“Freddie’s Dead” - the film’s unofficial theme song - laments the death of one of its main characters, a good-hearted man (played by Charles McGregor) whose work as a drug dealer ultimately leads to his demise. The hard-hitting, socially-aware album accomplished a rare feat when it outsold the movie to which it was set. Rather than glorify the violence and wheeling and dealing of ghetto culture as other blaxploitation films of the day, his sound track for Superfly was a commentary on what he saw as a plague on America’s streets.
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