How seminal an influence on hip-hop is Rudy Ray Moore? Scott Alexander: He’s pretty seminal, at least according to the guys who started it. Snoop and Eazy-E always tipped their hat to Rudy, as the guy ...

Comedian and actor Rudy Ray Moore, best known for his 70s big screen character Dolemite, has died at 81. His raunchy material kept him from going mainstream, but he changed hip-hop music forever.

into his obscene and salacious act. These albums, in addition to blaxploitation classics “Dolemite,” “The Human Tornado” and “Disco Godfather,” were celebrated by the decades of hip-hop artists and ...

"Dolemite Is My Name," the new movie from Memphis director Craig Brewer, has earned two major Golden Globe nominations. A comical if nonetheless largely factual movie biography of the late "adult" ...

Alissa Wilkinson covered film and culture for Vox. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. Luckily, the movie is also a lot of fun. Murphy ...

The comedy recordings by legendary singer, actor, and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore have been sold to the independent label 800 Pound Gorilla Records by his longtime manager Donald H. Randell. The deal was ...

A Snoop cameo and the spirit of Isaac Hayes loom large in Netflix's "Dolemite Is My Name." The filmmakers discuss its blaxploitation-style soundtrack and explain why Moore is a godfather of hip-hop.

Among the other things Eddie Murphy’s rapturously received new comedy has going for it, “Dolemite Is My Name” might be the movie musical of the year, in spirit, if not wholly in form. At least, there ...