Name Umar Hassan Role Poet | Music group The Last Poets | |
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Albums Be Bop or Be Dead, This Is Madness, The Last Poets, Chastisment Similar People Abiodun Oyewole, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Felipe Luciano, Eddie Hazel, Pharoah Sanders | ||
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Umar Bin Hassan (born in 1948) is an African-American poet associated with The Last Poets. He sold his younger sister's record player to purchase a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the Last Poets. In the mid-1990s, he recorded a solo album titled Be-Bop or be Dead on Bill Laswell's Axiom Records through Island/PolyGram
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In 1994, Bin Hassan appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, appearing on a track titled "This is Madness" alongside Abiodun Oyewole and Pharoah Sanders. The album was named "Album of the Year" by Time magazine.
Bin Hassan appeared on the 2013 Dead Prez album, Information Age (Deluxe Edition).
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