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Great Recordings: Lightnin' Rod — Hustler's Convention

Kodwo Eshun, The Wire, October 1993

In 1973, Jalal Nuriddin of The Last Poets changed his name to Lightnin' Rod and recorded Hustler's Convention, the first Blaxploitation audiodrama. Kodwo Eshun recalls a unique document of '70s Black music.

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