“You better get on before you get jumped on! I’m so bad I kick my own ***censored*** twice a day!” the Creeper, a local heroin addict, famously known as Hamburger Pimp warns Dolemite. He knows everything that goes on the street and more while he is hustling hamburgers. He is one of the colorful characters that is featured in Dolemite.

Here is the plot. Dolemite is supposed to clean up the street. That’s it. The great thing about this is that he really did NOTHING that he was supposed to do, I think. If you carefully follow the plot, which is quite hard to do, you will notice.  But he does everything that a blaxploitation hero must do. Dress like pimp, get down with hoes, do some karate action, take out shady white cops and so on.

Dolemite is a truly fantastic film. This is a true independent low budget blaxploitation film that lives on forever. There is much to be said about this film. The film could possibly end up to be just a showcase for Rudy’s wardrobes if it weren’t for Hamburger Pimp. He is the only person in the film who provided a truly amazing and believable performance as an addict. ***censored***, I even thought he was the real thing. He is that good.  You will never see anyone hustle hamburger quite like him in any film. It is truly sad to see him get shot in his chest.  What was Rudy was thinking? Come to think of it, if he didn’t die, he wouldn’t be as legendary as he has become. Plus, when Rudy made this film he didn’t even consider doing a sequel.

Well, if you love blaxploitation, I am sure you have seen it. How could you not? If you only know Shaft, Superfly, Foxy Brown and The Mack and think you had enough-think again and check it out. Your life will be forever changed.

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Shogo is an award-award winning filmmaker currently hard at work on a new project. Someday he will have a website that we can link to.