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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Throwback Thursdays: Curtis Mayfield

DateThursday, September 8, 2011 at 9:03AM

If the party ain't groovin, this cut will fix it.  In 1972 Curtis Mayfield scored the blaxploitation film, Superfly - giving us jams like "Freddie's Dead", "Pusherman" and the title cut, "Superfly".  The film starred Ron O'Neal (who went on to direct the sequel, Superly T.N.T.) as badass drug dealer, Priest, who wants to do one more big score and get out of the game.  Here's the clip that features Mayfield's "Pusherman".  Dig it.

 

 

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