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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legendary singer/rapper Clarence Reid, otherwise known as Blowfly, has passed away after a battle with terminal liver cancer. There's been an official statement posted to his Facebook page. Born in ...

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 ...

Reid was born on February 14, 1939 in rural Cochran, Ga.; his family was poor and he liked to claim that he had little in the way of a formal education. "'Blowfly was invented when I was seven years ...

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly ...