On 26 June 2018, The Last Poets was a guest on Tapestry of Sound w/ Neneh Cherry. The Last Poets has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 79 episodes and was first played on 20 July 2014.

The Last Poets are a spoken word/poetry group which formed in 1968 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States and arose from the African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread. The original members were Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson.

The group continued to evolve via a 1969 Harlem writers' workshop known as "East Wind". Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan, and…