Last Poets were rappers of the civil rights era. Along with the changing domestic landscape came the New York City-hip group called The Last Poets, who used obstreperous verse to chide a nation whose inclination was to maintain the colonial yoke around the neck of the disenfranchised.
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Main albums:
Singles
Jalal solo and collaborations :
Compilations :
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Main albums:
- 1970 - 'The Last Poets' (Douglas)
- 1970 - 'Right On!' /alternate
- 1971 - 'This Is Madness' (Douglas) /alternate
- 1972 - 'Chastisement' (Douglas) /alternate
- 1974 - 'At Last' (Blue Thumb) / alternate
- 1975 - 'Delights of the Garden' (Celluloid) /alternate
- 1975 - 'Jazzoetry' (Celluloid) / alternate
- 1985 - 'Oh! My People' (Celluloid) / alternate
- 1989 - 'Freedom Express' (Celluloid)
- 1992 - 'Retrofit' (Celluloid) - remixes of earlier material and new production tracks by Clive Smith, Choco and John T. Mazzaro
- 1995 - 'Holy Terror' (Rykodisc) /alternate
- 1994 - 'Scatterrap' / 'Home'
- 1997 - 'Time Has Come' (Mouth Almighty/Mercury)
Singles
- 2004 - "Panthers" - 12" : Last Poets, Common, Dead Prez - re-edit of "Panther" from "Time Has Come"
Jalal solo and collaborations :
- 1969 - single : "Doreilla Du Fontaine" - Lightnin' Rod (Jalal), Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles / alternate
- 1984 - 'Mean Machine' (rap version) with Grandmixer D.ST
- 1973 - 'Hustlers Convention' - Jalal Nuriddin as 'Lightnin' Rod' (Douglas)
- 1993 - 'Mankind' (E.P.) - Jalal
- 1996 - 'On The One' - Jalal ft. Tariq 'Babyman' Nuriddin - contributed by Mona / alternate
- 1997 - 'The Fruits Of Rap' - Jalal
- 2004 - 'Science Friction' - Jalal ft. Bernard Alexander
- Umar Bin Hassan solo and collaborations :
- 1993 - 'Be Bop Or Be Dead' - Umar Bin Hassan w/Abiodun Oyewole, (Axiom/Island) / alternate
- 1994 - '25 Years' - Abiodun Oyewole w/ Umar Bin Hassan (Rykodisc)
- 1995 - 'Life Is Good' - Umar Bin Hassan
- 1995 - 'VA - Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool' - features 'This Is Madness' by Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodun Oyewole and Pharaoh Sanders
- 1995 - 'Funkcronomicon' - Axiom Funk - includes 'Sacred to the pain' by Umar Bin Hassan
- 1996 - 'To The Last' - Umar Bin Hassan (2001 Laswell edit)
- 2005 - 'Keeping it Real' - Leon Mobley & Umar Bin Hassan
- 1971 - 'Blue Guerrilla' - donated by ksn
Compilations :
- 1992 - "Retro Fit" (remixes)
- 2005 - "When The Revolution Comes"
- 2006 - "On The Subway"
Contributions by : Fresh Sly, ksn, Mona, Juronjux, thecorrector