2006-07-01 07:48:11 · 9 answers · asked by delawaregirl83 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
A "pusha man" is a pusherman, one who peddles narcotics. Whenever I hear that term I IMMEDIATELY think of Curtis Mayfield's song PUSHERMAN, from the soundtrack to SUPERFLY. The songs he wrote and performed for that LP are a landmark in music. Check it out when you can. The 70s will burn off the record and you will feel the heat of the inner city summer streets and see the broken glass glittering in the sun.
The lyrics are multi-layered, simple on the surface but quite poignant and even inspirational. Too bad the movie didn't live up to the soundtrack.
(Note, this was written before Mayfield's death in 1999)
"The place where Mayfield put it all together was his 1972 soundtrack to the blaxploitation hit Superfly (his best work and one of the decade's essential albums). Maybe it was disgust at the way the film glorified the pusher hero, or maybe bitter frustration over the splintering of black politics and life under the gun in Nixon's law-and-order America. Whatever it was, "Superfly," "Pusherman," and "Freddie's Dead" remain his paramount achievement, as hard and pitiless as any music ever to make the charts. There's a constant battle in "Freddie's Dead" between the dread-laden guitar line and the soaring strings. Mayfield himself seems to be discarding his optimism as the song unfolds, in favor of blasted fatalism ("Everybody's used him/Ripped him off and abused him . . . A terrible blow but that's how it go") and deadpan disgust ("If you want to be a junkie, wow").
"Pusherman" goes even farther. Mayfield's falsetto has never sounded so seductive, his grooves more insinuating. You're into the rhythm of the song when the lyrics hit you like a cold smack in the face: "I'm your momma/I'm your daddy/I'm that ****** in the alley . . . Want some coke?/Have some weed/You know me/I'm your friend . . . I'm your pusherman." He finishes that last line up with an ambiguous laugh that seems to mean "trust me" and "sucker" in equal measure. Dealing death has never sounded so groovy. And it's hardly his fault if his brotherhood politics can't stand up. I don't wish to seem harsh or ungenerous toward a man whose musical career has reached such an abrupt, terrible impasse (it's reported that he's writing a new album), but the toughest moments of Mayfield's music make you wish, to paraphrase Flannery O'Connor, there'd been someone there to make him pessimistic every minute of his life."
Pusherman
I'm your mama / I'm your daddy
I'm that ***** in the alley
I'm your doctor / When in need
Want some coke / Have some weed
You know me / I'm your friend
Your main boy / Thick and thin
I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman
Ain't I clean / Bad machine / Super cool / Super mean
Dealin' good / For The Man / Superfly / Here I stand
Secret stash / Heavy bread / Baddest bitches in the bed
I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman
Silent life of crime
A man of odd circumstance
A victim of ghetto demands
Feed me money for style
And I'll let you trip for a while
Insecure from the past
How long can a good thing last
Oh no, no, no
Got to be mellow, y'all / Got to get mellow, now
Pusherman gettin' mellow, y'all
Heavy mind / Every sign / Makin' money / All the time
My 'E ID' / And just me / For all junkies to see
Ghetto Prince / Is my thing
Makin' love's / How I swing
I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman
Two bags, please
For a generous fee
Make your world what you want it to be
Got a woman I love desperately
Wanna give her somethin' better than me
Been told I can't be nothin' else
Just a hustler in spite of myself
I know I can break it
This life just don't make it
Lord, Lord, yeah
Got to get mellow, now / Gotta be mellow, y'all
Got to get mellow, now
I'm your mama / I'm your daddy / I'm that ***** in the alley
I'm your doctor / When in need / Want some coke
Have some weed
You know me / I'm your friend
Your main boy / Thick and thin
I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman
I'm your pusherman / I'm your pusherman
Lord, Lord
2006-07-01 09:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by cboni2000 4 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Pusha Man
2016-10-01 22:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A man who pushas?
2006-07-01 07:49:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pusherman Song
2016-12-16 20:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by carrabotta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pusher man pushes drugs and does not care who lives or dies or who he sells them to!
2006-07-01 07:52:25 · answer #5 · answered by toughguy2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone who sells drugs on the streets
2006-07-01 07:51:24 · answer #6 · answered by heidinichole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a drug dealer
2006-07-01 07:50:41 · answer #7 · answered by shizzmite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a drug pusher
2006-07-01 07:50:10 · answer #8 · answered by normkeefer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DRUG DEALER
2006-07-01 07:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by spitly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋