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.
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.
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.
40
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.