Other than the fact that he helped build the house of Stax by writing and producing most of the songs that shaped that label's legend, created the look of the gold draped gangster while most of its progeny were still in diapers playing with their Fischer-Price "My First Concealed Weapon", gave voice to the only adult in South Park who had as much common sense as the children and still found time to offer up his Chocolate Salty Balls freely, and that he not only re-wrote the rules of pop music - and Bacharach-David's "Walk On By" - to fit his vision of soul, what else can be said about Isaac Hayes?
Oh, he was a Scientologist. Let's all hope that that turned out as he hoped.
Isaac Hayes
August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008
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