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...Oakland Athletics have less talent than the Boston Red Sox. No one can deny that. The A’s have a $49 million payroll. The Red Sox spend over twice that much on their players. And since Theo Epstein isn’t a bumbling idiot, the Sox are about twice as good as Oakland...
...first blush, Pharrell Williams appears to be a monumental idiot. Williams--one half of the prolific producing-songwriting team the Neptunes--hits on nearly every woman he sees, often in a voice loud enough to alert approaching women that he is a serial pickup artist. In restaurants each bite of food is followed by a throwing down of silverware and a declaration that his meal, above all others at the table, is "Bazooka!" In interviews he gleefully tells bawdy stories only to declare them off the record well after they have been tape recorded, transcribed and irreparably burned into memory...
Fortunately, there is empirical data to refute the Williams-as-idiot thesis. The Neptunes (Williams and partner Chad Hugo) are responsible for nine Top 10 hits over the past two years and countless Top 10 rap tracks. No one in hip-hop has as diverse or as deep a songwriting portfolio, and artists from Nelly (Hot in Herre) to Britney Spears (I'm a Slave 4 U) regularly fork over six figures for a Neptunes melody. Williams and Hugo are also members of N.E.R.D., a rock/hip-hop band whose debut album, In Search of ... , was one of the best-reviewed records...
Pharrell Williams the idiot, it turns out, is the ironic creation of Pharrell Williams the geek. "I'm no rapper," he says sheepishly. "I'm, like, a suburban kid." Ever since Williams, 30, and Hugo met in seventh grade at a school for gifted children in Virginia Beach, Va., they have been masking their insecurities beneath the brashness of hip-hop. The key to their success is that while fantasizing about being tougher than leather, they never forgot that they were softer than puppies. "A lot of people get caught up with making music into their identity," says Williams...
When talking about becoming a star, Williams can occasionally let his idiot side take over. "I want people to know that I'm a regular guy. You've got to put that in your story. I'm not Hollywood," he says as his giant bodyguard whisks him from a tinted SUV into a Manhattan restaurant. Of course, this being Pharrell Williams, the moment can't pass without a bit of irony. "Also put in your story that I'm single and nice?" Done...