She Done Already Done Had Herses! Rupaul's Life Before Dragrace
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2024
- We never really talk about Rupaul's Life before dragrace, I mean we all sort of know what went on in her rise to fame in the 1990s, but even as I was putting together research for this video, I realized that there's barely any information about what Ru's life was like in her early childhood years. Hopefully since she's releasing a book this year we will get more information.
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Lovely! Could you also do a part two about the Mesopotamian origins of Rupaul as the deity of Blood and Insecurity? She was known back then as Rusurri and people would burn heretics and enemies for her. Then, during the Black Plague, Rusurri was renamed Rupaustara, the embodiment of Cruel Summer and Ruthless Winter. If you look up paintings from the Witches of Salem, you can see a woman in sweatpants who eerily look like Rupaul, since she was the mother of the first coven ever and this is where she met her minion, Michelle Visage, known in Salem as Martha Greenwart.
This is excellent 😂
This is amazing, I'm gagged 😂😂
Mamaru is pinnacle forever will frack my as GGWP^3 xolox XOIOX
Not green 🤢 wart
I second that emotion
I was talking to my 90 year old grandmother yesterday about Sugar and Spice and how they can walk in those tall tall heels, and she said “Oh back in my day, there was a very famous drag queen, rupaul i think? I wonder what he’s up to now” and it put into perspective how long Ru has been famous
did you tell her how famous she is now?
@@leticiarodrigues1780 absolutely! she was stunned to see how good ru looks at this age
If your granma is 90, she was born in 1935. Her "days" would have been her 30's, which was 1965, Ru was 5 years-old. By the time Ru was old enough to walk on heels, your granma was already in her late 50s/early 60s... so, please be real and don't post such lies like this! 🙄🤨
@@shamsqasr6173so glad someone commented this bc that original comment was so obviously a bunch of bull 😅😭
When you're 90, then your 50s were four decades ago. You see yourself as young then. "Your day" doesn't end in your 30s. You must be quite young to think that it does. @@shamsqasr6173
I know boys usually look like their moms, but DAMN DOES RU NOW LOOK EXACTLY LIKE HIS MOM IN THAT INTRO PHOTO. THAT'S ADORABLE 😭💖
Is that a thing? Boys looking like their mom and i guess the same for girls?
wow... rupaul looks so much like his mom Ernestine... It's so sad that she died right as Ru became to achieve his dreams... But i bet she's looking down from heaven with a smile on her face
I didn't realize just how little most of us know about RU's life before drag race, season 5 literally had a challenge based on her life but that only really touched the surface
Nelson Sullivan has a lot of footage of Ru in the 80’s. It’s all on UA-cam on the 5ninthavenueproject channel. It’s really cool to see her then - seeing where she comes from makes you respect her even more.
I love that channel. I love Ru and Nelsons friendship. It was so sweet.
I started going to clubs in the 80s in ATLANTA one club in particular was called Weekends . She said in her book she got her college education at Weekends . Ru was a gogo dancer there and she also performed on stage as STARBOOTY . And in Atlanta she printed posters that said RuPaul is red hot. RuPaul is everything and she plastered all of midtown Atlanta with those posters. They were absolutely everywhere. She totally self promoted her self and she also made a movie called STARBOOTY that she filmed in Atlanta. Ru and Lady Bunny and Larry Tee performed at a club called The Celebrity Club and then they all moved to New York. She’s always been very close to Bunny .
I loved finding those tapes on the interweb when i was younger. They're amazing
@@xtra4life3 I recall those Atlanta days too! Also Foxie's and Club Onyx
Those videos are amazing. It makes you feel like you're watching the first vlogger lol.
In the early 90’s I lived in NYC. Was a fledgling drag performer and ran into Ru at different clubs. Was always kind to me. When drag race came out years after SuperModel, I was thrilled for her success!!
RuPaul was also in the music videos for Diana Ross's cover of I will survive. Elton John's Don't go breaking my heart. And The weather Girls it's raining men.
And the infamous B 52's Love Shack
Almost. Elton John and RuPaul released a new version of "Don't go breaking my heart" and RuPaul teamed up with Martha Wash (former Weather Girl) for a new version of "It's raining men". So sure she was in the Videos.
Fun video. It’s nice to show people the RuPaul before drag race. I met RuPaul at the virgin megastore in 1999 in West Hollywood. He had just made “but I’m a cheerleader”. We chatted for a bit. He gave me his phone number and a hug. We are both the same height. I think he was concentrating on making music and movies at that time. Before the drag race explosion.
He was already a pretty big deal in Los Angeles with his hit “supermodel”. And the follow up singles. I’m so happy for all his successes. His first biography was really good as well. If you get a chance to read that. We still run into each other once in a while at an event. And he always recognizes me and calls me sunshine. Maybe he doesn’t remember my name but I’ll take it. He is a very sweet man and it’s a shame I can’t post a picture of us together in the comments 💙
was he interested in you?
I LOVE soniques response about Ru and fracking when she was on roscoes. She says something like, 'Rupaul has helped so many queens and has given so many opportunities to less fortunate people, and she changed drag by making it go mainstream. She can frack if she wants to.' (Im paraphrasing lol)
But the plot twist is: Kylie Sonique didnt even know what fracking was. 😂 truly and iconic moment and i live!! 💜💋✌️🤝✨️
What is it?
@TheRandomTwinsM it's digging holes deep into the earth into rocks to acquire oil. Basically putting fractures deep in the earth rocks for more oil to flow through. Ru's property has oil, so she let's drillers aka frackers come and they pay Ru for it. It heavily damages the earth's crust among other things.
@@Somebody9666its very damaging to the enviorment sadly
And the truth is, 99% of the people who attack Ru over "fracking" don't know what it is themselves. Ru doesn't personally frack. Ru owns land and gets paid for the usage. On top of that, these companies can forcibly drill on your land even if you don't consent. So to go after Ru like she's this evil monster is an ignorant lie and it's actually kind of racist because why are you picking on a single black man for this? Why don't you get your ass out there and criticize Republicans? Why don't you criticize your family members for what they do?
@@danielorlovaquinn Ru isn't personally fracking. She owns land that these companies drill into. We don't know the relationship she has with them. It's possible she willfully signed a contract to be paid for the land rights. It's also very possible she was forced to allow the land to be used in this way. It's just stupid to go after Ru specifically for this.
Ru gets a lot of hate online from "fans" of the show....but she has really lived an interesting life and has done so much for the LGBT community that I could never hate on them.
Literally this. One of my friends was on Canada Drag Race and she hates on Ru so hard but like girl, Ru is part of why you’re able to do what you do
@@ArtUndertheArch there were other drag queens before rupaul 💀
@@4thedoopsbut you cant deny that Ru made it mainstream 🤷🏻♂️
Right, u have to respect what she’s gone thru and the empire she’s built
Right?! All the straights have their problematic faves who are doing way more damage to earth than ru. We pick on ru because he's part of our community however let's not forget that he put his neck out for us. We are here being "liberated" partly because of his persistence. Eat it.
I can tell RU's mom is so full of wisdom and pithy quips. She sooo wiiiiiiiise~
5:31 a year after ru was 19 he turned 20.
Nobody was killed?
i have my own little personal story about ru in atlanta: i have an older cousin who lived in atlanta in the same time and was also in the club scene. she's told me about how ru used to come to the clubs and would get people out on the dance floor and stuff, at the time they didnt know it but she was hired to do so to get people to dance and therefore drink more lol idk how true that story is and i wish i could remember the specific name of the club they frequented together but i always thought that was really cool to have someone close to me to have a story like that
Probably the Onyx, downtown Atlanta
watching this to distract me from a traumatic event that’s happening right this moment. thank you
Hope things get better for you.
I hope you’re okay! stay safe and stay blessed 💜
Wow. Sending lots of love compassion good thoughts & prayers ur way.
God i almost bawled at the mother part.. it is so tragic she never got to see what Ru became 😢❤
Ru was so cute as a kid 🤗
Gosh, Ru looks just like her mother 💖
I'm one of those newer fans who don't jive with RuPaul. I watch the shows for the queens, and don't see the "star quality" in the host, even with all the Emmys and what not. I don't think I've fully changed my mind, but this video did help humanize the person and understand that this is someone who lived through defining moments in US history. And well, ofc, it's easy to hate someone because they're rich lol I'll try to keep it in mind that this is someone who predates the internet and is doing a great job of keeping up with the times with all of the changes this new technology has brought to the world, but most importantly, the drag scene.
He helped redefine the drag scene and entertainment ..he’s a queer icon. And it’s his show!! Why do you all talk like he’s negotiable? Let him have been another race and that shit wouldn’t happen. You people make me ill. You never recognized star power clearly and are easily fooled by gimmicks. Don’t act like he’s an old man keeping up with drag when he’s a pillar to how it has and continues to evolve. Times like this I wish it was kept for the people who understand it. Anytime the rest of you get involved you act like you own it and get dismissive of people who are essential because you don’t “jive” I guess if he did flips, acted a little like an airhead, full clown mode even, and painted his face to be something that doesn’t even match the intention of drag for the sake of hiding a lack of ability to stand out serving femme but with no comedic talent or sass for true camp....then you’d love him. The younger ones seem to forget drag is femininity exaggerated, not put on a sparkly jumpsuit, sketchy wigs, and do stunts. And for those that say drag can be anything because posers in every scene do this....if everything becomes anything then we have no subcultures. It’s just a free for all, there is no drag, goths, punks, because the meaning is gone, intention, and you’re just dancing on a stage but calling it drag because you couldn’t figure out where to get your attention. People don’t jive with rue for being what drag is!!! I see you newbs in the comments. You root for theatrics but not cohesion, artistry, and if the crap makes sense at least or are they just showing what they can do. Drag is not a formless talent show for men in makeup. The feminine aspect is stripped from some of their routines as well because they don’t know what it means to serve femme so they’re just doing crap, but if they’re “unique” enough then they should win and when that doesn’t fly with people who know better then of that judge has no star quality and favor the elders too much. It’s getting wild. I sware the one that was obsessed with duck walking when she finally got it last season like first off, it’s appropriating ballroom and people called Ru a hater but why reward her for attempts at vogueing, this isn’t ballroom, but ending up NOEGUING at that. She was improper and she should’ve respected it enough to not have even brought it in like they’re interchangeable but then if she was gonna gonna add a little, then you do the shit correctly. It’s bad when prominent legends notice you screwing up on National tv and feel compelled to ask that drag queens stop appropriating their subculture because you’re that bad at it on drag race. But who ate it up, newbies! A lot of white and Asian ones who don’t even know our culture while they take the words from Black and Afro Latinx queer communities and treat our dances like it’s not as important as any other tradition. Ru is not the issue. People are mad she has class and doesn’t vibe with the messes that come on that show these days without even knowing the art form they’re engaging in and neither do their little fans
Rupaul is a legend! I'm happy to witness part of his career and success
green gay is an icon, educating us about an icon is a hard thing but you ate simple as that 💦 mama ru would be proud
cornball
I live for Cobain/RuPaul lore. Kurt was no stranger to putting on a dress!
Sad Courtney love killed her own husband because he was divorcing her. & it’s been said he was going to get full custody of the child. That’s why she killed Kurt.
@@danielkinney6325 He committed suicide. Kurt had a long history of depression and health problems. Courtney is a hot mess but she had nothing to do with his death.
Dad's genetics didn't even try 😂 I've been a fan since VH1 talk show era and a bit before due to some CDs I bought on a whim, but have never seen his parents before. He's a carbon copy of his momma. So cute.
11:30 oh this outfit GAVEEE
omg thank god you made this, i;ve been waiting for a video explaining ru pauls past
GG this was one of my absolute favorite episodes! Thank you for diving deep and giving us so much insight into Mama!
thank you for this video and reminding everyone why she is charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent
rupaul used to work at the plaza movie theater down the street from me when she lived in atlanta!
I lived down Moreland from Ponce de Leon. Majestic diner!
Rupaul’s mug during the supermodel era was BEAT!!
best quick wrap on Ru's life.
well done!
Read her first biography from the 90s it’s so inspiring and written in a way that is very easy to read
I would love to see you make a video about Sasha Velour, she’s one of my favs and your videos are my favs too
There's one youtuber with plenty of vintage Ru videos from the 80's I use to watch their videos all the time
I cannot even: Ru was the older brother of his younger sister - gurl what 😂😂
My favourite was that - both - his older sisters are twins. Instead of just "his older sisters are twins". It's giving truing to get to your essay word minimum 😄 (though I do appreciate that writing all these scripts can't be easy)
The pic GG is using is the twins.
Long time subscriber, this is amazing!
The clip you use of “nobody was killed at stonewall” in the cold open is always so iconic and hilarious 😂
Honestly, you have to respect what she’s gone thru and the empire she’s built. Ru isn’t perfect and has had some questionable moments, but she’s built a whole empire for herself and the whole community; she built it from nothing and did it on her own. Thats inspirational.
I feel like we shouldn’t have to discuss this and it should be a given but as a Black person and a non traditionally masculine one at that, the respect isn’t obvious and inherent the way people can cheer on a white girl who makes a slime business diy out of her house. We can move mountains and y’all will still be critically evaluating our legacy. Abraham Lincoln has a damn monument for partially ending slavery(we are constantly breaking humans rights terms we agreed to with nations more socially developed just to uphold his amendment)and being racist, So I know it’s not because you evaluate people as a whole. The comment just came off condescending like Ru doesn’t need some random young person without a legacy of their own yet to validate shit they’ve done for the community and entertainment as a whole. Don’t be that person that takes a statement with obviously larger implications as a personal attack btw lol you were the least important part of what I addressed, just used your comment as a spring board but I know how some of you get
I grew up a huge fan of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, so I had seen the picture of them with Ru years before I really knew anything about drag and before Drag Race was even on tv. Imagine now, i'm a huge fan of drag, so that is one of my favourite cross overs between my interests of all time
Kurt Cobain stood up for the LGBTQIA+ community, he used to tell people he himself was gay to try to normalise it more. Not quite the correct approach nowadays, but the love and the right intentions were there, if he was still with us, I think he'd be a fierce ally :)
Great video! Would love to see the story of Michelle Visage as well
Even when he dies it’s still gonna be RuPuals Drag Race with his songs and all of that. Doesn’t matter who will host
Top-notch as usual, green gay. Do Michelle next please
That picture at the beginning of the video was of RuPaul's twin sisters not of Ru. I can remember the first time I heard about RuPaul. I was a teen and read a review of his band Wee Wee Pole in the New York Village Voice. It's stuck out to me because there were very few black people besides artist Jean Michel Basquiat and rapper Fab Five Freddy in the downtown town art scene.
Excellent video ❤❤❤
"Listen, Joey, you better take it from somebody" ba-ba-ba-baaaaooouuummm
U bring up a good point. Why hasn’t there been a feature film dramatization of rupauls’s life on film yet??? We have had all these biopics the last few years. We need the RuTrue Hollywood story!
This is great 😊
the thumbnail and title is so ominously threatening lmao
i currently go Rupauls high school that he’s attended before called Gompers Preparatory Academy (he’s visited the school before but it was over a weekend) and i take this as a sign to follow the road and become a drag queen :)
I love love love this video. RuPaul is my queen. Queen of the USA. & Jinkx Monsoon is our Queen of all Queens.
Ru and Bunny were roommates.
They were roommates
"Everybody say steal." ❤
Lol you know too much!@@morticiabaddams
I use to go to the clubs just before I was 18. I don’t even know if I knew of drag queens or the aids crisis or anything at that age. I spent my teenage years being very sick and my friends were straight. Gay people here were few and far in between. I knew nothing of our culture until I went to college. I met another guy and we became inseparable. I was so consumed with having a failing heart and so I was playing catchup. It was t until my 20s that I really started to educate myself which is a shame to admit. I was an only child and my parents at the time were very vanilla. I use to see drag shows before drag race became a thing. As we get older we get wiser and look for more knowledge. I didn’t know who I was in my teens. I knew I liked guys but I didn’t know why. It is amazing that Ru in a time when internet and cell phones was not around, took the visions she saw and made them her own. For her to go on talk shows and do things and use that fierce attitude was just brilliant. A white boy like myself probably wouldn’t have been able to be that fierce. I’m really so happy for her success.
ok i had never even considered that rupaul was once a twink but seeing her at 5:27 is blowing my mind 🤯
Why does the subtitle in the thumbnail sound like a threat though?! 😭
💀
Wow! Raja and Miss TammIE Brown!!
I will say, RuPaul looks EXACTLY like his mother and father
The great ru-pression 😭😭😭
Matthew & Zaldy shaped Rupaul’s Glamorous 90’s looks that only then became marketable. In fact, they had the connections along with TommyBoy records to help him level up. Matthew & Zaldy we’re the 1st ones Showing up and showing out at fashion parties. Lady Bunny as well. NYC in the late 80’s early 90’s was the 1st time drag and fashion crossed over. Rupaul’s looks where references the top girls that Matthew was painting in his day job and Zaldy created stunning looks that put them both in society pages. It’s no fluke Rupaul is famous and well off but so many people built that image not just him.
Pretty sure the Joy Behar The View bit was a joke. Not Joy Behar being homophobic
Isn’t Ru’s Mum on the Back to my roots video?.
15:54 come on trade
I agree that Rupaul's pop cultural footprint is huge, but i'm getting tired of the Rupaul Industrial Complex now. Every year a new batch are conveyed into the factory, and some finished products are spat out the other end with newfound celebrity to promote drag and the Rupaul machine, spreading its influence globally. I just feel like i've seen it all now. I've seen every type of wig, genre, look, heard every innuendo. Yeah I'm getting bored, but I will always love how much of a mainstream moment drag had.
This is one for the Herstory Books.
I don’t care what fans or queens say about RuPaul Charles. This is the GODDESS OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!
Lovely the way he looks just like his mom wow 😮
I wish they would do a documentary now in 2024 of the life of RuPaul Charles.
I spent the early 80s partying at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, in some sort of ratchet drag, every weekend.
Never, EVER would I truly question a gay man's taste. Many are just too into fashion.
Wait I swear I said this title in that poll 🤣
Okay now the children are in here Verde Homosexual!
Haha not Verde Homosexual!
@@GreenGayYT 😉
Seria maravilloso que se hiciera una pelicula de su vida o mejor aun una serie que divida su vida en decadas y dos capitulos por decada. No dudo que se este pensando hacer porque Ru Paul es un genio. La perfecta para hacer el papel de Ru Paul seria Symone, me parece que tiene esa energia y esa seguridad de ESTRELLA.
💙💙💙
I can't believe this is how I found out Ruth Paul died... She will be missed.
CAN I GET AN AMEN? LET THE MUSIC PLAY
Lmao rupaul ate her up !!!
Did anyone else see her briefly on Real Sex in the 90s? Been trying to find that episode for a while
Remember when the fourth installment came out and the tagline was Real Sex 4: what is real sex for?
BTW, the whole concept for Drag Race was born when RuPaul went to Canarias to performe at the Gala Drag de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: ua-cam.com/video/RcO5YOob5iA/v-deo.htmlsi=eCdNerBRimsQUR2f
😆 it was a direct rip from Americas Next Top Model. Down to the Tyra Mail, challenges, “next drag superstar”, judging panel… it’s identical.
@@8_bruh_8 That's a well known fact
Anyone knows who is the third Queen in 1:42? She seems eerily familiar and it drives me crazy!
Tammy Brown!
Did I hear 19 year old TWINK?
Yeah and then you heard predatory older gay men somewhere in the background salivating at the thought of violating an adolescent
Ru looks exactly like his mom wow
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I love and admire RuPaul.
No you don’t.
Ru's got a new autobiography coming out in March! It's supposed to go into details about a lot of this. The drag race community doesn't have enough respect for RuPaul. She was booting down doors for others during a time when it was REALLY difficult for a queer, black drag queen.
azure kamenriderfurry frenny fishsticks and edgarallan pup feel like such staples in ur videos!!!!!!
omg rip legend!!! :( /j
RuPaul got his beauty from his mother❤
Rupaul’s life and success will be taught in schools in the future ❤ she’s a genius, I respect her so much!
When I was naming my daughter, I vividly remember thinking about what Ru’s mom did, giving her child a name for a star, so I did the same thing haha. I love the confidence she had for her child 🥹🤍
and what is her name?
He looks so much like his mother
Such little info about Club Kids, her appearances on Geraldo, etc! This was pretty shallow :(
Well if you watched my video linked in the description you’ll see I already covered that before
@@GreenGayYTI love the video! Great job, and I just subscribed.
The problem with today ru is she forgot where she came from.
woah early
Oh my goodness does he ever look like his Mom!!
Firstly... the term "queer identity" really annoys me. That word was considered a slur for people my age and older (I'm the same age as Michelle Visage) The root of that word means odd, or strange, we chose gay for a REASON, and that was because gay meant happy. But as usual, the young people get what they want, they can be inconsiderate of us, and we just have to take it.... but if we do the reverse, it's a bunch of "Your'e a boomer" outrage (Even when we're X'ers) But for those who didn't live through it, Rupaul was novelty personality with some degree of success, but not mainstream success, and certainly not a STAR. Supermodel of the world only went to #44 on the billboard hot 100. You did not hear the song on top 40 radio stations, it was a club hit, to be sure... but with 4 top 20 hits under her belt, Michelle Visage was a much bigger star than Rupaul was. Seduction was playing 5,000-10,000 seat venues, while Rupaul was performing at gay bars still. Even today, drag race has got a large cult following, but is a success mostly because it's on a cable network (very low bar for success), and it's extremely cheap to produce. To give you an idea, drage race pulls the same neilsen ratings that All My Children did when it was CANCELLED. So if Rupual famous? Yes. Is he a superstar? Hell no. Cher is a sperstar, Bette Midler is a superstar.
Wow he looks just like his mom
Oh wow, Ru is a clone of her mama
i feel super embarassed asking, especially as a trans person, but can you explain why you use she and he pronouns interchangeably? I know a lot of queens use she/her when in drag, but he/him out of drag. Thanks in advance!
rupaul has actually said that she doesnt mind any pronouns something like "i dont mind any pronouns aslong you refer me" something like that?
I believe because Rupaul doesn't care what you call her in or out of drag.
Ru’s said she never really cared too much about which pronouns used for her. Thx for the support! 💚
Bored losers care about pronouns. Ru isn’t a bored loser.
Drag definitely existed before 2009.
Joy Bahar from The View wasn't being homophobic. She is a comedian and she threw shade back. You may forget but Ru is a man and her comments can be seen as sexist.
that's one "done" too many. should have only the first "done"
She Mail was a play on Tyra Mail, and while I saw the cheekiness in calling it such, the bigger the show got, they had to get PC so that the show wouldn’t be accused of being transphobic
It literally is a wordplay on a transphobic slur are you kidding me
Trans people did this so they could be on this show. If trans people want to do drag they should do their own show. A gay man who does drag cannot compete in a trans contest. They are really going to the extremes with all this BS.