Isaac Hayes raised the bar for soundtracks with his ambitious "Shaft" score, but this blaxploitation drama saw Curtis Mayfield go one step further with his funky, fully realized song suite about life on the mean streets. Even if you’ve never seen the movie (and if you haven’t, don’t go out of your way to do so), you know this music, as Mayfield’s oft-sampled tracks here are a cornerstone of hip-hop.
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