Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here | CD review

(XL)In his 1970s heyday, the poet-musician dubbed The Godfather of rap would rail about substance abuse on The ­Bottle and Angel Dust. However, for most of the last decade, his life has mirrored those songs: arrests, imprisonment and drug-dependency programmes. His first album in 16 years offers a way back from the wilderness. XL's Richard Russell – who signed the artist as he languished in Rikers Island jail – frames Scott-­Heron's ravaged ruminations on "broken homes" and t...

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