Heron was born in Chicago on April 1, 1940. His mother was an English teacher and his estranged father was a Jamaican soccer player. Though many caked Heron “the godfather of rap,” he shied away from the power balance label and made it clear that his musical tastes lie elsewhere.“It’s something that’s aimed at the kids,” he once said. “I have kids, so I listen to it. But I would not say it’s aimed at me. I listen to the jazz station.”Heron, the innovative musician and poet who was best known for his 1970 work “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” and laid the foundation for the musical genre that would become rap passed away Friday at a Manhattan hospital at the age of 62.The exact cause of death is presently unknown, but Heron had been struggling with a serious drug addiction as well other maladies for years, according to RollingStone.comHeron is credited with creating much of the demeanor and language that would make up the work of early rap groups like Public Enemy. His passing was announced message on Friday night in a Twitter by his British publisher, Jamie Byng, and confirmed early Saturday by an American shop online 2011 representative of his record label, XL, according to the New York Times.
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