Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”

R. L. Burnside killed a man “possibly at a craps game.”

Varg of Mayhem Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.

I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.

  • Cool Beance
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    121 year ago

    I used to really love R. Kelly’s Bump N’ Grind, until… Well, I think everyone knows at this point

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶OP
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      1 year ago

      You remember South Park’s Trapped in the Closet episode? I was shocked to discover that it’s a real thing. R Kelly made a musical drama about being trapped in the closet and it’s absolutely absurd.

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        81 year ago

        lol, watched that series of videos unfold in real time on The Soup, and am sheepishly realizing there’s probably a whole generation of people now that were too young/ not alive yet when that train wreck went down.

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      51 year ago

      What drives me crazy about this the most is that it was technically public knowledge as far back as the mid-90s, but it was mostly ignored. That man was left out for way too long before anything was taken seriously.