Another blaxploitation soundtrack album but, compared to Isaac Hayes’ Shaft, this one feels more like it stands on its own as an album. Probably because most of the tracks have lyrics rather than the largely instrumental Shaft. The film is a story about a drug dealer who may or may not be trying to go straight, but the song lyrics are very much about the personal and societal problems caused by drugs,
The first track is called Little Child, Runnin’ Wild, which I thought was going to be a cover of the Temptations song by a very similar name. That song, however, was called *Lost* Child, Running Wild and is a different tune completely.
I... don’t really have much more to say about this album. It’s good Seventies soul, to me somewhat better for not being as orchestral as Shaft. Pusherman and No Thing On Me are particularly good tracks; they’re some of the longer ones and so have a bit of room to breathe and develop. Soul and funk are musical genres that benefit from a bit of space for a jam section, even if only for about 30 seconds or so. Freddie’s Dead and Superfly, released as singles, are also two of the stronger tracks on the album, used in the film for opening and closing credits respectively.
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