18 [From 2017] "Gang Of Youths' cover of David Bowie's Heroes is on the new Justice League trailer" - the irony of all that is how incredibly tone deaf it is. The song was meant to be ironic. Heroes was written as 'Heroes', after all. The band also coped so badly with fame that they fled overseas... (archive.is) posted 169 days ago by bamboozler1 169 days ago by bamboozler1 +18 / -0 10 comments share 10 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I mean, that’s kind of what Blaxploitation was, no?
Albeit rap didn’t really exist in the early 70s, but conceptually… That’s basically what defines the genre.
The Wiz and Live and Let Die (yep, the Bond film) being notable examples…