Over the weekend the world lost two valued and talented entertainers. Forgive me for not wanting to acknowledge their passing earlier.

…charts between 1969 and 1980. 1970’s The Isaac Hayes Movement and …To Be Continued were both hits, but it was 1971’s Shaft, the soundtrack to Gordon Parks’ blaxploitation film, that launched Hayes into the stratosphere. Shaft hit number one on both the pop and R&B charts, and won both Grammy and Academy Awards. Hayes’ performance of “Theme From Shaft” at the 1972 Oscars remains one of television’s most powerful musical moments.

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Stax A&R executive Collin Stanback told the Associated Press, ”Isaac Hayes embodies everything that’s soul music. When you think of soul music you think of Isaac Hayes — the expression … the sound and the creativity that goes along with it.”

(via pitchfork media, theme from shaft live 73 youtube)

who is the man that would risk his neck for brother man?