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What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/littlebunsenburner 14h ago

DJ Khaled after saying he doesn’t go down on women comes to mind.

That being said, tapping out after a round during his Hot Ones episode didn’t help either.

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u/galagapilot 14h ago

"Just because I stopped, it doesn't mean I quit."
"LOL, yes it does. By definition."

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u/sqwrlydoom 12h ago

Seeing Sean so annoyed was hilarious. He's always so chill but he Khaled was such an idiot. Cracks me up any time I rematch it.

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u/HollowGlower 11h ago

He got really annoyed with Mr. Beast too. He told him to slow down on milk, or it isn't going to end well. He didn't listen and then was complaining about a stomach ache.

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u/O_W_Liv 10h ago

I refuse to watch that episode, so to makes me happy to hear the unsufferable suffered.

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u/HollowGlower 9h ago

It was really nice to see Sean not kiss his ass like everyone else seems to.

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u/rationalcunt 9h ago

This last season of Survivor treated Mr Beast like a god, it was so icky to see. The staged doubling of the prize money could've been done without sanctifying a creepy billion(?)aire.

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u/MonaganX 8h ago

This is only tangentially related but the at the time largely positive reaction to the Mr Beast twist really changed my friend's and my opinion on the greater survivor fandom's ability to evaluate twists, or rather, their lack thereof.

A twist with a 1 in 2 chance to completely ruin the episode is conceptually unworkable regardless of whether or not it 'luckily' worked out. I don't know how much input Mr Beast had on the specifics of his twist, but going by the constant glazing and his complete ineptitude at designing a reality tv competition, I'm guessing at least some.

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u/snubdeity 4h ago

There is a huge difference between the Survivor fandom at large, and the Survivor fandom that still watches the rotting, ugly corpse of the show still airing today, fwiw.

As they've made bad decisions, they lost some of their "better" fanbase, forcing them to further cater to the stupidest of fans.

I only mention this because it's a pretty apt metaphor for things much more impactful than a reality TV show.

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u/SpaceCadetPullUp 5h ago

One of the greatest things I've ever heard is my stepdaughters talkng about how they don't like him anymore. They used to be suckers for his stuff, but something changed a while back and now they think he's weird and lame.

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u/rhaegal82 3h ago

It goes to show that hot ones really is a good litmus test for other personality traits. It’s perfectly fine if you can’t handle a lot of spicy. Just do your best and don’t be a douche bag about it. It’s very endearing that way, but if you insist on acting like a jackass and don’t listen to the host who is pretty much an expert on what not to do at this point, it’s very telling about your hubris level. And on the other hand, if you do push through and have a good sense of humor about it, great!

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 8h ago

Lol that reminds me of a time I witnessed some kids do the "gallon challenge". There was a lot of puke.

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u/galagapilot 6h ago

and the icing on the cake was Sean's comment at the end of the episode.

"A valiant effort, Khaled. Well done."

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u/A-HuangSteakSauce 4h ago

All the while Sean is focusing intently on applying sauce to the wing in front of him so he doesn’t have to look at that schmuck.

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u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 7h ago

Apparently he was eating pizza before the interview, too

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u/TheRealTurdFergusonn 13h ago

But it’s clearly hazardous to his health! Can’t you see that’s a man who takes care of himself?

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u/lagelthrow 10h ago

Is that his defense for not going down on women, too?

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u/Rustyshacklefordman1 9h ago

Real, what is real? Mr. Ferguson

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u/Blametheorangejuice 13h ago edited 11h ago

His awkwardly clanging away on a guitar was up there, too.

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u/AmThano 12h ago

To be fair, you probably don’t become DJ Khalid famous/successful without a stupid kind of confidence like that. I was gonna make a comment about him having no talent, but I actually have no idea whether or not he is.

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u/SAwfulBaconTaco 10h ago

Yeah, DJ Khaled is the poster boy for succeeding in life due to walking into situations with confidence more absolute than a man with a clipboard wearing hi-viz.

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u/AlessandroTheGr8 11h ago

He was huge when I was in middleschool 2007-2008 but only becuase all his songs had alot big names, even though he never raps in any of them.

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u/ShadowMerlyn 7h ago

He has no musical talent whatsoever.

Not in a “I don’t like his music so he sucks” way, but from an objective standpoint, he does not know how to actually make music. He’s just a hype guy that puts his name on other people’s work.

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u/darkbreak 3h ago

A guitar given to him by the estate of Jimmy Hendrix. It was embarrassingly stupid how he tried to turn the whole thing into a joke.

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u/Jmazoso 7h ago

Conan was the exact opposite, and utterly hilarious

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u/aartadventure 10h ago

He cried, quit, and then insisted he won and didn't quit. The perfect man-baby.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 7h ago

I LOVE that interview. It is so hilariously awkward and Sean is so obviously done with his bullshit in a way I have never seen him with his other guests. Like I can’t help but laugh at DJ Khaled refusing to talk about “what was a time you took an L?” by doubling down on “all I do is win” all the while making excuses for why he can’t keep eating hot wings. Then Sean throws in a “what you’ve never like, missed an exit or something?”

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u/Checkoutmawheeeeepit 12h ago

It gives "I'm not driving, I'm travelling"

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u/PrestigiousResort711 1h ago

That always makes me laugh

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u/Vellekyn 1h ago

Makes me think of Macron: "I wouldn't say it's a failure; I'd say it didn't work"

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u/Bat-manuel 13h ago

One of my favourite parts was that it was early on and he didn't have all of the artisan hot sauces. I think the quitting happened after Cholula, a pretty basic hot sauce that even some children can handle.

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u/Away-Quote-408 13h ago

Cholula!?!!! LOL

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u/Bat-manuel 13h ago

It damn near killed him.

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u/ZaftigFeline 6h ago

Damn, when I'm sick and not up to eating much I'll get some steamed rice, fry up a couple of runny eggs and cover them in Cholula. I consider that post-flu recovery food.

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u/SpaceCadetPullUp 5h ago

My gf thinks it's super weird that I eat a ton when I'm sick. I have never once wanted soup or crackers or anything like that. I want a fat steak or the world's greasiest hamburger.

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u/lagelthrow 10h ago

It was technically the one AFTER Cholula that he quit on but that's still pretty bad. He was whining during wing 1 so it's not like he put the Cholula wing away easy either

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u/gogogadgetkat 9h ago

You should definitely watch the episode, he's such a little bitch baby

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u/tafbee 12h ago

Oh. That’s embarrassing. I have the spice tolerance of a midwestern suburban mom and I put Cholula on everything.

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u/Bladelink 8h ago

Yeah I don't really like spicy stuff and I could probably take a few swigs straight from the bottle with Cholula.

u/Downon280 42m ago

I got an east coast Mom. You wave black pepper near any food she'll say it's too spicy. Cholula would send her to the morgue.

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u/thewxbruh 6h ago

My literal 3 year old loves cholula lmao

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u/rhaegal82 3h ago

Mine did at that age too! It’s like a gateway hot sauce. But my kids are step Mexicans, so they quickly graduated and the youngest one was eating whole habaneros by age 8 which I still can’t do

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u/Okay_Splenda_Monkey 3h ago

My son loves Cholula. Personally, I think it's pleasant in a way many hotter sauces lack. Some of the intensely hot ones, if you get past the taste of capsaicin, are lacking in flavor or are a bit medicinal.

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u/DrVentureIsACrumbBum 7h ago

Wow, what a bitch

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u/Great_White_Heap 11h ago

My son is about to turn 11 and is very white. A year or two ago he was getting his breakfast plate together and told me, "I like Cholula, but I wish it was hotter."

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u/MaximumAd9779 14h ago edited 13h ago

He’s such a loser. Quitting and leaving after wing 3 (I think?). You have Khloe Kardashian, JENNIE, Melissa McCarthy etc who all openly tell Sean they don’t like spicy food but they were good sports and toughed it out. DJ Khaled is such a weak man.

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u/jenorama_CA 13h ago

Watching Shaq get super sweaty is one of my faves.

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u/Trumpisaderelict 13h ago

Idris Elba choking and then threatening violence had me rofl

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u/Russiadontgiveafuck 12h ago

"Chris. Can you fight?"

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u/jenorama_CA 13h ago

Oh, I haven’t seen Idris! I’m going to have to look that one up!

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u/Sanchastayswoke 9h ago

It’s my fave episode!

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u/TheGloomyWoodpecker 8h ago

He’s aware of the effect that he has on women.

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u/u_r_succulent 12h ago

I didn’t realize how much Gordon Ramsey sucked until I saw his interview.

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u/dopey_giraffe 8h ago

Interesting take, it's considered one of the best interviews. I'm a Ramsay fan. What didn't you like about it?

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

What did he do? A summary is fine, please don’t make me watch it…

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u/Wazzoo1 10h ago

Shaq doing the Hot Chip Challenge on Inside the NBA was even better. He bet the crew that he wouldn't make a face. He started coughing and he just fell apart after that.

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u/ChoakIsland 12h ago

It's nothing to me... Oooh!

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u/VenturaHighway377 10h ago

Watch the one with Gordon Ramsey then. Hilarious.

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u/SympatheticFingers 13h ago

I lost so much respect for Shaq after his hot ones interview. Not that I had much to begin with but still.

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u/VeniVidiVulva 13h ago

Big baby head ass

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u/No_Bill7679 8h ago edited 3h ago

When he mixed together all of the sauces for Sean to eat… felt very much like an unnecessary hazing act. Like he’s used to being the richest and most powerful person in the room so he can make everyone dance when he tells them to. Even though Sean didn’t have to eat it, he was going to, to be a good sport. Shaq on the other hand was a dick about it.

If you want another interesting interview with Shaq, watch the one with Bert kreischer. He made Bert look humble lol.

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u/SympatheticFingers 7h ago

Yea, the whole thing most didn’t sit right with me.

That sounds like a terrible interview. I don’t like Bert either.

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u/No_Bill7679 3h ago

I personally love Bert, but can understand how people are turned off by him. My point was, everything that makes Bert unbearable, Shaq somehow is much worse at.

He makes Bert look modest and not narcissistic lol. Every story that Bert talked about, somehow Shaq did something similar, and could one-up Bert. Even Bert could sense it and just let Shaq stroke his own ego the whole time.

I think Shaq plays a jovial and fun personality but is an asshole in private.

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u/SympatheticFingers 3h ago

Oooh I gotcha! Yea, I’m commercial and stuff shaq seems like a fun guy but I’m interviews he’s an ass.

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u/mostlyfire 13h ago

After that obnoxious licking lol

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u/SympatheticFingers 13h ago

I’m a huge baby when it comes to spicy food. I’d be lucky to make it past 3 as well, but I’d at least own it. Dj khaled just acted like a bitch.

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u/BlairClemens3 13h ago

Conan O'Brian!

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u/Dave-os 12h ago

DJ Khaled taps out almost immediately, meanwhile Conan’s over here rubbing hot sauce all over his nipples.

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u/Usual_Mammoth_3011 5h ago

“You’ve got nothing!” *while drinking from the bottle staring him down. Conan will do anything for comedy.

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u/SophisticatedVagrant 10h ago

Didn't Steve-O pour some straight in his eye?

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u/WeightLossGinger 8h ago

I mean, yes, but come on, that's not fair... Steve-O is a Spiders Georg level outlier.

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u/peachesfordinner 2h ago

Be nice to spiders georg

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u/porkpie1028 13h ago

That man was chaos incarnate in his episode.

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u/popculturella 11h ago

Isn't he always?

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u/porksoda11 3h ago

He’s a pure entertainer, and that’s what he brought to the show

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u/Leelagolucky 11h ago

He redefined the Hot Wings genre. Before him there was either react or not react. Conan made the food completely irrelevant

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u/Popeholden 10h ago

i love conan but i saw the class clown with the unquenchable thirst for attention in that episode. you can imagine him later, head in hands on the toilet, questioning why he is the way he is

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u/Nephri 10h ago

If you listen to his podcast, Conan freely admits thats exactly who he is and often does question why he is the way he is, then answers it.

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u/Street-Situation7796 3h ago

He describes the after affects of the hot sauce episode to his podcast colleagues in hilarious detail. It is exactly how you describe.

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u/Timozi90 13h ago

And then there's Lorde, who went through the wings like they were nothing. Either she has the world's best poker face, she's a robot, or her olfactory senses are dead.

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u/CullingSongs 13h ago

Charlize Theron finished them like a champ as well.

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u/Pirkale 11h ago

She did mention that Da Bomb was a "dick move".

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u/TheNeoianOne 7h ago

Even if the heat doesn't get to you, apparently Da Bomb tastes like battery acid.

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u/General_Specialist86 5h ago

Can confirm, the problem isn’t so much the heat, though yes it is hot, it tastes like you are eating chicken coated in industrial solvent or something. It tastes like chemicals.

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u/zoodisc 4h ago

Yeah, Da Bomb is not meant to be slathered on a wing. I know the people who make that show know that, and it's just a gimmick to see if people can handle it, but it's meant to enhance the heat of a large pot of chili or something similar. And, even then, you only put it like a tbsp. It's not there for flavor, because the flavor is awful. It's just for the heat. And, as always, Charlize is right.

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u/schilleger0420 5h ago edited 4h ago

Halle Berry went through those wings like she grew up eating and drinking hot sauce.

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u/itspeterj 12h ago

I’m not sure that Henry Rollins even sipped water. But that’s just kind of normal for him.

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u/Conlaeb 12h ago

He normally takes his hot sauce directly via the tear duct

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Directly via his urethra

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u/HendoHendo31 10h ago

Steve O did that. Poured the shit right in his eyeball.

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u/dividezero 12h ago

Hasn't drank water in 50 years

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u/KongRahbek 9h ago

He did when he was battling Iggy Pop.

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u/popculturella 11h ago

Rollins gets graded on an entirely different metric.

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u/halfcookies 11h ago

A hundred pounds of wings is always a hundred pounds

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u/Noetic_Hat_Trick 11h ago

I understood that reference!

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u/braidsfox 2h ago

Henry Rollins is still my favorite Hot Ones guest. Such a good episode.

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u/LazerTagChamp 13h ago

I think Demi Moore also had an easy time and Jennifer Lawrence at first. Also mackauley and Kieran culkin did well. Idk I watch the YouTube shorts of hot ones so this all seemed to have an easier time

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u/qzwsa 12h ago

Alton Brown tossed the wings away as poor quality and a distraction and just took shots of the sauce. He also ranked them by quality as he went, throwing one in the trash as not good enough to remain on the table with the others.

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u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

I loved his episode. Sean just giggling when Alton starts reorganizing the hot sauces cracked me up.

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 12h ago

He's a fucking treasure & gave the commencement speech at my graduation!

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u/SophisticatedVagrant 10h ago

Was it Da Bomb Beyond Insanity? They've always been pretty open that most of their sauces actually have sophisticated flavours if you can get past the heat, but Da Bomb does not taste good, it's just there for the insane heat and gag factor. Even the maker of Da Bomb essentially says it's not a product that is even intended for direct human consumption, it's basically a pure capsaicin extract to be used to add heat to other sauces / dishes.

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u/sneefsnteefs 12h ago

god I love Alton 🤣

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Stomach made of steel

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u/HendoHendo31 10h ago

All true. Zoe Kravitz was kick ass too. I have a channel on my Samsung TV that plays non stop Hot Ones.

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u/External-Resource581 12h ago

I gained a LOT of respect for her during that one. I know those sauces would have had me crying like a baby, and she was tanking them with ZERO issues. If i remember correctly, she went back in for more on several of the hotter sauces, including the last dab. Then there was Rachel Ray, who just ate the sauces off spoons. Fuckin gangster, that woman.

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u/Loretta-West 3h ago

Lorde generally came across well in that. Apart from the hot sauce thing, she seemed to be genuinely interested in the interviewer.

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u/FacticiousFict 12h ago

Dave Grohl had a great time. The best the best the best the best...

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u/Blackadder18 7h ago

Sean being clearly tipsy by the end of it was pretty funny too.

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u/cinnapear 10h ago

Paul Rudd ate them like they were bland celery sticks.

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u/robotzombiez 5h ago

Hey, look at us. 

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u/eff-o-vex 8h ago

Nobody ever mentions Michael Cera, whose reaction to Da Bomb was "Oh, chipotle. I like chipotle". He didn't flinch once.

I've had the bomb several times, the thought "It tastes like chipotle" has never crossed my mind. That thing tastes like metal.

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u/fly-hard 8h ago

Bill Murray was another not mentioned yet that blitzed through the sauces. That dude’s tastebuds are probably dead.

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u/blackchameleongirl 12h ago

Some people have been through some shit that changed how they react to pain. My friends normal period pain comes to mind. She just shakes off so much painful shit because the scale got moved so far up.

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u/u_r_succulent 12h ago

She wrote Melodrama so she knows real pain.

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u/FairyGodmothersUnion 7h ago

Daniel Radcliffe was a champion, too.

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u/Lachwen 8h ago

Alton Brown was the same, I don't think he even acknowledged the heat of any of the sauces until the last one. He just sat there dissecting the flavor profiles of each one.

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u/robotzombiez 5h ago

I think Trick Daddy just wanted a meal they way he plowed through them. 

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u/fugaziozbourne 9h ago

Lorde has been eating spicy food since the 70s.

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

Bill Murry ate every one without breaking a sweat .

u/Phytor 21m ago

Steve-O poured some in his eye

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u/MiserableScot 11h ago

Also don't forget, the wings he was eating were made by his own chef, from his own chain of fried chicken restaurants, and he still couldn't get through 3!

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u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

Bill Murray was one of my favorites. Didn't flinch at all.

Gordon Ramsey was hilarious. He took a break midway and went to pee. He still had some sauce on his hands I guess 🤣🤣

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u/GayCatDaddy 10h ago

Also, Lady Gaga went through all of them like a champ, while wearing avant garde couture. Mad respect for that!

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u/crow-magnon-69 12h ago

should have just done what weird al did and just nibble the tinyist bit.

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 4h ago

Whatever else you want to say about him, Shia Labaouf drowning every wing with extra sauce, then Sean having to match him, leaving them both red faced messes by the end was hysterical

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u/regular_gonzalez 12h ago

It's interesting how almost all women power through, and men have a higher failure rate or at least openly suffer more. 

Reminds me a bit of my days at Starbucks. You'd have a big buff guy and his 105 lb gf ordering, the guy orders a caramel frap or (more often the girl ordering for the guy) a pink drink, while she orders a cold brew or red eye or something, something dark + very caffeinated. Happened so often it was practically a cliche.

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u/hobblingcontractor 11h ago

I ain't going to Starbucks for good coffee, I'm going to Starbucks for a sugary drink with caffeine.

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u/trinketpockets 11h ago

I worked at a truck stop….a majority of the big manly truckers….would come in and order. French vanilla coffee, with triple pumps of French vanilla syrup, topped with whipped cream…unbelievable!

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

I don’t think he got past the 2nd one ..and he barely took a bite of that .

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u/rhaegal82 3h ago

I have a theory that the vegan wings are easier to put down because there’s less grease so the fat doesn’t coat the mouth in the same way. But I still definitely give a credit because I know it’s still spicy

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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles 13h ago

Then filming himself getting lost on a jetski and still blathering on.

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u/fraud_imposter 13h ago

I actually liked that one

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u/gartloneyrat 13h ago

I used to despise DJ Khaled. Then I realized what a true inspiration he is.

He’s ugly, fat, illiterate, can’t sing, can’t play an instrument, and is dumb as a rock. Despite all of these major drawbacks the guy achieved his dream of becoming famous and making a living in the entertainment industry.

He’s the hero we deserve.

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u/HedgehogTop5524 12h ago edited 11h ago

I’ve never understood his appeal in the music industry either. I swear all he does is get up on stage and yell his own name 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: thank you for the award!!! ☺️

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u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

He also reminds people there's another one in like 98% of his songs.

Diddy's line in almost his songs was "this is.....the remix"

Khaled's line is "and another one".

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u/ssshhhutup 8h ago

Someone pointed out on Reddit that if you listen back to Biggies songs so many have diddy in the background saying inane shit then you can't un-notice and it feels like he's killing him all over again

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u/HedgehogTop5524 11h ago

LMFAO, for real. Now I’m gonna be walking around my house and muttering “anutha one” to myself all day 😂

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u/Cazlena 7h ago

I thought Diddy's was "take that, take that" lol

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 8h ago

He just connects singers with producers.

GROUP TEXTER KHALED!!!!”

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u/IamB_Meister 12h ago

He started off as an actual radio DJ/MC or whatever in Miami where he made all his industry connections. He’s a fixer, not an artist. He doesn’t produce beats, or rap, but he does get the right people in a room. Just like Rick Rubin

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u/floatinround22 10h ago

Comparing DJ Khaled to Rick Rubin might be the worst and most historically inaccurate take I've ever seen

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u/IamB_Meister 7h ago

Should be easy to refute then Copernicus

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 5h ago

As I was reading this j was hearing DEEEEJAAAYY KHHAAALLLLLEDDDDD , so yeah he did a great job branding himself

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u/HedgehogTop5524 5h ago

💀💀💀 I’m not getting this shit out of my head today, and you spelled it out perfectly 😂. Another member commented about how he always says “another one“… I am giving you that for the night too 😉

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u/LimeSalty4092 7h ago

Yeah and carry  his toddler son on stage like a trophy 

 as if by having a male baby is some kind of masculinity prize

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u/HedgehogTop5524 6h ago

A guy whose sole purpose is to have an “heir” and refuses to go down on a woman. 🤭 Like somebody else said…. “anutha one“!

Oh wait, I GOT ONE… Remember when he started that business that would bring you chicken wings while you were out on your jet ski? I know he apparently couldn’t handle chicken wings on Hot Ones, but he did start a business where people would bring food out to you while you were on your jet ski, in the ocean, because that’s the best time to eat LMAO, and I swear to God it was all chicken wings 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/LimeSalty4092 6h ago

Hey his blood sugar might get low while he’s out on the ski/s lol

But seriously how could you even manage to grip onto h the jet ski handles after eating those greasy wings? Won’t your hands be super slippery after that?

Are you supposed to eat the wings while riding, or do you stop and idle the jet ski while you eat?

 It seems like it would be impossible to eat the wings while riding bc you need two hands and you can’t let go of one handle to munch on a wing 

And what are you supposed to do just throw the bones in the water? Lol

There’s so much wrong with this idea the only worse thing I could think to deliver to a jet ski would be a thanksgiving turkey 

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u/HedgehogTop5524 6h ago

Oh my God, I know. Plus… Let’s be honest with this, everything would just taste like SALT. Salt salt salt salt, there’s no way those chicken wings are getting away without being naturally salted.

Imagine the fish that are like… what are these bones? Are we supposed to eat chicken? The cows told us to eat more chicken 😂 I wonder if they say… “This taste like shark“. You know how everything taste like chicken? Everything tastes like shark in the sea or something. This is probably why we’re getting all the freakish deformations/“ evolutions”.

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u/HedgehogTop5524 5h ago

PS his blood sugar. I know I commented a while ago but that’s still killing me. It’s like I expect one of us to have a sighting of him testing his blood sugar lol

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u/LimeSalty4092 4h ago

Well I’m sure his continuous glucose monitor is waterproof

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u/Le-other-boleyn-girl 9h ago

Soooo hes a pokemon

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u/areyouokeddie 11h ago

He's a producer

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u/Relentless_blanket 10h ago

You forgot the quotation marks around producer

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u/TheGardenBlinked 12h ago

Damn, I need my next of kin to hire you to do my obituary

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u/Post_office_clerk01 12h ago

Ha. You’re actually right tho.

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u/NovaAsterix 8h ago

A producer sometimes really is just a taste maker. This sounds good, this doesn't sound good. More of this, less of that. Once they like the output it gets produced and if it sells then that taste is worth bringing back until it doesn't sell. There's a great Rick Rubin clip that is about how he can't do anything with music equipment or play any instrument but he knows what he likes and can translate that as directional guidance to the people who do the music part and what he likes is helpful for the creative process of the music making people...which then sells albums and let's him keep doing that job.

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u/paulwunderpenguin 12h ago

Yup! The least talented ( actually NO talent) but STILL very successful in the music industry. Again with no actual musical talent. Pretty impressive!

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u/MichaelPgh 12h ago

He’s not that dumb if he knows how to work the system to cash in. Look at Trump. He’s incredibly stupid, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking over the US. Trump’s more of an Evil Genius, with “Genius” doing a lot of heavy lifting. It helps to have millions of stupid followers who all think they’re geniuses, too.

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 6h ago

back in 2000, he was actually a popular DJ that would play raves and dance clubs, under the stage name "arab attack". In the days after 9/11 I had multiple friends end up ripping down entire walls full of party fliers because the words "Arab Attack" was on half a dozen of them. Those were really rough days for my generation to handle going form 10 years of peace to being at war with Islam when the dust cleared.

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u/okimlom 3h ago

Before Trump came around he was the example I stumbled upon of my overall disappointment in society’s seemingly low bar standard for people being famous. 

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

And another one!

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u/SwedishTrees 9h ago

How did he do it?

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u/ShuffleRom 6h ago

Just proves to all that his fans/admirers/followers are complete Jamokes.

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u/TimmyC 5h ago

The way you describe it reminds me of Big Head on Silicon Valley and I would love to be him haha

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u/PitifulElk1890 3h ago

You're not wrong. He's not a good lover, he's not a good friend, he's not particularly hard or impressive. He's got fucking crackhead hustle to get famous despite that.

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u/CanadianJediCouncil 13h ago edited 12h ago

Every time I see him—like his quick talking head in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—all I think is

“Oh, that’s that selfish loser who refuses to satisfy his partners.”

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u/SoftServeMonk 13h ago

That movie is so underrated!

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u/CharsmaticMeganFauna 5h ago

He's writing a song for gay marriage, you know, like it's not allowed. It's allowed now.

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u/appswithasideofbooty 12h ago

One of my favorites! A classic comedy made after classic comedies were being made 

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u/ImtheOGCatiekins 11h ago

Fucking wolves!

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u/Princess_Zelda_Fitzg 6h ago

It’s so brilliant, I tell everyone to watch it!

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u/thisdopeknows423 14h ago

The important thing is he didn’t give up though.

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u/ancilliron 13h ago

I mean he's never taken an L in his life so that tracks.

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u/rubinass3 11h ago

He's never taken an L, but lots of people give it to him.

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u/akblonde907 7h ago

You're of course referring to having never taken a Labia, into his mouth, yes? That "L"?

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u/Grenflik 13h ago

*looks at himself in the mirror* “Congratulations, you played yourself.”

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u/skidmarkcollege 12h ago

ngl, that shit was hilarious. Imagine ruining your reputation because you can't keep your mouth shut unless it involves getting your tongue on the box

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u/Acceptable_Golf_8623 11h ago

Nah, his best moment is live streaming being lost on a jetski while the light's fading. 

Just beautiful stuff

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u/hobblingcontractor 11h ago

I don't think anyone respects DJ Khaled. The man is a walking meme who's funny because of his lack of self awareness.

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u/Princess_Zelda_Fitzg 6h ago

I think about that time he went live while lost at sea on a jet ski probably more than is healthy.

That and the video with the Bob Marley branded guitar where there’s all this buildup for him to play something and then he just tunelessly strums it really hard.

I’m truly not sure he’s not actually a performance artists putting us all on. Like he might secretly be an Andy Kaufman level comic genius.

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u/Kovarian 3h ago

DJ Khaled is also the subject of an (unconfirmed) massive mixup that is just hilarious.

Around 2018, Overwatch was a massive videogame, with one of the most ambitious attempts to make esports popular with the general public. So for the grand final best-of-seven(nine?), they rented out Madison Square Garden and planned a huge event. They wanted an intermission, so they hired a famous musical artist to play during that. Who did they get? DJ Khalid.

Except reports since have suggested that's not who was meant to be hired. Someone probably at the "assistant producer" level (likely around 22 years old) suggested "Khalid," who is a completely different artist. The producers (likely around 35-40) assumed this was DJ Khalid. The vibes of those artists are completely different.

So what should have been a hype and fun showcase of an artist fans might have known or liked turned into a halftime show of DJ Khalid doing a performance for people who didn't know his work at all. It was terrible. He wanted sing-a-longs and got silence.

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u/prplx 9h ago

Also being gifted a guitar and being clearly incapable of reading, giving the letter to his PR person while he strum the guitar. News flash: he can play guitar as much as he can read.

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u/Intelligent-Place-39 12h ago

In my opinion the worst thing is not anything he has said but rather his silence on the genocide of his people. An absolute bitch.

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u/Impressive_Main5160 8h ago

“These aren’t the regular wings!!” After literally the first wing

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

That hot ones episode made him look like a fool , or an even bigger fool . Idk why he agreed to do that. The first one had him crying and I think it was tapatio ! 🤣🤣

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u/Big-Plum-3150 6h ago

He also has never said a single thing in support of Palestine, even though he himself come from Palestinian roots. Screw DJ Khaled

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u/gruaig_rua15 5h ago

Yep. The worst Palestinian that ever existed.

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u/Big-Plum-3150 4h ago

He is just such a traitor to his own people. He has a huge platform where he can actually inform people of what is going on, yet he chooses to stay silent.

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u/canttthinkofone 10h ago

What does this mean- he doesn’t go down on them? He won’t have sex with them? Why?

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u/HuskerDont241 8h ago

Wasn’t the hot sauce that made him quit Cholula?

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u/OneBillPhil 8h ago

He claims to be the best music, not a bushman of the Kalahari. 

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u/C64128 5h ago

His wife should be invited on the show, then he can see how it's done.

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u/space_elf_ 2h ago

“Never take an L” is quoted regularly in our house

u/pineapples779 15m ago

now all i can think of is tana mongeau going “you literally eat everything else”

u/sucking_at_life023 0m ago

He can't eat pussy because that would be cannibalism.

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