Icon In Hip-Hop World Faces Jail Time
BV News Staff
Musician, social activist and poet Gil Scott Heron, 56, received a to two to four year sentence in Queens Supreme Court for violating a plea deal related to previous drug charges.
According to the New York Post, N.Y. state prosecutors are charging Heron with leaving the center where he was receiving drug treatment. On one occasion he left for an appearance with soul singer Alicia Keys.
The title of Scott-Heron's most popular song poem 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' is widely repeated in pop-cultural circles around the world today but when he debuted in the 1970s his work was mostly acclaimed by progressive and avant-garde activist and artists. He is also known for other 1970's hits like the anti-apartheid 'Johannesburg,' and 'The Bottle.'
Heron, who is HIV-positive, argued that he left the center because there were inadequate supplies of medical treatments crucial for his health condition.
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