First up was Marvin Gaye’s foray into the world of blaxploitation scoring for the 1972 film, “Troubleman.” Everyone was doing it (Issac Hayes for “Shaft,” Curtis Mayfield for “Superfly,” a then-unknown Earth Wind & Fire performing the director-written music for “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” ) so why not get in on the then in-vogue trend (he beat James Brown’s “Black Caesar” score by a year).

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“I mean, it’s just the way things are,” Zombie told Vulture without a trace of peevery. “It’s a world of thievery,” he shugged.

Zombie told Time Out New York, that his film was basically a brand new deal.

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