6 Things to Know About Curtis Mayfield’s Super Fly Soundtrack
- The soundtrack was released on July 11, 1972, on Curtom Records.
- It was Curtis Mayfield’s first solo soundtrack album.
- The album’s lyrics critiqued the blaxploitation film’s glamorization of drug dealing.
- It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
- The single “Freddie’s Dead” reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
- The soundtrack is widely considered a landmark in funk and soul music.