The Last Poets – The Last Poets

Can't say I've ever heard anything quite like this album before, it's graphic, explicit, visceral, groundbreaking, influential, and ahead of its time. My copy has seen better days, it's got quite a few skips, making for a difficult listen.

Very underrated, this was one of David Bowie's favorite albums of all time, hear the genesis of rap and hip-hop, this level of offensively overt controversial lyrics has never been as prominent as on this album, even whilst being a prototype for what to come it was already more confrontational than most rap of the 90s and even today, "nigger" must have been said a total of a thousand times on here.

I have a version that is non gatefold and has the lyrics as a xeroxed insert. Any ideas when this is from?

Incorrectly credits "Produced by Bill Laswell for Material/OAO" on label.

I have this but the background color is purple instead of blue. Any ideas?

The seminal debut album (originally released in 1970 on the Douglas label) reached the United States top 10 album charts...
If rap music could be traced to one source point, this exceptional album would be it, without a question... featuring the classic "When The Revolution Comes"
The Last Poets stands as the true originator of hip-hop emceeing. With withering attacks on everything from racists to the American government even the bourgeoisie,
their spoken-word albums preceded politically laced projects such as Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and foreshadowed the work of hard-hitting hip-hop groups such as Public Enemy.
This record is an important moment in black American cultural history.