sentences:  Because there was no mechanism in the law to remove Baraka from the post, the position of state poet laureate was officially abolished by the State Legislature and Governor McGreevey.Baraka collaborated with hip-hop group The Roots on the song "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" on their 2002 album "Phrenology".In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Amiri Baraka on his list of "100 Greatest African Americans".