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XXX rapper Blowfly to perform tonight at Beerland
If you’ve never heard of Clarence Reid, a.k.a. Blowfly, you’re missing out on one of music’s most bizarre and frequently hilarious stories — the superhero costume-clad performer records sex-based parodies of popular songs, started out as a songwriter for hit R&B acts in the 60s and 70s and recorded what many consider the first rap song with 1965’s “Rap Dirty.”
Blowfly is the subject of a film screening as part of the South by Southwest Film Festival tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, and the legend himself will appear at the film’s afterparty tonight at Beerland, with openers Foot Patrol. Check out Joe Gross’s review of the film here.
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