The soundtracks to two Blaxploitation classics, Super Fly and The Mack, stood alone from their films and influenced decades ...

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. With ...

The accomplished screenwriter also worked on ‘NYPD Blue’ and ‘The Temptations.’ 18 hours ago On one hand, the movies that tend to comprise this classification were in a cinematic space in which, for ...

In early March 2025, jazz-funk legend Roy Ayers died at the age of 84. The veteran vibraphonist is known as one of the original progenitors of acid-jazz and neo-soul, twinkling the keys on such ...

Today Craft Recordings is reissuing an expanded edition of Isaac Hayes's groundbreaking soundtrack to the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft. (You can read Wm.™ Steven Humphrey's scathing review of the ...

Blaxploitation, a film genre that started in the early ‘70s, was known for sex, violence, and ACTION. Some people know it because of the music (cue the timeless “Super Fly” soundtrack by Curtis ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I feel wistful whenever I hear people mention the films that defined the blaxploitation genre. No better film exists from that period than “Shaft,” although some folk might argue ...

It has been 50 years since Sheila Frazier made her big-screen debut as Georgia, girlfriend to wily drug dealer Youngblood Priest, in the blaxploitation film classic Super Fly. And Frazier estimates ...

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