ABOUT THIS ITEM

Wax Poetics bring us their unofficial film / hustler issue, in which they take a look at Mayfield’s epic soundtrack recording "Super Fly". New York writer Michael A. Gonzales pulls from his own 1996 Curtis Mayfield interview as well as tapping Curtis' associates, guitarists Craig McMullen and Phil Upchurch and composer/arranger Johnny Pate, to tell the story of the finest blaxploitation score of the 1970s. There are two different covers for this issue, one with Curtis on the front and the back featuring Radio Raheem from Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, the other with Curtis (in blue) and Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (a Wax Poetics favourite) on the back. Besides speaking with both of these groundbreaking filmmakers, WP also take a look at the new film Black Dynamite (Wax Poetics Records released the score and soundtrack), and music supervisor David Hollander reveals the fundamental facts of once-mysterious library music. Last but not least, the mag finally unveils the Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim story by longtime contributer Mark McCord (aka Mark Skillz). As the greatest hustler of all time, Beck finally gets his due.