![]() Rolling Stone said that Mayfield’s “Super Fly” music “packed more drama than the movie it accompanied.” The soundtrack went on to out-gross the film, receive a soundtrack Grammy nomination and place No. Mayfield wrote and produced the soundtrack, hoping to simultaneously distill and amplify the essence of the film while sonically encapsulating the rage and struggle of the drug trade and black America in the 1970s. set out to find the perfect artist to encapsulate the energy of New York City for his first film, the blaxploitation classic “Super Fly.” He found that artist in soul musician Curtis Mayfield. In 1972, in the heyday of soul and funk, director Gordon Parks Jr.
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