What’s a black Beatle, anyway?

To bring in 2015, Kanye West pulled a ‘Beyonce’ and dropped a new, heartfelt track titled, “Only One.” This track featured living legend Sir Paul McCartney. Unfortunately, nowadays, words like “legend” are thrown around way too freely and now we know why.

A lot of people haven’t done their homework. Those people include the clueless ‘Ye fans that tweeted (publicly): “I don’t know who Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this man a career w/ this new song!!”; “Kanye West really knows how to expose great new talent. Bet this Paul McCartney guy is gonna be HUGE after this song.”; or even the straightforward, “Who the hell is Paul McCartney?”

Well, Paul McCartney is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the ”Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time,” with a music career spanning well over 50 years. He has 60 gold discs (42 with the Beatles, 17 solo and 1 with the Beatles and Billy Preston) and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles, and a writer’s credit on forty-three songs that have sold over one million copies each. He has written or co-written 188 charted records of which 129 are different songs. Of these records, 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to number 1.

He helped catapult the career of many legends including Jimi Hendrix.

–Jamaal Fisher (@jamaalfisher)

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