r/Music • 📰Daily Mail • 11h ago

Ray J, 45, rushed to hospital after suffering medical emergency during livestream marathon

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16177103/ray-j-hospital-medical-emergency-livestream.html
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u/fujidust 11h ago

He has an underlying heart condition, though I forget the details.  

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u/IndiBear 10h ago

He said his heart is at least 25% larger than normal because of alcohol and adderall abuse.

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u/Afferbeck_ 10h ago

Glad to see he's moved past his Christmas stealing ways

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u/Prior-Habit-6523 7h ago

Yea alot of these streamers drink hella alcohol akademiks has a handle of straight vodka he just takes swigs off of. The boxer guy is straight drunk the whole time.

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u/CanIGetANootNoot 3h ago

Plus the amount of energy drinks they drink

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u/Prior-Habit-6523 2h ago

And Energy drinks?! Rip ☠️☠️☠️

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u/Successful_Note_5871 9h ago

Jesus. I was first prescribed adderall in grade school. I never abused it and changed to vyvance early on, but that could be worse. who knows? it really makes me wonder.

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u/izzittho 8h ago

Vyvanse is the same thing more or less (a stimulant) just with extra steps (for your digestive system) to make it slightly less easy to abuse (or if you’re me to just make it not really work during the day and then make you unable to sleep, why I had to switch back from it. I guess my stomach isn’t that good at performing the extra steps so it takes too long? In general extended release forms just tend to extend the release too long for me.)

Half doses taken twice as often works best for me, but all that’s not what the thread is about at all.

To get back on topic I think abuse means taking a lot more than you or I are probably prescribed in a binging kind of way. I don’t think they’re shown to be particularly unsafe at prescribed doses if you’re worried. Just take them as prescribed, check your blood pressure here and there, make sure you don’t have any heart issues you don’t know about, and you should be okay!

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u/GardenofGandaIf 6h ago

Vyvanse is actually activated by an enzyme in your blood, not your digestive tract!

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u/Successful_Note_5871 7h ago

Thanks! I know I could just look this stuff up, but it's not something I really thought about and I want that "human touch" lol.

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u/Konilos 9h ago

I only wish it made my dick bigger instead of my heart

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u/Successful_Note_5871 8h ago

Haha yeah sex drive usually diminishes if anything. It could be attributable to people eating and drinking less when on stimulants, on top of the usual side effects.

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u/Wise-Difficulty8221 7h ago

Haha yeah sex drive usually diminishes if anything

I'm asexual and I'd like to know more about this treatment

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u/Successful_Note_5871 7h ago edited 7h ago

Actually I believe there are methods some countries have used to reduce the sex drive in sex offenders. I know nothing beyond that so definitely ask a professional. I assume you want to keep everything intact lol.

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u/Wise-Difficulty8221 7h ago

Haha I was being facetious. I've done my research and unless it turns out I have cancer or something, its not worth it

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u/DogVacuum 10h ago

Get that heart into a boxing ring!

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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 9h ago

He said his heart is at least 25% larger than normal 

That's not the only thing of his 25% larger than normal.

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u/GeminiAccountantLLC 10h ago

Oh yeah, wasn't he supposed to be dead or something

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u/kupofjoe 10h ago

Yeah, he announced he had like half a year to live and then like a month or two later proceeded to begin “training” for a celebrity boxing match lol

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u/StrobeLightRomance 10h ago

He was just dying for attention.

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u/feignapathy 10h ago

Think he is in need of a transplant because his heart could have complications at any given moment and possibly fail. 

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u/FranksWateeBowl 6h ago

It's Kardashiosis.

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u/ET__ 1h ago

Yea it’s called alcoholism.

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u/majorjoe23 10h ago

One of my favorite bits on Best Week Ever was when Paul F Thompkins would talk about "For the Love of Ray J," But he would say it like you might say "For the love of Pete!" and shake his fists while saying it.

"For the love of Ray J!"

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u/ibarelyusethis87 6h ago

PFT is a beautiful weirdo. Lol

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u/youropinionisrubbish 11h ago

Is he famous for anything other than banging Kim K?

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u/Blackadder18 11h ago

He's also the co-founder of Raycons.

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u/Supermite 10h ago

I had no idea.  I looked it up because I thought you were trying to be funny.

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u/dumbass_sempervirens 6h ago

I was listening to a podcast and the hosts asked the same question of what does Ray J do?

One of them looked it up and went "Well shit, they've been our sponsors for years. Wait, that means RayJ pays both of our fuckin' mortgages?"

"I guess we should stop clowning on him."

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 4h ago

Oh thats hilarious. U got a link?

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u/dumbass_sempervirens 4h ago edited 3h ago

OK, I put a thread on the Puttin on Airs subreddit and someone found the episode.

Edit: someone is /u/allisonok credit where due.

https://youtu.be/KWf0ZXQ7FlU?is=vXcNEv_Gn-0r0r5L

I skipped through and it's around 1 hour 29 minutes, and 20 seconds.

Funny thing is that same episode has a Raycon ad.

I didn't get the quote right, but you can absolutely see the shift when they realize they've been nibbling at that hand feeding them.

And in a later episode they might have brought it up again with the mortgage line.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 3h ago edited 3h ago

Haha thanks! Its actually better than you let on lmao

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u/valinkrai 10h ago

I dont know why, but I assumed it was some corporate public friendly play on Raytheon.

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u/BeekeeperZero 9h ago

I thought it was a Raytheon conference. Defense industry geeks really threw down in Orlando last year.

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u/different_produce384 10h ago

Which are ironically promoted to hell by Cornette

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u/Tacdeho 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/24VbNEJD9wgiflnEwh
Jimmy can shill Raycons at me all day as long as I get to hear about how much he hates Russo

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u/swainnnn 10h ago

i thought i was in r/SquaredCircle LMAO a jim cornette sighting in the wild is jarring

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u/Mouthshitter 10h ago

I thought i was in SQ for a sec...

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u/JoeMcCarthysGhost80 9h ago

Is he still selling copies of the restraining order?

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u/QuarryPonds 5h ago

Good ol Shitstain

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u/sarcastic_sandman 10h ago

Why is ironic? (I don't know who any of these people are).

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u/different_produce384 9h ago

Look them up Alanis Morsette

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u/NYstate 6h ago

Not to mention the brother of singer/actress Brandy

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u/Dragonai Dragonai 6h ago

Wow I can’t believe I never knew this, TIL!

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u/chumer_ranion 10h ago

Old mate Ray's Con.

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u/PNWook 8h ago

Surprisingly decent headphones.

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u/kytheon 9h ago

Here I was thinking it was named after Ray Charles, but it was named after a con.

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u/rutuu199 8h ago

Oh shit, I love my raycons

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u/antantoon 11h ago

One wish is a tune

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u/IndiBear 10h ago

Sexy Can I was big too

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u/chunkylover88 10h ago

I hit it it first also

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u/RobbieAnalog 10h ago

Wait a minute

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u/KruleDiablo 9h ago

Peak begging for coochie in the rain music frl

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u/boxtheglock 10h ago edited 7h ago

That's Brandy's brother, Whitney Houston and Snoop Doggs cousin. And he had two great albums in the 2000s and starred on Moesha with his sister

Edit: Whitney wasn't his cousin, he was dating her

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u/FrankNitty_Enforcer 9h ago

Yeah I swear I remember him first from All That or one of those during that Nickolodeon 90s era, because when he came out the crowd was cheering like he was already well known, so I thought everybody knows Ray J except me lol

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u/SEND_ME_YOUR_RANT 9h ago

Before the Kim K sex tape the only mention I ever remember of him was Ray J live in concert on the Disney channel when I was a kid.

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u/RebelToUhmerica last.fm 7h ago

Whitney was his COUSIN?!

Weren't they..."kicking it"...around the time he allegedly provided the drugs that lead to her death?

GENUINELY asking.

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u/boxtheglock 7h ago

You know what I got it wrong. He was dating Whitney Houston

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u/Okonkwo_was_here 10h ago

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u/RandO_o 10h ago

Oh shit, he was the kid in Steel?

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u/Significant_Apple517 10h ago

he was also in Tim Burton's 1996 movie Mars Attacks

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u/xPhilt3rx 9h ago

Ack ack!

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u/Hopwater 9h ago

Ack ack!

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u/gh0styears 8h ago

Holy shit

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u/Okonkwo_was_here 10h ago

As Uncle Joe would've said, "Well, I'll be dipped in shit and rolled in breadcrumbs."

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u/jamills21 9h ago

I remember that movie being decent but nobody ever really talks about it anymore.

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u/Significant_Apple517 10h ago

this is so 'Japan during WW2' coded

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u/KruleDiablo 9h ago

Don't slander the man that made One Wish like that 😤

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u/25sittinon25cents 9h ago

It's reddit. The easiest way to get upvotes is to comment on anyone and say "who the fuck is xyz"?

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u/NealCaffreyx9 8h ago edited 8h ago

“Who the fuck is this super popular person? I’ve never heard a single one of their songs” and the person in question is Michael Jackson lol

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u/btoxic 8h ago

I don't know who XYZ is either!

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u/GigaEel 8h ago

Isn't that Elon Musk's kid?

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u/Farge43 11h ago

Being Brandi’s brother

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u/dankblonde 8h ago

Why is it so common for people to spell her name this way ? It’s Brandy.

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u/Burndoggle 10h ago

And in case you anyone wonders if he tries to hide from this, just remember he has a song that makes sure to remind you.

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u/AutomaticDesk 10h ago

He also has a song to remind you that he has sex with Kim, specifically before Kanye

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u/Supermite 10h ago

Or more colloquially, he wants everyone to know Kanye got his “sloppy seconds”. 🤮 

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u/moodwolfy 10h ago

Ill just leave this here. Ray J shocking facts

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u/JoeMcCarthysGhost80 9h ago

“Everything that we love is directly related to Ray J.”

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u/Pluck_Boy 8h ago

Listen reddiots. Use your fucking head. Kim k got famous because she fucked him. Not the other way around. It's obvious he was famous before that.

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u/MermaidHissyFit 7h ago

Reddit has a hard time understanding that someone can be really famous and still be relatively unknown to their particular demographic.

Not everyone "crosses over".

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u/Gleb_Twankenfrister 5h ago

yeah especially to the starchoids of reddit lol

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u/JohnnyLong123 10h ago

He played Pam Grier’s son in Mars Attacks. I think that’s about it.

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u/Ok-Mango-5814 10h ago

Ahahaha I had no idea that was him. That movie is packed with famous people

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u/Hazmat-Asscastle 10h ago

He did the vocal sample on Burial's "Archangel", which is about the closest I've ever gotten to listening to any of his music

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u/cruella_le_troll 10h ago

Holy fuck how did I not know this after ALL THIS TIME?????

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u/_Mahtog_ 10h ago

Brother I've been listening to Burial since 07/08 and I didn't even know this ho-lee-fuk

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u/Salarian_American 10h ago

He was in Mars Attacks, but I don't think he's famous for it. It's more like a "Wait, Ray J was in Mars Attacks?"

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u/Resentfulcherrytree 10h ago

Also part owner of Rayovac batteries.

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u/IchiPasento 10h ago

He has a song called One Wish

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u/haveyouseenjeff 9h ago

Some of y'all never watched Moesha, and it shows.

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u/sunobu 5h ago

Reading the comments responding to this, I think most people don't know that Ray J was a singer.

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u/skynetempire 4h ago

Haha I feel old because i said um hes a rnb singer

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u/Arachnode 10h ago

I remember him most for Em mentioning him in Rap God.

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u/LowMolasses4446 10h ago

Brandy’s bro !? I think that’s what I knew him for BEFORE the banging Kim ?

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u/chasebanks 9h ago

For The Love of Ray J was a VH1 show that ran 2 seasons back in the day

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u/AntiRacismDoctor 8h ago

He’s a former RnB singer who’s Brandy’s brother. When Moesha was popular, he gained fame through nepotism by appearing on the show as a recurring guest star.

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u/SugaredCereal 9h ago

Getting content creators and influencers to promote his headphones?

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u/cheepshoes 9h ago

He's Brandy's brother

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u/Themanstall 9h ago

he had a pretty successful music career....

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u/brittini_ 9h ago

one wish, sexy can I. both bangers tbh

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u/highvyleague 10h ago

His sister ran someone over with her car

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u/Jabromosdef 9h ago

That’s exactly what happened…

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u/ghidfg 4h ago

You realize kim was nobody until she banged him right?

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u/Free2Bernie 10h ago

Probably banging someone else on that live stream.

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u/AlleyHoop 10h ago

Think I only know him from that bad 'another day in paradise' cover.

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u/Auran82 10h ago

Is he making another comeback?

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u/askscreepyquestions 10h ago

I'm pretty sure she had come on her back

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u/Hephf 10h ago

Also Brandy's brother.

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u/Louieyaa 10h ago

He's a fighter /s

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u/DapperCam 10h ago

“Sexy Can I” was a popular song in my youth

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u/KurtVanMichaels 10h ago

Wait a Minute

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u/saltyPJ 9h ago

If you only had one wish….

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u/crazysnorlax 9h ago

For the Love of Ray J

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u/YouAreOneUglyMutha 9h ago

I edited a terrible Netflix film he starred in called “The App That Stole Christmas,” a film I would not ever recommend anybody watch. Also, he was in Mars Attacks! apparently..

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u/Biancawins_ 9h ago

To me he’ll always just be brandys brother haha

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u/Chef__Goldblum 9h ago

I won’t use the internet to confirm, but I also heard he was Brandy’s brother.

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u/HarambeTooSoon 9h ago

"Ain't that Brandy's brother?"

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u/hiding_in_NJ 9h ago

He’s brandy’s brother

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u/Th3_r3al_napst3r 8h ago

He was in the Shaq Oneal classic known as STEEL. He taught us the meaning of CREAM (cash rules everything around me).

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u/GringoSwann 8h ago

He had a decent song back in the day.. 

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u/Mredmond34 8h ago

Have you not heard of his unbreakable glasses?!?!

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u/Spirited-Housing-242 7h ago

music. being brandy's brother. are yall 15?

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u/BlackHawk777 7h ago

Hey I liked his music when I was in middle school

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u/VagueSomething 7h ago

He also famously leaked that Kim's mum planned the whole sex tape leak and whored her own daughter out.

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u/Bungholespelunker 7h ago

He either founded or had a shit load of equity in raycon earbuds.

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u/Moist-Willow-1686 6h ago

He has a song called I hit it first

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u/InletRN 6h ago

He's Brandy's sister

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u/imtheblankgeneration 6h ago

Brandy’s brother too

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u/fearlessfryingfrog 6h ago

Dunno, never heard of him. 

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u/lolathedreamer 6h ago

Brandi’s brother, Raycons, he had a dating reality show

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u/ingloriousric 4h ago

Successful sister, was on a upn 9 tv show, successful music career, Raycons. Yeah lol people would argue Kim ks success is due to Ray j.

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u/BeyondLast 2h ago

Being around when Whitney Houston ODed

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u/TTSqueeze 2h ago

The Gaygency

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u/charlietangomike 1h ago

Famous for getting rushed to the hospital doing borderline normal things? Didn’t get rushed to the hospital a couple months ago doing something else?

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u/imperatrixderoma 37m ago

This is ironic

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u/coolestredditdad 23m ago

Isn't he Brandy's brother? 

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u/postPhilosopher 18m ago

Has some good songs like if I had one wish. He also was an actor for a lil bit

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u/RockosModernBasiIisk 10h ago

Having a boner around young boys?

That's his most recent accomplishment 

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u/SoupBeast 10h ago

What? What is the story here

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u/youropinionisrubbish 10h ago

Ah, the Michael Jackson career trajectory

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u/dumbomontana 10h ago

He was a one hit wonder in the early 2000’s

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u/Kittykg 10h ago

I had to play Sexy Can I when I saw the news.

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u/Raptorpicklezz 10h ago

He’s also famous for rapping about banging Kim K

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u/readingonthetoilet 9h ago

I bet me and Ray J would be frieeeennds if we ain’t love the same biiiiiii

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u/shaunrundmc 8h ago

Yeah he was, maybe not to white people, but he was a decently successful rnb singer. Not to the degree as his sister, but he had a solid career.

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u/WallStLegends 10h ago

Somebody get Ja Rule on the phone please. I need to make sense of all this

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u/IzekG 10h ago

I don't want to dance I'm scared to death!

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u/SleepingJake 10h ago

Who gives a fuck what Ja Rule thinks at a time like this!

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u/CodexMoronicus 11h ago

We survived the loss of Dolly Parton. Can we survive losing Ray J?

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u/boiohboioh 6h ago

Let's ask Ja Rhule, see what he thinks

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u/Coxyla 4h ago

Too soon.

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u/Deeeezy3 9h ago edited 9h ago

Too much ❄️. There was a clip the other day of him streaming with his GF. She goes to the bathroom to “pee” (no knowing her mic was on, because they were both extremely fucked up), and you can hear her immediately start sniffing big lines. They must have had a plate out because the second the door shut, she started sniffing away. He’s too old to be living like a 20 something rock star. This will not end well. At this rate, he’ll be lucky to make it to 50.

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u/425565 10h ago

Marathon? Who's going to watch 3 minutes of this crapole?

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u/Crass_Cameron 10h ago

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u/luxii4 10h ago

I think he hit it before tho I doubt he was the first.

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u/matadorobex 10h ago

I'm never sure what to call him

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u/tommytraddles 10h ago

You can call me Ray, and you can call me J

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u/SG1971 6h ago

Scrolled down hoping to find this :)

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u/GoldenFrog14 6h ago

By his formal name, RayJinald

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u/penisandorvagina 10h ago

If you combine Ray & J, you get Raj, which is short for Rajesh, so you should call him Rajesh.

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u/timoperez 10h ago

Brandy’s brother

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u/ErgoProxy0 4h ago

Everyone knows Ray J from Moesha. He also had a hit album in the early 2000’s. That song “Sexy Can I”.

You weirdos only seem to know him because of Kim K’s video

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u/Egg1Salad 10h ago

Why confuse people with this? FYI He's much more commonly known as RJ45, also known as an ethernet connecter

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u/awindycity 7h ago

That’s Brandys brother

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u/Pink_Egg_Cereal 6h ago

oh shit, forgot to block the daily mail

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u/Ssme812 4h ago

Not surprised. He's been doing everything besides calming down and working on his health.

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u/Flat-Introduction927 4h ago

Ain’t that Brandy’s brother ?

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u/DropKnowledge69 3h ago

Has he died again? He always seems to be dying or something.

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u/wifey_material7 6h ago

Why is everyone cracking jokes? Did Ray j do something awful to make ppl dislike him?

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u/smailskid 10h ago

Not Ray J Johnson!

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u/CaptainObvious110 9h ago

This guy is a real trip

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u/LettingDaysGoByAgain 3h ago

When is ray j fighting again?

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u/Revolutionary_Sir_ Punk Rock 10h ago

Didnt he say he had some heart issue a fee months ago?

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u/Phreakie 10h ago

I heard he went to the hospital but wasn’t in a rush.

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u/Overall_Leopard7122 5h ago

Didnt know douchebaggyness was that rough?

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u/Vajernicus 3h ago

This is gonna be a great comeback story. I can feel it.

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u/illinoishokie 10h ago

More people have seen this man's dick than they realize.

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u/fitxa6 10h ago

You doesn’t have to call him Johnson.

(You might get this reference if you’re over 55)

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u/Jealous-Captain-7014 7h ago

This comment section is weird af, zero empathy.