as a 10-year old for a drawing class assignment, i rendered an image of isaac hayes, albeit a really bad one- illustration has never been my strong suit…it was a headshot, i aimed to draw “bad” looking bald dude…you see the image of isaac hayes i had at the time came from a blaxploitation flick called “three tough guys”…

sometime beyond that, during my teenage years i did hear his takes on “the look of love” and “walk on by” (bacharach & david compositions), but the greatest impact isaac hayes had came during the first years of my dj career, when the musical landscape i was into was littered with songs containing samples from hayes’ catalog: tricky, portishead, hooverphonic, mono, biggie…