“At last we have a black hero of James Bond stature in John Shaft,” Hayes told Beat Instrumental. “Shaft looks at things from a black point of view, it tells it like it is.” He also ...

Isaac Hayes was a Memphis singer-songwriter ... his witty and experimental Blaxploitation (so-called) scores, of which Shaft and the smash global anthem “Theme From Shaft” are the tip of ...

Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother, man? (Shaft) Can ya dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? (Shaft) Right on You see this cat Shaft is a bad ...

Shaft is a double album by Isaac Hayes, recorded for Stax Records' Enterprise label as the soundtrack LP for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft.Wikipedia ...

That the career of Isaac Hayes could be neatly packaged into generationally specific references like Shaft, the Comedy Central animated series South Park and Scientology says volumes about the man ...

Isaac Hayes’s “Theme from Shaft”—and its rat-a-tat, sixteenth-note high-hat cymbals—hung out on the pop charts for three months before winning the Academy Award for Best Song the next year.

Hayes Jr composed the song in 1966 with Dave Porter, when he was a staff writer at Stax Records. He went on to become a Grammy and Oscar-winner in his own right, with hits like 'Shaft' and 'Walk On By ...