Best Adult Entertainer is an Award I never heard of before. Correspondingly, have you ever heard before of a Stardom like Rhyheim Shabazz‘?
The Year of Rhyheim Shabazz
Indeed, 2019 has been Rhyheim Shabazz’. Rather than balkanizing his skills in several smaller awards, we chose to honor him as Best Adult Entertainer of the Year.
When we are writing this post, in the last hours of 2019, his following in Twitter is above 330K. And do not forget, there was no Rhyheim Shabazz before last February. We are proud to be perhaps the first blog that noticed his potential, and we have been following his rocketing ascension from the very beginning.
You could even say that sometimes this blog seems an extension of his Press Office. We have followed him closely, certainly. Instead of repeating myself, I suggest you to read some of the landmarks in our reporting. We wrote about him much more, this is not an exhaustive list.
Best Adult Entertainer 2019 timeline
- Gay Porn Superstar is Born? Back in March, when I first noticed him and predicted his success. His Twitter account was one month older and had 45.4 followers. It is March 9th.
- Our series of exclusive interviews: the first, the second, and the third and last one.
- Rhyheim Shabazz’ Vanilla Renaissance: commentary on Rhyheim’s particular brand, I would call it nowadays “Neo vanilla”. His following in Twitter is now above 120K, it is May 11th.
- Is Rhyheim Shabazz a genius? It is June 27th and his following reached 187K. We break down some of the keys to understand Rhyheim’s success.
- Rhyheim and Jay did it again. This is the original report on the Best Duo Scene 2019. It is July 17th.
- Rhyheim & The Cash Twins. Another groundbreaking scene, and another report breaking down Rhyheim’s keys to success. The date is August 13th.
- Porn King Midas: a post analyzing one of our Best Adult Entertainer 2019’s super powers, he improves everything he touches. It is now September 21st, and the followers count is 248K.
- Shabazz Porn TV. In October 6th, I suggest that understanding Rhyheim as “just” a porn star is unfair reductionism. For the first time, I advocate for Adult Entertainer as a better descriptor.
- Blackmailing in Twitter: It is November 17th, the followers count is 288K, and the Best Adult Entertainer 2019 is under attack.
- 300K. Despite the attack, Rhyheim’s following reaches 300K. It is December 6th.
Best Adult Entertainer 2019 breakdown
As we said before, reducing Rhyheim Shabazz to his gay porn star status would not be fair to celebrate the whole array of his talents. Therefore, we are proposing crowning him as Best Adult Entertainer instead. Under this title, we merge several distinctions. Here you have the break down.
Best top 2019
Usually when awards celebrate tops, they look at his looks, his demeanor, and his performance. Of course we do the same, just look a little bit further.
Mainly, we think Rhyheim Shabazz is the Best Top 2019 because we looked at his partners. The overwhelming majority of partners who bottomed for Rhyheim, delivered their best performance ever.
Best dick 2019
Not only his dick is huge and beautiful. Besides, it is always hard. We cannot help but wonder, where does all that blood go to when there is no erection? Incidentally, there is very kittle footage os Rhyheim’s dick in flaccid state.
Best studio 2019
This year the studios’ production is unimpressive. We may celebrate Timtales for discovering Rhyheim, Flavaworks for bringing Brazilian stars to the American market, and Helix and Cockyboys for casting new talented hotties, but no one can compete with our Best Adult Entertainer.
As a matter of fact, Rhyheim’s bedroom has become a Porn Powerhouse able to compete with any major studio. Not only in content amount and quality, but in the weight of the casting.
Best Production and Screenwriter 2019
Besides captivating us with his looks and skillful performances, Rhyheim Shabazz covers most of the logistics and creative work involved in production. Screenwriting, Lightning, staging, casting, are some of the main skills he brigs to the table.
Although we do not know up to what point, he has included other partners’ contribution. Indeed, leadership and team building are essential skills for any producer. The Best Adult Entertainer 2019 has led and/or developed partnerships with the Brazilians, with Leon Reddz, with EyeFilmz, and many more.
Best Social Media Star
If you have been following his ascension, you have witnessed Rhyheim Shabazz’ mastery of social media. He shared in one if the interviews linked above that he had close to zero exposure to Twitter when he started back in February. His meteoric success is impressive, he has mastered the platforms in a very short time.
Before him, Alam Wernik used to be the model of a self made social media star. Rhyheim has attained more and in a shorter time.
Perhaps Rhyheim represents a better understanding of the platforms. Alam based his success in self centered promotion. In contrast, Rhyheim built networks and teams, and therefore multiplied his own reach and the speed of his raising.
Best newcomer/Best revelation
We do have to mention these traditional awards. However, not to explain why Rhyheim deserves them as in the previous cases. Instead, we need to explain why he does not.
These are traditional honors designed to encourage industry new promises. Rhyheim Shabazz is not promise anymore. We reserve these awards to highlight other performers in need of extra support.
The First Adult Entertainer of the Year
Despite breaking down the title in smaller traditional awards, we are still not covering the full dimension of our Porn Super Hero.
Rhyheim Shabazz deserves the title of Best Adult Entertainer because of the groundbreaking nature of his work, besides its premium quality. He is not just driving traffic and audiences, he is doing it by setting trends and building his own branding. What it is even more remarkable, he is often going in the counter intuitive direction.
In a market where tops are often appreciated by the degree of mistreatment of their partners, in a model mostly driven from binary heteronormativity, and often charged with subliminal homophobia, Rhyheim Shabazz brings back flirting and romantic seduction. Our Best Adult Entertainer is leading a more sex positive and more fluid mindset in porn.
As part of his mindset, porn is integrated and complemented with other content. As you know if you are a follower, Rhyheim offers much more than sex.
In an industry culture driven by self centered branding and selfish marketing strategies, Rhyheim Shabazz brings team building, collaboration, and friendly competition.
While most porn factories, traditional or not, seem to be focused on finding their market niche, Rhyheim Shabazz seems to be rather driven by inclusion, integration and expansion.
These are all strengths that are usually not addressed by any industry awards. They all are assets in our Best Adult Entertainer’s repertoire.
Looking at 2020 and forward
A long time ago (in the Shabazzian Universe that means a few months behind) Rhyheim told me that he estimated his “moment” would last about 10 months. We are right now in that mark, and I am glad to say he was wrong.
2019 may be the last year of the 2010s decade, but hopefully will be the first of the next porn decade. A decade where Rhyheim Shabazz’ influence will be iconic.
However, I do not there to play the predictions game when discussing our Best Adult Entertainer 2019. We did not foresee Kurt Jacobs. This blogger did not predict The Cash Twins. We never saw coming Rhyheim’s partnership with the Brazilians. And the list can go on and on.
Actually, we are open to be surprised because we know we will be. That power, the ability to keep your audience expectant, to be unpredictable, is perhaps one of the most important of our Best Adult Entertainer 2019’s super powers.
Happy New Year folks!
This is our last post of 2019. Nonetheless, it is not our last Best Pingas Award. Perhaps it is the most important one, but not the first or the last. We have already delivered:
- Best Escort USA: Allen from Dallas, and the whole world.
- Best Escort Argentina: Fran from Buenos Aires
- Best Escort Rio de Janeiro: Italo Andrade
- Best Porn Couple: Krave Melanine and SexualRiderJay from Atlanta
- Porn Pet of the Year: Shiva from Los Angeles.
- Best Porn Return: Ashton Summers from Orlando.
- Best Duo Scene: Rhyheim Shabazz, Jay Alexander, and EyeFilmz
- Best Bottom 2019: Ruslan Angelo from Sweden (I don’t know what city)
- Sweetest Porn Couple 2019: Italo Andrade and Victor Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro.
- Best Sauna Rio de Janeiro 2019: Point 202 by Junior.
- Best Gang Bang 2019. Rhyheim Shabazz, Ruslan Angelo, Krave Melanin, and friends.
During the first days of 2020 we will continue celebrating the highlights of our 2019 adult entertainment experiences. Stay tuned, there are more Best Pingas Awards.
Hasta la próxima pinga, amig@s!
