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The Watts Prophets citypaper.net
The Watts Prophets: Father Amde Hamilton, Otis O'Solomon and Richard
Anthony Dedeaux formed out of the Watts Writers Workshop, a cultural
laboratory for black ideology created as a positive gesture in
reaction to the 1965 Watts riots. The group's combination of performance
poetry with percussive rhythms and improvisational jazz is credited
as a forerunner of hip-hop music and has been sampled by rap artists
such as Digable Planets, Coolio and Ice Cube.
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