• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    Who's the black private dick
    That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
    Shaft, ya, damn right
    
    Who is the man that would risk his neck
    For his brother man?
    Shaft, can you dig it?
    
    Who's the cat that won't cop out
    When there's danger all about?
    Shaft, right on
    
    They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
    Shut your mouth
    But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft
    Then we can dig it
    
    He's a complicated man
    But no one understands him but his woman
    John Shaft  
    
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      Performed this with a college acaplla group live ( just once as it took a long time to learn and get good). The long instrumental intro… thre crowd was completely silent because most didn’t know it in the late 90s. One guy in the back of the concert hall just started screaming. Yes! Yes! Yeaaah!

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    Saw Shaft for the first time as a teenager. It was great in the 90s, still holds up today

    Here’s one to Richard Roundtree. 🥂🥂

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    Dude was a icon of singularity. Rare is it to have such an affect on your chosen profession. Forever much respect. His movies hold up to time and are full of so much influence. I am glad he lived a long life. Dude will forever be an icon of bad assery!