Rudy Ray Moore

During the 1950s and 1960s Redd Foxx held court as the leading voice on party records, yet Rudy Ray Moore pushed the format further still throughout the 1970s by issuing a run of triple-X-rated albums so explicit that most retailers stocked them only beneath the counter, even at the peak of the sexual revolution. Routines delivered chiefly in rhyme foreshadowed the rise of rap by roughly two decades, and his single screen appearance as the star of Dolemite continues to rank among the decade’s standout blaxploitation films. The catalog includes the 1970 release Eat Out More Often, 1971’s Dirty Dozens, and 1996’s This Ain’t No White Christmas.