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Like, meme about it all you like but maybe pull up short of the pedo accusations.

As an Australian I do have a bit of a problem with mandatory voting. Mostly because it forces the uninformed to go vote too, so we get the same breed of fearmongering and sensationalist headlines on the newspaper front pages that are all owned by the same billionaires and the same idiots on social security voting for the party that would abolish social security because Facebook told them the other party wanted to let muslims rape their girlfriend.

But the voting on the weekend and the democracy sausage we definitely got right.

I wish I could throw stones on this but if I was an international A list celebrity with many millions of dollars and some of the worlds most attractive women, women so attractive that they are professionally attractive regularly wanted to date me I cant say 100% that Id behave any better.

I mean, the man engages in consential relationships with women of legal age and so far I havent heard any allegations of domestic violence, sexual assault, underage shenanigans or P Diddy shit.

I did think maybe young athlete.

Not planning on having kids any time soon, more money than they really know what to do with, basketball hoop IN the garage, lots of screens...

Yeah, Im 40 years old. Im not doing my coke off the toilet seat anymore I have dignity. And back problems.

Your assesment of that era of rap is 100% spot on. That was a very braggadocious and flashy era leading up to the financial collapse in 08. Dj Khaled was music for nightclubs, it was "gangster rap" for the masses, it was radio play accessible without being edited to death... and it sold.

I dont know the man but I think it was a lot like what happens to a lot of people in entertainment, you have to fake it till you make it. Nobody wants to hear songs about how you're going to climb to the middle. But eventually at some level of success you need to stop huffing your own farts and show some humility and I dont think he ever has.

You said it yourself he is very good at generating hype in an industry that survives on hype. He was a flashy obnoxious tool when everyone was wearing Ed Hardy jeans and 3 inch round Ecko watches studded with fake diamonds. He was Mr Miami when the south was blowing up rap wise. He was the right personality, in the right place, at the right time with the right skills and right connections and he hustled.

I know I'm repeating myself saying "I think he is a tool" but that being said, I was really into rap and the scene during the era he had his come up and I know he didnt stumble into success.

Pretty much my assessment.

I can have 80 million dollars but I have to live my life in constant fear and in Iran.

I get especially annoyed when people act like because their great great grandparents on one side of their tree were Italian that they have some innate knowledge of pasta and sauce.

Like even if nonna learned from her nonna and you learned from her, theres still a non zero chance that great great nonna was a SHIT COOK.

Dj Khaled is kind of the posterchild for egotistical dickhead, I will never dispute this. However, his skill is bringing talent together and he is pretty damn good at it. He's more like a movie producer/casting director than a music producer in how he does business. He hears a beat, thinks "Who would destroy on this?" Buys the beat, Makes some phone calls, gets some artists onboard to do a verse, pays the artists for their work, mixes the track or pays a producer who he thinks has skills to do it for him and releases it.

He is the child of Palestinian immigrants and built himself his dream job and is worth an estimated 70 million, have a look at his wikipedia for the sheer number of awards he has been nominated for... Talentless hacks cant do that. Raging egomaniacs with annoying personalities sure can tho.

That mass shooter one he did was actually pretty good... because it felt like a gritty raw student film about a gritty raw subject that didnt need a lot of exposition.

But it wasnt good for an experienced professional film maker.

If I get interrupted talking 3 times in a meeting I get up and walk out. This isnt beers with the boys or brunch with the gals, if my opinion cant be respected in full I have work to do.