Legendary musician Gil Scott-Heron -- often called the Godfather of Rap --  died Friday.

The innovative musician and poet was widely believed to have been responsible for the start of rap music due to his combining the spoken word and music along with his open criticism of racism, politics and the mass media.

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However Scott-Heron, a life-long resident of Harlem, has always claimed otherwise stating: "I don't know if I can take the blame for it," during an interview with The Daily Swarm last year.

Scott-Heron was one the first artists signed by the great Clive Davis when he launched Arista Records. He recorded an astounding 13 albums from 1970 to 1982, and his most iconic work is the still-powerful The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

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Unfortunately in the last decade, the musician fell very publicly into a life of drug abuse.  He was arrested twice for cocaine possession, and was sent to Riker's Island Prison for a parole violation.

Scott-Heron was 62 when he died at St Luke's Hospital in New York.  The cause of death has not yet been announced.

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Ann Pettway pled ‘not guilty’ today to a federal kidnapping charge that she abducted three-week-old Carlina White from a Harlem Hospital back in August 1987, RadarOnline.com has learned.

White discovered in adulthood that Pettaway was not in fact her biological mother.

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Pettaway’s court-appointed attorney, Robert Baum, told the court his investigators are tracking down a woman who was first suspected of kidnapping White back in 1987, but whose alibi at the time eliminated her from being suspected.

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It helps that Guggenheim is a master filmmaker, milking every emotional sucker-punch and each zinger of a sound bite for all they’re worth. In this polished, briskly paced documentary, everyone from schoolchildren to superintendents, frustrated parents to policy wonks, have a say. Guggenheim begins with an admission of guilt for sending his own children to private school -- a lament that’s likely a common one for parents of a certain class and world view -- and a decision that betrayed his ideals. What follows is an earnest examination of a system gone terribly wrong, but with a clear point of view: If we have so miserably reneged on the promise of public education, what does that say about us, as a society? And what can we do to turn the ship around?