupe pays tribute to Gil and Gil's most famous piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", with "The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized".
Check out the powerful piece below:
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized
Idiot boxes of the world unite! To fight off the effects of intelligence, replace smart quotes with fart jokes, substitute sense with scenes from Martin, let the baby's bathe in that glow and learn all manner of things they don't really need to know!
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
Channel the content of some rambling nonsense deep into the annals of yo' subconscious, deprogram and depress chasing some televised success, be them, that, they and those be everything but in control,