These artists careers were never the same after one incident, whether it was from their own terrible decisions or a minor misstep that got blown out of proportion. Today, we are going to discuss them all starting with Macklemore who leaked a text message that made everyone question what they thought they knew about him in 2012 and 2013. You could not go anywhere without hearing the song Thrift Shop Far from your typical rap song Macklemore flexed twenty dollars and Suburban moms dancing to his funky saxophone This song spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Mac had one hit wonder written all over him.

He carried the most stereotypical white rapper image that is perceived as corny by hip-hop culture, but he proved everyone wrong with his second hit, Can't Hold Us which spent five weeks at the number one spot. This track was definitely more of a standard pop track, but two billboard number ones in his first year as a mainstream artist stamped that he was a force to be reckoned with. However, it was all about to come crashing down as Macklemore would suffer. From Success At the 2014 annual, Grammy Awards Macklemore was nominated in seven categories, the biggest and most prestigious being best rap album and best rap song.

After winning best rap performance and Best New Artist people were happy to see him win two. Grammys nominated for best rap song up against Drake chat, chat am I crazy thinking that the heist was better than whatever came afterwards I think the heist was was Pete Michael Moore and then it kind of and there was a kind of dog to be honest. Kanye West Jay-Z It seemed unlikely Macklemore would win, but Thrift Shop was in fact the winner 2014. securing him his third Grammy of the night.

But what would come next would shock the world if he doesn't. If you listen to the hike and you liked it, then you don't know who the Macklemore is afterwards. It's like it comes a different guy up against Drake's Nothing Was The Same Jay-Z's Magna Carta Kendrick Lamar's good kid Mad City and Kanye West Yeezus Macklemore had absolutely no chance of winning. Everyone was betting on Kendrick since he without a doubt had the best album of the bunch, but wouldn't be entirely surprised if it went to the other nominees.

The hip-hop Community was floored when Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's The Heist won best rap album of the year The Heist Couldn't be a more fitting name for this absolute robbery Macklemore was being cooked by the hip-hop Community online reminding him in every comment section that he didn't deserve to win. He felt so much pressure that he decided to text Kendrick Lamar and apologize. You got robbed I wanted you to win. You should have.

It's weird and sucks that I robbed you I was gonna say that during the speech. then the music started playing during my speech and I froze. Anyway, you know what it is. Congrats on this year and your music.

Appreciate you as an artist and as a friend. Much love. We wouldn't have ever seen this text if Macklemore didn't post it to social media which made it even worse and looked like he was just trying to get in the good graces with the public. Did you ever feel any way about him posting the text message or anything like that? Yeah.

I think it was uncalled to be 100 which when he sent it to me I was like okay, you know I could see him feeling that type of way because you're a good dude, but um I think for confirmation from the world you know he probably felt like he had to put it out there. what you didn't need to do, you need to do. but they don't take nothing away from him anyway because I know we're as hard as that he could despite Kendrick being cordial and saying that Macklemore Unless he's understanding a public statement, a public statement is completely different than a private message and then it being put out in the way that it's written. That's the problem there is it.

It's a send us a text message, screenshot send and the weather is when it's just really like personally and weird. And it's not something weird about like like my like my Kai thing as well public statement and impression for somebody else in a bad Year Let me do with this: I need this. Oh man. well hip-hop fans could never truly accept Macklemore as a part of the culture.

They thought he was disingenuous and they didn't really like his music in the first place, so this was an easy excuse to forget about him. He stepped out of the Limelight and many people suggest his music was never as ambitious of her. Again, he felt guilt and that guilt ate him alive. His 2016 album, this Unruly Mess I made sold just 61 000 copies in the first week.

Him and Ryan Lewis split up shortly after and Mack released another solo album Gemini that did decent amongst his fan base. But Ultimately, he hasn't had any major mainstream success in almost a decade, but unlike Macklemore, the baby refused to apologize to anyone, which is leading to one of the dumbest downfalls of all time. Baby exploded onto the mainstream rap scene in 2019 with his hit song Shug which peaked at number seven on the billboard High 100. In a world of repetitive, melodic trap, the baby felt fresh and exciting, providing us with bouncy and fun bangers.

He dominated for the next two years, constantly having multiple singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and he was in regular rotation on the radio. His track rock Star with Roddy Rich was the number one song for seven weeks straight. A very tough thing to do as a hip hop artist, but the baby was always known for having a bold personality. He was the type to say whatever he wanted and if you had a problem, he was more than willing to handle it.

He even killed a guy in Walmart. Don't worry, it was self-defense Well, in July of 2021 on the stage of rolling loud, his loose lips got him in major trouble. Maybe some that he can't recover from. You didn't show up today with HIV AIDS with plasmic diseases didn't make him die two three weeks.

it smell like water put itself on right now. Fellas lights up fellas. if you ain't sucking in the parking lot, put yourself on like completely unprovoked and for no reason at all. The baby was thinking about gay men and what they do in their free time.

While he was on stage performing, he referred to people with AIDS as but why did he start cooking you out of nowhere He's did he just cook out of left field, dirty and will likely die soon from the illness. Both statements are categorically and factually untrue. The clip was shared onto the internet and sent millions of people into an uproar. The baby addressed this on his Instagram and clarified his message.

I wasn't going on a rant that's called a call to action. That's what that's called because I'm alive I'm the best live performer I'm the last show killer. You interact with your fans. You get what I'm saying.

Look, that's worth Street You want to know Wow because even my gay fans don't got AIDS stupid ass. Him doubling down on his comments made everything way worse as he clearly was very uneducated on the AIDS disease and the unfairness either come with it. And although he eventually issued an apology addressing the Lgbtq community, he had made countless contradictory statements after he tried to profit off the controversy in music videos and even kind of redacted his own apology. If I say what I say to get people to raise their cell phones and is misinterpreted by people who watch a five second clip at home.

You're not supposed to understand what's going on you couldn't raise yourself on if you wanted to, so you ain't supposed to be able to digest a clip. Uh, you know what I'm saying. A clip didn't altered and shortened with a narrative to go along with it. With enough people driving it, it's gonna do what it do from here he got is it is it justifying that that he said in the military school, don't end up like me Is that like a motive to get the thumbs up kicked off every major Festival in 2021 that he was supposed to perform at and even when he did perform, he was booed and had garbage thrown at him.

A-list celebrities and fellow collaborators condemned him, but the controversy continued. He got into fights, tormented, and broke down the mother of his child on Instagram tried to kiss one of his fans without consent. de baby was not trying to save face. he just kept saying I'm sorry for being me His ticket sales plummeted, which resorted to him offering buy one get one free deals to fill out the venues.

One report alleged that he only sold 500 tickets to a venue that holds 14 000 people and he claims to have lost 30 million dollars because of the controversy. 30 million dollars, 20 30 million dollars that I would have had before the ball drop 2021. So this happened, rolling out with July I had 30 million dollars worth of shows on the schedule before uh, December 31st. All he had to say was put your hands in the air if you just don't care and all of this could have been avoided.

But if you think what the baby said was bad, you'll be horrified by what CeeLo Green said in a series of questionable tweets. If you don't remember the name Ceelogram Sparkly, you definitely remember his two most icons and forget You Crazy Peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 29. I love That Song chart, Forget You which he released Solo four years later also went number two on the Hot 100 after spending almost a full year on the charts. Celo had a very unique voice and was undeniably talented.

He pretty much only gave us two hits, but was an ever-present pop culture figure throughout the early 2010s. Whether he was hosting an award show his own, it's not as fast own reality show, voice acting or being a judge on. The Voice Celo was loved and appreciated until some shocking allegations arose. Sila Was accused by a 33 year old woman he dined with at a downtown Los Angeles Sushi Restaurant of placing Ecstasy also known as MDMA or Molly I Told Los Angeles Police Detective she woke up naked in bed in her hotel room was Green Celo allegedly admitted to law enforcement that he took Ecstasy but denied drugging the woman's drink or committing sexual assault.

Silos sexual assault. Wait Okay I Guys, listen. Listen. I'm in no way okay.

Listen with the information I am giving here. Okay with this with what? I I'm looking at I'm not downplaying it I Promise. Okay, okay, she says it. X was placed in her drink and then she woke up.

It must have been something else and I feel like if it is something else, it should be written here in the complaint or in the in the reports. No and dammit does not make you do that I know what the they're consuming that does not make you do that air Molly in her drink the woman later told Los Angeles Police detective she woke up naked in bed in her hotel room was Green Celo allegedly admitted to Bro even if uh, he's you've done a whole gram of it bro uh, this doesn't happen Quite the opposite. Law enforcement that he took Ecstasy but denied drugging the woman's drink or committing sexual assault. Silos.

sexual assault charges were dropped after prosecutors concluded there wasn't enough evidence to take that accusation to court. but he was found guilty on drug charges which landed him three years probation. But it wasn't the nature of the charges that ruined his career, it's what he said on Twitter After the case, after being criticized by people in public tweets, he decided to respond: women who have really been R worded remember but point taken So if I tried but did not succeed but the person said I did, then what really happened Why someone breaks in a home She said what really been R worded remember but point taken So if I tried but did not succeed but the person said I did, then what really happened when someone breaks in a home, there is broken glass. Where is your plausible proof anyone was R worded if someone passed out, they're not even with you consciously so with implies consent.

It's hard. Okay Hula, Demand cook. Who is it? It's gonna be some. it's gonna be somebody.

Somebody let him cook because this is guys. See what point he was trying to make here. but the blogs were not holding back. Silo It's not rip if you forget CeeLo Green It isn't if the victim is unconscious.

After these tweets, his reputation was destroyed. He lost all of his live performance bookings. He quit The Voice to avoid being fired, his TV show was canceled and he basically disappeared from the pop culture. Zeitgeist Pretty much surviving off royalties and small film roles here and there.

But I guess him and I are friends now yo Pat What's up man? I'm assuming that your friends call you Pat my friends do call me Pat So and um I considered myself to be one of your friends trying to Cameo I consider myself to be one of your friends. will be the next person on our list. Lost her career from something that was totally out of her control. In fact, it may have even been a setup.

Janet Jackson is a woman who needs no introduction. She's the youngest of the nine iconic Jackson family siblings. Although she was not a part of the original Jackson 5 she would go on to have a massive solo music career. Jackson Signed the first of two record.

Breakers Okay, it holds value. Okay, I'm not kidding. it. The world pretend they care.

They don't care if they kept making good music. Regardless, what they do, people consume. They make a product desirable. People consume.

They make music, they consume the people don't It doesn't get into their heads. Oh, they did that. Oh yeah, but the music is good though. They don't care and sometimes a lot of people say oh, but I've we canceled this guy I got him.

That's not true. These will cancel themselves by not continuing to perform and and persevere. I'm not saying that they should. I'll believe that if they persevered right, they wouldn't get canceled.

So the translation is innocent and then you say oh yo, those people talk about that Chris Brown If you don't have any charges he's got on, uh, violence. don't say violence, punching, hurting, he's got. who cares that people like the music? Yeah. Listening to chill I'm not sure I'm not gonna chill.

Is that what it is? is? this woke culture and dumb libtards I said it libtards. I Think that they control the world because they put a Flag or some on their Twitter icon and they need to do the rebuilding businesses and buildings because they put on the Tweet or some bro. what the is you on about them? Ain't none of this bro I I Can't speaking multi-million dollar contracts with Virgin Records These people think that there are better tweets, cancel people alone, they don't cancel them, they say well, they face criticism and they cancel themselves because of lack of Creative Drive just overall drive or or a they just crumble but they could just do Chris Brown Establishing her as one of the highest paid artists in the industry, she was named by Billboard Magazine in the 90s as the second most successful recording artist of the decade in the United States after Mariah Carey Over 100 million records sold 10 Billboard number one songs, 27 top 10 hits. She is easily the most successful artist on this list.

bro. Why do you say this? What is it I Cannot believe it. See, this is the problem with this with these people. Man, if this is your traditional what I just said it I don't even I'm pausing again if this is your intervention.

What I just said, you are degenerate all I'm saying I'm saying okay is that people convince themselves that cancellation is real and they have the power to I put a tweet to this game is done. Oh, when you don't, you fail to understand that the reality that we live in is that as long as you make a desirable product, nobody cares how bad of a person you are and it's sad. But it's just how it is. Nobody genuinely cares.

They go on Twitter and they pretend to care and everybody sucks each other off Right until oh, we change the world. We're the Superman I'm I changed the world with a tweet and I like it. You didn't do jack, you are ugly. which is why her downfall is even more tragic.

The Super Bowl in America is always the most watched televised program every year, with an average of around 100 million people watching the game. The halftime show has historically been a major milestone in an artist's career as it is the biggest stage they will likely ever be on In 2004. Janet Jackson was asked to do the show but not by herself, which was surprising since she easily had enough hits to do a full set. Instead, she only got to perform two of her songs.

The other time was pointed out by Justin Timberlake Diddy Nelly Kid Rock and Jessica Simpson. The very last song of the performance was Justin's hit song Rock Your Body in which Janet assisted him. The two met at the center of the stage to pose for the grand finale. Justin reaches across Janet's body and pulls off the chess piece of her costume, exposing her breast to 90 million people.

The wardrobe malfunction is considered the biggest controversy in televised history. This incident was actually the inspiration for YouTube because of the difficulty finding footage to re-watch online. Now to some degree, this was planned. Justin's intention was to pull the leather piece off her chest and expose the red underneath, but he ripped too much in the Split Second the camera was on.

Janet you can see her look down and shot. She tried to cover herself while Timberlake stood holding the ripped pieces of her costume and bra. The FCC received more than 500 000 complaints after the performance. CBS was fined 550 thousand dollars in the halftime sponsor of AOL demanded a return of the 10 million dollar.

Avatar AOL Hey housing costs they paid to the NFL Justin apologized MTV apologized Janet apologized even though she later regretted it because it was an accident, the media went into an all-out frenzy. The FCC investigated the halftime show to see if this was a planned media stunt meant to shock the world, citing that because she was wearing a nipple covering that was evidence this was all set up. Class action lawsuits. No shot.

They probably wear those just if something happens, at least there's that there's no shot that they wear that. Okay, that's not evidence of what a dumb thing to say. Dude, that's just stupid. Just stop it.

We're wearing a nipple covering. That was evidence this was all set up. Class action lawsuits were filed against Janet by random citizens claiming that her sexually explicit performance deserved maximum punitive damages. Every talk show host in the nation dragged her Viacom had to pay out 3.5 million dollars to settle various interviews.

so they went and banned all radio and TV stations that they owned from playing any of Janet Jackson's music. Janet was blackballed from the music industry over an accident and Justin I don't think you understand I don't understand it. but if the stunt is nothing controversial by pulling the leather piece, that's fine. I Actually think it's a it's a good stunt.

If it matches the song, it's part of the performance. It's got a cool and fun I think it I know what the song was, but I'm sure it was part of the creative thing behind it or so. um anyway. sorry I think um San Diego's been like transferring it over the military airships from there over the L.A or some.

and I'm hearing military uh, a730 is about my house all day anyway. Um, what I'm saying is that I Generally think that yes, there was probably an effort here to um to to do that, but I don't think it was meant for it to be fully naked? No, absolutely no shots, there's no shot and you don't You get my point there. If the song is about like being like I don't know I don't know what this song was about I'm gonna get wild yes instead of something like sexy, whatever and it's like right and you see the bra I guess that's kind of cool. Well I don't know.

Was not punished at all even though it was definitely his fault. There is no doubt her punishment was unfair and likely due to her gender and race. Her career after that wasn't totally dismantled. She did have a number one album a Grammy nomination, some light Billboard presents, but this incident lingered like a dark cloud over her head for many years and slowly she faded out of the mainstream.

I am one of those women women who have been gagged both literally and emotionally. women who have been abused, women who have been intimidated, women who have lived in fear I Stand with you. you are my sisters. However, today, most people can all agree that this was just an overreaction and she is still highly regarded as one of the most iconic pop stars of all time.

Overreacting to small mistakes seem to be common in the early 2000s because this next artist's career was does okay. I Think there's a point there that there's something that that's more than just the facts because if you think about it, the Justin Timberlake was part of the stunts right. He did it right and he didn't get canceled as much as as she did so. the one that did pull and whatnot I Mean as far as you know, unless he was unless she set the whole thing up.

if that she saw the whole thing I mean he's just as, if not more culpable than she is. If you want to put things flat out and go with the truth, she is generally the same, if not more capable and that's an error than she is was destroyed by something so small it's almost unbelievable. Ashley Simpson was the younger sister of the already famous pop star Jessica Simpson who was a multi-platinum billboard charting recording artist. She also had her own MTV Newlyweds Nick and Jessica was one of the most popular programs on the network MTV wanted to capitalize on The Simpsons sister's Newfound Fame and gave Ashley her own series called the Ashley Simpson show.

The series ran for two seasons and aired every week on MTV Directly after Jessica's show, viewers who were invested in Jess were introduced to Ashley Immediately after Ashley was desperate to not live in the shadows of her sister, she dyed her naturally blonde hair brown and built a pop punk image to complement her pop rock music. Her album's lead single Pieces of Me became an instant hit in the United States. The song peaked at number five on the U.S Billboard Hot 100 and sold over 500 000 copies. Nationwide Ashley's debut album was released soon after, with an estimated 398 000 copies sold in its first week, where worldwide the album sold more than 5 million copies.

She had a bigger debut than her sister, but her career ended just before it took off. Saturday Night Live 2004 Ashley Simpson was set to perform her single Pieces of Me. When this happened, you might be kind of confused as to what happened. Basically, the backing vocals started playing before Ashley expected them as it was her intention to lip sync her performance, but instead of trying to catch up to the song, she stood there in a panic, then hit this extremely awkward jig dance twice before ultimately exiting the stage without saying anything.

The show cuts a commercial and when it came back, she blamed her band. ladies and gentlemen. what can I say live? TV If she just told the truth right away, she may have been able to avoid the backlash, but instead Ashley became a laughing stock. Okay, dude.

all right. okay, foreign. even news anchors poked fun at her sister's performance on Saturday Night Live was oh my. Think you could say all right, sorry we had to do that was just our own Adventure we were mocking her.

At just 19, she was publicly ridiculed by the world and this is all especially ridiculous. These standards are much lower. It almost feels like lip syncing isn't even a real thing anymore. half of my favorite artists at their live shows just let the song play, jump around and yell random ad-libs Even though Ashley was a decent performer and she did have an opportunity to redeem herself on various late night shows, Nobody cared, Nobody wanted to give her a second chance.

bro. The artist sometimes back up their own singing on that's not a thing, that's it. They sometimes they get off the mic for like a whole minute, jokes and boo her off stage. Thank you.

She did have a moderate comeback with her single boyfriend in 2005 and her second album eventually selling 3 million copies worldwide. But she had already seen the peak of her music career and as it slowly dwindled away, she maintained her relevance in the 2010s through relationships, various television projects, and her own social media. But the last person on our list has the most unexpected, shocking and horrifying incidents that landed them in prison. In 2015.

The world was dancing to Silento's hit song Watch Me The song Paired with the massive viral dance the Whip and the Nae Nae all of social media was flooded with videos of people doing the dance. With Vine and Instagram peaking in popularity, Silento laid the foundation for what would become extremely normal on Tick Tock Many years later, he performed at award shows on Nickelodeon Every Talk Show in America. The virality got the single to number three on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as 1.8 billion views on YouTube. Today, the record is six times.

Platinum Unfortunately, hip-hop dance tracks have a history of being impossible to outdo because for every one that becomes culturally iconic, there are hundreds of cheesy, failed attempts to recreate the moment. Silent Hill Waited three years to drop his album fresh out of high School, which failed to generate any buzz, and his second album went almost totally unnoticed. But before you could fully count him out, he made a decision that officially ended his career. On January 21st, 2021, the 23 year old rapper was arrested for the murder of his cousin 35 year old.

Frederick Brooks after a shooting in DeKalb County Georgia Police said officers found Rooks suffering from multiple gunshot wounds at a home off of deep. Shoals Circle He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators did not have a suspect at the time. Responding officers were able to obtain video from the security cameras of multiple residents and later identified Hawk or Silento as the gunman.

Silento was arrested February 1st, 2021 and then later indicted by a Georgia Grand jury on four felonies: one count of malice murder, one count of felony murder, aggravated assault, and gun possession during the commission of a felony. As of now, the court has deemed Silento unfit for the safety of the public and will remain incarcerated until further trial. Since the trial has not started yet, we don't know how he did it. We don't know why he did it well I Don't know how long he might be in jail, but we do know is that his career is officially over Jesus That all right yo! this is X x on the video I'm going through my voice as well.

That is anyone knows that boy I Don't know, he's just so soy. anyone knows that boy I Don't know, he's just so sorry.