Journalists have dubbed Gil Scott-Heron the "godfather of rap," a title that has appeared in hundreds of articles about him since the 1990s. Scott-Heron himself resisted the godfather _________ feeling that it didn't encapsulate his devotion to the broader African American blues music tradition as well as "Bluesologist," the moniker he preferred.

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