Papi Songo - what's new?

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Who remember Papi Songo? sexy, mixed/latino/black top with great body and big cock? What happened with him? Who knows?

He was incredible in his heyday, but never made more than a handful of scenes (half dozen at most). He only worked for the one studio, and after he began looking more mature with graying hair he opted out of porn circa 2003, never to be heard from again. If you can find them, his two best scenes were his first one (in which he gets the single most festive blowjob ever filmed, from a big growly bear he effortlessly seduces), and a later scene where he plays a cable TV installer who gets annoyed by taunts from his wealthy twink customer and decides the best way to shut him up is to choke his mouth with huge cock.

Thru the entire scene he keeps up a hot monologue along the lines of "yeah, thats what all you rich boys need, now I'm happy and you're nice and quiet". Besides being unbelievably sexy. perfectly muscular and hugely hung, Papi Songo was one of the few actors in porn who could ACT, and really sell a scene with dialog. If you're into the gruff macho latino daddy type, he's the impossible dream come true.

(Tried to post a pic here, but it isn't processing: there's a small gallery at xhamster.)

I have most of his scenes, except for a rumored scene that I haven't been able to find; a few years ago while browsing ATKOL forums I read a post that mentioned that Papi Songo appeared in a video called Horse Hung Hispanics 10. I've tried searching for it online for years, but even though I know it exists due to a few listings of it and a picture of the front cover, I've yet to actually find the video. I think it only exists in VHS form, which would explain why it's so difficult to track down. Anyway, I can neither confirm or deny if Papi Songo did a scene for that video, but there's a short masturbation scene with him in another video called Papi-Licious that I suspect is from the rumored Horse Hung Hispanics 10 scene.

Also there's that short scene of him from Latin Lensman at the beginning where he's with a porn star named Chulo (they did several scenes together in the past), and in that 1 minute scene Chulo sucks him off until the scene ends after the opening credits. For a long time I thought that was the entire scene, but another video called Forbidden Photos Inc has a slightly longer version of that scene that shows a few more seconds of footage (or rather, a montage) where Papi Songo fucks Chulo and s. It's very brief, but I've always wondered why the full version was never released; I mean, obviously there should've been a few more minutes of footage of them fucking, but for some reason they didn't release it.

Anyway, I'd also love to know more about him especially his real name. Someone on a Yahoo group ages ago who claimed to work for a certain latino porn studio said that they knew Papi Songo's real name and birthday, and claimed that they had searched various prison inmate listings looking for him (this was back when Papi Songo was rumored to be in prison around 2005 iirc), but they couldn't locate him. The group no longer exists, but I wish I had contacted the person myself and asked for Papi Songo's information.

Having just finished a long-term project of copying all my old VHS to DVD, I found a couple more of his scenes and thought I'd update this thread.

AFAIK, Popi Songo appeared in a total of eight scenes, all except one for the "Latino Fan Club" studio (the exception being "Latin Lensman" as described by Overheat775 above). That film was oddly distributed under the "Just Chillin' Productions" studio name in 2004 but very obviously made by LFC (same performers, same sets with the same wallpaper, same recycled storylines).

In order of release date from 1997 thru 2004, these were the VHS titles featuring Popi Songo:

Machismo (And How To Get It):

Songo plays a carpenter building the set of a photoshoot. He decides to seduce the Big Bear photographer by intercepting a call from the modeling agency to cancel the model, convincing the Bear to let him model the skimpy twink-style underwear instead. Of course, Songo's truly gigantic appendage is twice the size of any of the underwear, and keeps swelling. Bear photographer takes the opportunity to "relieve the swelling" with one of the hottest blowjobs ever committed to videotape. I defy any gay male to not to this scene, even if they don't find bears attractive: Songo is at peak hotness, the camera angles showcase his incredible cock perfectly, and his shot is impressive.

Machismo 2:

Popi Songo strokes one out at work at his computer desk. Generic solo, but his cock is still something to behold and the splash shot makes you desperately wish you were there to lick it off his abs.

Horse Hung Hispanics Vol. 10:

A collection of solos, including Popi Songo. Songo introduces himself (sexy voice), demonstrates his gym workout routine, and as he lifts weights the bar keeps rubbing his soft cock until its fully erect. He shows off how flexible he is, striking various poses that would seem impossible for such a bulky muscle daddy. He then rubs one out standing up, with a copious shot, then celebrates with a little kickboxing.

Spanish Lessons 2:

Popi the Hot Cable TV Installer is annoyed by the snotty attitude and entitled remarks of his wealthy twink customer, so he chokes the twink with his giant cock then fucks him silly (keeping up a great stream of dirty talk for the entire scene).

Rican-Struction:

Construction company boss Popi seduces his clerk Chulo. Very hot, Songo goes all in on the passion in a way most other "straight trade" performers never pull off. Nice blowjob and a physics-defying fuck (how skinny Chulo opens his hole enough to take on the thickest cock in porn is a question for the ages).

Teen Hustler 2:

Songo and Chulo, together again. Songo plays a straight trade "virgin" who buys Chulo for his first gay experience. Hardly an innovative setup, but here again Songo 's charm and acting totally sells it and makes it feel real. Good BJ and fucking, in somewhat different positions vs their previous scene.

Barrio Barber Shop:

Big beefy barber Songo seduces hipster cub customer. Interesting setup because they actually do have sex on a vintage barber shop chair, but it makes for some awkward positions and camera angles. The bottom clearly never experienced such a big thick cock before, and has trouble with the BJ, which is disappointing (tho as always, just seeing Songo's beautiful cock in action is worth your time). The fucking is impressively acrobatic but not all that erotic. Songo s from masturbating while the cub kisses him, very hot considering the stereotypical "straight trade" persona Songo embodies.

Latin Lensman:

See Overheat775's very complete description above. This was apparently Popi Songo's last porn scene before he disappeared. Personally I find it very disappointing and never watch it: had Overheat775 not mentioned it earlier I would have completely forgotten I had it. Its a brief, disorganized, badly shot BJ scene interrupted by the opening credits and still shots, after which it just sorta drifts off and never finishes (no real sex, no shots).

All the above were originally VHS releases and may be hard to find now, nearly 20 years after they were sold. Some of the Songo scenes may have been repackaged into compilation DVDs released by LFC or other studios, but the only official DVDs I've ever seen for sale at porn shops and web dealers were of "Rican-Struction" and "Teen Hustler 2". When looking for his vids, be sure to search both spellings "popi" and "papi" because he performed under both.

dragonscub said:

Horse Hung Hispanics Vol. 10:

A collection of solos, including Popi Songo. Songo introduces himself (sexy voice), demonstrates his gym workout routine, and as he lifts weights the bar keeps rubbing his soft cock until its fully erect. He shows off how flexible he is, striking various poses that would seem impossible for such a bulky muscle daddy. He then rubs one out standing up, with a copious shot, then celebrates with a little kickboxing.

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Thanks for confirming that it exists; I told people on another site that there were rumors about this scene, but nobody believed me.

Latin Lensman:

See Overheat775's very complete description above. This was apparently Popi Songo's last porn scene before he disappeared. Personally I find it very disappointing and never watch it: had Overheat775 not mentioned it earlier I would have completely forgotten I had it. Its a brief, disorganized, badly shot BJ scene interrupted by the opening credits and still shots, after which it just sorta drifts off and never finishes (no real sex, no shots).

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Yeah as I said before there's a slightly longer version of that scene in "Forbidden Photos Inc" and I have a soundless version of it that I recorded using a screen recording program; I couldn't find the scene on any free websites, so I had to resort to renting the scene instead a few years ago. It's not a particularly interesting scene, but I want to get my hands on a version of it with sound just for the sake of having it in my collection.

Some of the Songo scenes may have been repackaged into compilation DVDs released by LFC or other studios, but the only official DVDs I've ever seen for sale at porn shops and web dealers were of "Rican-Struction" and "Teen Hustler 2".

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If I remember right, his scene from "Rican-Struction" was re-released a few years ago in a compilation film called "Latin Work Loads", although I've yet to find it online for free and I've only seen it available for purchase in DVD form. A film called "Latin Muscle" that was released around the same time features a compilation of two of his scenes from "Urban Jungle Gym 2" as well.

On a related note, I've always wanted to get all of his photoshoot pictures in high quality.

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A film called "Latin Muscle" that was released around the same time features a compilation of two of his scenes from "Urban Jungle Gym 2" as well.

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Thats another one you reminded me of that I totally forgot about: "Urban Jungle Gym 2". Just pulled it out for a look, and IMO its just slightly better than "Latin Lensman" (at least it has complete scenes). Songo doesn't look as good as he did in previous films, and he's paired with a totally incompatible partner in the first scene (interestingly, filmed in the same gym as "Horse Hung Hispanics 10" with the same weights Songo used in that flick). His partner can barely fit the head of Songo's cock in his mouth, resulting in a long tedious BJ consisting mostly of hand action. Songo is clearly frustrated and not really enjoying the BJ, after which we get about one minute of badly framed fucking until Songo splashes a nice load on the bottom's ass.

Watching this scene of clumsy oral again for the first time in years jogged my memory of something related. Right around the period of Latin Lensman/UJJ2, Popi Songo was "interviewed" at his Harlem gym by a gay columnist for a local gay publication. Songo very pointedly remarked that he appreciated his fans, but they shouldn't bother propositioning him unless they were expert at dislocating their jaws to swallow a jumbo-sized cock down to the balls (like the hungry bear did in his first LFC scene). He was emphatic about hating bad oral from amateurs who used their hands more than their throats. This may have filtered back to LFC to become one of the reasons why he was dropped after "Lensman" (since other than Chulo, none of the LFC stable could deep throat Songo properly).

The second scene is group sex, again not especially well framed, and annoyingly interrupted by voyeurs jerking off on the sidelines. Since theres five or six guys involved, its hard to focus on Popi Songo. He receives better oral service in this scene (from his old buddy Chulo) and gets to pound some ass, but the group setup is too distracting. LFC was always better at producing duos than orgies.

Adding "Urban Jungle Gym 2" to my list of eight videos earlier brings our total number of Popi Songo video appearances up to ten, which I'm reasonably sure is the final tally (unless you discover yet another one, Overheat775 :cheers.

On a related note, I've always wanted to get all of his photoshoot pictures in high quality.

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Me too! Sadly, there's absolutely nothing available on gay pic websites: the LFC "studio" was a bare-bones operation run by a guy trying to satisfy his own personal fetish for Puerto Rican and Dominican trade. Other than the VHS and DVD box covers, they didn't spend any money on promotional photos, and mature muscular Popi Songo wasn't too popular with fans of the genre (mostly elderly white closeted New Yorkers who fantasized about young skinny wanna-be gangstas).

I agree wholeheartedly about the chemistry between Papi Songo and Chulo. They took it to another level. I would love to see a present day match-up between the two. My first introduction was watching them together on the 'Construction Site' video. I thought there's no way Chulo's going to take THAT up there. And then he did - all the way! I would be hard-pressed to see anybody do better on film with the daddy-and-twink genre the standard they set. Chulo alone had a certain 'it' thing about him which I dug, especially with the corn-rows. Paired with Papi Songo, and his barrel chest and brute fucking, they were combustible. I miss Chulo in pretty much the same way I do June Quinones. Talented, daring bottoms, great gusto energy, and a seemingly endless opening back there. And you could tell they genuinely LOVED what they were doing. Those attributes are becoming rarer and rarer these days.

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I agree wholeheartedly about the chemistry between Papi Songo and Chulo. They took it to another level. I would love to see a present day match-up between the two. My first introduction was watching them together on the 'Construction Site' video. I thought there's no way Chulo's going to take THAT up there. And then he did - all the way! I would be hard-pressed to see anybody do better on film with the daddy-and-twink genre the standard they set. Chulo alone had a certain 'it' thing about him which I dug, especially with the corn-rows. Paired with Papi Songo, and his barrel chest and brute fucking, they were combustible. I miss Chulo in pretty much the same way I do June Quinones. Talented, daring bottoms, great gusto energy, and a seemingly endless opening back there. And you could tell they genuinely LOVED what they were doing. Those attributes are becoming rarer and rarer these days.

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Yeah they were great together, although I don't really like their scene from "Urban Jungle Gym 2" because it involves 2 other guys with them, and I personally dislike threesome/foursomes in general. The scene would've been perfect if it was just Papi Songo and Chulo.

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Yeah they were great together, although I don't really like their scene from "Urban Jungle Gym 2" because it involves 2 other guys with them, and I personally dislike threesome/foursomes in general. The scene would've been perfect if it was just Papi Songo and Chulo.

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I hear ya. There was a guy in that threesome doing a Tony Montana impersonation the whole time which I thought was a little distracting. Though I dug when Papi Songo was behind Chulo telling the other guys, "O, Chulo will take care of you, man." The same time he's digging him out, getting rougher and rougher, until the massage table starts banging and Chulo has to stop servicing the other two guys because he's overwhelmed by Songo's thrusts. I know it's a bit much to rehash - but I got a flashback when I read your post.

Chulo was good with True Story, too.

Attached are a few screen caps from the elusive circa-1997 "Horse Hung Hispanics Vol. 10" VHS featuring Popi Songo. I received a couple of PMs requesting I post some pics to verify the video actually exists, which might aid in tracking it down somewhere.

The original LFC studio periodically restarts its web site, where it sporadically offers digital files of some titles, but a lot of it has never been digitized (very little of the HHH series, incl. v10). It appears the company itself has lost all their own copies of several older titles and posted requests that anyone who still owns them donate them to be digitized. The "lost" titles consist primarily of solo series like HHH, and LFC seem to have completely lost their entire early '90s library (these were issued to stores with crude b/w xeroxed labels slapped on the side of blank cardboard Sony VHS sleeves).

Thanks for posting the screenshots! As I suspected, Papi Songo's scene from Papi-Licious that I mentioned before appears to be a very shortened version of his Horse Hung Hispanics 10 scene judging by the background. That's another mystery solved.

Other movies...
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Other movies...
9 dvd's
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It should be noted that at least two of those videos don't actually involve Papi Songo; there's another porn star who goes by the name "Papisongo" who was often mistakenly credited as Papi Songo.

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Other movies...
9 dvd's
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Thanks for the link, it gives some ideas where to find some of the Popi Songo vids we're discussing for those who may need them.

Of the nine vids on that page, seven are titles previously confirmed in this thread. The other two initially seemed to be new discoveries, but on closer inspection proved to be a common error made at such porn star reference sites. As Overheat775 noted while I was still typing, there was another performer who basically ripped off the name years later, changing the spelling to "papi" and combining it with songo as a single "papisongo" moniker (like Madonna or Cher, he probably imagined: er, no, honey, you were reaching...)

Anyway, the "papisongo" listed as appearing in the "TimTales Raw Tales" and "Planta Rosa Black Dick Terror 4" dvds is not the LFC Popi Songo muscle daddy of 20+ years ago. The newer younger "papisongo" is a twink with an ass limber enough to to dislodge the ship blocking the Suez Canal (IOW the exact opposite of power top Popi Songo). Cute kid, takes huge raw dick rather well, but not the droid we're looking for. Unfortunately most web searches now pull him up most often, since he has appeared more recently in multiple popular interracial bareback series from MachoFucker etc.

Here's an old image of him from one of the photoshoots that he did:



Just thought I'd post this since I haven't seen this posted before on any active sites. The entire gallery was originally hosted on a site dedicated to latino men that no longer exists; I found this picture via the WaybackMachine version of that site, but I can't access the entire gallery or a bigger version of the image. Some other images from that same photoshoot were uploaded a few years ago on Tumblr, but this image that I found proves that more exist although nobody has posted a full version of this image, or the presumable missing ones.

As far as I know he did 3 main photoshoots that were released either through magazines or websites: the photoshoot that the image above is from, a photoshoot that was boxing themed and had a light red background (which I believe was taken right after his Machismo 1 scene), and one with a black & red background that I think was his final photoshoot. Some of those images were used on the box covers of Barrio Barber Shop, 'Rican-Struction, and Machismo 1: And How to Get It. As far as I know the photoshoot that happened at the beginning of Latin Lensman that he was a part of was a mock photoshoot, and none of those images were actually released to the public as far as I know.

Edit: He apparently appeared in at least two live cam shows for a defunct site called Streetlife in June and August of 2002 according to the site's live cam schedule. Unfortunately considering that this happened so long ago, I doubt anyone at the time preserved those scenes. In fact someone that I spoke with who had an account on the site said that they don't remember those scenes, although the site's newsletter confirmed that at least one live cam scene featuring Papi Songo with a guest definitely occurred. I wish someone had more info about this.

So by my count his scenes that have not been uploaded online completely yet (despite it being 25 years since his porn career started) are as follows:

• His full Latin Lensman/Forbidden Photos Inc. scene with Chulo. Since there were about 30 seconds worth of footage from that scene shown at the start of those movies, I'm assuming that at least several minutes of Papi Songo and Chulo fucking were initially recorded but never released, probably due to time constraints in those movies? Whether a copy of the full scene still exists is unknown; it's possible that it was deleted after Latin Lensman was edited and released. I'm not even sure who to contact about this scene because from what I remember it was produced by a studio outside LFC that doesn't exist anymore.
  
  
• His Streetlife webcam scenes that I mentioned before. I'm positive that at least one existed since that site had a poll asking members which webcam scene they enjoyed the most, and Papi Songo's webcam scene was a poll option and had several votes. The site went through an upgrade in 2004, two years after his scenes supposedly took place, so I'm thinking that his scenes were removed during that time, which might explain why the person I spoke with before doesn't remember them. Why they were removed is anyone's guess; maybe Papi's arrest had something to do with it? I doubt they'll ever pop up however since it's been so long since Streetlife shut down. What hurts the most is that there isn't even a single screenshot of these scenes anywhere.
  
  
• His full Horse Hung Hispanics 10 scene. I uploaded the part that I had from Papi-Licious on another site hoping that someone would see it and possibly point me in the right direction to the full version (on a free site), but nothing came of it. As for the only paid options to get the scene; an online porn distributor apparently has a digital version of the scene complete with almost every other release from LFC, but they're only selling it as part of a collection and they want $2000 for the whole thing lol. I'm tempted to just buy the HHH10 VHS/DVD from the actual LFC site, assuming that they still have it in stock. But I probably wouldn't be able to upload it online, which would sort of defeat the purpose.

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Edit: I only have a few minor updates as of October 2022:

1. People have recently been saying that Papi Songo died; I asked one person for proof a few months ago and they linked me to a tweet where some porn star mentioned that Papi "faked his suicide" years ago, then I got a link to some article talking about "Papisongo's" suicide attempt, you know, the white Puerto Rican guy with a similar porn alias. So I'm guessing that people read about "Papisongo's" suicide attempt and mistook him for Papi Songo, but idk for sure.

2. I found a porn magazine listing site that claims 1971 as Papi Songo's year of birth, but that seems unlikely to me because that would mean that he was in his mid to late 20s when he started doing porn, yet his hair was already graying by the time he did his More Spanish Lessons scene, which implies that he was much older than that imo. Yet I can't imagine why the site I mentioned would lie about his age; they're pretty accurate when it comes to that sort of information from what I've seen.

3. I also stumbled upon someone on Twitter who claimed to have done several scenes with Papi Songo for LFC. I suspect it's Chulo since he's the only one I can think of who did multiple scenes with Papi Songo, but I can't be 100% sure since their Twitter account doesn't have any personal photos. I can't even DM them, so I've pretty much hit a wall; I wanted to ask them for more information about him, especially concerning the rumors about his death, as well as info on that Latin Lensman scene I previously mentioned. Sigh. Edit: Lol, they blocked me even though all I did was ask them if they knew about Papi Songo's status. I didn't even pester them or anything, just tweeted them that one time. I've never been blocked on Twitter before so this is hilarious.

I feel dumb for not noticing it before, but he makes two split-second cameos in the intro montage of Latin Showboyz 2. Both scenes from HHH10 from the look of it, one image was already posted before but here's the second:



You can't see his face but that's clearly him as evidenced by the tattoo on his thigh and his overall body shape. I'm curious if he made other cameos in other videos, but there are a lot of LFC videos to check and I don't really have the time to watch them all.

Yes, I can confirm that lovely "limbering up" pic is from Papisongo's warmup routine featured in HHH10.

LFC had a tendency to recycle bits and pieces of previous videos in later videos, esp around the time of Latin Showboyz 2 (at which point they were making sequels to everything they ever shot, and needed to pad the footage).

Yeah LFC's videos had a lot of padding. I remember some of their videos being infamous for featuring way too much oral sex and very little anal sex. I mean I guess I can kinda understand why; gay4pay actors would probably rather get sucked off than engage in prolonged anal sex, but still. It was one of LFC's biggest weaknesses imo. Some of their models couldn't even get hard all the way (Papi Songo thankfully being an exception).

Btw I spoke to BB from LFC recently and asked him if he could confirm Papi Songo's birth year that I posted before. He didn't have his file on-hand but he did say that 1971 was probably accurate and that Papi Songo probably is around 50 years old (assuming he's still alive). He also said that he wasn't aware of Papi Songo being arrested in 2003/2004, but that Papi Songo had been in prison at some point because he admitted to having had sex with men in prison.

I also asked him for more information about some of the scenes that I'd posted about here, but he hasn't replied back. He probably doesn't have that kind of information anyway since those scenes were filmed like 20 years ago, so I doubt he'll be able to provide any more details. Edit: More like ignored me. It's been almost a month since I asked him, yet no reply. All he had to say if he couldn't provide any details was a simple "I don't know". Sheesh. BB and Chulo are the only people who would have the information that I wanted to know (aside from Papi Songo himself obviously), so now I'm really at a dead end since I can't get a response from any of them. :/

Wow. It would be good to run across some vintage footage of Papi Songo I haven't seen before - but I suspect I may have watched the brunt, if not all of his videography. It's getting harder to come across porn stars who had that level of excitement. Nobody pays for porn any more so the attraction for new talent is not as enticing as it once was. I still like Holiver (Gil Holiver), Krave Melanin, KeptSecret, and there's a new guy recently caught my attention - Mx2xist (For Fans Only). But the real exciting ones are becoming harder and harder to find.

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Wow. It would be good to run across some vintage footage of Papi Songo I haven't seen before - but I suspect I may have watched the brunt, if not all of his videography. It's getting harder to come across porn stars who had that level of excitement. Nobody pays for porn any more so the attraction for new talent is not as enticing as it once was. I still like Holiver (Gil Holiver), Krave Melanin, KeptSecret, and there's a new guy recently caught my attention - Mx2xist (For Fans Only). But the real exciting ones are becoming harder and harder to find.

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Yeah I haven't felt much interest in any of the newer porn stars. I think the last one that I genuinely liked was... Girth Brooks? And that was like 10 years ago lol. I also miss Tiger Tyson, who I believe did some videos for LFC. I'm also interested in LFC model Lex, but there's very little content by him.

Does anyone have a better quality version of this Papi Songo image?:



I found it using PimEyes today and had never seen it before. It was originally posted on some blog but the free version of PimEyes doesn't give me the full image URL, so I was only able to get a screenshot of the preview image. It's apparently from the photoshoot that took place after his Machismo scene with Vic Mann.