Anyone Watch Netflix's New Documentary on Sam Cooke

[Stick Up Kid]

incredibly done

-highlights his plight from the Jim Crow South to the Church to Chicago
-speaks about his friendship with Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali
-speaks on Sam being the first black artist to own his own label, masters,
-touches on Sam being under FBI surviellance after he started hanging around The Nation of Islam.
-speaks on him being able to be a pop artist, but still be socially conscious in his music at a time when black artists were doing 'cha cha cha' type music.
-touches on his mysterious death and his legacy.

Jim Brown, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, his old producers, and people that knew him all appear in the documentary.

 

[Paper Boi]

i knew it came out after he died.

whats the doc called?

it's crazy how many legends had crazy tragic deaths way too soon, from sam to otis to marvin.

 

[RadaMillz]

I watched it last night, incredible documentary!
He was the first to go from conk hair to mini fro on TV

 

[Stick Up Kid]

i knew it came out after he died.

whats the doc called?

it's crazy how many legends had crazy tragic deaths way too soon, from sam to otis to marvin.

"Two Killings of Sam Cooke"

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I watched it last night, incredible documentary!
He was the first to go from conk hair to mini fro on TV

Him getting threatened by the MOB and Powerful cac Jews for wanting to own his masters, and owning his own label, teaching other artists to do the same etc.. then suddenly gets killed

 

[Paper Boi]

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.

 

[RadaMillz]

Him getting threatened by the MOB and Powerful cac Jews for wanting to own his masters, and owning his own label, teaching other artists to do the same etc.. then suddenly gets killed

I wonder how much that black women was paid to shoot cooke

 

[I Really Mean It]

A powerful talent whose impactful voice was silenced by white supremacy. I don't buy the accepted story of his death.

 

[Paper Boi]

i didn't even realize people didn't fukk with sam cooke because of his official cause of death.

my parents always did.

 

[Rell84shots]

They're still running with the story that he was out of control that night so she had to shoot him

 

[Stick Up Kid]

They're still running with the story that he was out of control that night so she had to shoot him

The Doc debunks that theory.

 

[Paper Boi]

damn breh said aretha is his oldest living friend.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Won't lie, when listening to this, I can't help but feel a sense of regret that I wasn't born in this period. When listening to Tariq and Jason Black or any of these new black media personalities, we hear attacks on our mothers and fathers for integrating with our enemy, but I really do wonder just how we'd fare under the same naked oppression they were forced to live under. shyt makes me

 

[Paper Boi]

Won't lie, when listening to this, I can't help but feel a sense of regret that I wasn't born in this period.

we played it and my grandfather's and my dad's funeral.

i agree, it's a classic. i love hip-hop, but this era of music-70's soul is probably my favorite.