how many untouchable artists do you know other than luther vandross? [Archive]

05-08-2003, 12:53 PM

he's an artist who NO ONE fukks with - not even the enquirer - as powerful as he is, no one really knows who his lovers are or even his sexual preference...never has there been a mainstream slanderous item writtem about him...

he's untouchable because of the respect he gets from the industry, not because of threats or promises to do bodily harm or extortion...

my moms told me that there is one other artist that's untouchable like luther, and that's johnny mathis...although this is before y'all's time, she said that even though folk suspected he was this and that, they never, ever messed with him in the media or anywhere else...

who else commands respect like that?

ultra

05-08-2003, 01:00 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but...Stevie Wonder? Al Green?

Koffy Brown

05-08-2003, 01:01 PM

I was thinking Stevie too...

Barry White?

ultra

05-08-2003, 01:03 PM

Maxwell and Lenny Kravitz also.

D J 1 3 8

05-08-2003, 01:03 PM

Vin Deisel (so far, that is)

Puffy

05-08-2003, 01:06 PM

well, the story DID come out with lil' stevie giving his ex a venereal disease...al green is constantly being reminded of his "grits" days...

i can see maxwell (even though he's not a legend), but puffy? nope...

barry white has been mocked in cartoons and sitcoms - luther hasn't...

do y'all see what i'm getting at? i mean UNTOUCHABLE...or maybe it's even luther's class - i mean, billy cosby was once one of those untouchables, but he just had to go and procreate outside of the marriage...

[ May 08, 2003, 02:07 PM: Message edited by: Ms Rickey X ]

Fletch

05-08-2003, 01:07 PM

Originally posted by Ashaki:
I was thinking Stevie too...

Barry White? Barry's an ex thug. Nobody would mess with him.

DJJM3.COM

05-08-2003, 01:09 PM

05-08-2003, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by DJ JM3:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
he's an artist who NO ONE fukks with - not even the enquirer - as powerful as he is, no one really knows who his lovers are or even his sexual preference...never has there been a mainstream slanderous item writtem about him...

he's untouchable because of the respect he gets from the industry, not because of threats or promises to do bodily harm or extortion...

my moms told me that there is one other artist that's untouchable like luther, and that's johnny mathis...although this is before y'all's time, she said that even though folk suspected he was this and that, they never, ever messed with him in the media or anywhere else...

who else commands respect like that? No one messes with Luther because 1) There is no dirt on him. 2) He does not back stab any one.... [/QUOTE]wow...is it THAT rare to find that in folk? graemlins/jpshakehead.gif

Koffy Brown

05-08-2003, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
well, the story DID come out with lil' stevie giving his ex a venereal disease...al green is constantly being reminded of his "grits" days...

i can see maxwell (even though he's not a legend), but puffy? nope...

barry white has been mocked in cartoons and sitcoms - luther hasn't...

do y'all see what i'm getting at? i mean UNTOUCHABLE...or maybe it's even luther's class - i mean, billy cosby was once one of those untouchables, but he just had to go and procreate outside of the marriage... Well then Luther has been in the media, what about his weight loss being contributed to AIDS...didn't they report before he was seen with a man/woman...I could be wrong...

05-08-2003, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Ashaki:
Well then Luther has been in the media, what about his weight loss being contributed to AIDS...didn't they report before he was seen with a man/woman...I could be wrong... i do remember it being rumored, just as his sexuality was, but i don't remember it been solidified in writing or even proven...

Koffy Brown

05-08-2003, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ashaki:
Well then Luther has been in the media, what about his weight loss being contributed to AIDS...didn't they report before he was seen with a man/woman...I could be wrong... i do remember it being rumored, just as his sexuality was, but i don't remember it been solidified in writing or even proven... [/QUOTE]mkay...

05-08-2003, 01:16 PM

Originally posted by Ashaki:
mkay... LADY! don't say that... graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif

MYOR

05-08-2003, 01:16 PM

MYA or Anita Baker.. I never heard anything about them

Dee-Dee Sheridan

05-08-2003, 01:19 PM

The Isley Brother's
Earth Wind & Fire

ultra

05-08-2003, 01:22 PM

Kev and Josh from Blaze
Cassio
Jellybean

http://deephousepage.com/smilies/wink_2.gif

heehee

[ May 08, 2003, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: ultra ]

Koffy Brown

05-08-2003, 01:25 PM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ashaki:
mkay... LADY! don't say that... graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif [/QUOTE]mkay... http://deephousepage.com/smilies/tapedshut.gif

just kidding graemlins/rofl.gif

Anita Baker is a good one...what did they say about Sade?

DJJM3.COM

05-08-2003, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
wow...is it THAT rare to find that in folk? graemlins/jpshakehead.gif Not really.....they

Ken1015

05-08-2003, 01:46 PM

Denzel Washington, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, John Travolta and you damn well better never say anything bad about Oprah.

SHEIK YERBOUTI

05-08-2003, 01:48 PM

Originally posted by Ashaki:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ashaki:
mkay... LADY! don't say that... graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif graemlins/rofl.gif [/QUOTE]mkay... http://deephousepage.com/smilies/tapedshut.gif

just kidding graemlins/rofl.gif

Anita Baker is a good one...what did they say about Sade? [/QUOTE]Wasn't there a thing where they claimed Sade had a breakdown over a love affair? Something to the effect of during a concert, after she finished singing "Hang On to Your Love," she said to tha audience "Hang on to your love because I lost mine," and then she walked off the stage in tears.

Then there was a thing about her having trouble with the law in Jamaica over driving/traffic issues.

MYOR

05-08-2003, 01:48 PM

How about Jodie Foster?///

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05-08-2003, 01:49 PM

Miles Davis RIP

Ken1015

05-08-2003, 01:52 PM

Originally posted by Mykhal:
Miles Davis RIP No way. There was always talk of his poor treatment of audiences and women.

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05-08-2003, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by Soulful1015:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Mykhal:
Miles Davis RIP No way. There was always talk of his poor treatment of audiences and women. [/QUOTE]True but alot of that was after he passed. In life I don't think people brought it to him. He took shit off nobody and people learned this.

05-09-2003, 07:07 AM

Originally posted by Soulful1015:
Denzel Washington, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, John Travolta and you damn well better never say anything bad about Oprah. denzel and tommy, yes...but steven, with his dropping amy irving for an actress is his movie and johnny being in the cult of scientology, i don't think so...

natacha

05-09-2003, 08:52 AM

Quincy Jones is untouchable...

Dj Pat

05-09-2003, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by natacha:
Quincy Jones is untouchable... Hmmm....
Let me put a little blue eye soul in this!
I would say, AMERICA!
Horse with no name!
Sand man!
Dont change!
They made some cutt's!
Dj Pat!

05-09-2003, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by Blue:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by natacha:
Quincy Jones is untouchable... Hmmm....
Let me put a little blue eye soul in this!
I would say, AMERICA!
Horse with no name!
Sand man!
Dont change!
They made some cutt's!
Dj Pat! [/QUOTE]you forgot the black radio crossover tune - the one that i play over and over until i can't plays it no more...TINMAN!!!!

"...oz never did give nothing to the tinman
that he didn't, didn't already have..."

Dj Pat

05-09-2003, 09:18 AM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Blue:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by natacha:
Quincy Jones is untouchable... Hmmm....
Let me put a little blue eye soul in this!
I would say, AMERICA!
Horse with no name!
Sand man!
Dont change!
They made some cutt's!
Dj Pat! [/QUOTE]you forgot the black radio crossover tune - the one that i play over and over until i can't plays it no more...TINMAN!!!!

"...oz never did give nothing to the tinman
that he didn't, didn't already have..." [/QUOTE]Hell yeah, i knew that i forgot one!
Tinman was the shyt!
I use to skate off that song year's ago!
Dj Pat! hail.gif

05-09-2003, 09:25 AM

talk about "skating"...i went skating with my daughters' school and they don't skate to the beat!!!! they just skate around...and that's it...

the music isn't skate-able these days anyway - no firm and steady basslines... :(

Wild i

05-09-2003, 09:33 AM

Originally posted by Mykhal:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Soulful1015:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Mykhal:
Miles Davis RIP No way. There was always talk of his poor treatment of audiences and women. [/QUOTE]True but alot of that was after he passed. In life I don't think people brought it to him. He took shit off nobody and people learned this. [/QUOTE]Miles and Cicely had a very messy, very public divorce and, seeing as Cicely was a national hero on the heals of Sounder and Miss Jane Pitman, he got dogged. Denzel and Luther are the only ones I can think of.

Johnny Mathis was outted by US magazine back in the early 80s. I remember it well because I roomed with his niece at the time and she was like, "I didn't know nothin' bout that." and I was like Well, youse a fool!"

Dj Pat

05-09-2003, 09:58 AM

Originally posted by Ms Rickey X:
he's an artist who NO ONE fukks with - not even the enquirer - as powerful as he is, no one really knows who his lovers are or even his sexual preference...never has there been a mainstream slanderous item writtem about him...

he's untouchable because of the respect he gets from the industry, not because of threats or promises to do bodily harm or extortion...

my moms told me that there is one other artist that's untouchable like luther, and that's johnny mathis...although this is before y'all's time, she said that even though folk suspected he was this and that, they never, ever messed with him in the media or anywhere else...

who else commands respect like that? You know what..
Bill Wither's was one of the very best in soul and root's music!
We all know that he's not touring any more, he has a furnature company.
But his music is and allway's been for the age's.
Grandma hand's will allway's be the jam to me!
Alonge with lovely day, harlem, just the two of us, etc.
But the song that realy put tear's in my eye's has allway's been.."hope she will be happy'er with him."
Which in a macob way sound's like she's dead and gone to be with god, or a man scorn by a woman that left him.
I think that song was personal!
Respect.
Dj Pat.

Fletch

05-09-2003, 10:20 AM

Roberta Flack

No one messes with her. And no one writes anything bad about her. She has a rep as being a real nasty b****. There's a story of how she allegedly fired a drummer on stage on the spot, and replaced him with drum legend Rick Marrotta (seated in the audience ready to go). Rick takes the chair, and she tells him, "Rick? I just fired a Black man, today. Now you better not F*** up!"

By the Way, Luther came out of her band. Luther's first album features Roberta's rhythym section at the time (bassist Marcus Miller and drummer Buddy Williams).

D J 1 3 8

05-09-2003, 10:35 AM

Is it just me, or was this thread originally about GAY artists that the press refuses to OUT (out of respect), not a thread about people who made some great songs?

05-09-2003, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by DJ 138:
Is it just me, or was this thread originally about GAY artists that the press refuses to OUT (out of respect), not a thread about people who made some great songs? no. it's about untouchable artists...period.

däp

05-09-2003, 12:39 PM

1. the Artist...
truly f'ing untouchable!

2. michael jackson
...in his hey day!

natalie cole
nancy wilson...

[ May 09, 2003, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: torin ]

Wild i

05-09-2003, 01:17 PM

Originally posted by einnod23:
Roberta Flack

No one messes with her. And no one writes anything bad about her. She has a rep as being a real nasty b****. There's a story of how she allegedly fired a drummer on stage on the spot, and replaced him with drum legend Rick Marrotta (seated in the audience ready to go). Rick takes the chair, and she tells him, "Rick? I just fired a Black man, today. Now you better not F*** up!"

By the Way, Luther came out of her band. Luther's first album features Roberta's rhythym section at the time (bassist Marcus Miller and drummer Buddy Williams). But doesn't the fact that you know this story sort of belie the "nobody says anything bad about her" theory? This is, of course, assuming you were not there or didn't get the story from someone who was. I mean, I'm assuming you read it somewhere or heard over some media outlet.