There’s no denying that when Kim Kardashian ’s sex tape with then-boyfriend Ray J came out in 2007, the world of pop culture was forever altered. It wasn’t just Kim who found fame, but the entire Kardashian-Jenner family , as they launched their reality show and took the first steps to what would become an empire worth billions of dollars. Nobody is more aware of just how big that tape’s impact was — and continues to be nearly two decades later — than Ray J himself, and he made some pretty bold claims about how things would be different if that leak never happened.
Ray J sat down with Shannon Sharpe on his podcast Club Shay Shay , where the Love & Hip Hop alum got philosophical about the butterfly effect his sex tape with Kim Kardashian had on the world. Ray J said: How different would we all be? How different would this whole fucking thing be? How different would the industry be? How different would the wheel roll? Everything would be different. We would all be different.
All of us. Everybody in here would be different. We would have on different clothes.
With Kim Kardashian finding fame, and her siblings also establishing brands within the fashion, makeup and lifestyle industries, is it possible that everything down to our clothes would be different if Kardashian never rose to anything more than Paris Hilton’s closet organizer ? Ray J didn’t stop there, either, saying: Probably more people would be going to college, and, you know what I’m saying, getting a.