When Blowfly hit the stage here in Bakersfield at Narducci’s Cafe, he wore a sparkling superhero outfit inspired by Superman. He rapped about sex and women in an explicit, yet humorous way that members of the audience couldn’t help but smile.

During his show, he pointed directly to his audience, he called out to the ladies in the audience asking them what they like in a man, he sang to them about his sexual prowess. He did this over a funky beat, and rapped in a way only someone like him, one of the first rappers, can.

It’s a show that anyone can have fun at, but for those in the know, Clarence Reid, who dons a cape and becomes Blowfly, is a music legend.

Reid got his start writing soul music in the ’60s. He wrote songs for people like KC and the Sunshine Band and Betty Wright. The songs he wrote were popular, and he could have had a career just writing for others. But he had different things in mind.

As Blowfly, with his songs like “Rapp Dirty” and “The Incredible Fulk,” Reid created the blueprint for what rap and hip-hop would become. His records as Blowfly would influence people like Snoop Dogg and Chuck D, and his songs are sampled in many rap songs.

Tom Bowker, Reid’s drummer and manager, describes a Blowfly show as “high energy” and unique.

“The music is funky. We put on a show,” he said. “We lay it on the floor, when people see it they love it. Sometimes they might see us by accident.

We played this show in Vancouver, and a bunch of 20-year-old kids kind of lost it, because they’ve never seen anything like it, because there is nothing else like it.

“He’s got more charisma than anyone alive. People go ‘aw he’s old and fragile.’ No. He screams louder than any metal singer that ever existed. He’s got all the energy in the world.”

Reid is in his 70s, but anything can happen at a Blowfly show, and it’s nothing Blowfly can’t handle. It’s Bowker’s favorite thing about playing with Reid. He described a show in Australia that typifies the unpredictable nature of the shows.

“The show was strange. There was a seven-foot tall guy who dressed as the pope. There was another guy dressed as Duff Man [a character from “The Simpsons”]. Then this girl jumps on stage, and starts wrestling with the microphone with Clarence,” Bowker said.

“They’re wrestling for the microphone, and she flies off the stage and lands magically on a couch, and Clarence looks over doesn’t miss a beat and says ‘is the pussy OK?’ That was amazing. The show had to take a two-minute break because I was laughing too hard. It never gets old.”

Phil Iacopetti, who came to the show with his wife Angela, listened to Blowfly records as a child and was reminded of him by the recently released film “The Weird World of Blowfly.” He was impressed by what he saw in the film.

“I’m completely enamored by the guy, because he had enough energy and life to give back and let people enjoy his creative self,” Iacopetti said.