The biggest collective groan at tonight's beer-soaked liveblog came during "Professor" will.i.am's medley. Check out this totally nonsense homage to past Record Of The Year winners, from Bobby Darrin to U2.
Consider us schooled, Professor Will! Did you get your PhD in ruinin' shit?
Posted at 1:18 AM in Video
Tags: Grammys | will.i.am
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wtf...
It didn't even sound rehearsed
it sounded like they were just giving him random songs and he was just free associating words to them
that was embarassing
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Hey, the guy could segue to being an auctioneer.
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Will.I.Am, hands down the saddest THING I have ever laid eyes upon.
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Oh man, I'm adding 'jammys' and 'Grammys' to my rhymebook this second!
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HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE THAT SHIT HE RHYMES JAMMY WITH JAMMY. If thats not gangster then please tell me what is.
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Oh dear...
That was...
ummm...
I think Fergie peeing herself is LESS embarrassing
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This video represents everything that is wrong with the Grammys. and the music industry.
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are you kidding me
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just detach yourself from the situation and actually watch what is happening here. There's a stupid, talentless little man standing in front of millions of people talking absolute shit. What is he supposed to be? A rapper? A total embarassment. I couldn't watch the whole thing.
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Wow, that was terrible. It's been a while since I felt that embarrassed for someone I neither knew nor cared about.
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"If you ever won a grammy put your hands up"
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that was the shittiest thing I have ever seen on television, by far.
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Uhm.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!
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I would sooner offer my first born child than see that again.
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Wow, he's talented.
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LOL
That was fucking terrible. I felt so embarassed watching that.
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Hmm, What rhymes with Grammy?
Grammy.
Jammy.
Slammy.
Wow, this thing just writes itself.
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hahah everyone in the audience looks so confused. this guy sucks something unreal.
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He should stick with Obama as his lyricist.
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rap is an embarrasment.
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Get it??? my nam is william. but my name is also will. so when i split it up is is will-i-am. get it??? 'cuz my name is will too.
Grammy.
Jammy.
Slammy.
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That was fucking awful. It's like a serious version of Bill Murray's "Nick the Lounge Singer". And you think with 50 years of Grammy,Slammy,Jammy's....that they would have had some older acts play live. But we had to make time for this crap?
Awful.
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Let us not forget that this is the same douchenozzle that sampled Daft Punk's "Around the World" in one of his remixes and was so sure he was doing DP a favor that he even shot the video before getting permission to even use the sample in the first place.
And yet this dude has mountains of money and I bet Jeff Magnum has none. There is no justice. ;)
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granted will i am is absolutely terrible, I think you could have picked out several other worse parts to the grammys. At least the beat it nod was interesting. I hate it when a stereogum editor dictates how the comments are going to go. Have your own voice people!
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The thing that made no sense to me about this is the fact that didn't his album absolutely completely bomb and isn't this suppose to be where the best musicians are showcased. That is the problem with the grammys now, it's not the best, it's just whatever the record companies want to shove down our throats. It used to be decent because it actually celebrated good music. I'm getting sick of this core of Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Foo Fighters, and so on every single year. There are so many good bands out there (the shins, system of a down, new pornographers), as well as other great rappers. Why does it need to be the same mediocre people every year. AND ENOUGH WITH THE COMMERCIALS, CHRIST
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OMG he totally fucked that up lmao all the people who never won a grammy put your hands up lmao
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that was BRILLIANT! AAHAHHAHHAAHHAH BAHAHAHHAHAHA BAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH!
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strangers in the night, exchanging glances!
it's like musical vomit.
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See... this is what you get when writers strike!
"Oh you mean I gotta write this stuff myself? Cram as much as I can into a minute long medley? Well I don't remember more than the chorus line of any one song because thats pretty much all I sample when making my own "original" music... yeah I think I can do this live."
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That was awsome, you guys are all stupid.
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I don't know who I should hate more: Will.I.Am for torturing my ears for a minute and a half or the United States Education system for not only raising a retard but classifying him as a "professor"
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