As a pretext, this post was originally penned before we left on vacation and was meant to post last Tuesday. As it turns out, I forgot to schedule it. As you have probably heard by now, GSH passed away a little over a week ago. Talk about crazy timing. Here you go:

Ok, I feel like pretty much everyone know who Gil Scott-Heron is. Also, pretty much everyone knows of Jamie XX (That is NAS in the photo with Gil, btw [not Jamie XX]). But did you know that they actually teamed up on an album? It has been a while now, but I’m still listening. I heard the title track on ISO50, and thought it was pretty cool. But, I didn’t realize that they had put out a whole album until my friend (and new neighbor) Jen clued me in. It is pretty amazing stuff. Here is one of my favorites “Ur Soul and Mine.”

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