The entertainment industry is home to many conspiracy theories. Whether it be body doubles, clones, weird satanic rituals, people selling their souls, and of course, people faking their deaths. The music industry is full of crazy conspiracy theories, some of which turn out to be true.

So, today we’re going to look into some of the most bizarre conspiracy theories in the music industry. Starting off with the theory that Paul McCartney was replaced. [music] This is probably the most famous and well-known music conspiracy theory, and that is the Paul is dead theory. Some people believe that Paul McCartney of the Beatles died in a car crash on November 9th of 1966.

The rest of the band wanted to cover up his death. So, with the assistance of the British government, they found a lookalike to replace Paul and left clues on their music alluding to the truth that the real Paul McCartney is dead. The supposed lookalike is a man named William Shears Campbell. Supposedly, Mr. Campbell entered a Beatles lookalike contest in 1965 that was hosted by the Beatles manager in case one of his boys died.

That sure sounds realistic, doesn’t it? Well, it is kind of true since there was a lookalike competition hosted by a radio show in New York. But that was in 1968 and it wasn’t hosted by the Beatles manager. But the story goes that William Campbell had plastic surgery. He went missing and he took Paul McCartney’s spot in the Beatles.

However, this is one of the biggest stretches in the entire story because there’s not even any evidence that this guy existed in the first place. Regardless, people love to point out how the original Paul and the fake Paul look different. Fake Paul has different ears. He’s a different height and he has green eyes rather than brown.

After the Beatles broke up in 1970, many fans began digging deeper in their music because they knew no more music would come out. Many people began to noticed that Paul McCartney was often different than the rest of the band. On the Abbey Road cover, Paul has his right foot forward while everyone else has their left foot forward and he also isn’t wearing any shoes.

During the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, each of the Beatles were wearing red carnations except Paul, who is wearing a black carnation. But one of the biggest pieces of evidence is on the album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. There are many things on the album cover that conspiracy theorists point to as clues, like the flowers symbolizing a memorial, but the biggest one is when a mirror is held to the text on the front.

It supposedly reveals a secret message that says 119 he died and has an arrow pointing to Paul. 119 is supposed to symbolize 119 or the 9th of November. On the back cover, Paul is the only one not facing forward. And George is pointing to a lyric that reads, “Wednesday morning at 5:00 as the day begins.

” And November 9th of 1966 was a Wednesday. So, people believe that Wednesday morning of November 9th on 1996, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star got into a big fight. So, Paul left. He got into a car accident and he died. Another piece of evidence for this is that on the album cover for Abby Road, a Beatle sits in the back all by itself with a license plate that reads 28 if, meaning that Paul would have been 28 if he hadn’t died, which is true, assuming he died.

And then there’s a bunch more supposed clues within the music itself. At the end of the song, I’m so tired, John Lennin says this. But when it’s played backwards, people interpret it as this. >> At the end of the song, Strawberry Fields Forever, John Lennon mutters a line that apparently was the phrase cranberry sauce, but many people believe he said, “I buried Paul.

” >> It doesn’t help that the song is named Strawberry Fields because it was named after a veteran cemetery that John Lennin grew up next to in Liverpool. Then on the song Revolution 9, when played backwards, it sounds like John is saying, “Turn me on dead man.” Turn me on. >> There is way more lore to this story.

Like, for example, on the Abbey Road cover, Paul was holding a cigarette in his right hand even though he was left-handed. And I’m not going to get into all of it because there’s just so much, but I explained the gist of it. So, I’ll conclude this section with Paul McCartney’s take on this conspiracy theory.

And I showed up that day with sandals. Uh it was so hot and I kicked him off and walked across barefooted. So this started some rumor that because he was barefooted, he’s dead. >> Well, that was the idea. That was the other part of it that there was a guy who looked like you taking your place. >> No. Well, this is him. [music] >> So, for some reason, replacement theories are a common thing in the music world, and there are two more that I want to touch on.

People believe that in 2006, Eminem died in a car crash and it was covered up by his label. And again, like Paul McCartney, he was replaced. This is probably the least evidencebacked replacement theory. And one of the key pieces of evidence is a Tom McDonald song. On the song Cloned Rappers by Tom McDonald, he said, “If they can’t control you, they erase the old you.

They cloned Gucci, cloned Kodak, cloned Eminem. He ain’t rapped since Encore. Know that.” Beautiful lyricism. It doesn’t help also that in 2015 Bob went on a big rant about artists being cloned. So most of the evidence that backs up this claim is that Eminem’s face either looks the same throughout his whole life or sometimes other people say that his face looks drastically different.

People also like to say that Eminem seemed to glitch on the Zane Low interview even though he was clearly just trying to be funny. Also, of course, Eminem praised Jay-Z in a 2017 interview. And as we all know, Jay-Z is the face of the Illuminati. But another big piece of evidence supporting this theory is the fact that Eminem couldn’t remember one of the music videos he was in.

>> Wasn’t you on the beach running on that video? >> Was I in that video? >> Yeah, you was running on the beach. That was like your debut album. >> I was. >> You was running on the beach. Why the clothes on? >> You was running on the beach with damn damn near clothes on. >> Yo, you got to show me that slam shady, cuz you was like crazy back then.

real crazy. You don’t remember that cuz you was running on the beach cuz in the video I don’t even >> But most people in the comments are intelligent enough to realize M was probably just forgetful or he was on drugs at the time. It’s safe to say that the Eminem replacement theory was essentially pulled out of thin air because he got older and looks different.

Another artist that conspiracy theorists set their eyes on was Averil Lavine. They believe that after the massive success of her debut album Let Go. The 17-year-old Averil Lavine couldn’t handle the fame and the attention, so she took her own life in 2003. Before doing so, she had a body double named Melissa Vandela, who was doing her meet and greets and all other press related things.

So, Melissa took the place of Avil after she died. This theory spawned in 2011 on a Brazilian blog called Avil Esta Morta. Some of the evidence to prove she’s a different person is differences in moles, birtharks, and other facial features as well. She also had a promo picture taken with the word Melissa written on her hand, but it’s likely she was just playing into the conspiracy.

In the music video for Nobody’s Home, there is something that flashes on the screen that says A plus D, which people believe means Avil is dead. There’s another point in the video where Avil 2004 flashes on the screen and then an X pops up. People think that means that she died in 2004, but in reality, that’s just the year that her album came out.

Also in the video, there are two Avilles. One wearing a wig demonstrating some sort of story and the other is singing in a black dress, which people believe symbolizes the old Aval mourning and Melissa pretending to be the new Averil. But again, in reality, Averil is just telling a story in the video and acting out of character.

But another big piece of evidence for this conspiracy is how Averil’s voice supposedly sounds different. [music] >> [music] >> But in my opinion, that can just be explained by her getting older. The rest of the other clues aren’t really worth getting into as they can be easily explained away, and the conspiracy theorists have no proof.

Most of the evidence for this theory is that she doesn’t dress the same and does different things than she did when she was 17. Um, but that’s just that’s just growing up. The funniest part about this whole situation is the guy who made the theory on the Brazilian website said that it’s fake and he made it up for his own reasons.

Here’s what Averils had to say about the situation. >> Yeah, some people think that I’m not the real me, which is so weird. Like, why would they even think that? >> But a theory that’s actually much more interesting in my opinion than the replacement theories is the David Bowie predicted Kanye theory. [music] This theory suggests that the late artist David Bowie predicted the life of Kanye West and painted him as a successor of some sort.

So, in June of 1972, David Bowie released his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Quite the mouthful. The idea was that the character Ziggy Stardust was a messianic rockstar, some sort of savior of the world. >> So Ziggy was for me a very simplistic thing.

It was what it seemed to be an alien rockstar. I dressed him and acted him out. I lifted at that. But other people reread him and contributed more information about Ziggy than I had put into him. >> But some people believe that some of the songs and the album cover actually predicted the birth of Kanye West. So, in the cover, we can obviously see David Bowie sitting below a sign that says K West, which many people think is referring to Kanye.

Bowie briefly commented on the artwork by saying, “People read so much into the K West sign. They thought K West must be some sort of code for quest. It took on all these sort of mystical overtones. So, he never directly commented on people saying it was Kanye, but he did make it seem like there’s no deeper meaning behind it.

It turns out that the K in the sign stood for Khan because Henry Khan was the owner of the store, and West referred to the location of the building in the city. Then in the first song, 5 years, Bowie sings about how there are only 5 years left until Earth ends because of a lack of natural resources. The idea was that Ziggy Stardust was the messianic rock star who would save the world.

And guess who was born just 5 years after the release of the album? Kanye West was born almost exactly 5 years after the album was released. But it doesn’t end just there. 2 days before he passed away, David Bowie released his final album, Blackstar. People like to think that this album was Bow’s way of passing the torch to Kanye, for a variety of different reasons.

One of the main reasons is because Bowie had apparently talked to a psychic in the late ‘7s who told him he was going to die at either 70 or 69. And Bowie passed away when he was 69 years old in 2016. So Bowie knew his death was coming. On the title track, Bowie sings something happened on the day he died.

Spirit rose a meter then stepped aside. Somebody else took his place and bravely cried. Obviously, people think Kanye was the one who took Bowie’s place. They also point to the third song on Black Star being titled Lazarus, which is a reference to the biblical story of Lazarus, who was raised from the dead by Jesus after 4 days of being dead.

Then on Kanye’s 2013 album Jesus, the third track is titled I Am God. So I guess theorists believe that Kanye metaphorically embodies Jesus and raised Bowie from the dead within himself. I’m honestly not sure how that correlates, but that’s what everyone says. They also point to an interview Bowie did in 1974 with Rolling Stone where he says, “As soon as Ziggy dies on stage, the infinitants take his elements and make themselves visible.

” And since Kanye was among many other celebrities who tweeted about Bow’s death shortly after it was announced, I guess that means Kanye is David Bow’s successor. And the final piece of concrete evidence is that David Bow’s final album was titled Blackar and Kanye West is literally a black star. So it really just seems like a bunch of coincidences with little correlation.

>> [music] >> This is a rumor that I’m sure most of you have heard, but it’s that the famous musician Stevie Wonder can actually see. Now, apart from being known as an extremely talented artist and musical pioneer, he’s also known for being blind. In fact, it’s referenced in probably hundreds of rap songs like Lil Wayne’s fantastic line, don’t want to be in the blind, but sometimes I Stevie Wonder about her.

But most of these rumors stem from the time in 2010 when fake Paul McCartney knocked over a mic stand and Stevie Wonder caught it. People caught wind of this and thought that Stevie was lying about being blind. There have also been a ton of celebrities telling stories about Stevie being able to see or at least doing things that they don’t think blind people can do.

>> I’m already in the building. I’m coming through the lobby. Door opens. This Stevie Wonder. He comes in, says, “What’s up, Shaq?” Presses the button, hold presses the button, gets up on the floor, buys up, goes to his room. >> But there is a pretty good explanation for this.

You see, Stevie Wonder wasn’t actually born blind. He was born prematurely and had some issues during treatment. So, he developed ROP, which is an eye disorder that permanently damaged his eyes. He rarely ever reveals his eyes, but as you can see in his 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech, his eyes are severely damaged.

It’s likely that he may have some sort of partial blindness, but he’s still legally blind. Blind people are also known to have other enhanced senses like hearing, smell, and touch, as it’s the body’s way of coping with not being able to see. He’s even addressed the rumors before.

and tell them also whoever is spreading a rumor around at any time when it’s not true instead of you all paying them or whoever give me the money so I can give it to my foundation. >> So I highly doubt Stevie Wonder has been lying about being blind this whole time. [music] A much more interesting and highly classified conspiracy theory is the wind of change theory.

In 1990, just after the Berlin Wall fell, the German band The Scorpions released a song called Wind of Change. This song is one of the bestselling singles of all time. It holds the record for bestselling single by a German artist, and the song served as an anthem to the end of the Cold War. It’s said that the lead singer, Claus Mina, wrote the song after performing at the Moscow Music Peace Festival, the first rock festival allowed in Russia since rock had been banned for a while.

Apparently, he was inspired by how much Russia was changing and how many fans the band had in the country. But some people think that this song was actually written by the CIA as some sort of scop to aid in the West fight against communism. One of the largest pieces of evidence for this theory is that Claus never usually wrote songs other than a few lyrics here and there, but apparently he never wrote full songs.

There’s actually a whole eight-part podcast series investigating this theory called Wind of Change by a man named Patrick Keith. The reason that he’s so into it is because Patrick was told this story by his friend Michael, who was told by his friend in the CIA in the early 2010s.

This is what happened when Michael tried to get this guy on the podcast. >> Do you remember the story you told me like 10 years ago? Yeah. You know that Patrick and I have been utterly obsessed with this story for the past 10 years. >> Okay, good job. >> What happened? >> He was just like, “It’s a felony. There’s no way I can tell you this story on the record with my voice.

Anything like I’ll go to jail for this.” >> This podcast has been the main proprietor of this theory and he has tons of interviews with ex CIA people and others related to the story trying to chase this theory. He even interviewed Clauss himself. One of their main arguments is that this isn’t too far-fetched for the CIA to do, seeing as how the CIA has previously sponsored the production of the films for Animal Farm in 1984.

I didn’t sit through the eight 40-minute podcast episodes, but from what I’ve heard on Reddit, they don’t have much other evidence apart from what I just mentioned. The majority of the podcast is just demonstrating how the CIA is capable and willing to do something like this. Many people on Reddit were disappointed by the podcast, saying they weren’t able to provide any real evidence apart from the rumors.

Clauss has made many comments about this theory and in one of them he said, “Of course it’s not true at all. It shows how powerful music can be.” If they think this song was like a tool to help bring down communism, I mean, gez, it just underlines in a heavy way, if that would be possible, the power of music.

Claus did say that he really likes the podcast and he thinks it’s entertaining, even though the story isn’t true. >> Uh, it’s a very entertaining and really crazy story, you know, but it’s, like I said, it’s it’s not true at all. You know, >> I’ve been thinking about making a whole video about musical propaganda.

So, let me know down in the comments if you want me to. And for our final conspiracy theory, we have another one related to the CIA. Kind of. [music] So, we’re going to close this video with one of the silliest conspiracy theories on this list, and that is that Rebecca Black’s song Friday was actually about the JFK assassination.

So, for starters, the assassination of JFK was on a Friday, and the chorus Got to Get Down on Friday is obviously a reference to JFK being told to get down. Another lyric from the song is, “Got to have my bowl, got to have cereal.” And apparently that Friday JFK declined his presidential breakfast of eggs and sausage and bacon and toast.

And he opted for some cereal. So I just fact checked this and it looks like another lie that the conspiracy theorists are pushing. Apparently he did not have cereal that day. Ticking on and on, everybody’s Russian is clearly a reference to bombs in the Cold War and the USSR. The lyrics got to get down to the bus stop along with the bus stop being in the music video have to do with a bill that JFK was going to sign the following Monday after he died that required public bus transportation for schools. That’s why the bus never came in the music video because he never got to sign the bill. I couldn’t find any information online that he was planning on doing that. But for the sake of the theory, we’ll assume that it’s true. In the music video, Rebecca Black and her friends are in the back of a blue convertible, the same type of car that JFK was killed in. But the most damning piece of evidence is that in the pre- chorus, Rebecca Black sings kicking in the front seat, sitting in the back seat. And the name of JFK’s driver on the day he was assassinated was Samuel Kicken. At least that’s what the conspiracy theorists say. That’s actually not true. The driver’s real name was William Greer. So, this theory is obviously very goofy, and I doubt

13-year-old Rebecca Black was writing about JFK’s assassination secretly. Actually, she didn’t even write the song, so maybe the real writer was trying to leave in a little clues for the conspiracy theorists out there. So, if nothing else, this video just goes to show if you try hard enough, you can make an argument for anything and people will believe it.

And while the Rebecca Black theory is a little bit of a reach, the theorists make an interesting argument for Michael Jackson never revealing his true face. [music] So, the Michael Jackson wore a mask theory is a theory that spawned due to an incident where he caught on fire during a Pepsi commercial on January 27th, 1984.

They were filming in front of a live audience of 3,000 people and during the sixth take, some of the pyrochnics went off and Michael was too close to them, so his hair and jacket caught on fire. The flames were quickly put out and he was rushed to the hospital. He suffered third and secondderee burns on his head. Because of this, this is what some theorists speculate Michael Jackson actually looks like.

And they believe that any time he was seen after this incident, he was actually wearing a mask or some sort of makeup to cover up his real face. So, let’s take a look at the evidence. So, the burn incident during the Pepsi commercial was very much so real, captured on video, and was in front of a live audience.

Like I said, fans said that his scalp was glowing and smoke was billowing from his head. Another piece of evidence is that MJ has been seen wearing masks or costumes like the time he was playing the mayor in his short film Ghost, which leads people to believe that he was doing a similar thing every time he left the house.

>> Who’s weird now? Who’s the freak now? He was able to change his voice a decent bit, which adds the component to this theory that he is still alive wearing a mask, but I’ll touch more on that shortly. Michael Jackson also had a very weird nose and had been rumored to wear fake noses or put makeup on it to cover it up, leading theorists to believe that it was due to the burns.

On top of all of that, there’s an Acon interview where he talks about going to the movies with Michael Jackson and meeting up with a stranger who had Michael’s voice because Michael was in disguise and Acon couldn’t recognize him. So, like I said, the theory is that after the burn incident in 1984, Michael Jackson suffered so many injuries that he had to always wear some sort of mask or makeup or disguise every time he went out in public following that event.

And no one actually knew what he actually looked like. Then comes in Dave Dave, a kid who was set on fire by his dad when he was six and suffered extreme burns over 90% of his body. When Dave Dave was seven, he met Michael Jackson, who would help pay for a bunch of his surgeries, creating a longtime friendship.

Theorists point out how Dave Dave became a lot more public after Michael Jackson’s death, leading people to believe that Dave Dave was actually Michael Jackson without the mask and the real Dave Dave was living his life elsewhere. They point out that Dave Dave looks somewhat similar to MJ and also has a similar voice.

>> Oh, it it’s a very interesting story, Larry. >> And this is at least what all the conspiracy theorists say. I was going to pretend to believe all these for the video, but this one is just so obviously fake and most of the evidence is verifiably false. The fire was heavily exaggerated as it mostly affected his scalp.

And here are some pictures of him in the hospital the day after the incident. His face looks just fine. He did have to wear a wig to cover up, but not a whole face mask. The theorist straight up lied about the Acon interview because Acon was talking about a disguise Michael wore to the movies, and Acon was joking about how bad it was as a disguise and that people eventually recognized him.

He also broke his nose in 1979 during a dance rehearsal. So, he had some plastic surgery to fix the issue and had a few more in the following years. His nose did have a lot of issues following these surgeries, which caused many follow-up surgeries, and he had a lot of things done to cover up his nose, but a whole face mask or disguise was not one of them.

It was really just a bad plastic surgery. So, the theory is indeed bizarre, but not too realistic. However, this next theory is somehow even more bizarre. >> [music] >> So, this theory is that the experimental rap group Death Grips had some sort of involvement in the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.

The attack took place on May 22nd of 2017 in the Manchester Arena as fans were leaving the concert. Including the attacker, 23 people were killed and over a thousand were injured. So, what could an experimental hip-hop group like Deathgrips have to do with this incident? Well, that same day, May 22nd of 2017, Deathgrips released a song called Steroids.

It was released at 2209 or 10:09 p.m. The song is 22 minutes and 31 seconds long and the Manchester bombing happened at 2231 or 10:31 p.m. So, the song was released exactly 22 minutes before the bombing. There were also 22 victims who had passed away excluding the bomber and the bomber was 22 years old.

The song had lyrics like timeless, but I admire improvised explosives. And the bomber at the concert had used one of these IEDs or improvised explosive devices, which is basically just a homemade bomb. Another lyric that theorists point to is exit wounds and rabbit ears, rabbit holes that last for years. And if you aren’t familiar with Ariana Grande, she had recently just released an album called Dangerous Woman, where she was wearing bunny ears in the cover, and it was a common theme in her imagery.

Deathgrips even had an old Twitter account called BB Poltergeist, which for the longest time only followed Ariana Grande. You’ve also probably noticed that the number 22 keeps popping up, and that’s because 22 along with 11 and 33 are big important numbers in numerology. The bomber was a 22-year-old man from Libya, and apparently Libya’s name in numerology is 22.

The BB poltergeist account I mentioned earlier also has some ties with numerology with B meaning two. So 22 poltergeist is essentially what the handle means. And a poltergeist is a supernatural being that can cause physical disturbances like loud noises and throwing around objects. Death Grips has also showed some interest in numerology.

Their album Government Plates was surprised released 13 months, 13 days, and 13 hours after their previous album in 2013. Not only that, but their next album following the song Steroids was released 13 months later on June 22nd. This theory does go a whole lot more into oultism, which is too scary for me to Google.

So, I’ll just play a brief clip explaining the significance of the number 13. >> Wiccans, which have occult beliefs follow the Celtic tree months, which divides the calendar into 13 separate months. Between the release of Steroids and Year of the Snitch, there were 13 full moons. Death Grips has often tied releases of their projects to various lunar occurrences.

>> So, essentially what some people believe is that this was some sort of a cult ritual where Death Grips summoned some sort of supernatural power to cause a bombing. The only main issue with this theory is that the song wasn’t actually released 22 minutes before the bombing. And according to Facebook, it was released at 7:11 p.m.

And I doubt Death Grips was in on such a horrible terrorist attack. But this would not be a good conspiracy theory video without the mentioning of a clone theory. [music] I’d like to thank Internet Anarchist for bringing this theory to my attention as he made a great video on the topic. But anyways, people speculate that Kanye West was actually cloned and that there are two Kanye’s that we have been seeing over the past years.

This is a theory that began in 2016 after Kanye had gone on various rants about Trump, Jay-Z, and many others during his St. Pablo tour. He was barely performing any actual music, leaving many fans upset. Following these viral rants, he was at his personal trainer, Harley Pastnac’s house when the police were called because Kanye was acting erratically.

Police got there and he was taken to the UCLA Medical Center. He was then diagnosed with bipolar disorder, given meds, and cancelled the rest of his tour. People took note of how Kanye looked like a shell of himself in photos following the incident. After this, he was working on an album called Turboraph X16, and a song from that album called UCLA was leaked.

Some speculate that it was even recorded in the UCLA hospital, but I can’t find any evidence for that. However, the song did have some eerie lyrics like, “Welcome to UCLA. Tell me how UCLA, I’m going cray.” And take your meds, yay. Go to bed, yay. Get out of your head. Yay. Did you hear what I said? Yay. I didn’t say that.

Really weird and eerie song. And then if you fast forward a few years, this theory pops up once more after Kanye’s recent controversies. If you didn’t know, Kanye made many comments about Jewish people that led to him losing partnerships and business with almost every company and brand he was working with.

Following these incidents, an interview with actor Orlando Brown was released where he said this. >> You guys actually realize like like how there’s a taller Kanye and a smaller Kanye. talk Kanye. They’re fighting for who’s going to be Kanye. They’re fighting for who’s going to be Kanye, dude. Right in front of you.

And it’s like, yo, bro, leave my brother alone. So, Orlando is claiming that there were two Kanye’s, but he isn’t new to crazy claims. So, he may not be the most reliable source. After this claim made by Orlando Brown and all the controversies he was in, Kanye shared a message from his personal trainer Harley Pastnac that was quite haunting.

I mentioned this guy earlier because this is the guy Kanye was with when he was first taken to the hospital and given meds for his bipolar disorder. Harley has worked with many celebrities including many people who have died to drugrelated incidents like Mac. Miller and Britney Murphy. This has led theorists to believe that Pastradak may have had a hand in these people’s deaths.

It doesn’t help that before he was a celebrity personal trainer, he used to work for the military as a nutrition and exercise scientist where he would study medicine. He said in interviews that he had access to different sorts of drugs and he wasn’t governed like everyone else. So, what does this have to do with Kanye? Well, he posted a tweet with a text from Harley that reads, “I’m going to help you a couple of ways.

First, you and I sit down and have a loving and open conversation, but you don’t use cuss words. And everything that is discussed is based in fact and not some crazy stuff that a dumb friend of yours told you or that you saw in a tweet. Second option, I have you institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you and you go back to zombie land forever.

Playdates with the kids just won’t be the same. Many people saw this tweet and actually took Kanye’s side believing that Harley was evil since he had put him on meds before. But this theory goes even deeper when in December Kanye tweeted a picture of a swastika inside the Star of David, saying he was again running for president.

People were obviously upset and he was again banned from Twitter. But others pointed to it actually being a symbol for the religion called realism. Realism is a religion that believes Earth was created by aliens called the Elohim who are responsible for a lot of miracles around the world.

However, realism is also very passionate about human cloning because they believe that cloning is the key to immortality. So maybe the tweeting of that symbol was a clue about him being cloned. And the final piece of evidence for this is from his can’t tell me nothing freestyle during his Sunday service in 2020 when Kanye said >> the phon would clone me.

Just watch how they cloned me. >> And as for when many people think that Kanye was actually cloned, a lot of people point towards 2016 since that’s when he had a big personality change and went on a bunch of rants. There was also an incident where Kanye was seen with one of his ladies who is supposedly 5’9, which would make the big Kanye little Kanye theory seem true.

But the truth is she was actually 5’4. So of course again this theory is pretty crazy. But the only thing I could see being a little true maybe is the fact that his trainer Harley Pastnac wanted to control him and put him on meds because there is actually some evidence for that. Speaking of clones and weird Hollywood antics, that brings us to our next theory which is about Lady Gaga and Lena Morgana.

>> [music] >> People believe that Lady Gaga was in some way responsible for the death of Lena Morgana, another artist who Lady Gaga knew personally and had a very similar style. So theorists believe that Lady Gaga caused her death and then took her place in the music industry. This theory does run very deep and I’m just going to cover the key points.

So let’s check it out. So Lena Morgana is an artist who had been releasing music for a while and then around 2006 she began working with a guy by the name of Rob Fusari. She also had a publishing deal with Sony. Not much else is known about her music career other than the fact that she was on the rise.

Her MySpace page was getting a bunch of attention. Her music had been on the radio and she was also featured in a couple of TV shows. Then in 2007, Rob picked up another artist to help Lena with her music. And can you guess who that artist was? That’s right, it was Lady Gaga. Originally, Lady Gaga was brought in to help Lena with her songwriting and background vocals.

And apparently, they made around 12 songs together. None of them were released. However, one song called Wonderland by Lena with Lady Gaga’s background vocals has been leaked. After working together for about a year, on October 4th of 2008, an article was published that said, “A woman believed to be in her 20s or 30s jumped from the roof of the Staten Island Hotel in Graniteville this morning.

And as it would eventually turn out, the unnamed woman was 19-year-old Lena Morgana.” Fans were in the dark for a while since she wasn’t named until Lena’s family released an official statement. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga was blowing up as a solo artist rather than a writer in the background. We aren’t sure when exactly this theory spawned, but it definitely gained some attention after Lena Morgana’s mom reached out to TMZ, basically telling them that Lady Gaga had stole her daughter’s swag, and she wanted to bring recognition to her daughter. She also sent a video that compared the similarities between the two stylistically. They had very similar outfits, similar makeup, similar styles, similar music videos, and even similar music. and all of Lena Morgana’s outfits and style predated Lady Gaga’s. TMZ reported that Lady Gaga said something in response along the lines of, “She feels awful that a woman died at such a young age, but they hardly knew each other, which is really weird for her to say when there are multiple sources stating that they made a ton of music together.” So, because Lady Gaga eventually took on Lena Morgana’s

musical identity, people speculate that for some reason Lady Gaga had Lena Morgana killed or even sacrificed her so she could become a star. Really, the only evidence fueling this is the paparazzi music video by Lady Gaga and a statement from someone who claims to be Elena’s aunt.

So, in the paparazzi video released in 2009, Lady Gaga is seen being thrown over the edge of a balcony, which a lot of people believe is a call back to how Morgana died. They also point out how Lena’s death was kind of suspicious since she was apparently dancing or exercising before jumping off of the roof.

Gaga is also seen in the music video wearing a similar outfit to the one Lena Morgana had been seen wearing and the video was very weirdly focused on death. Then there’s also a statement from someone who is allegedly Lena’s aunt that reads, “We Lena’s family do not believe that she had an intention to die.

We as a family do not believe that Lena committed suicide.” This theory also goes even deeper into a bunch of like satanic and spiritual and weird occult type of things. People think that Lady Gaga is involved in satanic rituals or that she absorbed Lena Morgana’s soul and a bunch of other weird creepy stuff like that.

The biggest issue with this theory though is that Lady Gaga wasn’t even in New York at the time because she was actually in LA getting ready to leave to film her poker face music video. So, it’s very unlikely Lady Gaga was involved in Lena Morgana’s death. Like I said though, this theory does go a lot deeper.

So, I’ll leave a link in the description to a video that covers basically the whole situation. But now, let’s talk about a conspiracy theory that has just been reignited. [music] The theory that Drake is responsible for the death of XXXTX Tentacion is nothing new at all, but recently it’s been reignited.

And this theory has always interested me. So, let’s look into it. In 2016, X’s song Look at Me was blowing up on Soundcloud while he was in jail. Drake apparently found the song and attempted to reach out to X, but couldn’t get into contact with him. So, in January of 2017, Drake teased a song called KMT where he was using the exact same flow as X did on Look at Me.

This sparked a huge beef that really helped jumpst start Ex’s career. X was talking crazy about Drake on Twitter for a while and then Drake addressed the accusations in an interview where he said he didn’t know who X was until he was accused of taking his flow. Then, X went on live and continued talking crazy about Drake.

The beef then died down for a while despite there being some clear animosity between the two. Then in February of 2018, X posted on his story, “If anyone tries to kill me, it was Drake.” However, he took it down and claimed that he was hacked, which would make sense since he was recently praising Drake for God’s plan.

Then in May of 2018, Drake released a song called I’m Upset where he said, “SMSX, that’s the only time I ever shoot below the neck. Why you keep on shooting if you know that friend is dead? That’s the only kind of [ __ ] that gets you some respect.” The following month, X was murdered while he was shopping for motorcycles because the murderers were trying to take his Louis Vuitton bag, which had $50,000 in it.

I still remember the day that this happened, and everyone on my Snapchat immediately became a detective. It didn’t help when shortly after Drake released his album Scorpion with the song Mob Ties on it, which had lyrics like, “Sick of these people, hire some help, get rid of these people, and Louis bags in exchange for body bags.

” That last line does seem like a direct reference to X’s situation since he was killed over a Louis Vuitton bag. Then four months later when the Sicko Mode video was released with Travis Scott and Drake, there was a scene where it looked like an ex lookalike was being crushed by a rock. Following this, conspiracy theories died down for about 4 years until Drake released his collab album with 21 Savage.

And on the song on BS, Drake said, “Maybe I should do a 20. Maybe I should break that 20. Do a 10. Maybe I should break that 10. Do a five. Then if it gets live, do a five again.” People speculate that when you add these numbers up in a certain way, it makes 30, which is XXX in Roman numerals. Following that line, he said, “If he held his tongue on that live, he’d be alive again.

” Like I said earlier, X had talked crazy on live about Drake. So many people assumed that this line was a direct disc to X. And what reignited these conspiracies even more is when Drake was called to show up at court. If you don’t know what I’m talking about or don’t know much about the case, the case for ex’s murder was still going on uh recently and I’m pretty sure it’s over now and the murderers got sentenced, but Drake was called to show up and he didn’t, but his lawyer eventually did.

His lawyer pointed out how there was zero evidence that Drake had even had any communication with the killers, and the judge said that Drake was innocent. So, the bulk of this theory is just lyrics and subliminals. However, this next theory is all speculation, but has spawned urban legends for nearly half of a century.

>> [music] >> This is a threefor one conspiracy theory because there are multiple theories that have spawned from the song Love Roller Coaster by The Ohio Players. The song was released in 1975 and became a number one hit. It was also eventually covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, during the song at about 1 minute and 24 seconds, there’s a faint scream that can be heard in the background.

This scream has spawned many conspiracy theories. So, let’s talk about them. One of the most common explanations for this scream is that there was an incident with the model who was on the album cover. In the album cover, she’s being covered in honey. However, theory suggests that she was actually covered in some sort of acrylic substance for the purpose of the photo shoot.

The substance then got stuck on her body, and while people were trying to get it off, it ripped off parts of her flesh. For some reason, someone caught the scream on tape and decided to use it in the song. There’s also a bunch more theories revolving around this idea. A spin-off of the one I just said is rather than the scream being caused by her flesh being ripped off, she was furious with the Ohio players manager and busted into the studio while they were recording the song.

She was demanding compensation from the manager and threatening to sue. So, he stabbed her to death to keep her quiet and her scream was caught on the original song recording, but somehow no one noticed it and it made its way to the final cut. A third theory is very similar to the second one I just mentioned.

Instead of being at a recording studio, the band was recording the song at one of the members’ apartments. While they were jamming and recording, an intruder broke into a neighboring apartment and murdered someone, which was captured on the song. However, since the band members likely were singing and had headphones on, they never heard the scream.

Like the last theory, somehow the scream made its way to the final cut of the song without anyone noticing. Like I said, there are many spin-offs of these theories, like someone was killed in a nearby recording studio, or the model was burned by the hot honey and screamed, and that’s where it came from. However, one of the members of the Ohio Players at the time, Jimmy Diamond Williams, offered up the following explanation decades later.

He said, “There’s a part of this song where there’s a breakdown. It’s guitars, and it’s right before the second verse, and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling type screeches like Minnie Ribertton did to reach her high note, or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country.

People were asking us, “Did you kill this girl in the studio?” The band took a vow of silence because you sell more records that way. So, the only question is, “Was Mr. Williams telling the truth or was it simply a coverup story? The world may never know.” Similar to the Love Roller Coaster theory, one of the biggest theories in all of music is that Tupac is still alive and that he faked his death and is living in Cuba to this day.

You posted a couple Instagram things that sort of implied that Tupac was alive in Malaysia. >> Yeah. >> On September 7th of 1996, Tupac Shakur was tragically shot and killed. Just recently, actually, someone was arrested in relation to the shooting, helping us understand the case a lot more. But like with every other celebrity death, there is a conspiracy accompanied with his, and that is that he faked it and is still alive today.

And thanks to a lot of the people around him and how they handled it, it’s actually somewhat believable. For starters, before Tupac passed away, he was really interested in a philosopher named Nicolo Machaveli. Eight weeks after Tupac passed away, the label released the album he was working on called the Don Klluminati, the 7-day Theory.

It was released under the pseudonym Maveli. So, he was very inspired by this philosopher. This intrigued a lot of conspiracy theorists as Maveli wrote a book called The Art of War, not to be confused with Sunzu’s book. And in the book, he mentioned faking your death to deceive your enemies. On top of that, the album’s executive producer was listed as Simon rather than Suge Knight.

And Simon was the first disciple who saw Jesus after he rose. Also, in February of the year he died, he sat on the song Ain’t Hard to Find. I heard rumors I died murdered in cold blood dramatized pictures of me in my final state, you know, Mama Cried, but that was fiction. Some coward got the story twisted.

In 1997, the music video for I Wonder if heaven Got a ghetto, it features Tupac off camera arriving in a desert shortly after his death. On another postumous album in 2003, there was an outro where Tupac repeatedly said, “Expect me like you expect Jesus to come back. I’m coming.” There are plenty of other lyrics or clues scattered throughout his music postumously and before he passed away.

But if Tupac were still alive today, where would he be? Well, many people believe he is hiding out in Cuba. His aunt had actually been hiding out in Cuba since 1979. So that’s why most people think he’s living there. For starters, there was a picture posted by a website called Reporters that featured Rihanna and Tupac together, supposedly in Cuba.

However, many people do believe it’s fake. There was another website called Hollowback that posted a video with some guy claiming he was just with Tupac in the studio, and then the camera pans to a bunch of guys in the parking lot with one dude who does look a bit like Tupac. Then the guys tell them to turn the camera off.

There was even a video where Suge Knight was seen talking to some guy apparently in Cuba. And from the back, the guy does kind of look like Pac. In 2018, Michael Nice, Tupac’s previous bodyguard, faked his death. He came back after faking his death to prove he had the abilities to do so, then claimed he helped Tupac fake his death.

He claimed that Tupac had been smuggled into Cuba with the help of Fidel Castro. Sugnight was also another person who said that Tupac discussed faking his death before he died and even straight up said one time in an interview that Tupac was still alive. In 2019, Suge Knight’s son made a bunch of Instagram posts claiming that Tupac was not just alive, but also in the studio making new music.

So, in January, you posted a couple Instagram things that sort of implied that Tupac was alive and in Malaysia. Yeah. And also, I think you said some things maybe last year as well. And of course, that you know, a lot of I just I’m curious. What was that? >> I already know. Trust me, cuz when I said it, the whole world I mean, the whole world stopped moving.

Like, everybody’s like, “What’s going on?” Like, I I went and got 200,000 followers within two days. >> Although, it is very likely he was doing this as a publicity stunt for the show he is starring in. There was also an interview where fellow rapper and friend of Tupac Tish says Tupac was still alive and he saw him in Cuba.

>> Tupac, [laughter] >> there are also a ton of pictures of supposed Pac sightings, although I don’t think we can be sure whether or not they’re fake. On top of all of that, there have also been instances where other artists like Kendrick Lamar and Eminem reference Pac moving to Cuba. There’s a lot more to this theory with the Maveli project, the coroner report, Tupac having a body double, and many more things, but unfortunately, I don’t have time to get into all of them during this video. There’s even a guy who’s making a movie claiming Tupac is hiding out in New Mexico rather than Cuba and is living on Navajo land since the authorities can’t go there. But I do want to point out that there are other possible reasons that people like Suge Knight would keep promoting these theories, and that is to help sell records. Since Tupac has passed away, six postumous albums have been released. So, they definitely could have used this conspiracy to help boost sales, which I also think is a much more likely scenario. >> So, like aruck by her presence. >> This is one that I’ve seen popping up a

lot lately, and it’s that Taylor Swift is a clone of the Satanist/music Zena. So, Zena Leave is the daughter of the two founders of the Church of Satan. In 1985, she became the high priestess of the Church of Satan, and for five years was the spokesperson for him. Apparently, she quit the Satanic Church in 1990, a year after Taylor Swift was born.

But like I said, she quit the Satanic Church and apparently started practicing Buddhism and SLM. I’m not really sure what SLM is, but a lot of theorists tend to leave this part out. Anyways, the main draw to this theory is how similar the two look, which sure, they do look very similar. And Taylor has also been accused of having a very cult-like fan base.

Then I saw a video of some guy talking about how one of her concerts seemed very satanic or cultlike. >> That’s the former high priestess of the Church of Satan because it’s not like this is a coven of witches, right? >> Two lyrics. That doesn’t look like a summoning ritual. Just speculation, right? And then someone posted this online.

>> Someone else was thinking the same thing. >> The worst part is she commented [music] twice and she says, “Is this the new one, two, three, let’s go be?” So she’s saying, “Is summon the demons the new crowd chant that they say when she does this witchcraft ritual?” There was also some evidence in the Bad Blood video where she dies and has her body reconstructed or in the ready for it video where there are two tailor, a light one and a dark one.

And another big reason that this could be true is because of how much snake imagery Taylor Swift uses. But it actually all started from multiple beefs with people like Kim Kardashian or Calvin Harris that resulted in people using the snake emoji in reference to Taylor. Then Taylor started using this imagery herself.

In the ready for it video, there is even a sign that says year of the snake. But why do people think this is evidence? Well, in the Bible, Satan was first depicted as a serpent or a snake. And that is often associated with Satanist imagery. Somehow though, this goes even deeper.

Apparently, if you translate Zena Taylor bad blood in Hebrew, it says identical twins and has a numeric value of 1330 and 33 is also associated with the Illuminati. Although, I’m not sure how true any of that is. That’s just kind of what the theorists say. And also because Zena’s dad founded the Church of Satan and Taylor’s dad worked at an investment company and owned a Christmas tree farm.

I guess that’s some sort of evidence. Maybe I’m missing something here with this theory, but I just don’t quite get it. To me, it just seems like another clone theory with a lack of evidence. I’ve covered some much more realistic theories before, but this one I can’t quite get behind. >> Who we are and how do you maintain the sense of self while pushing it forward? >> I had to throw this one in here just for fun.

So, in 2013, a picture came out of a man in 1939 who had a strong resemblance to Jay-Z. The outfit, the pose, his facial expression, all resembled the iconic rapper. The picture was also taken in New York. And guess where Jay-Z’s from? New York. However, that was about it for the theory, and it had no other supporting evidence, but it was enough for it to go viral, which led to fans doing some more digging, and that is when this theory gets somewhat interesting.

One commenter pointed out how he has a song called Young Forever, which could tie into the immortal serum from the Illuminati. Then people began looking more into that one song about those guys who were in Paris. And one commenter said that the song is about him and possibly Kanye getting stuck in late 1800s Europe, him being a time criminal and the broken time machine.

They think this because of lines like, “Got a broke lock. [ __ ] want to find me. We ain’t even supposed to be here. And I’m supposed to be locked up, too. You escaped what I escaped. you’d be in Paris getting [ __ ] up, too. So, because of these lines, people think that Jay-Z was some sort of time criminal who was stuck in Paris and they were hunting him down, but he escaped.

That’s about all there is to this theory. It’s a bit more of a gimmick theory, but I had to put it in here cuz it is pretty funny. >> He was walking towards the vestibule. Chapman stepped between him and Yoko and shot him. >> On December 8th of 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, a jealous Beatles fan.

But some people believe that John Lennin was actually killed by Stephven King, the famous horror author. So, let’s look into the evidence. This theory was actually mostly started by one man, Steve Lightfoot, who has been supporting this theory for a long time. He actually sells a 24-page booklet, and I thought it would be an ebook, so I bought it.

But apparently, it’s just on its way to my house, so I won’t have it in time for this video. But here’s his thesis. The story about Mark Chapman is a coverup. bold print government cryptographic codes that include the killer’s face and true identity, the killer’s alleged name and letter to the editor printed before the murder and Richard Nixon’s books, The Real War, in back issues of Time Newsweek and US News and World Report magazines printed before, during, and after the night of December 8th, 1980 prove that Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan arranged for the author Steven King, then barely famous, to assassinate John Lennon. that King’s writings draw dramatically from the crime and that he taunts us all in his interviews and comments only makes this the story of a lifetime. Other than that being a very long run-on sentence, he basically thinks that Reagan and Nixon wanted Lennon dead because he was anti-war, so they hired Stephen King to do it. One of the pieces of evidence available on the website is the fact that the two looked similar at the time, and he claims the picture of Chapman getting an autograph from John Lennon is actually Stephen King. There is also apparently a bunch

of codes in the headlines which Steve was able to decipher when reading all the press that came out around the time that John Lennon died. There’s headlines that say things like poet of pity and anger, caught in the crossfire, who’s in, who’s out, the right to bear arms, and many more.

But unfortunately, I haven’t seen his real cold hard evidence yet cuz the booklet hasn’t arrived. But if it does arrive in time, I’ll update you guys right now. Yeah. Uh, the book didn’t come. I think I got scammed. And remember when I said he’s been doing this for a long time? Well, he started in 1982, as he says on his blog.

And two years ago, a Redditor posted a picture of him or someone else driving around a van with his website lenin murdertruth.com on it along with things like jail king. Now, someone responded to the post saying he went to a Stephen King autograph session in the early ’90s and saw this guy standing outside with a board of evidence and proof.

And I got to say, I respect his dedication and his hustle. It seems like he’s made his whole life about this theory, which is truly commendable. So, shout out to Steve. But he isn’t actually the only person supporting this theory. An author and TV producer named David Wheelen did an interview with Daily Mail and claimed to have proof of this theory as well.

I’m not sure if he’s in cahoots with Lightfoot, but these are the only two people I’ve really seen promoting this theory. Anyway, in the interview, he showed off Mark Chapman’s hit list, the autopsy, and more. He claimed that Jon was shot in the chest from the front despite prosecutors saying he was shot in the back.

He thinks that Mark Chapman was just the fall guy. So when the police arrived and saw Lennin dead and Chapman with a gun, it was just a closed case. But Wheelen claims that there was another shooter. In the Daily Mail video, he actually had interviews with coroners. And if they’re real, this theory may actually have some truth to it.

>> Four times in his upper chest from the front. >> It’s like a broken scrum. Several nurses, a nest that’s putting a tube in his throat for his breathe for him. Uh people cutting off his clothes. >> I always thought he was shot in the front, shot four times with three exit wounds in the back.

I have to maintain that it was he was shot in the chest. I can’t change what I said I knew to be true. >> Yet retired NYPD lead detective Ron Hoffman in another phone interview claims that is impossible. >> He was walking towards the vestibule. Chapman stepped between him and Yoko and shot him. >> I’m hearing that Gucci is a clown.

I will support those accusations. In 2014, Gucci Mane was sentenced to prison for 2 years. And when he went in, he was fat. Two years later, in 2016, he came out of jail looking nice and slim, losing around 100 lbs in prison. And while most people, like myself, thought this was cool and inspirational.

Some people began to think that he was cloned. [music] He posted one video in particular that got the attention of the theorists. >> I used to be a fat boy. People in shape, people who ain’t healthy, people >> don’t walk on the carpet, baby. >> Okay. people who need some inspiration because listen, I was 290 lbs.

Now I’m 190 lbs. I lost 100 pounds. >> You you 190 or >> I’m 190 right now. Look at this. Do you I said I’m 190. So check this out. You can do it if I can do it. You and me for in >> comments on this video read, “It’s no way that’s the real Gucci, and it seems like she is his handler. He tried his hardest to say Maine like he really from the South.

His ass sounded like he from the North Pole. Get that damn clone the [ __ ] out of here.” That’s a pretty funny comment. Aside from how he talked, people were pointing out how it didn’t look like he still had his face tattoo of the ice cream cone, which I have to say isn’t true because the tattoo is just a little faded.

There was also one false quote from Boozy floating around where he said he thinks the new Gucci is a clone. The fake quote reads, “I rock with Gucci the long way, but that ain’t the real Gucci. We both sitting in the studio and he seemed lost after his show.” At the mansion, he called me Herman.

You know they can do that crazy clone [ __ ] these days. You look at Gucci and tell me that’s Gucci and I’ll pay your child support and your baby mama rent. But this quote never actually existed and was just posted on a satirical website called Thing You Think. So the main supporting evidence for this theory is that he talks different, acts different, and looks different.

But there is a little more on the song Champions with Kanye. He said, “Now that Gucci home, it’s over for you Gucci clones.” I’m not sure how you can hear that and think that that means he’s saying he’s a clone, but people did. This crazy discourse even prompted Gucci Mane to say on Snapchat that he neither supported or denied the allegations that he was a clone.

>> I’m hearing that Gucci is a clone. I will either support or deny those accusations. >> But it seems like Gucci Mane thought the whole thing was funny as he hashtagg Gucci clone on his Instagram and a month later released a music video that had scenes with multiple Gucci mains or Gucci men.

I guess the craziest thing about this whole thing is that the CIA, the real central intelligence agency, responded to BuzzFeed when they asked them about this. They said internet rumors are not news and the Office of Public Affairs will not waste time on them. Despite several highly publicized claims, human cloning still appears to be fiction.

There currently is no solid scientific evidence that anyone has cloned human embryos. It’s just so nuts to me that this thing got so big that the CIA felt the need to respond. I think it’s much more likely that Gucci just decided to clean up his act and get his life together while in jail, eating better, getting off drugs, and overall just trying to get things straight.

>> I don’t I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is life forever. On May 11th of 1981, at the age of 36, Bob Marley sadly passed away due to melanoma. However, due to a shooting a handful of years prior, many believe that his cancer was somehow caused by the CIA or a cover up for them killing him.

It sounds really strange and the story has a lot of politics behind it. So, I’ll try to sum it up as best as possible. To put it simply, there was a big political conflict in Jamaica between the People’s National Party and the Jamaica Labor Party, which was pro- US, which had Jamaican citizens concerned that the United States was going to have power over that party.

The conflict even got violent, so it was a pretty strenuous and dangerous time. As an election was coming up between the two parties, the People’s National Party planned something called the Smile Jamaica concert in an attempt to diffuse tension. Bob Marley was one of the people who was requested to play at this concert, and he agreed, but didn’t want people to think he was favoring one party over another.

Bob Marley was known for being politically neutral and promoting love and peace, so this definitely seemed like something he would want to do. Supposedly though, there were banners being put up around Jamaica identifying Marley with the PNP, which along with him working for the PNP for the Smile Jamaica concert, resulted in a gunman entering Bob Marley’s home 2 days before the festival.

Him, his wife, and manager were all shot. But thankfully, everyone was able to make a full recovery. Most people figured that this attempt was politically motivated and some people speculate that the CIA was actually behind it since many thought that the concert was more of a support rally for the PNP. Now, I do think it is possible that the CIA could have been behind this shooting.

We even learned that the CIA did keep tabs on him, which are still classified, but I doubt they were behind what would later happen. Marley performed at Smile Jamaica anyway, performing for over 80,000 people. and then he later relocated to England. A year after they attempted his life, he was diagnosed with melanoma under his right big toe.

This is where the theory gets a little wonky as some believe that the CIA somehow gave him cancer or maybe put some needle or something in his shoe. So when he put the shoe on, he got cancer. This theory was further pushed when an article came out on a website called yournewire.

com in which they made some crazy claims. They said that a retired CIA officer named Bill Oxley admitted to committing 17 assassinations for the US government, including Bob Marley. The alleged quote says he was succeeding in creating a revolution that used music as a more powerful tool than bullets and bombs.

Bob Marley in 1976 was a very serious threat to the global status quo into hidden power brokers implementing their plans for a new world order. However, there is actually no proof that any of this is real and there aren’t even any other sources citing that Bell Oxley was a real person. So, while I think the shooting maybe could have had something to do with the CIA, I don’t think they had anything to do with his passing away due to cancer.

And while so far I don’t really believe any of these conspiracy theories, there are a handful of music urban legends that actually turned out to be true, at least somewhat. Being one of the biggest artists ever, it makes sense that many myths have developed over time about Michael Jackson. Like I said earlier, it’s widely believed by many that he actually bleached his skin, which he has confirmed multiple times as not true.

There’s some even crazier ones like his face was burned off and he wore a mask or that he faked his death. But I actually debunked those two in an old video. However, one of the most popular myths about him is that we never actually heard his real voice, which actually turned out to be sort of true.

Years ago, there was a video that went viral on Twitter of Michael Jackson supposedly using his real voice on accident. [applause] >> Um uh uh can you hear me? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, it turns out that that video was edited to make his voice sound deeper. And this is what the actual clip was.

[applause] >> Um uh uh can you hear me? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But his voice was actually still a little bit lower. However, that was not the only evidence that fans had. There have been multiple clips of him speaking in a lower voice, multiple accounts from friends that he sounds different, and other sources proving otherwise, which have led fans to believe that Michael Jackson was always hiding his real voice.

Michael is known for having a high-pitched voice, but there have been multiple people that have said his voice is actually deeper. Like T Payne, for example, >> and his voice is deep as [ __ ] >> No, it’s the craziest thing. >> What the real Michael Jackson voice sound like? >> MAN, THIS A NEW EPISODE, >> MAN. HOLD UP. >> WHAT THE [ __ ] the real Michael Jackson voice sound like? >> It wasn’t It was between where you think Michael Jackson is and Prince.

It was in between that. It was just like It was kind of like my Do I have a I don’t have a deep voice. Listen. So, uh I think Michael’s was uh like a >> So, what kind of cartoons are you watching? >> Others have perpetuated this idea, too. >> And Michael just sitting there with my friend.

He said at a certain point, Michael looked up and said, “Damn, I thought those [ __ ] were going to never leave.” [laughter] But now, and he says, hold up. And he says this not in, “Damn, I don’t think this [ __ ] is going to ever.” He says it like a black man would say, “Damn, I thought the [ __ ] was gonna never leave.” Then he got up and walked out.

>> His close friend, Liza Minnelli, said that she heard him talking in a deeper voice and said, “Michael, you’re busted. I got you now.” All these years you’ve been talking in that voice. A journalist named Diane Diamond said that he has a deep masculine voice. Piers Morgan said that depending on the seriousness of the conversation, his tone would drop a few octaves, like if they were talking about business, for example.

His musical director said, “I remember a time I called him up and he answered the phone and I didn’t know I was talking to him because he was talking in his normal voice, which is pretty deep.” Lisa Presley, who Michael was married to for a couple of years and who is also Elvis’s daughter, said that when she first met him, he talked in a quote unquote normal voice.

There were also plenty of clips of Michael speaking in a little bit of a lower tone as well. >> Me too, Cedric. >> I still got >> I love you. You know this, man. >> You know this, man. >> I have an important message to give. Okay. It’s important. But I I thank you for your cooperation so far. Thank you. Big thank you.

>> This is everyone saying hello. >> Thank you. This mean the world to me. Really does. Thank you so so much. >> And also, >> I’m a big fan. Really. On top of that, probably one of the deepest voices that we’ve heard from him is him in the video game Ready to Rumble, where he voiced his actual character, >> Michael Jackson.

>> So, you be bad, huh? I don’t move over for no one. >> Of course, Michael had a versatile vocal range, which can be heard in his music and his live performances, and it makes sense that such a talented vocalist would have that much range. He was also apparently really good at doing other voices and joking around.

Like this time he answered the phone pretending to be his own assistant. >> Hello. >> Hello. >> Who’s calling please? >> Um looking for Michael. >> Who’s speaking please? >> Acon one minute please. >> Thanks. >> Hello. >> Hello. >> Hey. >> Hey. What’s going on Michael? But if his real voice was so much deeper than his public voice, then why was he hiding it? Well, first of all, his real voice wasn’t actually that much deeper than the voice he did in public.

It was just more of like a normal pit. And there are multiple theories as to why he kept the voice the way he did in public. A big rumor that had gone around was that Michael’s dad had chemically castrated him. His former doctor, Conrad Murray, even claimed this. But this doctor was also the person that killed him, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and had his medical license revoked.

So, he’s probably not the best source. Plus, because MJ was able to grow facial hair, it’s unlikely that this actually happened. On top of that, most of the people in his family had naturally higher voices in general. Like Piers Morgan suggested, he spoke softer when speaking in public or with kids and was a bit more stern when it came to serious subjects.

Other friends of Michael thought it was him creating a persona to protect himself from the intrusive public. But the biggest theory as to why he did this was that it was just to preserve his voice. In reality, it was probably a mix of a few of these things, except for the castration part. He probably was softer spoken when talking about softer subjects and a bit deeper when it was serious, which is pretty normal for vocal inflections for everybody, not just Michael Jackson.

And preserving his singing voice was probably also very important for him as well. So, while he did have a real voice that we didn’t hear as often, it wasn’t all that different from what we were already hearing, and it definitely wasn’t super deep like some fans have suggested.

And while Michael has been subject to many wild myths, there’s a rapper who’s always been fairly mythical throughout his whole career, and that is MF Doom. MF Doom is a rapper that had a lot of mystery around him. For much of his career, while very successful, MF Doom was also a bit more of an underground artist.

After being bullied by his previous record label while in a rap group called KMD, he left the music industry for a while and returned with the name MF Doom. His entire ideology was that because of how the music industry did him at first, he wanted to become rap’s first super villain. He dawned a mask that he pretty much never took off in public for the rest of his career.

If you couldn’t tell, his whole rap persona was heavily inspired by Dr. Doom from Marvel. A pretty cool super villain. Doom rarely did interviews, didn’t speak much on his past, and even when he died, his estate did not tell anyone until months later. So clearly Doom was very mysterious. But one thing that fans began to theorize was that Doom was sending body doubles to his concerts.

I mean, it would be pretty easy, right? He had a mask on and someone that has a similar build and kind of similar voice could definitely pull it off no problem. For example, in his performance at the Rock the Bells concert in 2007, many people theorized that he was lip-syncing cuz the vocals sounded like a studio track.

Plus, in songs, he would even say things like, “He plot shows like Robberies, In and Out, 1, 2, 3, No Bodies, Please.” There were plenty of other concerts where fans theorized that Doom wasn’t even there. One fan on Reddit even claimed, “I went to a MF Doom show in Atlanta in like 20078 where an imposttor showed up wearing the mask and lip-syncing over the album cut.

Everybody caught on and the fake Doom got chased out the back of the venue. Jumped in a car and peeled out of the parking lot. It was madness. They ended up coming back the next day and giving away a truckload of custom Doom Nikes to make up for it. Who knows if that’s actually true, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if that actually happened.

Regardless, fans were theorizing about these imposters for years with stories like these floating around the internet for a long time. But they had no proof, no concrete evidence, at least until 2010 on a mini tour he did in Chicago. At the show, a similar situation occurred where the fake MF Doom came out, never addressed the crowd, and only wrapped tracks in what sounded like studio quality vocals, and then left.

Fans were extremely upset, suspecting a fake Doom, and the venue actually put out a statement that said that the real Doom was not who performed. To be fair though, Doom’s production company put out a different statement. They said, “At the current time, React, Cold Grumbs, Silver Rapper, and the Congress Theater do not have any proof that the person who performed was not Daniel Duma, aka Doom.

The show was legally contracted and paid for in full. The show was officially listed on Doom’s website.” Regardless, people were pretty upset with some saying things like, “Doom never once said anything except the straight lyric. Never once addressed the crowd. Clearly, it was a recorded track laying down rhymes.

Once Doom gave a few tracks, maybe seven, he just up and left. The lights popped on and a few thousand Chicagoans felt like they just got screwed out of 30 bucks each. People were booing and throwing trash at the end. So clearly people were very upset. Then at a show in Toronto, there was a similar situation.

Everyone was already nervous about going because of all this news about Doom imposters. After a shakily planned show and a bunch of nervous fans showed up, an imposttor ran out on stage and people were pissed. Then though, after being booed, the real Doom came out. Turns out his flight was just super late and he was just trolling the fans.

Eventually, Doom decided to come clean about his imposttors in an interview, saying, “I liken it to this. I’m a director as well as a writer. I choose different characters. I choose their direction and where I want to put them. So, who I choose to put as the character is up to me. The character that I hired, he got paid for it.

There’s no imposttor. When I go to a show, I’m going to hear the music. I’m not going to see no particular person. People need to think outside of the box. So, when you come to a Doom show, I’m letting all the cats know now, come to the show and come to hear the music. To see me, y’all don’t even know who I am.

However, a lot of fans weren’t too fond of this, especially because he never gave this disclaimer before any of his concerts. And it makes perfect sense as to why people were upset about this. But I do think it is kind of cool that he was sending these body doubles. I think I heard rumors that he said before that if the shows weren’t paying enough, he would just send a double to do it for him and things like that, which is pretty funny in my opinion.

But of course, I get why people were upset about this. So, while Doom officially confirmed this crazy myth, Azie Osborne had a few even crazier ones surrounding his life. Azie Osborne, who recently passed away at the age of 76, was one of rock and roll’s all-time biggest legends. And as a performer, Azie definitely knew how to push the limits.

He was one of the founding members of the metal band Black Sabbath. And after allegedly being kicked out due to his unpredictable drug use and antics, he also went on to have a just as successful solo career. During this career, you may remember hearing some pretty wild stories about Azie. One of the most famous ones being that he bit the head off of a living bat.

And since this allegedly happened over 40 years ago, fans have some conflicting recounts of the facts, especially since Azie himself told a few versions. But this is what actually happened. In January 1982, Azie was about 2 months into an exhausting tour promoting his second solo album, Diary of a Madman.

And during this tour, a strange tradition started to develop. Basically, throughout the show, Azie would throw pieces of raw meat and animal parts, including intestines and liver, into the audience. Azie said the reason was because he thought it was hilarious. And apparently, the crowd thought the same as they threw back anything they could sneak into the venues, like sheep testicles, live snakes, and dead rats, to name a few.

Anyways though, for some context, Azie worked at a slaughter house and a crematorium growing up. And he had a pretty wild reputation and was known for always being on some type of drugs. So, these unique stunts didn’t really shock anyone too much. But everything changed when something small and black landed on the stage during a rowdy Wednesday night show in De Moine, Iowa.

>> Somebody threw a bat on stage and I thought it was one of these toy bats. So I picked it up, bite the thing’s head off, and suddenly everybody’s freaking out cuz the real bat is like on the stage set like the bat goes like asleep when the lights go on. So >> Uhhuh. So it was for all practical purposes a toy bat.

>> Yeah. But the but uh I can assure you the uh rabies shots that I went through afterwards aren’t fun. >> No, the they painful. I understand. In his 2010 autobiography, I am Azie, he describes immediately picking up the object, stuffing it in his mouth, and chomping down. He said, “Immediately though, something felt wrong.

Very wrong. For a start, my mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid. Then the head in my mouth twitched.” He followed this simply saying, “Somebody threw a bat. I thought it was just a rubber bat. I picked it up and put it in my mouth. I bit into it. Then he quickly noticed, oh no, it’s real. It was a live bat.

” But as Azie was always on some type of drugs and often admits that he doesn’t remember a lot of things, his story has conflicted with itself a few times. In a 2006 interview with BBC, he told a similar story, but instead pointing out that the bat was already dead. So, while the whole situation is pretty crazy regardless, for fans, it’s hard to tell if the bat was truly alive or if it was already dead when thrown on stage.

That was until the man who claims to have brought the bat to the show gave some clarification. Mark Neil, who was 17 at the time, says his younger brother brought the bat home days before the show, trying to save it, but it died. He claims that by the time he took her to the concert, it had already been dead for 2 days.

So, we can be sure that the bat did end up in Aussy’s mouth, and that it seems to have been most likely dead, making this one of Rock’s craziest myths. But what’s weird is this is not the only myth about him biting off the heads of live animals. 9 months before the bat incident in Los Angeles, he actually had a similar series of events go down.

Again, the details are conflicting and they vary. But here’s the basics. Azie was set to meet with CBS record label execs and his wife Sharon had the idea of releasing three doves to represent peace. After a short speech giving thanks, Azie was supposed to release the birds, but that is not what happened. >> Now, but there there are other accounts where uh um you you’ve actually you bit the head off a was it a pigeon? >> Well, it’s my hobby, you know.

>> [laughter] >> No, no. See, you’re going to give these people the wrong It’s not really your hobby, is it? >> Let’s have a look at your neck. >> No, no, no. Hey, hey, hey. >> According to one recount, Azie had been drinking brandy all day before the meeting. And midway through, he grew annoyed with one of the PR women.

So, to shut her up, he decided to pull out one of the doves and bite its head off. Then, he allegedly did it again with another dove, but this time spitting its head out on the table. Azie said, “That’s when they threw me out. They said I’d never work for CBS again.” and another version told months later, “The doves had all apparently died already.

” And in Azy’s words, “Rather than waste it, I bit its head off.” So once these myths were later clarified by Azie himself and others, it seems like it’s true that he did enjoy biting the heads off of dead or alive animals. And while this myth was really crazy and silly, the next one is a bit more serious and could have even had real consequences for US citizens.

For a long time, there have been myths floating around that the FBI was surveilling John Lennon, one of the members of the Beatles. And you might be wondering, why would they do that? What sort of threat could this guy possibly pose? Well, the FBI has actually always been up to some type of shenanigans when it comes to musicians, and the government has, too.

In general, the CIA has been known to fund musicians who share their ideologies, especially during the Cold War to sponsor anti-communist activity. They even organized tours for musicians across the world so that they could fight against communism. [music] Then there was the notorious FBI counter inelligence program or COINTEL Pro for short.

Co-intel Pro had a lot of objectives. According to PSME, to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize subversive political groups. Though the program targeted many different progressive movements, it spent most of its energy attempting to suppress black civil rights groups and prominent black figures with connections to civil rights groups, however small.

Cointel Pro infamously sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter in 1964 encouraging him to commit suicide. Co-intelp Pro also surveyed a lot of musicians who had similar ideologies like Jimmyi Hendris, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, and many more. They have also been confirmed to have investigated a bunch of rappers as well, the FBI, not necessarily the COINTEL program.

So, it should not come as much of a shock that they were also investigating John Lennon. The reason was because after getting married to his wife, Yoko Ono, he became a bit more of an activist, famously protesting for peace on his honeymoon with her by staying in bed for a week, which got a ton of attention. On top of this, they made a song called Give Peace a Chance, which became a huge antivietnam war song with many protesters marching and singing this song.

The US government had just lowered the voting age to 18. So, they were concerned that Lenin would influence the youth to vote against President Richard Nixon. It got to the point that the FBI was trying to intimidate and deport John Lennin and his wife. For a long time, John and Yoko fought heavily against the government by criticizing them, supporting the Black Panther Party, sympathizing with Marxist groups and more, which back then, especially the government was not too fond of.

John claimed that for years the FBI tapped his phone and was following him. He said in an interview, “When it first started, I was followed in a car and my phone was tapped. I think they wanted me to notice, to scare me, and I was scared, paranoid.” For years, though, these were just claims and we had no real proof until a historian by the name of John Weiner.

Yes, John Weiner is his name. You heard me right. John Weiner began pressuring the government by researching the FBI’s surveillance of John Lennon for a very long and thorough amount of time. So, the FBI finally released their files on John, where everything I mentioned turned out to be true.

You can actually find these files online and see all of their surveillance of him. So, big shout out to John Weiner. It turns out that since he had a drug charge back home, they thought it would be easiest to deport him. They even allegedly thought about setting him up with a drug bust, but a Nixon official said it was a very bad idea since they would get so much bad press.

So, while this does sound too crazy to be true, it was 100% real. And another crazy music story that sounds like a myth is that Keith Richards snorted his dad’s ashes. Keith Richards is a rock star mainly known for his role as the guitarist with the Rolling Stones. And a big part of his aura, like many other artists from his day, came with doing tons of drugs.

And years after the Stones peak, more and more stories continue to come out about different antics the guy got into during their run. One of these rumors came about after Keith jokingly said in an interview that he snorted his dad’s ashes. During an interview with Enemy magazine, he said, “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort, my father.

I snorted my father.” He continued, “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared. He didn’t give a [ __ ] It went down pretty well and I’m still alive.” This strange answer in the interview took over headlines all over the world, dominating the news cycle with a mostly and understandably negative response.

Almost immediately, the Rolling Stones PR team released a statement saying, “It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool’s joke.” And even Keith weighed in on the debate himself, giving some context on the website. He claimed that Enemy took some creative liberties in their publishment of the review and that while most of the story’s details were true, specifically snorting the ashes, Enemy got some major details wrong, mainly that he mixed the ashes with blow, which Keith claims is false. So, because of the Rolling Stones comment, a lot of people believed it to be false or a rumor or a joke, but Keith confirmed it to be true later on the Rolling Stones website. He also doubled down a couple of times, like in his 2010 memoir and in an interview with CBS where he painted a bit more of a descriptive picture of what went down. >> It is true. You did in fact do it. >> I ingested my ancestor. Yes. Uh mainly because I’d had his box of ashes around for about five, six years. >> Uhhuh. >> Some I couldn’t part with him, you know.

I mean, I couldn’t toss him to the winds uh or do some ceremony and he would have cringed at that. And I kind honestly I could not resist. I just scooped him up there, took out a straw, see a dead [snorts] and I did a little line of him. Yeah, I did that. And uh and the rest of them is around this oak tree which is growing incredibly well.

[laughter] And ingesting your ancestors has been a very very very important thing throughout history. Many ancient cultures do that. >> And it seems that Keith has no regrets as a few years later he doubled down again on the move even further. This is by giving his daughters permission to snort him when he dies, which he even said, “I’ll give them a straw.

” So, while this myth is mostly true, it definitely solidifies how crazy a lot of these rock guys like him and Azie used to be, especially with all the drugs they were on back in the day. Another thing that has spawned a lot of conspiracy theories and urban legends is the surprising amount of musicians who have actually gone missing and were never seen again.

So, Richie Edwards was a guitarist and songwriter for the band Manic Street Preachers back in the 80s and 90s. However, he went missing on February 1st of 1995 and has not been found since. So, he was declared presumed dead in 2008. This has led to so many theories about how he disappeared and why he disappeared and what happened afterwards.

So, what led up to Edward’s disappearance and why was he never found? Well, the band Manic Street Preachers was formed in 1986 and Richie Edwards was a friend of the members. So, he eventually joined in ’89. He joined as a guitarist, but he was more so known for his great songwriting. People often point out how Richie was extremely smart.

He loved to read and studied political history in university. The band was very anti-establishment and politically oriented, and they eventually signed to a record label in 1990. Shortly after signing, Richie would pull a stunt that would help the band receive a ton more attention. They had been going back and forth with a journalist named Steve Lac, whose main complaint about Manic Street Preachers is that they weren’t really serious about their art.

Lac kept asking if they were for real. So Richie pulled him aside and carved the phrase for real into his arm. Shortly after this, he was taken to the hospital and NME ran the story, which caught major attention. But despite all of the attention the story was receiving and all the criticism the band was getting, many people neglected the fact that there may be some issues with Richie’s mental health.

He had been pretty open about it in interviews, admitting to self harm, and he would also eventually suffer from insomnia and anorexia. >> I think the older you get, the more life becomes more miserable. All the people you grow up with die. You know, your parents die, your grandparents die, your dog dies.

You know, your energy diminishes. There’s less books to read. There’s no more groups to discover. You know, you just end up a baron wasteland just trying to find something new, which never really occurs. >> Anyways, after the four real incident, many street Preachers signed to Colombia Records and then they put out their debut studio album, Generational Terrorists.

The album was released in 1992 and it helped propel them into the mainstream. The band then followed up with two more albums, Gold Against the Soul and The Holy Bible. The Holy Bible is often seen as one of their best albums with around 70% of the lyrics being written by Richie. It makes even more sense when a lot of the lyrics are very dark.

Around this time, Richie was in a pretty rough place. He was in and out of the hospital and he was dealing with a lot of mental health problems. In an interview in 1994, Richie was quoted saying, “In terms of the sword, that does not enter my mind, and it never has done in terms of an attempt because I’m stronger than that.

I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.” Many close friends agreed that Richie didn’t seem the type to do such a thing. But everything would change on February 1st of 1995, the day that Richie went missing. Two weeks prior to going missing, Richie had recently shaved his head and began withdrawing 200 lb a day from the bank, totaling 2,800 lb before his disappearance.

Then on January 23rd of 1995, Richie sat down for his last interview ever, in which he said, “People try saying they’re strong, but that’s not true. Everyone is weak.” Which is a pretty scary statement after previously saying that he would never take his own life because he was strong. The night before he disappeared, he gave a book called Novel with Cocaine to one of his friends and told her to read the introduction, which was about the author staying in a mental asylum before he vanished. Richie was staying in a hotel at the time, preparing to leave for tour in the United States. He grabbed some books and videos, put them in a box, and wrote, “I love you” on a note, all of which was intended for his recent girlfriend. Then on February 1st of 1995, Richie checked out of his hotel at 7:00 in the morning, and disappeared. There were a few sightings of him between a fan, a taxi driver, and others which paint a rough picture of what happened. Then on February 14th, 2 weeks after going missing, Richie’s car was ticketed at the Sever View service station, and 3 days later, it was reported as abandoned. The car battery

was dead. There were pictures of Richie’s family, and it looked as if someone had been living in the car. A mile from the service station, there’s a bridge called the Sever Bridge. And the method of people leaving their car at the station and then jumping off the bridge to take their lives isn’t too uncommon.

So that is what many people assume Rich Reggie did. However, a lot of people also speculate that he staged his death and now lives elsewhere for a variety of different possible reasons. One of the times he was spotted while he was missing was in a passport office, leading people to speculate he got a new passport under a different identity.

They also think this is why he was pulling out so much money. On top of that, there have been unconfirmed sightings of Richie in India, some Spanish islands, and other places. In 2019, a book was published called Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth About Richie Manic. The book explores the idea that he fled to Israel after meeting a woman in the hospital who he fell in love with, who happened to be from Israel.

The author also pointed out how Richie was fascinated by authors and writers who fled where they lived to live off of the grid. The book was also written with help from Richie’s sister, Rachel, who gave them tons of information and access to things like his diary. So, because of all of this, one of the main theories as to what happened to Richie is that he faked his death, fled to Israel to live with this girl, and is still hopefully living there peacefully.

That would obviously be ideal because the former option was much more depressing. Regardless, like I mentioned earlier, he was presumed dead in 2008, and nothing has been heard from or seen from Richie in 28 years. I’m going to link an amazing video in the description by Deurk 321 who explores this in a little bit more detail if you’re interested.

And while Richie Edwards has been missing for 28 years, Mr. Fantastic has been missing since 2004, leaving fans puzzled about what happened to the mysterious musician. Mr. Fantastic is not only an artist that disappeared, but he’s probably the most mysterious artist on this list. The reason we’re familiar with Mr.

Fantastic is because he’s featured on two MF Doom songs, including one of his biggest songs, Rap Snitch Kenishes. He doesn’t even have his own solo career, or at least one that we know of. Mr. Fantastic’s identity has never been revealed and has been shrouded in mystery for years. So, let’s check it out. So, Mr.

Fantastic’s first appearance was on the song Antimatter by King Gedra, an alter ego of MF Dooms. Also, every time I say King Gedra or King Gdora or however you’re supposed to say it, no matter which way I say it, people say I’m saying it wrong. So, uh, let me know how you say it in the comments and the most liked comment will be correct.

Anyways, it was on this song that Mr. Fantastic dropped a hint as to who he is when he said known to stack a mean stash. They used to call me pure math. That song was released in 2003. And four years prior, Doom had shouted out someone named Pure Mathematics on his song Go with the Flow. Then, like I said, Mr.

Fantastic was featured on Rap Snitch Kenishious, one of Doom’s biggest songs. However, after the release of that album, he just vanished. Nothing has been heard from or about Mr. fantastic since that song was released in 2004, which many people find odd when he was one such a talented rapper and two working with such a popular artist.

However, many people have speculated who he is and why he disappeared. He revealed on raps niche cones that he was from New York, the same place that Doom grew up. Doom also confirmed this in an interview he did with the house list. So, because of this, many people speculate that Doom and Mr.

Fantastic were close pals, which is a very reasonable speculation. Anyways, there are many theories because of these clues as to who Mr. Fantastic is. Some point to a New York-based rap group called Euon comprised of a guy called Slim Pickins and another called Mr. Fantastic. Others point to friends and collaborators of Doom such as Rodan and Countbased D.

And some people even speculate that Rizza, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, and others were Mr. Fantastic. However, that clearly isn’t true. The most plausible theory is one that a user posted on Reddit years ago. This user is some random guy, so take his opinion with a grain of salt, but it does make the most sense logically.

The Reddit user said one of their friends grew up with Doom and was close with him up until his passing. The Redditor said they asked their friend who Mr. Fantastic was, and the friend said, “Mr. Fantastic is just a guy they all grew up with. Back in the 80s and 90s, pretty much everybody on the streets could lay together a few rhymes.

Some really talented people who just never made it to the scene for one reason or another. Doom and Subrock grew up with the guy. his alias growing up was pure mathematics. And this theory was further confirmed when Countbast D, the guy who I mentioned earlier some people thought was Mr.

Fantastic, addressed the claims on Instagram live. >> But the thing of it is is this is two friends, bugging out, freestyling, you know, writing some quick rhymes in the studio, having fun. Like, [music] you know, the man obviously doesn’t want to reveal himself, you know, if he hasn’t dropped anything else in 14, 15 years. >> So, what most people tend to assume is that Mr.

Fantastic or Pure Math was just one of MF Doom’s close friends growing up. They made a few songs together for fun. He didn’t decide to pursue a musical career for whatever reason and is now living a regular life doing whatever it is he wants to do. At least that’s what people thought up until June of 2022 when a mysterious Instagram page called Mr. Fantastic MF popped up.

Of course, many people’s first thoughts were to think it was a troll because, you know, it’s the internet. But as he started posting videos of him traveling to various places, people instantly began to recognize his iconic voice. I’m not fully sure if this is 100% his account, but I think most people in the community assume that it is.

And to further prove the claim that Mr. Fantastic is back, the record label Nature Sounds posted a picture of Mr. Fantastic, which might be the only one of him on the internet. And on top of all of that, your old Drew, a rapper in the hip-hop community, tweeted a couple times about him meeting Mr.

Fantastic and working on some music together. So, it may be possible that Mr. Fantastic is back to making music and maybe one day we’ll get to hear a new Mr. Fantastic song. And while Mr. Fantastic most likely went MIA for regular reasons, Jim Sullivan’s strange disappearance nearly 50 years ago has spawned many conspiracy theories.

Jim Sullivan is an artist who disappeared nearly 50 years ago, and the circumstances of his disappearance have led to many conspiracy theories, including some about him being abducted by aliens. So, of course, let’s check it out. So, Jim Sullivan’s life growing up was always a little rough, and he grew up in a government housing project.

As he was growing up, he found a passion for music after listening to local blues groups, and he eventually joined a local rock band called The Survivors as a guitarist. Eventually, him and a friend bought a bar together, but the business failed. So, he moved out to Los Angeles in 1968 when he was 28, likely with the intention of pursuing a music career.

He hated the idea of working for another man and wanted to carve out a path for himself. While his wife was working at Capital Records, Sullivan began to write songs and perform at various venues in LA. He then began working on his debut album, raising funds to purchase studio sessions, working with some important artists at the time.

Jim pitched the album to someone at Capital Records, but they refused to release it. So, instead, he released it through an indie label that he created with his friend. His debut studio album, UFO, was released in 1969. And in my opinion, after listening to it a few times today, I think it’s pretty good.

However, by Jim standards, the album flopped and failed to help him grow his audience. One of his friends said that they even used to joke about the number of copies it sold. However, a few years later, Jim had another shot when Playboy Records, a recently formed record label by Hugh Hefner, asked Jim to join their ranks.

He then began working on his self-titled album. But apparently, record stores at the time didn’t know what to do with an album attached to Playboy, and the label’s marketing wasn’t great. Yet again, Jim had another flop. His failures led him to alcohol as a way to cope with the fact that his wife was stuck providing for his two kids and his failing music career.

The Playboy record marked the dissolution of our family. It was made with care and love and quality, but no one was buying it. So, Jim came up with a plan. He would travel to Nashville in hopes to make his music career finally work out and give it one last shot. And when it did work out, he would have his family come live with him.

However, Jim may have had other plans in mind. So Jim Sullivan left LA on March 4th of 1975. The next day he called his wife and told her he was all right. And when she questioned him more, he said, “You wouldn’t believe if I told you.” When she asked what he meant by this, he said, “Forget it.

Just forget I said anything. I’ll call you from Nashville.” Following that, he was stopped by highway patrol because they thought he was drunk. But after passing a sobriety test, they sent him on his way with a warning. He then checked into a hotel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Days then passed with no calls from Jim, so his family began investigating.

Police checked out his hotel and said the bed was never even slept in. They also said he left his hotel room key inside the room and had recently bought vodka. A few days later, the police located his car, which was on a remote ranch over 20 m away from the town. Inside his car, they found money, papers, his guitar, some clothes, and a box of his unsold records.

His friend said, “When I heard that, I knew he wasn’t coming back. No matter what, Jim would have never left his guitar. He was reportedly last seen walking away from his car, and that was the last time anyone would ever see Jim Sullivan. As the search continued, theories would begin to pop up like he was killed by bandits or the police or whoever else.

One gas station attendant even said that Jim was asking for directions back to California. And friends didn’t think that he was the type to take his life. But one of the craziest theories is that he was abducted by aliens, which really only existed because of his first album, UFO. Both Jim and his wife did believe in aliens and UFOs.

and he actually went missing somewhat near Roswell, New Mexico, a place where many people theorized there was a UFO crash. On top of that, many of his lyrics seem like clues or premonitions about his future to come. However, the most likely theory is that he was drunk, distraught, and depressed because of his failing music career, leading him to wander away and possibly even take his own life in the wilderness.

What makes his story even more tragic is that in 2010, his album UFO was reissued and outperformed all of his previous record sales combined. He even has millions of plays on Spotify today. But unfortunately, Jim wasn’t around to see his career grow. And while Jim’s career wasn’t very fruitful, Shiloh Dynasty had an extremely successful career before she vanished.

Shiloh Dynasty is an artist that will go down in history as one of the most mysterious yet impactful artists ever. She only released two full songs in a bunch of snippets and somehow still became a multi-platinum artist. However, after 2016, Shiloh disappeared, and no one knows what happened, leaving so many people wondering why such a promising artist would just up and vanish.

So, Shiloh began posting short clips of her singing and playing the guitar back in 2014 on Vine. Simply because of how good they were, they immediately began going viral. [music and singing] She would barely show her face, adding much more mystery to her identity. Then in 2015, Shiloh started posting on Instagram, which allowed for slightly longer clips, in turn helping her blow up even more.

On top of that, tons of producers were sampling her vocal clips and turning them into beats, a trend that would continue to this day. A lot of people like to point out one IG post she made that stated, “I’m not a look, I’m a feeling.” which may represent how she felt about her musical output and why she chose not to reveal herself too much.

Anyways, by the end of 2016, she had tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and made her last post in December. But after September of 2016, Shiloh Dynasty disappeared. Nothing has been heard from her since despite her blowing up to extreme heights in her absence. For a while after her disappearance, people speculated that she was dead, but this theory was put to rest pretty quickly when she created an LLC in February of 2017.

People weren’t quite sure why she did this, but some had hopes that it was for new music. Then in August of 2017, XXXTXTentacion released his debut album 17, which to many fans surprise featured some Shiloh Dynasty samples. Shiloh was featured on three of the songs. Joselyn Flores, Everybody Dies in Their Nightmares, and Carry On, two of which have over a billion streams on Spotify.

But despite eventually becoming a multi-platinum artist, Shiloh still never made an appearance. These songs would also inspire a whole new style of music that people would try to replicate. Shiloh’s vocals would also be sampled by artists like Young Thug, Juiceworld, Trippy Red, and more.

The idea that she died was further put to rest when X’s producer John Cunningham clarified that they had all been in the studio together. And when rumors she died were spread, Jon said that X called her to make sure she was all good. Shiloh still remained silent even after her crazy success when working with X, which led to a bunch of people trying to figure out who she was and what happened to her.

People had come up with some theories and they even found her real name on X’s album credits, but still nothing came of it. Other than her real name, no one really knew what she looked like and no one knew where to look. And to this day, no one knows what happened. The closest people have gotten to finding out what happened to Shiloh is by reaching out to previous managers and acquaintances.

One friend Genius reached out to thought she died after disappearing in 2016, but as it turns out, she just cut them off. They also reached out to her manager who said she is an intensely private person. And that is all I have to say on the matter. The most recent update we have had is from a fairly trustworthy source in the Shiloh Dynasty community.

That said, new info has shown us that Shiloh has indeed cut off ties to anything to do with the name Shiloh. We can’t directly disclose this info as it contains the personal details of others. All I can disclose is that we’ve had a confirmation from official representatives of Shiloh’s LLC from the years 2019 to 2020 that have shown us that Shiloh has no intention of returning as a client to their services.

And while there is no explicit source, it would make sense as it seems Shiloh, despite her amazing success, would like to remain private. But unlike Shiloh Dynasty, Christina Mckne had a much more strange disappearance in 1987, which has spawned many rumors. Christina Licorice Mcknney is an artist who went missing in 1987 and has not been heard from since 1990, leading many people to theorize about what happened to her, especially since she was a member of Scientology.

Anyways, Christina began dating a musician by the name of Robin Williamson, whose band she would eventually join. The band was called the Incredible String Band, a band that was known for pioneering psychedelic folk music. And according to Christina’s ex-husband of three years, the band was a Scientology band.

What he means by that is they got a ton of people to follow the Scientology religion. Christina joined in 1968, performed with the band at Woodstock in ‘ 69, and had a solid run with them. However, she left the band in 1972 after breaking up with Robin Williamson. After that, she had been seen performing at Scientology events, and she had been in and out of a few other bands.

Other than that though, there isn’t a whole lot of information on her except for the fact that she married a man by the name of Brian Lambert in the late ‘7s who will become very important very soon. Anyways, she wasn’t very active in the music scene anymore in the8s and had been moving around from place to place.

But in 1987, she was supposedly last seen hitchhiking in the Arizona desert. Her sister also claimed that she was last seen in 1990 while recovering from a surgery in Sacramento. But no one really knows what’s true or false, and her disappearance has been a huge mystery for decades. We aren’t even sure if a missing person’s report was filed, and I feel like if it was, someone on the internet would have found it by now.

However, recently in an interview with Ron Muscavage, her ex-husband Brian disclosed a lot of information about her and what may have happened. Apparently, as a member of Scientology, she made it to OT level 3. Now, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know what OT level 3 means or I fully understand it, but I think it’s some sort of like ideology they give you.

It’s like some sort of paper with instructions and ideologies that they give you. Uh, and they drilled into your brain and apparently those made Christina go crazy. Either that or it’s a drug, but he wasn’t talking about it like it’s a drug. So, I I’m very confused. Anyways, he said that she went so crazy that he claims she decided to live in his backyard and eventually live homeless elsewhere.

>> So, that’s what happened to Licky, everybody. uh Scientology drove her insane. The OT3 materials, she’s constantly looking for body fatans in her bodies, eight hours a day, you know, trying to figure out and [music] and saying, “This is how I’m going to be happy.

This is how I’m going to overcome my problems. This is how I’m going to become a better person. [music] This is how I’m going to become spiritually enlightened.” By listening to BTS in my head drove my wife insane. She became schizophrenic. >> Even he has no idea what happened to Christina after she went crazy. No one knows if she’s alive, where she is, or what happened to her.

Maybe she died in the desert. Maybe she moved back to the UK. Maybe she’s still homeless. Maybe she’s living somewhere in the United States. Or maybe she even went back to the Church of Scientology. No one really knows. And while we may never know what happened to any of these artists, Ice Cube seems fairly certain that one of the biggest musical conspiracy theories is true, which is the idea that the CIA has been manipulating the rap industry for decades.

On July 2nd of 2023, Bill Maher released an episode of his Club Random podcast featuring Ice Cube in which they spent a small chunk of time speaking on this theory. They got onto the subject of division in America, more specifically racial division. And that is when Cube brought up his thoughts on hip hop and prison.

>> Same people who own the labels own the prisons. Literally the same people >> literally the same people who own the labels own private prisons. You know, it it seems really kind of suspicious, if you want to say that word, that the records that come out are really geared to push people towards that prison industry.

>> Bill pushed back a bit and said that the labels didn’t make him write certain lyrics to which Cube said, “They don’t tell you what to write, but there are guard rails, so certain songs, likely more provocative songs, get released, while maybe the more positive ones, don’t.

” You know, some records are made by committee, meaning record company guys sit around and tell the artists, “This is hot. Say that. Do this. We’re going to have this guy write the lyrics. We’re going to have that.” Cube said he felt like there was some social engineering going on to make sure the prisons stay full.

He also went on to clarify that the people he said were running the labels and prisons weren’t actually in charge like the CEOs, but that they have financial interest. So basically, Cube is saying that they’re trying to get these artists to say certain things so that people are influenced to commit more crimes, which in turn keeps the prisons full, which then gets the prisons to make more money.

We know that this is at least possible because of multiple studies done that show how music can affect both your mood and your decision-making, especially when you’re younger and easier to influence. After being showed a clip of this, Dame Dash, the co-founder of Rockefeller Records, agreed with him as well. >> Being controlled by the label, that’s how they do it.

>> What are your thoughts on what he’s saying here? It’s true. It’s obvious. >> Now, Ice Cube only brought up the prison industry, but theories like this often tie into the idea that the CIA has been involved in hiphop, with some even suggesting that they were involved in the inception of hip-hop.

But I think that one’s a bit too far-fetched. And even the rapper Burner said to bootleg Kev that he believes the CIA has some sort of influence in hip-hop. I think there’s people in our in our culture right now that cause a lot of trouble on the on the internet and with other celebrities.

I believe they’re working for the CIA. That’s that’s my honest opinion. I’m like, yo, there’s no way this guy is constantly trying to tempt people and throw people off their game and get them to say or do other things that might put them in jail. It’s been the agenda against minorities for a long time. >> On top of that, Crazy Bone, a member of the group Bone Thugs and Harmony, said that he also believes the same thing that Ice Cube said.

Do you really believe that’s a thing, >> man? Yes. It could be. There’s a lot of big corporations that have ownership in prisons. It’s it’s rich black people that got ownership in prisons, >> right? >> They just don’t go around bragging about. That’s that’s one big move they don’t go around bragging about. >> So, I definitely think it’s interesting that a handful of artists in the game do have this belief, especially the wellestablished and well-connected artists who have been on major labels.

But before we can look into any evidence, we first have to understand one of the major things that kicked off this whole conspiracy theory. In 2012, a blog post from the website Hip Hop is Red went live that was titled, “The secret meeting that changed rap music and destroyed a generation.

” The writer said that this anonymous letter had landed in their inbox. So, they decided to post it. It starts, [music] “After more than 20 years, I finally decided to tell the world what I witnessed in 1991, which I believe was one of the biggest turning points in popular music and ultimately American society.

” The author continues, “Between the late 80s and early 90s, I was what you may call a decision maker with one of the more established companies in the music industry. They continued to say that in 1991, they were invited to a closed-door meeting with a small group of music business insiders to discuss [music] rap’s new direction.

” The author said the meeting had 25 to 30 people with mostly familiar faces, but the author also said, “Among the attendees was a small group of unfamiliar faces who stayed to [music] themselves and made no attempt to socialize beyond their circle.” Many readers assumed that these men in suits were either the CIA, the FBI, or involved in the prison industry, or maybe a combination of all three.

He said that the unfamiliar people went around and made people sign a confidentiality agreement. Apparently, a speaker came up and said that the companies they worked for in the music industry were building privately owned prisons since they were government funded. The more prisoners in the prison, the more money the prison makes, which is true, by the way.

The author then said that their job was to market music that promotes criminal behavior with rap being the music of choice. They continued to say that some people got mad, including the author, and were escorted out after one of the men pulled a gun. The author then said that they kept quiet out of fear for 20 years and noticed the change in hip hop.

Now, of course, there’s no proof for this, but this story spread like a wildfire. It even had Alex Jones on Twitter claiming Ice Cube had direct knowledge. And after that, a Twitter user said since NWA was active from 87 to 91, they were directly involved in this. This bold claim upset Ice Cube, who actually responded saying, “Opinions are like [ __ ] Everyone has one and they all stink.

What evidence do you have to make a statement like that?” So, despite Cube denying any involvement in that alleged meeting, it still spread like a wildfire over the internet. Cube has also denied accusations of NWA destroying hip-hop, basically saying that all the stuff they wrapped about was a reflection of their environment and they were just talking about things that were already going on, which is definitely very important to understand when talking about the gangster rap genre. But Crazy Bone, who I mentioned earlier, directly referred to this letter, saying he believes it and also spoke on his own experience, saying that this attempt to make songs a certain way happened to him and his group. Um, have you ever [music] been approached by any weird [ __ ] in in in the music industry or in terms of that? Like them trying to get y’all to Yeah. say this, do that. You know, bro, you know what I’m saying? Like what I tell people, you know what I’m saying? As far as music, I tell people this, you know what I’m saying? Like we didn’t come out like like trying to glorify violence or

none of that. We we were led to believe this is your chance to tell your story, >> right? >> They the ones with the cameras. They the ones glorified it. >> They the ones put it on TV and did this and did that. You know what I’m saying? Put in front of them like >> And I will say this testament from Crazy Bone is definitely interesting.

The following year, a blog post went live titled, “Don’t believe the hype, a counterpoint to the secret meeting that changed rap’s story.” One of the first points of this post was that he left a lot of breadcrumbs for someone who wanted to remain anonymous, which was true.

I skimmed over it when I read it, but when you’re saying where you are from, your location history, and the fact that you’re among 30 people in a room, it can’t be too hard to narrow it down. The second point they brought up was that the story was emailed to Hip Hop is Red rather than a bigger or much more credible blog site.

And the third point they brought up is that Gangster Rap had been around before that meeting in 1991 and had already been spreading. The author went into detail of gangster rap songs and artists that were already out. They also showed a graph of incarcerated Americans, which began spiking in the 80s and followed suit in the ’90s.

The author points out that the spike was not in the ’90s, like it probably would have been had the secret meeting worked out the way they wanted it to. So, this was a solid counter argument, and so far there has been no evidence provided by either side. But before we can get to the evidence, I do think it’s important to see if this is even in the realm of possibility.

The short answer is yes. And I think that’s pretty obvious. But there are some pretty crazy examples of US government entities doing similar things that I think will blow your mind when we cover them. With the first one being an example of a US government agency literally trying to use rap as a scop.

US A or the United States Agency for International Development tried to use Cuban hip hop to undermine the president at the time, Raul Castro. According to the Guardian, the idea was to use Cuba’s rappers to break the information blockade and build a network of young people seeking social change to spark a youth movement against the government of President Raul Castro.

They first started recruiting musicians for projects disguised as cultural initiatives, but really aimed at boosting their visibility and stoking a movement of fans to challenge the government. US A also paid $15,000 to underwrite an arts and music festival. Their secret aim was to seed the minds of festival organizers with new ideas and persuade them to send high impact messages to the audience.

Of course, this whole time, US A was using contractors, so it wasn’t directly linked to them. However, this attempt ended up being a dumpster fire as many people involved were caught by the Cuban government, which led to many musicians leaving the country out of fear and a festival being shut down after the Cuban government linked it to us a suspected some US government agency was behind it.

So, I think the fact that the US government has literally tried this in other countries doesn’t make it so far-fetched to happen here. It also means my title isn’t too batty because the US government has literally tried to use rap as a scop. However, I think their failures are important to keep in mind.

The CIA has also been known to use other genres to influence others in an attempt to achieve their goals. For example, the CIA created two divisions called the propaganda assets inventory and the international organizations division. One time they funded a Russian composer named Nicholas Nabokav to mount exhibitions, stage concerts, and sponsor anti-communist activity to combat the appeal of communism in Europe.

And there were other artists they hired to fight communism with songs. This is why there is a theory that the Scorpion song Wind of Change was actually sponsored by the CIA because it was an anthem to the end of the Cold War. The CIA also got their hands on jazz and actually sponsored Louis Armstrong tours in Europe and Africa.

Dizzy Gillespie joined the first State Department organized tour in 1956 and the white jazz pianist Dave Breubck went on a 12 concert tour of the USSR in 1985. So on top of them using musicians to spread their propaganda, they’ve also been known to aid in the production of movies like Animal Farm, which I’m sure most of you have read and probably know it’s very anti-communist.

The CIA has even been known to fund movies or influence directors to make them look cool. And it worked. I mean, I remember being a kid thinking the CIA was super cool. So, not only have government entities used rap, but they have regularly used other genres to influence others in their favor. On top of all of this, the US government has also been known to use their agencies to investigate and discredit black artists.

It all started with the FBI’s counter intelligence program or COINTEL Pro. Co-intel Pro had a lot of objectives. According to PSA, to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize subversive political groups. Though the program targeted many different progressive movements, it spent most of its energy attempting to suppress black civil rights groups and prominent black figures with connections to civil rights groups, however small.

Co-intelp Pro infamously sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter in 1964 encouraging him to commit suicide. And all of this is true, by the way, which is absolutely crazy. I know it sounds like fiction or conspiracy theory, but all of it actually happened and has been declassified or investigated or whatever.

And it wasn’t just politicians or civil rights activists. It was also musicians who had similar ideologies. Jazz pianist Nat King Cole was investigated. Duke Ellington was investigated. Jimmyi Hendrickx was investigated and many others were too. There also was, of course, the very popular instance where the FBI sent a letter to NWA’s label after their song F the police was released.

They have also thoroughly investigated rappers like Tupac, Easy E, Big, and the Wuang Clan. So, we know that the US government has tried to use rap as a scop in other countries. We know that the CIA has used other genres to fight against communism and that the FBI and other groups have thoroughly been involved with black musicians throughout the history of the United States.

And while all of this definitely means that Ice Cubes theories and the other theories could be true, is there actually any evidence that the prison industry and the CIA are trying to use rap as a scop to get more people incarcerated? Well, we have to dig a bit deeper. This is where the theory tends to get a little spotty.

When people bring up this theory, their main point is that the three major labels, Warner Records, Sony Music Group, and Universal Music Group, are associated with the two largest private prison companies, Core Civic, and GEO Group. These two companies own the most private prisons in the United States out of any other companies.

So, how are they connected? Well, their largest shareholders are the investment firms Black Rockck and Vanguard. And this is mostly true, not just something alleged by theorists. Black Rockck and Vanguard have the most shares of GEO. They also have the most shares of Core Civic.

Sony’s largest investor is PrimeCap Management Company, which is a separate entity from Black Rockck and Vanguard, but they have been known to work with Vanguard in the past. Although Black Rockck and Vanguard themselves aren’t even in the top five of shareholders. And Warner Music Group’s top two investors are neither Black Rockck nor Vanguard, although Vanguard is number three.

So, there definitely is some financial interest, but you also need to understand how companies like this work. They don’t have enough shares to actually own any of these companies. They are investment management companies. I’m going to have someone else smarter than me explain this, but I know it’s something that a lot of people, including myself, have seemed to misunderstand.

Who do you think is the most powerful man on the planet? >> Black Rockck. >> How much power do you have if you don’t actually own anything? Black Rockck manages 10 trillion. And it absolutely gives them outsized influence on global finance. But it’s not their money. It’s other people’s pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.

assets that they actually own only total to about $170 billion. Warren Buffett’s Birkshshire Hathaway owns a trillion. Owns, not manages. Of course, maybe there are some shady people with financial interest behind the scenes, but this just isn’t enough evidence. And I don’t think the Black Rockck and Vanguard example is enough either because they are the top shareholders of so many companies.

So, it isn’t like it’s just some freak coincidence. Another piece of evidence I’ve seen brought up by many people who believe this was an excerpt from an article written by the rapper Homeboy Sandman called Jailhouse Rock: The Facts About Hip Hop and Prison for Profit. The article was also written in 2013, around the time that this theory had been circulating the internet.

Sandman said, “Last year, Corrections Corporation of America, which is now Core Civic, the company I just mentioned earlier, the biggest name in the private prison industry, contacted 48 states offering to buy their prisons. One stipulation of eligibility for the deal was particularly bizarre. An assurance by the agency partner that the agency has sufficient inmate population to maintain a minimum 90% occupancy rate over the term of the contract.

2 months later, an anonymous email was sent out to various members of the music and publishing industries, giving an account of a meeting where it was determined that hip-hop music would be manipulated to drive up privatized prison profits. Sandman also started off the article by saying, “This is not my opinion.” So basically though, he cited the letter that doesn’t have much proof and backed most of this up by claiming that Black Rockck and Vanguard own most of these companies.

He was right, however, about the letter guaranteeing a 90% occupancy rate, which upset a lot of people when that happened, because if we’re being honest, that’s not the best mindset for prisons to have. Sandman mixed a lot of true things about the prison industry into his own article, but use these facts to jump to a conclusion that wasn’t quite there yet.

And this is about all there is in the way of evidence when it comes to this theory. just multiple people’s words and opinions combined with the misunderstanding of management companies. So, there has never been any definitive proof or evidence that the CIA or prison industry has directly tried to use hiphop as a tool of mass incarceration.

However, like we’ve seen in this video, groups similar to the CIA, such as the FBI, COINTEL Pro, and US A use, and sometimes even hip-hop to try to achieve their goals. Of course, the prison industry has plenty of incentives to keep people in prison and get more people in prison. But whether or not they are using hip-hop for it, well, there just isn’t enough proof for it. As of now, it is just hearsay.

All we can do now is take into consideration people in the industry’s accounts, the other examples I mentioned, and try to figure out what to do with that information. NPR did a whole podcast episode on this, and asked a lot of people in the industry what they thought about it, and there were varying opinions.

For example, Kimosorio said, “There’s truth in it, right? And that I believe that there was an agenda. I don’t know how effective it was, but someone had a meeting somewhere. I think politics and finance is at the core of so much of what’s happening in the world in general, not just in hip-hop. So, I would be remiss to say that I didn’t think there was any sort of agenda.

Mick Jenkins, a really good rapper by the way, you should check him out, had similar views. Well, on the other hand, Regina Bradley and Tax thought that it was a bit more far-fetched. So, I do think it’s interesting that so many different people in the music industry in different places and positions and experience have varying takes on this with some people thinking that it’s possible.

Rodney Carmichael from NPR had a solid take with the theory when he said, “Here’s my biggest issue with the letter. It’s that it ultimately pins the world’s largest prison population on hip hop, our music, our culture, our so-called pathology.” Now, sure, it blames white label heads for the industry’s black exploitation of rap, but ultimately it makes us black and brown folks the scapegoat.

And I can agree that my main issue for this theory is that it does pin at least part of the prison population on hiphop. But in reality, if they are trying to keep more people in prison, I’m sure there are much more effective ways that are already being implemented to do it. But who knows, maybe one day the CIA will declassify a bunch of documents and we will finally learn the truth about this whole theory.

After being asked about it by NPR, I think Killer Mike said it best when he said, “So, can I believe that conspiracy is true?” Yeah. So, it’s not if I can believe it or not. The question is though, now what are we going to do about it?