Rudy Ray Moore

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Rudolph Frank Moore (March 17, 1927-1927 – October 19, 2008), also known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, guitarist, actor, and film producer.

He created Dolemite, the parody of 1975 film Dolemite and its sequels, The Human Tornado and Return to Dolemite.

During his early comedy debuts, the persona was created.

Moore's songs included profanity-laced rhyming poetry, which later earned Moore the honor of being "the Godfather of Rap" after he was released.

Early life

Moore was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then moved to Akron, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He preached in churches and worked as a nightclub dancer in Milwaukee. He returned to Akron, as a guitarist, dancer, and comedian, often as Prince DuMarr. He joined the US Army and spent time in Germany, where he was known as the Harlem Hillbilly for performing country songs in an R&B style. Since focusing on a singing performance for other servicemen, he became interested in comedy in the Army.

He lived in Seattle, Washington, and then Los Angeles, where he continued to play in clubs and was discovered by record producer Dootsie Williams. Between 1955 and 1962, he performed rhythm and blues songs for the Federal, Cash, Ball, Kent, and Imperial brands, as well as his first comedy series, Below the Belt (1961), and A Comedian Is Born (1964).

Personal life

Moore never married. Moore's long-serving boss, Donald Randall, told him in 2012 that both male and female lovers were present in his household. Stanton Z. Lavelley, a Moore's friend, said in 2019 that Moore was "very bisexual, if not gay," and that his Dolemite persona helped cover it up.

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Career

He was working at the world renowned Dolphin's of Hollywood record store in Los Angeles, California, in 1970, when he first heard obscene accounts of "Dolemite" recounted by a local man named Rico. While living in Greenwich Village, Moore collected a number of street poets, including Big Brown, who, before moving to Los Angeles, had a huge influence on Bob Dylan. Brown's poetry was the best poetry he had ever heard, according to Dylan.) Moore made Brown's album The First Man of Poetry, a 1973 project that took place in London.

There was a wino named Rico, and Moore caught him on the street corner doing all these raps and rhymes, according to Moore.

Moore began recording the tales and assumed the role of "Dolemite" in his club act and on recordings. "Eat Out More Often," This Pussy Belongs To Me, and The Dirty Dozens, where "with jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, [Moore] would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers, which often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers," he wrote

Moore was inspired by more mainstream comedians such as Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor, as well as Dozen traditions like the Dozens. The recordings were usually made in Moore's apartment, with friends in attendance to create a party atmosphere. The album's covers and contents were often too racy to be displayed in record stores, but word of mouth and were extremely popular in Black American communities, where his "warped wit and anti-establishment outlook" were embraced.

Moore converted the bulk of his income from the music to finance the film Dolemite, which was shot in January 1974. It was released and available throughout the United States in 1975, and has been dubbed "one of the best blaxploitation movies" of the 1970s. The heroine was "the ultimate ghetto hero," a defi, profane, expert in kung-fu, dressed to kill, and hell-bent on shielding the community from harmful pests. He was a pimp with a kung-fighting crew of prostitutes, and he was known for his sexual prowess.

The film was a hit, and The Human Tornado, The Monkey Hustle, and Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-in-Law were all well-loved. Moore continued to create albums that appealed to his devoted fanbase in the 1970s and 1980s, but no of his work attracted a white audience. His "rapid-fire rhyming salaciousness" surpassed Foxx and Pryor's wildest excesses, and his slim, clean style kept him off television and major films. Moore attended services in his church and regularly took his mother to the National Baptist Convention. "I wasn't saying dirty words just to say them," he said. It was a work of art, sketches in which I created ghetto characters who screamed. I don't want to be referred to as a dirty old man but rather a ghetto expressionist."

Moore appeared on Big Daddy Kane's album Taste of Chocolate in 1990.

Moore appeared in Eric B. in 1990. Rakim's In The Ghetto music video.

Moore appeared on 2 Live Crew's album Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4 in 1994.

Moore appeared in "The Players Came Home" on Martin in 1995.

Moore in 1997 reimagined his Dolemite role as a voiceover in Busta Rhymes' platinum album When Strikes.

Moore reconstructed his Dolemite appearance in 1999, when he appeared on Snoop Dogg's album No Limit Top Dogg. In Ol' Dirty Bastard's music video "Got Your Money" (feat), the Dolemite Movie was also used in the same year. (feat.) Kelis: (British Columbia) - Kelis.

Moore appeared in Big Money Hustlas, a film produced by and starring the rap-rock band Insane Clown Posse, in which he appeared in Dolemite for the first time in over 20 years.

Moore appeared in Busta Rhymes' platinum selling album Genesis in 2001.

Moore appeared on Sons of Butcher as Rudy in season 2 in 2006.

Moore portrayed Petey Wheatstraw on Blowfly and Daniel Jordan's album "I Live for the Funk" in 2008. It was the first time Blowfly and Moore worked together on a record, as well as the 30-year anniversary of Petey Wheatstraw's; it was also the last recording Moore made before his death.

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