Rip Isaac Hayes

we lost another legend, damn!!! this one cut me deep. i became a isaac hayes fan listening to his records in my parents' living room as a teenager. From "To Be Continued", "Joy", "The Isaac Hayes Movement", "Black Moses", to Dead President's Soundtrack he dropped classic material. and those lp's i took from my parents last year for my own collection.

it was more than soulful love songs. he talked for me, when i got myself tangled intoanother complicid situation. he talked as if he had been there himself. and he would even put the rap on the chicks. and not some simpy, i can't breathe without you type game. it was what they call "real talk"(i really hate that term).

his talent was phenomenal. the arrangements, the delivery, the songwriting, even his re-makes were amazing. he remade country songs and made them his own. and he was the epitome of his era. when music fans had more than a knat size attention span.

he made great music for music lovers. he made us into music lovers. there will be no more like you. you are tremendously missed.

the shaft theme song is a bad ass song.

its shameful when he has to be mentioned as the chef from south park for name recognition.

did i mention fashion icon. i know you saw the chainlink shirt he wore on the cover of Joy and in the video above.