Historical Text Superfly

Super Fly is a 1972 blaxploitation, crime drama film about a Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.Super Fly resonated with many of the post-civil rights movement generation of African Americans, who saw Young blood as a new example of how to rise in the American class system. Several California organised crime veterans, including drug trafficker "Freeway" Rick Ross, have cited the film as an influence in their decision to take up drug dealing and gang violence.

Blaxploitation is an ethnic sub genre of the exploitation film. It emerged in the United States in the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines.

These movies used a mostly black cast and featured stories set in urban America. Most often, blaxploitation films had a low budget focused on marketing campaigns. The term blaxploitation is a combination of the words “black” and “exploitation.” In Hollywood, exploitation films are low budget movies that rely on catchy elements, such as gore, violence or sexual content, to attract an audience.In their depiction of the African-American world, the films focused heavily on the dark undercurrents of society and promoted many incorrect stereotypes about black people.

The movie was very intense as the main character leads a dangerous life so he attempts to pull off one giant drug deal that will bring him the money he needs to live the rest of his life in the superfly manner to which he has become accustomed, but he continuously runs up against a variety of cops and other criminals who wish to stop him.The film shows the drug dealing and violence that happens in the black neighborhoods.Money is there way of life as its their american dream so any of the character would do anything for money and it just represents black males not fearing the law once again.As they aim to avoid prison while they kill their enemies.