This is really strange after the way they killed Chef on south park because he defended Scientology and Tom Cruise and quit the show.

I somehow highly doubt in real life he will be reanimated as a darth vader esque child pedophile.

I wonder what the creators of south park will say.  

I hope it is not "the bastard got what he deserved and what was coming to him"

Isaac Hayes dies at US home

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AFP) — American funk-soul legend and Academy Award-award winning musician Isaac Hayes was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, officials said. He was 65.

The talented singer, songwriter and composer, who won the Oscar in 1972 for best original song for the theme from "Shaft," was found unresponsive at his house by family members, Shelby county sheriff's spokesman Steve Shular told AFP.

Hayes was discovered at about 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) collapsed on the floor of a bedroom in his home next to a treadmill that was still running, he said.

"We don't believe there was any foul play," Shular said. "Based on the statements by family members that Mr. Hayes had been treated of late for a number of medical issues, we believe that led to his death today. There are no plans for an autopsy."

Hayes suffered a stroke in early 2006.

Born August 20, 1942 in Covington, Tennessee, Hayes' humble beginnings with his sharecropper family were never far from his mind. At the height of fame, he bought an estate in East Memphis overlooking the same cotton fields where he grew up.

He began singing in church at age five and in high school caught the attention of a guidance counselor who persuaded him to enter a talent show.

"When I finished, the house was on its feet, man, and I was a hit ... So I started pursuing music big time," Hayes said on his official website.

He was renowned for his characteristic baritone voice and mastery of several instruments, including the saxophone and the piano.

After graduating high school in 1962 and winning seven college scholarships for vocal music, Hayes turned down higher education to launch his music with Stax Record, where he worked with some of Rhythm and Blues biggest names at the time, including Sam & Dave, Otis Redding and Booker T & the MG's.

Hayes became Stax's rising star starting in 1966, and over the next few years some 200 Hayes-David Porter compositions became standards.

His career took off in 1969 with the landmark "Hot Buttered Soul" album, which stayed on the pop chart for 81 weeks and forced the music industry, for the first time, to conceive of soul music as an album art form.

At the time of emerging Black Power and with the death of Martin Luther King as a conscience building experience, Hayes transformed his image into a revolutionary statement, dressing in black leather, draping his bare chest in rows of gold chains and shaving his head completely.

After his career-defining soundtrack for the 1971 movie "Shaft," for which Hayes picked up an Oscar, three Grammy awards, a Golden Globe award, and an Edison award, Europe's highest music honor, Hayes began acting in scores of movies and television series.

His guest star appearances included TV shows "The Rockford Files" and "Miami Vice." He also appeared in feature films such as "Escape from New York" and "Hustle & Flow."

Musically, he returned to the charts in 1986 with a new record deal with Columbia and a new album, "U-Turn."

In 1997 he began voicing the role of chef in the animated Comedy Central cable ' series "South Park," but quit in 2006, apparently because of a conflict with Scientology, a religion he followed since the mid 1990s.

During a 1991 trip with Barry White to Africa, Hayes became fascinated with his African roots, and began his philanthropic devotion to spreading the message that education is the key to freedom.

He started the Isaac Hayes Foundation in 1993 and after being crowned king of a small community in Ghana, he returned in 2000 to open an education center that provides literacy, computer technology and health courses.

In 2002, Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and moved back home to Memphis, Tennessee, where he pursed business interests that flowered into two restaurants, a best-selling cookbook and top secret barbecue sauces.

He wrote a self-help book, "The Way to Happiness," and summarized his life experience in an interview: "At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives.

"If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way."

Hayes was married four times and fathered 12 children, according to Us magazine. He is survived by his current wife Adjowa, whom he married in 2005 and with whom he had one child.

Hayes was married four times and fathered 12 children, according to Us magazine. He is survived by his current wife Adjowa, whom he married in 2005 and with whom he had one child.

Good Lord.

Well, I hope Chef is at peace in his next plane of scientological existence.

sean wookie said:

Why not Carlos Mencia?

That's pretty cold sean.

He was kind of funny with the whole Scientology thing.  He had no problem with the show when they were making fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc, etc, but when they made fun of Scientology he got pissed.

We'll just have to wait and see if they do anything special in light of this.

Actually, South Park is pretty nice to Christians, Jews and Muslims when compared with shows like Family Guy and even The Simpsons. Jesus and God are depicted as pretty cool characters from any episodes I have ever seen (which I think is pretty much ever episode from the first ten seasons as well as a few later ones). Cartman's constant expression of hatred for the Jews is really more making fun of rampant antisemitism in American (and yeah, deny it all you want, but it is there).  The show takes kind of a believe what you want, just don't give other people a hard time about it, and don't be a dick about it stance. However, it has ripped Mormonism and Scientology pretty badly, but only really by being brutally honest about them. It got a bit harsher on Scientology with the chef episode, but only because they were given a hard time about it their first Scientology episode. They even had an episode ripping on atheists, and they are constantly ragging on liberals.

So, if you watch the Scientology episode that pissed Hayes off to start with, it is actually a really accurate primer into Scientology's beliefs, which shows what a joke they are, which is obviously why the Scientologists, Hayes included didn't like it so much.

I am sorry to hear of the guys passing. Man, he and Bernie within a week from each other... I expected both those guys to be around a lot longer.

sean wookie said:

That's what you say when someone good dies nowdays and so what everyone has flaws. It's not like he was Jesse Helms.

Huh?  Who are you replying to here sean?  People have always been pretty respectful of the recently departed.  It's usually good form to wait about a week before even attempting to dredge up any bad aspects of a persons life.

Actually, Sky brought up the Scientology bit first.  I said what I did more as a response to him than anything else.  I don't think it's really strange though.

I thnk the Scientology bit was brought up because he suddenly became well known not only for being the voice of Chef, but also as someone who didn't want his religion to be made fun of, but it was ok to make fun of all the other ones.  Either way I don't harbor any bad feelings towards the guy and I hope the South Park guys don't do anything to extreme (though they probably will).

lordjedi said:

Either way I don't harbor any bad feelings towards the guy and I hope the South Park guys don't do anything to extreme (though they probably will).

Like Sean said, I would not be surprised if the next episode of South Park is a tribute to him. The episode that ripped on Hayes by having chef be part of a cult that brain washes its members into becoming pedophiles ended with the note of "even though chef got brain washed into becoming a creepy pedophile, let's remember the good times we had with him." Also at the end of the episode chef redeems himself by over coming his brainwashedness and sacrifices himself to save the kids, only to be resurrected by the cult in a parody of ROTS birth of Darth Vader scene.

All this to say, I don't think Trey Parker and Matt Stone hold any real hard feelings towards Hayes, especially with the episode ending with a hint of sadness at how things turned out and Stan's speech about not blaming chef, but the cult that brainwashed him. They did rip on him pretty hard, but that was when he was still alive. Now that he is dead I am sure they will treat him with respect. If they make any statement about it at all, it will be one that puts Isaac in a positive light.