LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The West Coast's answer to The Last Poets, The Watts Prophets played an integral part in the raising of black consciousness and laying the foundations for rap. Formed at the Watts Writer's Workshop, Anthony "Amde" Hamilton, Otis O'Solomon, and Richard Dedeaux began performing together as Watts Prophets, setting their socially and politically conscious poetry to spare, often jazzy musical backing. They made high-profile guest appearances on Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key of Life and Quincy Jones' Mellow Madness. And were later the subject of an Emmy-nominated documentary, Victory Will Be My Moan.In 1969, the group debuted with The Black Voices: On the Streets in Watts and, two years later, followed with Rappin' Black in a White World, which featured accompaniment by ex-Motown songwriter/pianist DeeDee McNeil. The radical, incendiary tone of their work fit right in with the emerging black power movement and attracted unfavorable notice from the government, with the home of the Watts Writers Project being destroyed by fire in 1975 after having been infiltrated by an FBI informant. Throughout the years, they've remained sporadically active as performers, and were rediscovered by the hip-hop generation as their records were sampled frequently by many hip-hop artists including Ice Cube, Digable Planets, and Coolio. The Watts Prophets remain dedicated community activists today, promoting creative self-expression and the arts to young people around Southern California and beyond. Two bonus tracks. Deluxe Arigato Pak!
Tracks: 1. Sell Your Soul 2. Take It 3. Instruction 4. Amerikkka 5. Dem Niggers Ain't Playing 6. Pain7. What Is A Man 8. A Pimp 9. Tenements 10. The Master 11. Hello Niggers 12. There's A Difference Between A Black Man And A Nigger 13. What It Is, Sisters 14. Everybody Watches 15. Watch Out Black Folks 16. The Prostitute 17. Fucked 18. Celebration 19. What Color Is Black 20. Black In A White WorldThe Black Voices: On The Street In Watts:21. Listen 22. Part-E, S 23. Black Pussy 24. Kill 25. Funny How Things Can Change 26. Falstaff 27. Pimping, Leaning, and Feaning 28. Keeping You Doing Things 29. The Meek Ain't Gonna 30. The Days, The Hours 31. Taste 32. We Must Love Black People 33. I'll Stop Calling You Niggers 34. Saint America 35. They Shot Him 36. Nearer My God To Thee 37. Clowns All Around 38. Response To A Bourgeois Nigger 39. Things Gonna Get Greater Later 40. Trees And Del Prodo's 41. Pledge Of Allegiance?