— unpredictable thoughts

Always have loved the work. Glad to see that he has been able to pro­duce some­thing new. Just get­ting acquainted with his new album.

More about his life and career.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron

Album web­site.
http://gilscottheron.net

from his website :

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an Amer­i­can poet, musi­cian, and author known pri­mar­ily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spo­ken word soul per­former and his col­lab­o­ra­tive work with musi­cian Brian Jack­son. His col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts with Jack­son fea­tured a musi­cal fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyri­cal con­tent con­cern­ing social and polit­i­cal issues of the time, deliv­ered in both rap­ping and melis­matic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Win­ter in Amer­ica in the early 1970s, influ­enced and helped engen­der later African-American music gen­res such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron’s record­ing work is often asso­ci­ated with black mil­i­tant activism and has received much crit­i­cal acclaim for one of his most well-known com­po­si­tions “The Rev­o­lu­tion Will Not Be Tele­vised”. On his influ­ence, All­mu­sic wrote “Scott-Heron’s unique proto-rap style influ­enced a gen­er­a­tion of hip-hop artists”.