Questions tagged [the-last-poets]
Questions about the spoken-word performers collectively known as "The Last Poets". The group or groups arose from the African-American civil rights movement's black nationalist movement in the USA in the 1960s.
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What does "Rebirth of Slick" mean when it quotes "On the Subway"?
Digable Planets' Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like That) ("Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)," 1993, track 06, released as a single in 1992) (genius.com link) quotes the "blink blink" passages ...
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What's all the blinking about?
On the Subway ("The Last Poets," 1970, track 02) (genius.com link) concludes with shouting the word "blink" a lot, and I'm not sure what it means.
On the surface level, I figure it might be ...
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