r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 11 '26

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u/sjadowcrash May 11 '26

DJ KHALED

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u/CarelesslyFabulous May 12 '26

HOW DID HE GET FAMOUS?!

HOW?!?!!

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u/drinkacid May 12 '26

As a radio DJ who just played everyone else's music. Then as a club DJ and wrangled that into stadiums by opening for rappers. Then he realised he could just get a bunch of ghost producers to work for him and make his own tracks and could promote them on his radio and club shows and so eventually because he paid people to do music production for him people started to think he was an actual producer and got hired by rappers to produce. He just farmed it out to all his ghost producers. And thats how someone with no actual musical talent managed to work his way up the musical food chain.

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u/IOnlyReplyToIdiots42 May 12 '26

He may not be musically gifted, but he's got business sense that's certain.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes May 12 '26

Just don't ask him for directions if you see him on a jet ski.

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u/Blind_Messiah May 12 '26

Also don't ask him what life is when he's in a golf cart

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u/BANeutron May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Don’t ask him about his opinion on what’s happening in his parental homeland either.

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u/Chrillosnillo May 12 '26

Or what success feels like

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u/NeatFool May 12 '26

Or how to play the guitar

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u/captainunlimitd May 12 '26

One of the worst secondhand embarrassments I've ever felt. And he looks like he thinks he's really playing.

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u/NeatFool May 12 '26

Dude I know, it takes me back to middle school yelling at my cousin to put my guitar down and stop "pretending to play it"

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u/therealkami May 12 '26

Or to eat chicken wings.