The Last Poets live in concert.
ON TOUR

The Last Poets

7
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

73
%
Based on 
7
critic concert
reviews
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Critic Consensus

Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Last Poets is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. The Last Poets concert reviews describe live shows and performances as energized and psychedelic.

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Latest Release

The Last Poets [Explicit] (27 October 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
East Harlem, United States (1968 - present)
Bio
The Last Poets are a spoken word/poetry group which formed in 1968 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States. The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread.
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Critic Concert Reviews

Leftlion (UK)

April 2, 2019
%
Silent listening mixed with reverence. A collective performance between audience and performers; The Last Poets enchanted the crowd at Peggy's Skylight recently...

The Arts Desk (UK)

May 16, 2018
80
%
They have a vital direct lineage back to the 1960s, the original Black Panthers and Malcolm X

The Guardian (UK)

August 21, 2017
80
%
The ever-shifting collective vindicate their status as rap royalty with a stripped-back show that fuses knockabout humour with scorching rallying cries

Express (UK)

November 30, 2016
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Formed in 1968 and energised by the spirit of the Civil Rights movement, core trio Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole rapped and sang about the race, slavery, the government, sexuality, alcohol, drugs, money and love, typically mixing extreme and often psychedelic imagery with hard, se

Exclaim (Canada)

September 1, 2005
%
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

Louder Than War (UK)

March 28, 2019
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The Last Poets Live In Concert In the UK

Louder Than War (UK)

July 27, 2015
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Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK

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