Lightnin' Rod
Hustlers Convention (1974)
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Length:  31:35
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Sport    2:35
      2.  
      		 Spoon    1:13
      3.  
      		 The Cafe Black Rose    1:47
      4.  
      		 Brother Hominy Grit    2:42
      5.  
      		 Coppin' Some Fronts for the Set    2:23
      6.  
      		 Hamhock's Hall Was Big    4:09
      7.  
      		 The Bones Fly From Spoon's Hand    2:59
      8.  
      		 The Break Was So Loud, It Hushed the Crowd    3:11
      9.  
      		 Four Bitches Is What I Got    3:44
      10.  
      		 Grit's Den    1:34
      11.  
      		 The Shit Hits the Fan Again    3:35
      12.  
      		 Sentenced to the Chair    1:38
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      Features mostly Kool & The Gang on the music, but also King Curtis, Cornell Dupree, Chuck Rainey, Johnny Pacheco and a whole bunch of people!


      Fantastic stuff -- incredibly hard and incredibly funky, and a masterpiece all the way through! Long before there was any talk of gangster rap, Jalal of the Last Poets recorded this album of gamblin', pimpin', and hard double dealin'. It's a fantastic album-long ride through the dark side of the black underworld, and is the aural equivalent of a blacksploitation flick. Kool & The Gang provided the music -- and Jalal tells the whole story throughout, in the same hard rappin' style he used with the Last Poets! The record's an undisputed classic, and includes the sample classic "Sport", plus loads of other righteous funky cuts!
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