![]() ![]() ![]() Q saw the Internet for what it really is, the Wild West that allows us a peephole into some of the highest and lowest common denominators of human behavior. The mere mention of the word “WorldStar” also beckons people to pull out their phones to record fight footage in public. New York Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis continually cited WorldStar as the vehicle that taught him American culture. As often as Q was hailed as someone poisoning hip-hop and minds across the globe, he was an influencer beyond belief. ![]() Its YouTube channel boasts an impressive subscription number (4.2 million), while the original site still draws millions of hits every day. After all, the original concept of WorldStar was to release and host nothing but music videos for rap acts. Many a rapper has used WorldStar as a platform to release music videos. Kat Stacks would give the benediction, and Q would be eulogized by any number of people who routinely visited the WSHH to get their kicks, or simply a glimpse into the non-mainstream world. The pallbearers no doubt would be the elastic group of rappers, whether it be RiFF RaFF or anyone who dared pay WSHH’s extortionary fees for a post. There should be bums and random men who claim residency in New York, only to get stomped out by Arizona truck drivers. There should be women who claimed fame via twerking videos with the WSHH insignia on their bikinis. Q's homegoing should resemble something similar to the artwork for Sgt. All the while, every condolence was both praising for WorldStar while also understanding its controversial tone and nature. Confirmations began rolling through, condolences made. TMZ, pioneers in their own right of feeding the world content it didn’t know it wanted (or needed, in some aspects), were the first to report it. Screenshot/WorldStarHipHopThat entertainment suddenly stopped early Tuesday afternoon, when word began spreading that O’Denat had died at 43. “On WorldStar, it’s right there in front of you,” O’Denat told The New York Times in 2015. Where the site stood as a look into the ills of the world, its founder, Lee “Q” O’Denat, always countered that it was user-generated content that people wanted. For every underground and emerging rapper that managed to land placement on the platform, there were fight compilations, random acts of violence, dancers, porn stars, video vixens and other items that one would view as a glimpse into a decaying society. The legacy of “Ballad of a Thin Man” is similar to that of WorldStarHipHop, the website and video platform that became a bastion of all the good and evils of 21st-century viral entertainment. And yet he very well may be the freak in all of this. The man, startled, feels that he’s above this and shouldn’t be compared all the same. "How does it feel to be such a freak?” a geek asks. Only thing is, the geeks look back and wonder if he’s satisfied with what he’s watching. ![]() On “Ballad of a Thin Man,” he raised a question about a man visiting the circus just to see the geeks for his entertainment. As often as critics labeled Dylan an outsider, he was prone to putting the lens right on them, asking all the right questions with all of the same bite attached. Beyond karaoke musings of “Like A Rolling Stone,” the album does contain Dylan’s look into politics, societal awareness and more. Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited was released more than 50 years ago, yet scholars, music critics and the sort still look at it from time to time. ![]()
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