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* It's hard to think about Mexican-American pop singer [[Selena]] (full name Selena Quintanilla-Pérez) without bringing up her untimely death in the hands of her assistant [[Loony Fan|Yolanda Saldívar]], with whom she had a falling out over Saldívar's underhanded control over the singer's business ventures. On the morning of March 31, 1995, Saldívar shot and killed Selena after a financial dispute, her death later compared to the likes of [[John F. Kennedy]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Elvis Presley]] in terms of cultural impact. [[Jennifer Lopez]]'s portrayal of Selena in the [[Selena (film)|1997 biopic]] is considered to be her breakout role, and [[Selena Gomez]] owes much of her influence to Quintanilla, with Gomez herself being [[Named After Somebody Famous|named after the singer]].
* Filipino rapper-actor [[Andrew E.]] rose to prominence in the 90s with his bawdy pop-rap songs most especially "Humanap Ka Ng Panget" (lit. "Look For Someone Ugly"), only for him to be outed as a plagiarist and a fraud in the late 2010s when similarities between "Panget" and the Cash Money Marvelous single "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybuuw-svRI Find An Ugly Woman]" were noted by members of the /r/Philippines subreddit, contrary to claims by Andrew E. that he came up with the song independently.<ref>[https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2018/07/02/1829933/netizens-call-out-andrew-e-allegedhumanap-ka-ng-panget-plagiarism#xXOvIbrDDH4L2O5L.99 Netizens call out Andrew E. for alleged 'Humanap Ka Ng Panget' plagiarism]</ref>
* Rapper [[B.o.B]] of "Airplanes" and "Price Tag" fame became far better known in the mid-to-late 2010s for his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] conspiracy theories, also somehow convinced in the belief that [[What an Idiot!|the Earth is flat]]. It got to the point where he recorded a diss track entitled "Flatline" which was not only primarily directed against astrophysicist [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], but was also riddled with antisemitic, anti-Masonic and anti-science rhetoric, promoting [[Holocaust]] denial and alleging that the Freemasonry and reptilians among others are conspiring towards a "[[New World Order]]". Needless to say, the track was overwhelmingly panned for B.o.B's twisted and demented beliefs, with the Anti-Defamation League condemning the song as hateful and denigrating towards Jewish people. As a result, his career plummeted to near-irrelevance as his later albums made next to no impact, and he is now viewed as either a washed-up flash
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