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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin,The Grandfather Of Rap, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1944, is one of the founding members of The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians that evolved in the 1960s out of the Harlem Writers Workshop in New York City. Devout Muslim, poet, acupuncturist, and martial art exponent, He was incarcerated and was given early release on condition that he join the Army, where he trained as a paratrooper but was imprisoned again for refusing to salute the Flag.
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