The Last Poets’ Jalal Mansur Nuriddin Dead at 74

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, co-founder of the Last Poets, has died, Rolling Stone reports. The news was confirmed in a statement from his family. He was 74. “Jalal slipped quietly away this evening into the arms of Allah,” the statement reads. A cause of death was not disclosed.

Nuriddin was born in Brooklyn in 1944. He appeared the group’s 1970 debut self-titled album and its 1971 follow-up This Is Madness. In 1973, he released a solo album under the name Lightnin’ Rod called Hustler’s Convention. The album was the subject of a 2015 documentary, which was produced by Chuck D.