The Last Poets & Tony Allen, Ft. Egypt 80
"Two Little Boys"

Two Little Boys, was inspired after seeing two young boys aged around 11 or 12 'stuffing chicken and cornbread down their tasteless mouths, trying to revive shrinking lungs and a wasted mind.' They'd walked into Sylvia's soul food restaurant in Harlem, ordered big meals, then bolted them down and run out the door. No one chased after them, knowing that they probably hadn't eaten in days. Fifty years later and children are still going hungry in major cities across America and elsewhere. Abiodun's poem hasn't lost any relevance at all, and neither has New York, New York, The Big Apple. 'Although this was written in 1968, New York hasn't changed a bit,' he admits, except 'today, people just mistake her sickness for fashion.'

All tracks written by The Last Poets with music by Kunle Justice Published by Copyright Control and Dharma Songs
Music and Horns arranged by Kunle Justice
Engineering by Mike Pelanconi and AJ Tissian
Recorded at The Wavelab, Brooklyn and Prince Fatty Studio London
Additional Mix by Michael Heffernan
Drums by Tony Allen
Bass by Kunle Justice
Guitar by Akinola Adio Oyebola
Percussion by Musa Mboob
Horns By The Soothsayers
Rhodes by Joe Armon-Jones
Keyboards by Kaidi Tatham
Saxophone by Courtney Pine
Mastered by Lawrie Dunster at Curve Pusher