(ThyBlackMan.com) Isaac Hayes, the legendary singer ... Perhaps the most recognizable track in Hayes’ catalog, “Theme from Shaft” is a funk and soul masterpiece. The song catapulted Hayes ...

Isaac Hayes’s “Theme from Shaft”—and its rat-a-tat, sixteenth-note high-hat cymbals—hung out on the pop charts for three months before winning the Academy Award for Best Song the next year.