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Speaker 3: Welcome to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. I'm Gabeln Sadez and I'm
Speaker 3: christottason Rosso.
Speaker 4: Each week we explore the sublime world of queer sex, cruising,
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Speaker 2: We talked to queer folks of all kinds. We'll ask
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Speaker 3: Hi Chris, Hi, We're back at the table. Oh, we
Speaker 3: are back at the table. I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: Me too.
Speaker 3: We have a literal legend on our show today, Beary
Speaker 3: for this absolute icon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have to ask you, Chris, do you remember the
Speaker 2: first time you discovered porn star him Shabaz.
Speaker 4: You know, I was thinking about this when we were
Speaker 4: preparing for this interview, and I'm sure you're thinking for
Speaker 4: quite some time. It's been a long time that I've
Speaker 4: been following the work.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, absolutely, I was like out of the porn
Speaker 2: industry at that point.
Speaker 3: I was a retiree after my many days as a cameraman.
Speaker 2: And I think it was really exciting because Raheem was
Speaker 2: one of the first porn stars I saw really make
Speaker 2: a name for himself kind of on his own terms,
Speaker 2: doing his own stuff. And I think, you know, post
Speaker 2: the start of OnlyFans, you know, I want to say
Speaker 2: maybe twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, I think we really saw
Speaker 2: a lot of performers modeling how to do things outside
Speaker 2: the studio system. It's a double edged short, right, you're
Speaker 2: doing stuff on your own, so you're responsible for more,
Speaker 2: but you're also pressured less into doing things you don't
Speaker 2: want to do by the studio, like the way I
Speaker 2: love seeing porn stars be verse on their own channel.
Speaker 3: Maybe, and I know that the studios like you're only
Speaker 3: a top. You'll only ever be a top, You'll never
Speaker 3: be more than that. Yeah, I'm just like let people
Speaker 3: get fucked. Every writes me crazy.
Speaker 2: But no, I don't know if it was through word
Speaker 2: of mouth or word of whole, but I heard about
Speaker 2: Rahim and he has truly been a staple in the
Speaker 2: industry for sure.
Speaker 4: And then like every girl going to Brazil, it's always like,
Speaker 4: am I gonna run in?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna? Am I gonna see them?
Speaker 2: He took come to Brazil to an entirely new level.
Speaker 2: Truly say I'm coming on Brazil. How about that, I'm
Speaker 2: coming on and in Brazil?
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 3: I feel like if he threw a concert, he could
Speaker 3: get Lady Gaga numbers.
Speaker 1: You don't know one hundred percent because I'm buying my ticket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, Like I'm buying my christ did
Speaker 2: buy their ticket. It's a one way ticket, so she's
Speaker 2: never coming back to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Raheem Shabaz has been dominating the adult film world since
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen with raw, unapologetic content.
Speaker 1: As an award winning star and director.
Speaker 2: He has earned awards like Performer of the Year at
Speaker 2: the Gave Ends in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: He's also currently one of the judges on out TV's
Speaker 2: mail stripper competition series Darkroom Duel hosted by Willem, but.
Speaker 4: His biggest accomplishment was to start his own studio, Voyeur,
Speaker 4: a few years ago.
Speaker 3: We have all watched.
Speaker 2: In today's episode, we're gonna be talking to the performer
Speaker 2: turned director turned mogul about how he got here, where
Speaker 2: he's going, and what it's like to run an adult
Speaker 2: studio in the age of OnlyFans.
Speaker 4: We'll also pick up some tips and tricks for shooting
Speaker 4: your own content. And here's some spicy cruising confessions.
Speaker 2: So please welcome to Snivie's Cruising Confessions. Clap those cheeks
Speaker 2: for Raheem.
Speaker 3: Show boys. Welcome Raheem. Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Thank you much for the invitation, Thanks for flying in.
Speaker 1: We haven't even started. Just wait, so Raheem.
Speaker 2: For the rare listener or viewer who might not be
Speaker 2: familiar with your porn. God God bless you innocent souls,
Speaker 2: You're about to learn a lot. Can you describe what
Speaker 2: Voyeur does and the type of content and scenes that
Speaker 2: you specialize in Voyeur.
Speaker 5: We work with a lot of content creators, so it
Speaker 5: allows them a chance to work studio style. In terms
Speaker 5: of what we do what we like to provide. We
Speaker 5: we kind of like to provide that experience you have
Speaker 5: in a dream that you wake up from and you
Speaker 5: just you just want to have it again, like intimacy, passion.
Speaker 5: We want to show connection between the performers as opposed
Speaker 5: to just pounding and screaming as a.
Speaker 1: Place has a place, a place, it's just not this place.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have some of that, but yeah, at least.
Speaker 2: You're changing up the rhythm every now and then, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. You've been in the industry now
Speaker 2: about six years. You started in twenty nineteen. What was
Speaker 2: your start? Did you start with studio porn? Did you
Speaker 2: start making your own stuff? What was sort of that
Speaker 2: journey and decision like to start making porn?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I was like having wrus. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like the sex plug.
Speaker 5: Like people come over and we'd have groups and we'd
Speaker 5: have orgies, and there were times where we'd record them.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't post.
Speaker 5: Them or anything, but we would just have them just
Speaker 5: to have them. And I started noticing something in the
Speaker 5: faces of the people that we were having sex with.
Speaker 5: It was almost like they were possessed, and I didn't
Speaker 5: see that in porn. So yeah, because it's the way
Speaker 5: I have sex.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen I'm not I'm not trying to like
Speaker 1: hurt you.
Speaker 5: I'm not trying yeah. Yeah, I'm not trying to prove
Speaker 5: a point, trying to touch your soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I tell people, if there's no connection then then yeah no.
Speaker 4: And I think that element is the thing that has
Speaker 4: really made you so successful.
Speaker 3: Well do you feel like it's so interesting? Because I
Speaker 3: think so.
Speaker 2: I used to work as a cameraman for a porn
Speaker 2: company and in studio porn. It does feel like you're
Speaker 2: kind of like paired up. It's like when two main
Speaker 2: actors are cast in a rom com, right, like you,
Speaker 2: you hope to have chemistry from the interview, you're not sure.
Speaker 2: And I think what's been kind of exciting about the
Speaker 2: era of only fans and self made creators starting their
Speaker 2: own company like yourself, is that you get to set
Speaker 2: the vibe, you decide who to work with. You you
Speaker 2: can establish a relationship. But that idea of it just
Speaker 2: being a quick exchange, right, just get on set, do
Speaker 2: the makeup, fucking leave. You're right, there's something you feel
Speaker 2: that it's missing.
Speaker 5: This is gonna sound cheesy as fuck, but I Compare
Speaker 5: it to theater and Hollywood filmmaking. Yeah, real actors love
Speaker 5: doing plays where they can just go right through it
Speaker 5: and that takes skill, and they hate the Hollywood process
Speaker 5: where they have to stop and go and stop and go.
Speaker 5: And I feel like what I do. Compared it to
Speaker 5: the studio I've done studio like for me, like, once
Speaker 5: I get going, you know, we can't make me sweat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take a lunch break.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I don't like to ever lose that connection because
Speaker 5: sometimes you don't even get it back when you go down.
Speaker 1: It's like a sport. You want to keep going, going, going.
Speaker 2: Comparing it to live theater does kind of sense, right,
Speaker 2: there's something a little more like active when you're watching
Speaker 2: the Warrior stuff that feels it feels like it's in
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 1: We hope it comes out that way because you know,
Speaker 1: for us, the more we have to act, the more.
Speaker 5: We hate it because we're not really into it, Like
Speaker 5: we want our audience to feel what we're feeling.
Speaker 1: That's what we call it.
Speaker 3: And sometimes you do have a crowd. You got folks watching.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you like a crowd? Do you
Speaker 1: enjoy it?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I do like a crowd, especially when I get
Speaker 1: the show off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then some people join and people watching.
Speaker 1: But I'm not having sex. I'll be like, I don't
Speaker 1: know why anyone's interested in me. But then while I'm
Speaker 1: having sex.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 5: This is what.
Speaker 1: It's making sense. I want to talk about Brazil.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're still come to Brazil.
Speaker 4: You are Jersey boy end up going back and forth
Speaker 4: to Brazil for a scouting for shooting, Like how did
Speaker 4: that happen?
Speaker 5: When I was twenty five, I had recently moved to
Speaker 5: la and a friend was like, oh, you have to
Speaker 5: come to Brazil, you know, And I'm like, I don't
Speaker 5: want to go. I'm I'm from Jersey. I thought it
Speaker 5: was just rainforest. So he was like, all right, get
Speaker 5: your passport, We're going to Brazil. So me, him and
Speaker 5: my boyfriend at the time went down to Brazil, and
Speaker 5: I fell in love with the place because I hadn't
Speaker 5: started working out yet. I was this insecure boy from
Speaker 5: Jersey and when you get down there, you're not wearing
Speaker 5: a swim trunks. They make sure you throw on a
Speaker 5: speedout and I'm like, I look silly in this thing.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go back home and work out, but
Speaker 5: at the same time, they still make you feel sexy
Speaker 5: just the way they treat you. It's almost like you
Speaker 5: have an immediate friend outside of anything sexual. When I
Speaker 5: got into OnlyFans, I had friends in Brazil because I've
Speaker 5: been going to Brazil for over a decade, so all
Speaker 5: the guys out there were my friends. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: you know, there's this thing OnlyFans. Listen, I know how
Speaker 5: y'all have sex. I can't if I have sex like that.
Speaker 5: So we yeah, we all kind of got together and
Speaker 5: worked out how we'd all work together to get our
Speaker 5: names out there. Amazing, a lot of the guys down
Speaker 5: there before everything jumped off, you know that a lot
Speaker 5: of studios would come down there and take advantage of them,
Speaker 5: paying them like pennies compared to what they pay other
Speaker 5: guys in the other parts of the world. And in
Speaker 5: my opinion, they did a thing better than the other guys.
Speaker 5: And they do it without attitude, and they do it
Speaker 5: in a way in which they don't look at each
Speaker 5: other as competition. They're looking at each other as helping
Speaker 5: each other because for them, it's about survival, because they're
Speaker 5: supporting their families, their loved ones. So it's nice to
Speaker 5: see them like have an out or a way to
Speaker 5: make a significant income without being taken advantage of.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen it as well.
Speaker 2: There's some studios that would bring people in for interviews
Speaker 2: and as soon as the person said yes, they'd pop
Speaker 2: them right in front of the camera without any training
Speaker 2: any like.
Speaker 1: And they would never have any right to that video. Again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was one performer who had a company make
Speaker 2: a dildo inspired by his dick without ever asking him
Speaker 2: or telling him. Even so, they like not only stole
Speaker 2: his image for the box, but claimed that the doldo
Speaker 2: was shaped like his penis. People think they can get
Speaker 2: away with some real sneaky ship in the porn industry,
Speaker 2: and I think part of that is because people feel
Speaker 2: like it's still underground right there. There's not a lot
Speaker 2: of like openness in terms of talking about the industry.
Speaker 3: There aren't a lot of usis yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: You got to rely on someone who've been through it
Speaker 2: and been you know, through those mistakes or been through
Speaker 2: the trauma to be like, hey, look out for this
Speaker 2: or do this, which it sounds like you're doing right,
Speaker 2: Like it sounds like there needs to be more people
Speaker 2: like you're working at porn, who have that perspective of
Speaker 2: being an actor and know what feels right and what
Speaker 2: seems fair.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about making that switch from actor to director.
Speaker 5: I feel like the Brazilians directed me based off of
Speaker 5: the experiences that I've had there. When you're directing someone,
Speaker 5: you just you just teach them to be as natural, well,
Speaker 5: in my style, natural as possible. Establish a brand for
Speaker 5: yourself what people are going to know you for, just
Speaker 5: like a wweast, you know, get that special move. You
Speaker 5: gotta get those moves in that people know you buy it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about my special moves.
Speaker 5: Going to be my main word to people before we
Speaker 5: start is show off because you're on a stage and
Speaker 5: you want when people see you, you want them to
Speaker 5: want to see more of you.
Speaker 1: So show off. I say that to my bottoms too,
Speaker 1: even show off. I don't bottom much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris is like a You're a very adventurous spirit,
Speaker 3: but it takes a while.
Speaker 1: To yeah, get around to it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Also, I don't have a lot of tops in my life.
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 5: Number one, you're built the way you're built and you're
Speaker 5: a black man, so people are always so do you
Speaker 5: think you don't bottom much because you can't find.
Speaker 4: The top that you that is wanting or willing. Really,
Speaker 4: I just like I'm a bottom magnet. They see me
Speaker 4: and they like reach out and like the tops don't
Speaker 4: really I know.
Speaker 2: So many that would have asked about you, even all right,
Speaker 2: we're going to fix off, can we We're going to
Speaker 2: send them my way back to Brooklyn right over?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 2: Hi? H No.
Speaker 5: But I mean that's also the fun. Fun part of
Speaker 5: it is seeing someone with your energy, your character and
Speaker 5: then like in that moment they just turned into something
Speaker 5: totally different.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, when my bottom switches on, Yeah, people are
Speaker 4: always a surprised just turns.
Speaker 1: Into something totally different, just like me. I feel like
Speaker 1: I have such a delightful.
Speaker 5: Conservative energy, but as soon as the sex turns on
Speaker 5: and like it's I could be whispering in someone's ear.
Speaker 2: I'm like, because I think when we talked to you,
Speaker 2: I think the only impression I had of you was
Speaker 2: from your porn scenes, and there's something very like not
Speaker 2: not like authoritative, but there's something really kind of like
Speaker 2: I got it right, You're you're kind of like the
Speaker 2: guiding hand in the scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, What does it take for you to get
Speaker 3: into that mindset when you're on set?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Like, how do you go from the right heam, we're
Speaker 2: talking to now to the right hem. That's like balls
Speaker 2: d been whispering crazy shit and someone's here.
Speaker 1: Oh yo yo, it's funny, asked.
Speaker 5: I listened to the same song really with two songs,
Speaker 5: La La La La La by Ari Lennox, okay, and
Speaker 5: I listened to open Up by Danielle Caesar, but it's
Speaker 5: called open and then it's the kiss. On that first kiss,
Speaker 5: it's over. It's just like it's like match and I
Speaker 5: look at it like a sport.
Speaker 3: Like this time the balls will be going back and forth.
Speaker 2: I'm curious were there any experiences you had as a
Speaker 2: performer before you started directing where you had like pet
Speaker 2: peeves and you were like, I never want to do
Speaker 2: that as a director.
Speaker 5: And I never liked titles being attached to me. So
Speaker 5: they wanted me to be at the top because you don't.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be labeled as I don't want
Speaker 5: to be called daddy. I don't want none of that. Ye,
Speaker 5: I just want to be myself. Yeah, That's why Only
Speaker 5: Fans is so great, is because we can be ourselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think there is a it's certainly changing
Speaker 2: a bit, but there's a trend in studio where it's
Speaker 2: like a right, you're the top of your top, your bottom,
Speaker 2: your bottom. It's nice to hear that you found some liberation,
Speaker 2: right to be yourself and not like an archetype. And
Speaker 2: you did that by starting your own company.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't wonder why that is, right, Like, why
Speaker 4: are studios so beholden to these rigid.
Speaker 1: Because they work.
Speaker 5: I mean it's just like yeah TV, if there's a
Speaker 5: trend that's popping, they're going to run into the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: When we do Only Fans, we kind of get to
Speaker 5: experiment and see what works for us. When it's the studio,
Speaker 5: they're putting money into the project, so they're gonna want
Speaker 5: to make sure they get the return.
Speaker 1: It's just like a movie.
Speaker 5: They're gonna they're gonna hire the stars that are gonna
Speaker 5: get them the audience that they want.
Speaker 1: Are you contracted with those big studio or you are? Okay?
Speaker 3: There used to be exclusive contracts from some common right, even.
Speaker 5: With the guys that I worked with Voyeur you know
Speaker 5: a lot of people say, oh, you should sign them
Speaker 5: to exclusive contracts, and I'm like, no, they're they're their
Speaker 5: own businessmen, and I want them to act that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just working together. Yeah, I want them to
Speaker 1: come back if they want exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would imagine that's the kind of thing you've learned
Speaker 3: being a being am.
Speaker 5: Because in all honesty, if I if I followed the
Speaker 5: rules of an exclusive, I wouldn't have grown.
Speaker 2: Talking about studio porn, I feel like the nineties into
Speaker 2: the two thousand's was sort of that last era where
Speaker 2: we started seeing big budget porn right, like, so that's costumes, storylines.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's kind of fallen out of the mainstream.
Speaker 2: But if you had all the money in the world
Speaker 2: and you could shoot like an old school porn scene,
Speaker 2: what would that porn sceine look like?
Speaker 1: I would love like something out of the Matrix.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love that, like the full because people don't realize, like,
Speaker 5: when I'm filming povs, I'm basically playing neo because I'm like.
Speaker 1: Wit one hand holding my phone. Okay, so Matrix were
Speaker 1: we casting.
Speaker 5: I would love to cast Sean Zehyrin, who kind of
Speaker 5: got me started Hazel Hoffman phrase melanin and then just like.
Speaker 1: A lot of the new performers. Are you liking the
Speaker 1: new performers, that's the next generation of stars. I do okay,
Speaker 1: I do? You know? And you know what, let me
Speaker 1: say this. I had to train myself early on.
Speaker 5: Don't ever become one of these performers who say, oh dang,
Speaker 5: as good as we used to do it.
Speaker 1: You have to realize, you know, things evolved. It's also
Speaker 1: the ages that they.
Speaker 5: Feel comfortable during that stuff, because I don't feel like
Speaker 5: I became even comfortable showing my face on an.
Speaker 1: App until I was in my thirties. You know how
Speaker 1: we used to always just show the body. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I always put my face out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got a really beautiful one. The face
Speaker 3: card never declined.
Speaker 1: Come on, now, you appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You knew that, and stop.
Speaker 5: It's so nice to hear. Are you guys together? Oh no,
Speaker 5: we just sound like we are, Mike a good couple.
Speaker 1: I can see it through the room.
Speaker 2: Surprise, surprise, top we can we start the scene and
Speaker 2: everybody thinks they no, because you're gonna be the We're.
Speaker 1: Like I love that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, No, you're you're you're my sister.
Speaker 2: No for sure, Yeah, yeah truly, but like my really
Speaker 2: hots Okay, that's actually a little in senstuous.
Speaker 3: Maybe not my sister. You're a mesty all right, we're
Speaker 3: not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that. We're
Speaker 3: not family in that way that.
Speaker 1: It really does. When I learn what what is selling,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, well it's like.
Speaker 2: The straight people love stepmoms hooking up with the sun,
Speaker 2: and then the gays love twins getting fucked together.
Speaker 3: Like it's really wild.
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to ask you guys questions? What kind
Speaker 1: of porn do you watch? I don't watch porn? You don't.
Speaker 1: Since getting sober, I have stopped watching a lot of porn.
Speaker 4: And now I have a lot of friends who are creators,
Speaker 4: and every time I would open an app, it would
Speaker 4: be them, and I was like, I know that this
Speaker 4: is going to be very sexy, but I do not
Speaker 4: want to see you having sex.
Speaker 5: My best friend said that, he was like every time, like, well,
Speaker 5: the fucking porn hub, it's you and I got cheap strolling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's you again.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you say that though, because I felt
Speaker 2: very much the same way. I loved watching porn in
Speaker 2: college because I just come out and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: here are all the things I never knew about or
Speaker 2: I never saw. And then I started editing porn and
Speaker 2: I couldn't watch it for like the whole time I
Speaker 2: worked there in a year after, because you see it
Speaker 2: and it's like you start seeing the scenes, right, you
Speaker 2: see where the edits are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can notice everything, every single thing.
Speaker 2: So I would find myself watching porn and being like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't believe that cut, or like, oh his hand
Speaker 2: is on the different side of his dick. They clearly
Speaker 2: like cut and then reset. So's it started ruining the
Speaker 2: fantasy for me. But it felt like being a filmmaker
Speaker 2: and watching a movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I find it so disappointing when people just set up
Speaker 2: a tripod and it's very far away and that's all
Speaker 2: you get.
Speaker 1: I don't like a still camera.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm watching the paranormal activity, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's like it feels like a home
Speaker 2: security camera.
Speaker 5: That's why my camera guy he's always flying around us.
Speaker 3: That feels so dynamic, right when you when you go
Speaker 3: from that wide shot and then you go in on
Speaker 3: someone's face.
Speaker 2: It feels like you're being drawn in. Is that a
Speaker 2: decision you made intentionally too early on? When you were
Speaker 2: thinking about the vibe of voyeur, you were like, we
Speaker 2: have to have a dynamic visual approach.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: The way my camera moves it lets you know that
Speaker 5: this isn't being chopped and pieced together.
Speaker 1: This is going all the way through. This is the
Speaker 1: full experience. I mean, you can fast forward or rewind
Speaker 1: it all you want, but yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: the real thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. A lot of the shoots that you do with
Speaker 3: Woyor are very like white tile, white sheets.
Speaker 5: Well, I like the I like the setting to be
Speaker 5: as blank as possible so that the focus is on
Speaker 5: there to perform. Absolutely, I think it makes the skins pop.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was in Miami recently, and you know, I had
Speaker 5: a scene that day, so of course I ran the
Speaker 5: Marshalls and got my white bed linen and I got
Speaker 5: back in the hotel and I was in the elevator
Speaker 5: with a group of people and this one guy was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 5: I love your movies.
Speaker 1: Oh I know what's happening. We saw the white linen
Speaker 1: in the bag, and yeah, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of friends I have that are porn performers often
Speaker 2: get recognized in public, and they deal with it in
Speaker 2: different ways.
Speaker 3: So when you get the look when you're on public
Speaker 3: and someone's like, how do you respond.
Speaker 5: I say, my secret weapon is probably never to go
Speaker 5: out in public. I mean I have the same places
Speaker 5: that I generally go to every day, the park, hike, supermarket, okay,
Speaker 5: and I'll just chill by my friend's so I don't
Speaker 5: usually get to have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: Maybe on a hike, yeah you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna save all the locations you listed. I
Speaker 2: feel like gays in La loved going for hiding.
Speaker 1: That's where it happens.
Speaker 5: It's always cute when it's like a group of them
Speaker 5: coming down the hill and then one of them is
Speaker 5: like the one that's bold enough to step aside and
Speaker 5: feel like I love you. But you just smile, yeah,
Speaker 5: say thank you and keep a push. And I have dogs,
Speaker 5: I have to keep a push.
Speaker 3: You've always got to exit strategy with the dogs.
Speaker 1: In the bedroom. Oh my god, I gotta take my
Speaker 1: dogs for a walk.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we are going to take a quick break,
Speaker 2: but when we come back, we will be pumping rightheem
Speaker 2: for some helpful.
Speaker 3: Tips for shooting your own homemade content and more.
Speaker 1: All right, stay tuned, welcome back.
Speaker 2: We are here with the porn icon and dog Daddy himself,
Speaker 2: Rhim Shabaz. I mean that literally does not a pup
Speaker 2: play thing. He does have dogs and they're really cute.
Speaker 2: So in this act, we are hoping Rahiem can share
Speaker 2: just a few tips and tricks for how to maybe
Speaker 2: follow in his footsteps. So I'm curious you mentioned you
Speaker 2: started off.
Speaker 3: Doing a bit of studio porn.
Speaker 2: That's how you met some of the folks who kind
Speaker 2: of helped you get your own footing and start on
Speaker 2: your own. Now that you are running not just your
Speaker 2: own only fans, but your own company, what are some
Speaker 2: of the challenges to running your own studio and what
Speaker 2: are some of the benefits?
Speaker 5: You know, I know what it feels like as a
Speaker 5: performer to feel used by your studio, so I never
Speaker 5: want anyone working with us to feel as though they're
Speaker 5: just being used and tossed aside, So I try as
Speaker 5: much to treat them with as much respect as possible.
Speaker 5: For me, it's about all of us winning. The scary
Speaker 5: thing is once someone attains that kind of success, or income,
Speaker 5: like to lose it, you go through something very dangerous,
Speaker 5: like you either have to move on past it or
Speaker 5: you become desperate and you start doing more extremes too. Yes,
Speaker 5: I think that's something that the world hasn't grappled with.
Speaker 1: Is that a lot of these.
Speaker 5: Influencers, it's fleeting, and then you have to deal with
Speaker 5: the people after they crash out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm curious how the rise of fans heights
Speaker 4: and all this access to free porn has impacted you
Speaker 4: and your business.
Speaker 5: You are constantly full of anxiety trying to think of
Speaker 5: what can take you to the next level, what can
Speaker 5: make this evolve into something more lucrative or grander. You
Speaker 5: want to bring something new to the game. Yeah, because
Speaker 5: people are starting to become numb to porn. Yeah, people
Speaker 5: are becoming numb to sex.
Speaker 4: And that was my thing, is I was starting to
Speaker 4: become numb to porn and numb to sex, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I actually don't want that. I want to
Speaker 4: be able to like put them having sex, to be
Speaker 4: able to connect. And yeah, I feel like I've done this.
Speaker 4: I've seen this a thousand times, you know. I mean
Speaker 4: there are times when I do pop in. Sure, you
Speaker 4: gotta see what the girls are up to, right, You
Speaker 4: got to be up to date on your It's like.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's been a couple of weeks. I should probably take.
Speaker 2: Care of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, damn, it be like that in New York City.
Speaker 1: I work five jobs. Listen, do you want to work?
Speaker 5: You want to have a smile on your face, not
Speaker 5: that if you get it good enough. You want to
Speaker 5: make the time. You want to knock the hands off
Speaker 5: that clock so fast?
Speaker 3: I do you want to ask?
Speaker 2: You started doing porn after PREP had sort of come
Speaker 2: out and was available to folks. But like, as somebody
Speaker 2: who has been both of youer and a participant, how
Speaker 2: do you think PREP has changed the porn industry or
Speaker 2: how porn performers sort of operate within the industry.
Speaker 5: I think it's why you see kind of the eraser
Speaker 5: of condoms in the industry. I think HIV a's has
Speaker 5: always been the greatest fear amongst a lot of young
Speaker 5: gay men, especially in the black community.
Speaker 1: Even if you didn't do anything, or you did.
Speaker 5: The simplest thing, you were work because you were kind
Speaker 5: of felt like being a gay man, you're bound to
Speaker 5: be cursed with So I think it took away the
Speaker 5: stigma of being intimate with someone who has the virus.
Speaker 5: I think it takes away the fear and I think
Speaker 5: that's great. And it also gives us options to be safe.
Speaker 5: And at ninety nine percent, that's that's feeling pretty safe. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was shocked when I read those numbers, because you know,
Speaker 2: you were around when it first came out, Like everybody
Speaker 2: was like, oh, we don't know.
Speaker 5: That was me. Yeah, and then I said, oh wait,
Speaker 5: no a rich people taking this, let me go. But
Speaker 5: then I said the price, Okay, let me see what
Speaker 5: study I think. So, yeah, you find it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really do.
Speaker 4: So for our listeners, what advice would you give to
Speaker 4: them if they wanted to get started and important?
Speaker 5: I mean, there are a bunch of things i'd say.
Speaker 5: I mean the number one thing I'd say is are
Speaker 5: you sure? I mean the money, The exposure may look nice,
Speaker 5: but once it goes out there, you can't take it back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, are you sure this is what you want
Speaker 1: to do? Okay?
Speaker 5: Then establish a brand, no matter how hot you are,
Speaker 5: no matter how big your dick is, no matter how
Speaker 5: big your ass is. If you don't have something that
Speaker 5: people know you by like longevity is not going to
Speaker 5: be within reach for you. Okay, maintain your mental health.
Speaker 5: Social media alone is a lot to deal with. Then,
Speaker 5: when you are putting yourself out there in a way
Speaker 5: that's so intimate and exposed, you're going to have to
Speaker 5: deal with some shit. Make sure you have a space
Speaker 5: where you can deal with it properly.
Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? Because people have opinions,
Speaker 1: you know you. I think also it.
Speaker 5: Helps for me that I got into this when I
Speaker 5: was older, because I know how to separate from it.
Speaker 5: It surprises me when I go out and someone recognizes
Speaker 5: me because I'm doing what I do and I'm going
Speaker 5: back to my life with my dogs and.
Speaker 1: The friends that I do have. You have to have
Speaker 1: a separation. Do you have a team that handles your socials? No,
Speaker 1: I handle my social Listen, you be getting some good
Speaker 1: messages in your socials. Time you got to see yourself.
Speaker 1: You ain't see that as bad enough. He has access
Speaker 1: to my emails.
Speaker 4: So I'd love to hear about. What are some tips
Speaker 4: or tricks that you can use for like creating your
Speaker 4: own content at home?
Speaker 5: Lots of lube, have a camera man, just to make
Speaker 5: sure you get good angles, and not just for yourself
Speaker 5: but for the person watching, like they want to see
Speaker 5: this stuff. Make sure you present yourself and your sex
Speaker 5: and the best light it can be presented.
Speaker 1: So go to Marshalls. Go to Marshall's. Marshalls.
Speaker 3: You heard of the best sex sheets are at Marshalls. Now, raheem.
Speaker 2: You have great connection with your partners on on one
Speaker 2: and in smaller groups, but sometimes you have a lot
Speaker 2: of people in one room, like a lot of people,
Speaker 2: and I am curious logistically, how do you choreograph that?
Speaker 3: Like how do you start hurting cats when they're all horny?
Speaker 5: First and foremost, you have to know who it is
Speaker 5: you're inviting, because you have to know that they're gonna
Speaker 5: vibe with everyone else in the room and see it's
Speaker 5: like it's an egg whites. You can't get a yoke
Speaker 5: in there and mess everything up.
Speaker 1: Then you you lead.
Speaker 5: I mean, it may start off with just walking around
Speaker 5: the room and kissing a person just to make everyone
Speaker 5: like realize, all right, it's time I can do this.
Speaker 5: Because everyone has their eyes it's almost like ready for
Speaker 5: the race to go. They got their eyes on somebody.
Speaker 5: And once you hit that start, then everyone starts dancing,
Speaker 5: and it's literally not a performance. Everyone is like literally
Speaker 5: just like genuinely enjoying each other. Yeah, and we just
Speaker 5: have a camera guy that that follows it all.
Speaker 2: Your seems to do a really good job of feeling
Speaker 2: balanced when there are a lot of people in the room,
Speaker 2: and typically they're like all on the couch or they're
Speaker 2: all in the bed, but sometimes like an orgy.
Speaker 3: I'm watching it as a critical eye, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Be leading reviews absolutely?
Speaker 1: How can I ask you, guys a question? Would you
Speaker 1: have sex with the porn star I have? I also have?
Speaker 1: How comfortable are you talking about your sexual experiences? How
Speaker 1: is it with? Then? It was great? I talk about
Speaker 1: my sex life a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we both do on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If I had sex with you, would you come
Speaker 1: back and talk about it on the podcast?
Speaker 4: It depends if we said it was okay to talk
Speaker 4: about I tell you it's okay, okay, great, I would
Speaker 4: absolutely talk about it.
Speaker 3: Tune in for later.
Speaker 4: Because like I obviously would be bracking. Girl, you won't believe,
Speaker 4: But I need this week never mind forgod, I asked,
Speaker 4: oh Lord, what all? Oh we should make that out
Speaker 4: one we will, Okay, please have you seen this?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Oh God, Now I'm saying, now that I know that
Speaker 4: you run your socials, I'll send you something.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Your skills as a top are iconic. I'm curious what
Speaker 4: do you look for in bottoms someone who's confident?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like confidence, but I guess it doesn't really
Speaker 5: matter because sometimes you can just draw it out of them.
Speaker 1: They just turn to a different piece. Sure what I
Speaker 1: was going to say.
Speaker 2: You're pretty verse in some of your scenes as well,
Speaker 2: So like when you're bottoming, what are some things that
Speaker 2: you do to prepare feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because in my private life I'm basically a top.
Speaker 5: But the game of who's a top who's a bottom
Speaker 5: in the gay community is such a stupid thing.
Speaker 1: It's the first we like each other.
Speaker 5: Why does one have to be more masculated than the other.
Speaker 5: And I also think it's kind of the responsibility of
Speaker 5: the top to understand how that feels doing it, because
Speaker 5: you have to have some kind of empathy when doing
Speaker 5: that to a.
Speaker 1: Person, especially if you have a certain size. Get a tip.
Speaker 5: I would say, get massages because if you learn to
Speaker 5: take a massage, it's similar. The more you relax, the
Speaker 5: more you can just enjoy it. The more you can enjoy,
Speaker 5: the just relax. Most people are so tense and they're
Speaker 5: worried about the pain that's coming.
Speaker 4: For me, it's less about the pain and more about
Speaker 4: the performance anxiety, Like I want to get my top
Speaker 4: an enjoyable experience.
Speaker 1: It's weird that you.
Speaker 5: Say that, because for me, it's the opposite, Like I
Speaker 5: feel like I'm supposed to give this person an experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm.
Speaker 5: Supposed to pull them into my world. Okay, you know,
Speaker 5: all you have to do is later and when you
Speaker 5: feel it, when you feel.
Speaker 3: The spirit, just lie there is crazy, you would pointing, Yeah,
Speaker 3: come on it kicks.
Speaker 1: How do we get on this topic, Well, welcome to.
Speaker 2: So we have a few rapid fire questions for you,
Speaker 2: if we may ask, so, could you describe your Sniffy's
Speaker 2: profile picture for us if you have one.
Speaker 5: It's a picture that I took in Barcelona. I'm just
Speaker 5: standing and my dick is straight out. I literally look
Speaker 5: like an action hero. So I would say your profile
Speaker 5: picture should be the perfect representation of you.
Speaker 4: All right, what was the last message you received on
Speaker 4: Sniffy's and can you read it out loud?
Speaker 1: What you want me to go get my phone and
Speaker 1: you read it. You know. My messages are usually like
Speaker 1: is this really you? Rahem lives in La Can I
Speaker 1: travel right? All right? When you're hooking up? Is it
Speaker 1: your place, their place or a third place? My place?
Speaker 1: Because I know how I like everything to be.
Speaker 5: And there have been times where I would go to
Speaker 5: another person's place, but then I'd be like, this is
Speaker 5: why I do it in my place.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 3: What is the corniest opening line that's ever worked on you?
Speaker 1: On me?
Speaker 5: I think in today's world, no one really feels the
Speaker 5: need to be corny. People are pretty bold now. They
Speaker 5: come up and they'd be like, I want that dick.
Speaker 1: How do I get that dick? Yeah, people, I'm absolutely
Speaker 1: giving you the corny line to me, how do I
Speaker 1: get that?
Speaker 5: It's not even just that, but there will be like
Speaker 5: I want you to slut me out, okay, And I'm like,
Speaker 5: I do not just like.
Speaker 1: Gather guys for like, I do not take orders. I'm
Speaker 1: not all right, where's the last place you hooked up
Speaker 1: with someone? My bedroom? Just before my flight? Amazing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt that I missed my flight, but I'm here.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: When you were like, oops, I missed my flight to China.
Speaker 1: You got found out. You got found out.
Speaker 2: There is one thing you should know, which is that
Speaker 2: good sex is always an excuse to be good.
Speaker 1: And I'm here. You've got a good story.
Speaker 3: Was good, No, it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the way you said that shook shook me to
Speaker 3: my core a couple of times. Just whispered into my whole.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a whisper.
Speaker 3: Maybe we're almost to.
Speaker 1: The end of the episode.
Speaker 3: Just hold on, hold on, all right, you got it.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be good. My god, I could feel your
Speaker 3: hands clenching and your whole loosening. But we will make
Speaker 3: it to the end, I promise you.
Speaker 2: Nobody, nobody, all right, what an amazing show, Raheem. It
Speaker 2: has been such a pleasure having you in studio talking
Speaker 2: about your amazing work and getting some really helpful advice
Speaker 2: from you.
Speaker 3: We just really appreciate it. You've been such a Thank
Speaker 3: you so much.
Speaker 1: This is really cool. We did a cool thing today.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys are happy.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure folks know where to find you. But
Speaker 2: where can folks learn more about boy or see your
Speaker 2: work or find you online.
Speaker 1: Oh God, in person, just type in the name r
Speaker 1: H Y H E I M and something will you'll find. Sniffy's.
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