10 Hilariously Bad Musicians That Are Crazy Successful
4. DJ Khaled
There are many ongoing mysteries that come up throughout music history. Every one of them seems more perplexing than the next, from why did Robert Johnson sell his soul to the devil to where the hell the bass guitar went on Metallica's And Justice for All. Despite all of that, there is one mystery that eclipses them all: what the hell does DJ Khaled actually do?
No, really. Other than say his name at the beginning of every pop hit and spout out random sayings like "we da best" or "another one," there's nothing that really links Khaled's production to anything in the music world. It's almost as if the features on his songs are the main attraction, with him just sitting in the background and putting his own stamp on everything. And that's because that's exactly what's happening.
Compared to the actual DJs who put thought into their beats, it's hilarious to call what Khaled does even being a musician, with most of his job being a ringmaster. Although you might get short snippets of his voice every now and again, the entire job he has is to act as a puppeteer luring in different artists on songs that they have no business being tied to more often than not. Even though pop music is far from dead, we may be inching closer when we had the guts to put a glorified A&R man on the hit parade.