Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott Alexander: He’s pretty seminal, at least according to the guys who started it. Snoop and Eazy-E always tipped their hat to ...

Many people say that hip-hop was birthed by DJ Kool Herc on a 1973 summer evening in the Bronx. Others point to the release of the 1979 Sugarhill Gang song “Rapper’s Delight” as the moment when the ...

Dolemite Is My Name is a new Netflix biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who created a flamboyant alter ego and became a blaxploitation legend in the 1970s. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who's joined ...

If you thought John Shaft was a bad mother-shut-yo'-mouth, allow me to introduce Dolemite — the fast-talking, ass-kicking, crime-fighting blaxploitation antihero also known as stand-up comedian Rudy ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Rudy Ray Moore was sitting in a bar on the near East Side. The place was nearly empty. He was in Cleveland to perform, but not on this night. The cultural icon who achieved fame and ...

If you don’t know the name Dolemite, you soon will. One of the most improbably popular film characters of the ’70s, Dolemite—played by comedian/raconteur Rudy Ray Moore—was an icon of Blaxsploitation ...

Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name When I set out for the Dunbar Hotel in Historic South-Central, I didn’t expect to wind up sitting on the curb hooked up to an EKG monitor. About ...

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.