A lot of people often ask me how I got into the internet porn industry. Well it was mostly accidental, and after sharing stories with fellow players it turns out they stumbled into the game by accident, coincidence, or karma too. But they surely did not prep for it. I actually wrote a book on this interesting topic a few years ago called ePimp. But I’ll give you readers a quick synopsis. Turn back the clock to 1995. Thats when I first started dabbling on the internet and with computers in general. I was a junior in high school, and my mom got me this computer to type my English papers on because I was tracked in this honors program called GATE. I think it stood for “gifted and talented education” or something like that. The courses were a little more advanced and the teachers always pushed to squeeze a bit more out of the students, and of course we got some sort of college credits for the coursework we took. Anyhow, one of the requirements was to type all your papers… so I got the computer going for that reasons in itself at the time. In 1995 there was not “internet” just Prodigy and AOL on dialup. But it was still kinda cool, dialing up and hearing that cat fighting sound of a modem connecting you to others.
Fast forward 2 years to graduation, I was headed to college without a dime… no car, no job, and about $500 in student loan money. Whooptee-doo. So I had a lot of free time on my hands. I bought some books and taught myself how to make web pages, and eventually started trying to sell them to little mom and pop stores, door to door for a little small time hustle. Eventually I started my own site (ironically not much different than this one) called www.blackmind.com. It was a site where I posted random rants, poetry, music, favorite book passages, art, and homemade software. I was going to school to be a programmer, and wanted to make educational software for black kids in particular.
Using click & create and a few other programs, I authored some math programs, history, reading, you name it. And they all had black faces and voices of course. I’m so vain that my main video game character “Kareem” was actually modeled after myself. So I shopped this idea around various schools, cultural centers, online, door to door, and all to no avail. I was about 17 at the time and knew nothing about the business world, distribution, getting press, etc yet you would think someone would take an interest… especially your own people. Heh. At the time, if we’re selling a bootleg 2pac cd then people wouldn’t break off any bread whatsoever to you.
I abandoned this childrens software project when the going got rough, as I had to eat/sleep/study still and eventually got a job in the computer lab in my university. I had some spare time on my hands and started up a few web pages. I plopped some banners on them from an adult company (Xpics by the way) and I started getting little checks. My first one was for $14, then next for $100, and they just kept coming. Within 6 months I quit my job (and school) and bought my first home in Florida. I was 19 years old making 6 figures with little to no overhead and the world was mine… until I got married. But thats another story for another day. If you want the full scoop buy my books, and have a good nite. I gotta go workout.
Shimmy
Most kids have superhero role models like Superman, Batman, GI Joe, etc… and thats cool. Maybe it’s even normal. Me on the other hand, being a child of the late 70s, I grew up on the Dolemite character played by Rudy Ray Moore. If you’ve never seen a Dolemite flick you’re really missing out. I’d consider him to be the equivalent of a black James Bond… the role he plays is this cool, calm, well respected playboy who is kinda like a one man army that doesn’t take shit from anybody.
