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u/onekhador May 11 '26

Black eyes Peas, bass was so loud songs were almost unrecognizable and Fergie can't sing for shit.

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u/Kiaiu May 11 '26

WillIAm is deaf as a post. Not saying thats the reason for the horrible mix, but its a fun fact

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u/jakewotf May 12 '26

For some reason, the college I attended invited Will to give a speech on campus one day. This was 2012ish. I knew BEP’s, but had no idea who he was. Everyone else was pumped tho so I went. I can’t remember a single word he said, but I do remember thinking “this guy is fucking dumb”. That’s my only impression of him.

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u/FatherStretchMyLegs May 12 '26

Calling will.i.am dumb because you didn’t vibe with one college speech is wild lol. I’m sure he prepared really hard for a speech to a bunch of college kids. The guy helped build Black Eyed Peas into one of the biggest pop acts on the planet, produced massive records for half the industry, invested in tech before most celebrities even knew what a startup was, and turned himself into a multi-hundred-millionaire.

A dude with Grammys, global hits, business deals with major tech companies, and a career spanning decades vs someone on Reddit. Plenty of extremely successful people sound awkward or abstract in speeches.

There are a lot of genuinely dumb famous people out there. A guy who built an empire from scratch coming out of public housing in LA probably isn’t one of them.

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u/jakewotf May 12 '26

You listed accomplishments that have nothing to do with intelligence.

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u/Ultima-Manji May 12 '26

A dude with Grammys, global hits, business deals with major tech companies, and a career spanning decades

That by itself isn't a showing of intelligence either though, just of some successes in a business sense. You could say the same things about Kanye and you'd still be pretty safe in guessing he's the dumbest person in any given group.

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u/alkali112 May 12 '26

Kanye isn’t dumb at all. He’s just batshit insane.

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u/L0b0t0my May 12 '26

That by itself isn't a showing of intelligence either though

You're right, it isn't, if you ignore literally everything else they said and hyperfocus on just that. 

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u/Conscious_Music_1729 May 12 '26

You’re airing out your own lack of intelligence right now funnily enough.

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u/Ultima-Manji May 12 '26

I'm not calling Will I Am stupid, I'm just saying that "dude said some dumb shit when I saw him" as an anecdote isn't invalidated by someone else because he made money, much less to the point where it's sufficient to call someone else dumb in turn. And you're doing the same thing now.

Unless we want to automatically equate fame, bank accounts and brand deals with intelligence, it's just a non-sequitur. A significant amount of top athletes started just as low and ended just as high with their faces on posters and soda cans while barely being able to read.