So the “Love Me Sexy” video from the basketball comedy “Semi-Pro” actually works twofold: it acts as an obvious viral promotional tool and it actually reveals some of the film’s plot (not to mention teases the soundtrack, see below).

Set in 1976 Will Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who apparently used the profits from his chart-topping success “Love Me Sexy” to leverage his dream of owning a basketball team.

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Nimble, percolating, and indubitably funky, Quentin Tarantino appropriated much of Ayer’s score outright (not to mention the film’s star Grier) for his blaxploitation homage, “Jackie Brown.”

Tarantio also “borrowed” the Bobby Womack title track from the film, “Across 110th Street,” a Pam Grier song from, “The Big Doll House,” and Randy Crawford‘s “Street Life” from the 1981 Burt Reynolds film “Sharkey’s Machine.” There’s probably a few other appropriations we haven’t had time to research either.

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