Rudy Ray Moore Albums (10)
What The Critics Say
A house party with Rudy as host and playing the dozens with every guest who crosses his path. As raunchy as it gets. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
'The Hip Shakin' Papa'
Release Date 11/12/2008
Tracks 10
Label Warrior
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'House Party: Dirty Dozens'
Release Date 8/28/2001
Tracks 15
Label Kent Music
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'This Ain't No White Christmas!'
Release Date 10/15/1996
Tracks 8
Label Capitol
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What The Critics Say
The holidays don't get any raunchier than This Ain't No White Christmas, a reissue of The Rudy Ray Moore Christmas Album. In addition to the two-part "The Night Before Xmas," Moore also riffs on the "Health Department" and "St. Peter;" the Right Stuff label reissue also includes a pair of bonus tracks, "Lip On" and "Eatin' *****." A blue Christmas, indeed. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
'Dolemite Is Another Crazy Nigger'
Release Date 7/1/1991
Tracks 12
Label Nashboro
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'This Pussy Belongs to Me'
Release Date 7/1/1991
Tracks 7
Label Nashboro
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What The Critics Say
In the 1970s, Rudy Ray Moore's X-rated comedy inspired comparisons to Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. But while Pryor and Foxx reached non-black audiences in a major way, Moore had more of a cult following and was never well known outside of the African-American community. Besides, Moore is quite unique, not to mention innovative; in fact, he has often been described as a pioneer of rap. Moore's comedy wasn't stand-up in the traditional sense. With jazz and R&B musicians playing in the background, he would recite raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers. One of Moore's best releases is 1972's This Pussy Belongs to Me; listening to X-rated classics like "Signifying Monkey," "Hurricane Annie Meets Dolemite," and "Mr. Big Dick," one can see why Too Short, Luther Campbell, and the 2 Live Crew consider Moore a major influence. The material is as crude and vulgar as it is entertaining and hysterically funny. Of course, an album this raunchy isn't everyone's cup of tea. But for those who have a taste for X-rated humor, This Pussy Belongs to Me is a cult classic. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
'The Player, the Hustler'
Release Date 7/1/1991
Tracks 13
Label Nashboro
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What The Critics Say
Rudy Ray Moore wasn't the first nationally successful X-rated comic -- Redd Foxx got there a decade earlier -- but hardly anyone was as dizzyingly and gloriously obscene as Moore in his prime, and this album captures the man who was Dolemite at the peak of his form. No one seems to know exactly when The Rudy Ray Moore Party Album: Player Hustler was recorded, but it's clearly the product of Moore's heyday in the mid-'70s, when his movies were grindhouse favorites and his albums were doing a brisk under-the-counter trade at inner city record stores. (Moore was still able to get a big cheer with some Nixon jokes for those interested in a more exact time line.) Moore's uber-raunchy braggadocio is in full effect as he spins long rhyming tales about his sexual prowess and his impressive level of bad-ass cool, interspersed with jokes that get wilder and more tasteless as the album wears on, running the gamut from flatulence contests to old women whose privates are infested with bugs. Moore's female protégé, Lady Reed, also makes a guest appearance on the album, but while she's just as explicit as the headliner, her more observational brand of sexual humor doesn't generate the same laughs (or howls of disbelief) as Moore. Player Hustler isn't the best or most infamous of Moore's '70s "party" albums, but it's a solid representation of his wild comic style, and the cover art documents his fashion sense at its most impressive. This is one album you can put your weight on! ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
'Dolemite 4 President'
Release Date 7/1/1991
Tracks 18
Label Nashboro
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What The Critics Say
In 1972, while Richard Nixon and George McGovern were struggling to win the hearts and minds of the American people in the race for the Presidency, another candidate threw his hat into the ring -- Dolemite, the alter ego of underground comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who had become a top draw at urban nightspots with his raw and funky rhyming comedy routines. On 1972's Dolemite 4 President, much of the material concerns Moore running for the highest office in the land, letting his fans know what they could expect if he found himself in the White House -- "You can bet your sweet ass I'm gonna legalize grass! Yes, I'll have a constitution to legalize prostitution!" "Where do I stand on free love? I don't stand on it, I lay on it, baby!" "What would I do about unemployment? I would open up stealin', f--k a job!" The "Dolemite 4 President" routine is far and away the longest bit on the album (and includes a number of less-than-charitable comments about other politicians on the campaign trail in 1972), while the rest of the LP is dominated by the sort of classic jailhouse "toasts" that had been the cornerstone of Moore's act for years, including a suitably raunchy version of the poem "Stack-A-Lee" (which later evolved into the song "Stagger Lee") and some shorter but equally streetwise bits involving sex and life in the ghetto. The musical backings that accompany many of the bits on this album often sound like an afterthought and the recording and mix is primitive, but none of that matters quite as much as Moore's full-bodied comic rudeness, which is on prime display here three years before he made the jump to the big screen with the movie Dolemite. The 2008 CD reissue of Dolemite 4 President (which unfortunately arrived in stores a few weeks after Moore's death) includes some bonus material recorded in 2002, with Dolemite still stumping for office and offering his opinions about George Bush, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton while sounding pretty much the same as he did in his heyday. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
What The Critics Say
His debut album and the one that launched his career. Features "Dolemite," "Shine," and a half-dozen other titles too raunchy to mention here. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
