The 1972 film followed Youngblood Priest, a cocaine dealer with a luxurious lifestyle who wanted to leave the life of crime, but needed to finance his future standard of living in order to do so.
The trailer doesn’t provide much about the plot except for the fact that the setting has shifted from Harlem to Atlanta.
Part of exploitation films is focusing on lurid content, and Superfly looks to have that in spades.
He therefore devised a plan for one big sale in order to score enough money to retire on.