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Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where the Hatred Is (Pieces of a Man Version)
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Home Is Where the Hatred Is" is taken from the 1971 album “Pieces of a Man”. It is a melodic, somber composition of the narrator’s dangerous and hopeless environment, presumably of
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Kanye West (Ft. Common) – My Way Home
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“My Way Home” is the seventh track on Kanye’s second studio album, Late Registration (2005). It samples “Home is Where the Hatred Is” by Gil Scott-Heron.
This is the only track on
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YBN Cordae & Chance The Rapper’s “Bad Idea” Pays Tribute To A 1971 Gil Scott-Heron Record
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The poet is often called the “Godfather of Rap.”
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Anita Lane – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
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A junkie walking through the twilight / I'm on my way home / I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm gone / Home is where the hatred is / Home is filled with pain and
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Home Is Where the Hatred Is (It's Your World Version)
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “Home Is Where the Hatred Is (It’s Your World Version)” / [Vocals/Written By/Producer: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Producer/Piano/Electric Piano/Vocals
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Esther Phillips – Home Is Where the Hatred Is
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[Verse 1] / A junkie walking through the twilight / I'm on my way home / I left three days ago / But no one seems to know I'm gone / Home is where the hatred is / Home is filled
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Billy Valentine – Home Is Where the Hatred Is
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[Verse 1] / Junkie walking through the twilight / I'm on my way home / I left three days ago / But no one seems to know I'm gone / Home is where the hatred is / Home is filled with
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Lowkey (Ft. Logic (People's Army)) – Home is Where the Heart is
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This song uses a sample of Billy Joel’s song “The Stranger”.
The title also references the Gil Scott-Heron song Home is Where the Hatred is.
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Gil Scott-Heron – On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2)
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question. Who produced “On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt.
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Gil Scott-Heron – Introduction / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Small Talk at 125th and Lenox Version)
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“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is the most famous and influential piece by Gil Scott-Heron. It was first recorded for Small Talk at 125th and Lenox accompanied by
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Gil Scott-Heron – I'm New Here
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I did not become someone different / That I did not want to be / But I'm new here / Will you show me around? / No matter how far wrong you've gone / You can always turn around
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Gil Scott-Heron – I've Been Me (Interlude)
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Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 14. I've Been Me (Interlude). 15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2).
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Gil Scott-Heron – Being Blessed (Interlude)
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) · Home Is Where the ...
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Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
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Yeah, the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming 'round, they don't know that New York is killing me / Yeah, well, I need to go home and take it
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Prisoner
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / Here I am, after so many years / Hounded by hatred and trapped by fear / I'm in a box. I've got no place to go / If I follow my mind, I know I'll
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Kanye West – Who Will Survive In America
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The final song of My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy, “Who Will Survive in America” is an abridged version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Comment #1” that paints a bleak outlook for Kanye’s
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Gil Scott-Heron – Running
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) · Home Is Where the ...
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Sharing
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “Sharing” / [Lyrics By: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Music By/Piano/Electric Piano: Brian Jackson] / [Vocals: Victor Brown] / [Co-Producer: Tom Wilson] / [
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Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil
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This song is a combination of Robert Johnson’s ‘Me and the Devil Blues’ and a poem GSH wrote from the book ‘The Vulture’. In 1970 when the book was released he also recorded the
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Crutch
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Feb 8, 2010 ... Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question. Who produced “The ...
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Gil Scott-Heron – Where Did The Night Go
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) · Home Is Where the ...
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Gil Scott-Heron – My Cloud
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And when the morning comes / If there's been no rest for you / We've been friends long enough / You should know what to do / If that's how you started your day / Why keep running
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Gil Scott-Heron – On Coming From a Broken Home (Pt. 1)
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question. Who produced “On Coming From a Broken Home (Pt.
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Gil Scott-Heron – Your Soul and Mine
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Standing in the ruins of another black man's life / Or flying through the valley separating day and night / "I am death!" cried the vulture. "For the people of the light." / Charon
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Gil Scott-Heron – I'll Take Care Of You
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Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) · Home Is Where the ...
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Gil Scott-Heron – Or Down You Fall
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / I sail on in my paper ship / The sea is made of fire / I ride my horse of nuts and bolts / We’re made to never tire / The world is just a simple circle
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is a rhythmic jam that served as an unapologetic wake-up call to anyone, especially African Americans, who thought they could gain their
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – It's Your World
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / The ground beneath my feet / I know was made for me / There is no any one place where I belong / My spirit’s meant to be free / And soon now everyone
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Must Be Something (It's Your World Version)
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[Intro: Gil Scott-Heron] / Don’t it make you feel like doing something? Go on, do that too. Run that one more time. Yeah, yeah, that’s my man there. Seem like we ought to be
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Jamie xx (Ft. Gil Scott-Heron) – Running
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Because I always feel like running / Not away, / Because there is no such place / Because if there was, / I would have found it by now / Because it's easier to run, / Easier than
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Bicentennial Blues
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “Bicentennial Blues” / [Vocals/Written By: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Intro: Gil Scott-Heron] / We have assigned ourselves the task of defining certain
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Gil Scott-Heron – Lady Day and John Coltrane
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From Gil Scott Herons debut album Pieces of a Man (1971) on Flying Dutchman Records
“Lady Day and John Coltrane” was written by Scott-Heron as an homage to influential jazz
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M.anifest – Kilimanjaro
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M dɔdɔdɔ ti dɔ / [Verse 1] / I shook hands with my future self / I’m your future self let me introduce you to your future wealth / A toast is in order like crossing Arizona’s
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Gil Scott-Heron – Save the Children
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon / Or you're watching your children playing after school / They seem to be so unaware of... I
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Lupe Fiasco – R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron
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Gil Scott-Heron was a spoken word poet, soul and jazz musician and author. Highly influential on many genres of black music from Hip Hop to neo-soul he is sometimes considered one
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Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
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In order to make sense of what Gil Scott-Heron means by “pieces of a man”, we should briefly address some of the historical racial and socioeconomic dimensions of the metaphor.
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Gil Scott-Heron – A Sign of the Ages
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / It's a sign of the ages, markings on my mind / Man at the crossroads at odds with an angry sky / There can be no salvation, there can be no rest
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