{"id":114753,"date":"2017-01-24T21:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=114753"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:14:20","slug":"dig-of-the-day-curtis-mayfield-superfly-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-curtis-mayfield-superfly-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Curtis Mayfield &#8211; Superfly (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cmo6MRYf5g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We have a soul funk classic from the legendary singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, a pioneer and a gentleman known as <strong>Curtis Mayfield<\/strong>. <em>Superfly<\/em> was sampled in many rap songs by many artists, from <strong>Ice Cube, Beastie Boys, Alicia Keys,  WC and the Maad Circle<\/strong> to <strong>Willie D, Cookie Crew<\/strong>..<\/p>\n<p><em>Superfly<\/em> is off his 4th album titled <em>Super Fly<\/em> which serves as a soundtrack to the movie of the same name. <em>Super Fly<\/em> is one of the few films ever to have been outgrossed by its soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Curtis Mayfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RIP (1942 &#8211; 1999)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"114754\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-curtis-mayfield-superfly-1972\/r-2980776-1336773805-9126-jpeg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?fit=599%2C595&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"599,595\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?fit=540%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?fit=599%2C595&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?fit=640%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"536\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?resize=540%2C536&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/R-2980776-1336773805-9126.jpeg.jpg?w=599&amp;ssl=1 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a soul funk classic from the legendary singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-tQR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}