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10:44 p.m. CDT, May 27, 2011

Public Enemy s Chuck D once said hip-hop was black America's CNN. If so, Gil Scott-Heron was the network s first great anchorman, presaging hip-hop and infusing soul and jazz with poetry, humor and pointed political commentary.

Scott-Heron died Friday at the age of 62, according to his U.K. publisher. The Pitchfork Web site said the report was confirmed by a record-company publicist.

His songs, including The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The Bottle and Johannesburg, were hard-edged yet melodic, influencing subsequent generations of soul and hip-hop artists who revered him as a pioneer, including Common, Erykah Badu, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest and Kanye West.

Scott-Heron was born in 1949 in Chicago and spent most of his childhood in Tennessee and then New York.

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