William Flew popmusic

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...


Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew popmusic



With his mix of subversion and sophistication Gil Scott-Heron made a huge impact on the pop world and many rap and hip-hop artists cited him as an influence
But many of the theme songs to the black struggle against racism and poverty in America during the 1970s were written and delivered by ScottHeron, in a kind of jive poetry that paved the way for future generations of rap and hip-hop artists and led to him being dubbed “the black Bob Dylan”.
His music fused jazz, blues and soul with spoken word jeremiads in uncompromising fashion. Tall, nonchalant and above all, angry, he brought a sharp, literate, intelligence to songs about the superficiality of American consumerism, mass media brainwashing, white hypocrisy, the plight of the ghettos, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, racism and homophobia.
At a time when most American protest was directed at the Vietnam war, Scott-Heron’s songs preached that there was another conflict going on closer to home on America’s streets.