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Ted Nugent is a kick ass guitar player and has good albums but holy fuck as a person is he a pile of shit! Think the only good thing I can say about him as a person is he never got into drugs and drinking like most rock stars.

Tory Lanez.

he's great both as a rapper and as a singer.

Was going to say Nugent. He's a huge pos, but the dude can rock. There's quite a few musicians from that time period who weren't such great people. They were either assholes, perverts, or both, like the Nuge.

R Kelly is easily a top 5 all time r&b artist

My first thought was Richard Wagner but that's well-trod ground, therefore I'll go with James Brown. He wasn't a good dude, but his musical legacy is undeniable.

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Came to say Kanye as well

I also want to add Drakeo the Ruler (RIP).

he was one of the more influential rappers in the modern LA/California scene, and he was only going up, but he created so many enemies that it's not surprising he died the way he did.

XXXTentacion

Don't particularly love his music though he does have a lot of great stuff, but god I despise what he did in life.

https://youtu.be/f0bbDFRYD_A?si=tGQc_ZcYp8n6B8xG

Madonna was the first one to pop into my head reading the topic title. Some of her music is good, but she is a rotten human being.

Ted Nugent is a great answer. Although I never cared for his music either, so I was never a fan.

Dave Mustaine can be a world-class prick, but Megadeth is one of the best metal bands.

I'm sure I could think of dozens more, but I have a busy morning.

Morrissey

Came in to say Dave Mustaine.

El_Marsh posted...

My first thought was Richard Wagner but that's well-trod ground, therefore I'll go with James Brown. He wasn't a good dude, but his musical legacy is undeniable.

People always say Wagner, but he isn't the only anti semitic composer (Chopin and plenty of others were).

Lots of them were also complete shits. Debussy was a complete bastard to his wife. Gesualdo murdered his.

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Grimes has publicly called him out for things she disagrees with him on.

ai123 posted...

People always say Wagner, but he isn't the only anti semitic composer (Chopin and plenty of others were).

Lots of them were also complete shits. Debussy was a complete bastard to his wife. Gesualdo murdered his.

Not really new information. I said him because he came to mind first.

For me marilyn manson. I've heard some bad shit about him but loved his music in my teens.

Some of the bad stuff I've heard is being a neo.nazi (he apparently likes to collect nazi related shit) being a asshole in general to people he works with and most recently sexual abuse allegations.

I can't say I really like kiss but gene Simmons seems like a egotistical asshat. But kiss puts on a hell of a show despite me just finding their music ok

I love Dance Gavin Dance's music, but they've had two sex pests as lead singers so they're off the table for me

Roger Waters
Eric Clapton

I mean, I saw Lostprophets live like 3 months before the story broke....

Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Brian Eno