11/28/2023 0 Comments Curtis mayfield superfly![]() ![]() The worst political music sounds like political music. ![]() And yet the only protest music to really penetrate the charts was Green Day’s (decent) “ American Idiot” and Jadakiss’ (less decent) “ Why.” Bush was trying to convince the country that there were definitely WMDs in Iraq and even if there weren’t, he was still justified in leading us into another war with no information, no goals, and no end in sight. That’s what all the “conscious” rappers were telling me around the time I discovered Curtis Mayfield’s album some 15 years ago. At least, to my understanding, nothing before the dawn of hip-hop, and even then you had to sacrifice some of those elements for commercial success. Nothing this raw, this ghetto, this funky, soulful, and political is supposed to sell five million copies. The success of an album like Super Fly goes against all conventional wisdom.
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