Hustlers Convention is one of the little-known pieces in the puzzle that deserves to be heard.” Stic.man & Last Poets’ Umar Bin Hassan Bring Rap Back To Its Roots (Audio)įab 5 Freddy described Rap “as a long, broad road with a wide group of contributors, going back generations. I could hear the influence in their raps.” Hip street guys like Melle Mel would know about it. He told the publication: “I memorized it and would recite it to friends on my block, then someone told me it was based on a record. In an interview with The Guardian, Fab 5 Freddy recalled how seminal the Hustlers Convention record was for him. Since its release, it has been sampled, referenced, and influential on artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Kendrick Lamar. Released in 1973, the record’s instrumentals were backed by Kool & The Gang ( according to Rolling Stone), and featured Nuriddin delivering a rhythmic, monotonic vocal style called “jail toasting.” The record was a major influence on artists in the Black community who saw the technique as a potential way of making music that depicted the real-life experiences of youth in New York City. The album blended, Funk, Jazz, poetry, and toasting, and told the harsh tale of two hustlers named “Sport” and “Spoon,” and their untimely fate. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin’s most notable contribution is his spoken word album, Hustlers Convention, released under the pseudonym Lightnin’ Rod.
Nas, Wu-Tang, & Beastie Boys All Sampled It, So Why Has This LP Been Forgotten? (Album Stream)
The Last Poets are named after poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, the father of Earl Sweatshirt who passed away earlier this year, who was convinced he was part of the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The group was started by Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson in 1968, but eventually broke off into different iterations and subgroups, sometimes led by Umar Bin Hassan, other times with Jalal Mansur Nuriddin. The Last Poets are a collective of poets, artists and musicians from Harlem’s Writers Workshop who blossomed out of the late 1960s Civil Rights movement, contributing countless social and political pieces concerning Black nationalism.
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