Right On!
If You're Ready For It - Right On. If Not - This Movie Could Mess Up Your Mind.
Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York's Paperback Theater in 1969. Described as “a conspiracy of ritual, street theater, soul music and cinema."
- Year: 1970
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: History, Documentary, Music
- Studio: Concept East N.Y.
- Keyword: new york city, hip-hop, poetry, ghetto, street theater, rooftop, rap, revolutionaries, african american, lower east side, black power, afro-latino, puerto rican, old school rap, young lords, soul, boricua, last poets
- Director: Herbert Danska
- Cast: Gylan Kain, Felipe Luciano, David Nelson, Carlos Cuebas, Gene Ballard, Gardenia Carter