Clarence Reid, aka Blowfly, was recently diagnosed with cancer and now he has sadly passed away. A post on his Facebook by frequent collaborator Tom Bowker reads: Clarence Reid, the genius known both ...

According to the costumed, foul-mouthed parodist Blowfly, he “invented” rap music almost 50 years ago. He reminds viewers of this fact throughout Jonathan Furmanski’s documentary The Weird World Of ...

Legendary funkateer and R&B singer Clarence Reid, better known as rapper Blowfly, passed away at a South Florida hospice on Sunday (Jan. 17) after battling terminal liver cancer. He was 76. Tom Bowker ...

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Long before Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew spewed their raunchy, explicit lyrics on America, there was Blowfly. Born Clarence Reid in 1939 in Cochran, Georgia, he credits his grandmother for his ...

Blowfly — Miami’s smutmaster general, the pioneer of pottymouthery, the original ol’ dirty bastard — passed away on Sunday at age 76. A gifted, groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind artist, the XXX-rated ...

Better Than: A hot fudge sundae. Even at 72 years old, Blowfly still has all the humor, presence, and charm of a school boy, which he sweetly displayed last night at The Vagabond. This weekend, Miami ...

Clarence Reid, the R&B singer who moonlighted as the innovative, masked and explicit rapper Blowfly, passed away Sunday. He was 76. Reid’s death comes just days after it was revealed that he was ...

Ralphfest 4 is fast approaching and for the first time in the festival’s history, as festival organizer Jeff Sweat points out, there are no doubts, unresolved suspicions or otherwise somber tones that ...

Initially, my conversation with the utterly obscene R&B singer Blowfly went well. Speaking over the phone from his house in Miami, he predicted that I would become wealthy within two years. But then, ...