Gil Scott-Heron - Gun | Qwest TV

Gil Scott-Heron performing Gun Live 🔔 Subscribe, watch live and join the community of music lovers: / @qwesttv 📺 Watch Qwest TV around the clock on your Smart TV: https://qwest.tv/how-to-watch 💻 Enjoy more than 1,300 full length concerts, premium documentaries and exclusive interviews: https://videos.qwest.tv/ ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Gil Scott-Heron (who passed away in 2011) was a brilliant musician, political activist, social columnist, singer, poet and writer (recognized today as such). With his texts sung, recited and sung-sung, he was also one of the most powerful ambassadors of an art combining literature and music commonly referred to as spoken word whose influence can still be felt today. This musical form with its claiming accents preceded rap in the USA by a decade and is called slam in other countries. Link and direct heritage with this blues are evoked, given that Scott Heron's work stems from an intimate pulsation born in the deep south. He was a master of musically coating it with the best of jazz, soul, and funk, rendering him a typically urban artist and a keen observer of a supposedly modern and progressive society. 🎥 Watch our well-curated playlists Full CONCERTS • CONCERTS | Qwest TV The GREATEST HITS • ALL SONGS | Qwest TV Legendary ARCHIVE GEMS • ARCHIVES | Qwest TV Captivating DOCUMENTARIES • DOCUMENTARIES | Qwest TV Follow Qwest TV Website: https://videos.qwest.tv/ Instagram: / qwest.tv Facebook: / qwesttv Twitter: / qwest_tv LYRICS: Brother man nowadays livin' in the ghetto Where the dangers sure enough real Well when he's out late at night If he's got his head on right I lay you 9 to 5 he's walking with steel Brother man says he's 'fraid of gangsters Messing with people just for fun He said, he don't want to be next He's got a family to protect So just last week he bought himself a gun Everybody got a pistol Everybody got a .45 And the philosophy seem to be At least as near as I can see When other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine This is a violent civilization If civilization's where I am 'Cause every channel that I stop on Got a different kind of cop on Killing them by the million for Uncle Sam But Saturday night just ain't that special Yeah, I got the constitution on the run Yeah, 'cause even though we've got the right To defend our home, to defend our life You got to understand to get it in hand about the guns 'Cause everybody's got a pistol Everybody got a .45 The philosophy seems to be At least as near as I can see When the other folks give up, give up, give up I'll give up, I'll give up, say Saturday night just ain't that special Freedom to be afraid is all you want Yes if you don't want to be next I have a family to protect Nine out of ten, you've got a friend, you've got a gun Everybody got a pistol Everybody got a .45 And the philosophy seems to be At least as near as I can see When the other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine And everybody got a pistol This must be the NRA Yeah, 'cause when it's time to stand up You know damn where they're gonna end up Everybody, everybody Say where now dip, I want you to understand And the philosophy seem to be At least as near as I can see When the other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine Thank you Thank you Among, among other things, uh I'm a piano player, a little bit I am a singer, a little bit I write songs a little bit Well I'm also a father, a great deal So a long time ago we did an album called pieces of a man And on pieces of a man we did songs about tomorrow And tomorrow, of course belong to our children So for my children, for your children, for the children you will have And the children they will have Here's a song called Save the children Qwest TV is Quincy Jones' video streaming network celebrating Black Music & Global Sounds through premium documentaries, live concerts, archive gems and interviews showcasing the greatest musicians of all time! Qwest TV features legendary artists like Diana Ross, Muddy Waters, Gregory Porter, Method Man, Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Marc Rebillet, and many more! Qwest TV is a global hub where the best of jazz, blues, funk, electronic music, hip hop, African beats, and more genres converge on one stage! Step into a multicultural world curated by the one and only Quincy Jones who has already worked with icons like Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, James Brown, and Chick Corea. Together with his Qwest TV family, Quincy Jones offers a special experience for music lovers hungry to connect to something new and unexpected. #GilScottHeron #Gun #QwestTV #QuincyJones #BlackMusic #GlobalSounds