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Whitey On The MoonPossibly the biggest 1969 hit for The Last Poets, covered by Gil Scott Heron in 1972. Combining jazz and funk, llustrative of prision-style recreational poetry and significant to the development of rap music and hip hop. A cultural commentary depicting socio-economic and racial inequity of the late 1960s in the US inspired by the Moon Landing of 1969. ... Taxes takin' my whole damn check, Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, As if all that shit wasn't enough A rat done bit my sister Nell (and Whitey's on the moon) Her face an' arm began to swell. (but Whitey's on the moon) Was all that money I made last year (for Whitey on the moon?) How come there ain't no money here? (Whitey's on the moon!)...
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