Remarks:
This song about a drug dealer is from his soundtrack for “Super Fly” (1972), a classic Blaxpoitation film. The album itself is a classic.
It was one of the first songs on the radio to use the N-word, though it was never released as a single and never charted. I have referred to the song twice on this blog so far (in Yemen and Super Size Me).
The video is from “Soul Train”, probably from January 6th 1973.
See also:
- songs, the 1970s
- Curtis Mayfield: The Makings of You
- Blaxpoitation
- N-word
Lyrics:
I’m your mama, I’m your daddy
I’m that nigga in the alley
I’m your doctor, when in need
Want some coke, have some weed
You know me, I’m your friend
Your main boy, thick and thin
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman
Ha ha
Ain’t I clean, bad machine
Super cool, super mean
Feelin’ good, for the man
Superfly, here I stand
Secret stash, heavy bread
Baddest bitches, in the bed
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman
Solid life, of crime
A man of odd circumstance
A victim of ghetto demands
Feed me money for [style]
And I’ll let you trip for a while
Insecure from the past
How long can a good thing last?
Woohoo, no
Got to be mellow, y’all
Gotta be mellow now
Pusherman gettin’ mellow y’all
Heavy mind, have you signed?
Makin’ money all the time
My instructs me
For all junkies to see
Ghetto prince is my thing
Makin’ love’s how I swing
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman
Too bad, [splee]
For a generous fee
Make you world what
you want it to be
Got a woman I love desperately
Wanna give her something better than me
Been told I can’t be nothin’ else
Just a hustler in spite of myself
I know I can rake it
This life just don’t make it
Lord, lord
Got to get mellow now
Gotta be mellow, y’all
Got to get mellow now
I’m your mama, I’m your daddy
I’m that nigga in the alley
I’m your doctor, when in need
Want some coke, have some weed
You know me, I’m your friend
Your main boy, thick and thin
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman
Source: Songfacts.
Abagond 
What genre of music is this?
No offense but its not something I enjoy as much…
but nice lyrics there … didn’t know they could write such lyrics
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Hiby it’s funk music!
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I still listen to this in 2018. Super Fly soundtrack is still a good one for me in 2018.
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@Hiby
Are you serious? This guy made history when he came out with this and Superfly for Ed O’Neill’s character for Superfly. I’m not a fan of most modern music and cringe at the fact that there is a remake of Superfly out with propably a fucked up unbearable soundtrack to go along with a project that shouldn’t be in the first place. My third favorite song is ‘Running Child’ It captures the essence of the social atmosphere of the urban hustling of the early 1970s perfectly. Mayfield produced the best soundtrack in the history of Cinema and won’t ever be surpassed.
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Correction ‘ Ron O’Neal’ was the late actor in Superfly. Autocorrect is a hassle catch it on time.
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