When he was 16-17, he got his girlfriend pregnant, who then gave birth to their daughter.[7][8]
At 18 years of age, he lost his job in the middle of summer, and decided to act in porn films to make money quickly.[4]
Career
Rapid started his porn career with Boys First Time and Bukkake Boys studios. He then signed with Men.com as an exclusive, and released his first scene with them in November 2011.[9]
He has starred in a documentary called I'm a Porn Star (2013) in which he talks about his life as a
porn star, also describing his fantasies of rough sex and fast cars.[10][11][12]
Rapid won the
Cybersocket Web Award for Best Pornstar in 2014.[13]
In January 2015, Rapid publicly offered $2 million to
Canadian singer
Justin Bieber to shoot a pornographic scene with him.[14] The singer never answered. Rapid went on to play Bieber in a gay
porn parody by Men.com.[15]
In 2017, he was one of the most sought after actors on
Pornhub in the gay porn category.[18] Partnering with Men.com in 2019, he launched a new website "JohnnyRapid.com" devoted entirely to him.[19] By April 2021, Rapid's prolific pornographic film work included doing 300+ scenes with over 180 different male pornographic actors.[20]
Joseph Brennan has written a paper titled "Going Bareback: Time and Aging in a Gay-for-Pay Porn Career" discussing the event of Johnny– "arguably the biggest gay porn performer of the 2010s"– making his
bareback debut in 2015,[9] focusing on Str8UpGayPorn’s coverage of Rapid.[21]
Personal life
Discreet about his private life, Rapid previously defined himself as
heterosexual and thus a
gay-for-pay actor; however, he now identifies as
bisexual.[7]
In December 2014, Rapid was arrested in
Rockdale County, Georgia, and charged with
battery for allegedly hitting and choking his girlfriend after she refused to participate with him in a sexual act with a 14-year-old girl.[1][22][23]
According to
Gay Star News, Rapid's girlfriend had contacted the officer writing the report in an "attempt to get [him] to forget the whole thing, that she's lying, that she made the whole thing up."[24][25]
In March 2024, he posted a video on
Instagram talking about his past. He revealed that he grew up in a broken home, where his mother was on drugs and his father was in jail, so his grandmother took him in. Addressing his arrest, he confessed that he was in an
abusive relationship. He mentioned that he was diagnosed with
borderline personality disorder, went to
anger management and
cognitive behaviour therapy, and started taking medication for
ADHD and
depression. He talked about struggling with his
sexuality, how he refused to admit that he was attracted to both men and women. He also mentioned that he was in a
polyamorous relationship.[7]
Rapid has been married to a woman, and has a daughter and a son.[26][27]
^Archive (May 29, 2009).
"Pinning a pair of wins". Rockdale Citizen & Newton Citizen. Archived from
the original on March 22, 2024. Retrieved March 22, 2024.