The Last Poets movement was a collection of musicians and poets whose work is said to have been the roots of early rap and hip hop. On Jimi's later work, Douglas once said: "Jimi was being pigeonholed into the rock thing. I got a lot of heat for showing people this different side of Jimi but it didn't matter. It was what he wanted to do. So, together we tried out all kinds of things - but, tragically, he died before we could do anything super special." more on this story

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