Blowfly

Miami's synthetic beats originated with the homemade drumbox soul of Timmy Thomas in the late '60s. "Why Can't We Live Together" was both a response and prophecy, recorded after the Overtown Riots of '68, but it resonated deeper with the Liberty City Riots of 1980. By most accounts, the first Miami Rapper at least the first to create pornagraphic alphabet was Clarence Reid a songwriter for Henry Stone soul labels like Glades and Cat. It's been said that if a rat pissed on cotton, Henry Stone could get it on the radio; after all, this was the man who built a disco empire off the phrase "shake your booty." Named by his dismayed granny, Clarence went by Blowfly and did bawdy versions of grown-up soul, equipped with an extensively foul vocabulary and a witch's middle finger to punctuate it. Blowfly rapped about "zombie pussy" while dressed like a bumblebee avenger.