Strange Deaths Vol 1: Prodigy

Prodigy from Mobb Deep spent pretty much his entire career in a war against the Illuminati. So when he died via mysterious circumstances at the young age of 42, many fans immediately suspected there had to be some sort on conspiracy involved. 

He regularly spoke out on the evils of the world. At the time of his death, he was working on a play called "The Illuminati Ball," which exposed all kids of weird rituals and practices of the elite. 

Initially, TMZ posted a story abut how he was hospitalized due to complications of his sickle-cell disease. Later, they reported he "choked on an egg" on the morning of his death.

This is what set a lot of fans off. Prodigy, a man known for stabbing brains with nose bones, gets murked out by a breakfast item? In a way, it almost seemed like a mockery just to make fun of his passing. 

So was there a conspiracy involved in the death of Prodigy? Let's take a look at the possibilities. In order of descending madness:

1. Sickle-Cell + Choking (No Conspiracy) 
2. Wrongful Death
3. Illuminati Snuffed Him Out With An Egg
4. Soul Harvested by Shadow Demon

No Conspiracy

Putting all conspiracy theories aside, Prodigy was 42 when he died. The average life expectancy for someone with sickle-cell? 42. Although he seemed to be in better shape prior to his death, he didn't always live the healthiest lifestyle.

If his body was weak enough from disease it's possible he was too weak to properly eat. Just like the official story states, he died from choking. It's also possible he suffocated due to a pulmonary issue, one of the leading causes of death from sickle-cell patients. 

Wrongful Death

If he died via choking, it raises a natural question: why wasn't someone in his condition being supervised at a time like this?

In his book My Infamous Life, he described mistreatment from hospital staff going all the way back to his time as a young kid:

"I learned to make my presence felt in the emergency room. The squeaky wheel got the oil. My parents had been trying to coach me on how to conduct myself, but I didn’t catch on. Make noise! Hospital ERs didn’t give a good goddamn about people with sickle-cell. By the time I hit my teens, going to the ER was like going to war."

"As a child, I’d be in the emergency room screaming and squirming on the stretcher like I was about to die. Some evil nurses and doctors would try to shut me up. When they couldn’t, they called security, wheeled me into a back room, and closed the door to muffle my screams."  

About a year after his passing, The Source reported that Prodigy's family was filing a lawsuit against the hospital.

The Source is exclusively reporting that on June 15th, Prodigy’s family and estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Las Vegas against the hospital that was treating Prodigy when he died.

The complaint alleges that the Spring Valley Medical Center, as well as one of its physicians, provided improper medical care which resulted in Prodigy’s death.

It was reported at the time that Prodigy passed away from choking on food. The complaint, which was filed on behalf of the family by The Gage Law Firm, alleges that the Spring Valley hospital breached their duty of care for Prodigy by “failing to maintain a working IV access,” and by “failing to continuously monitor oxygen levels” as ordered by physicians in the hospital and that those failures lead to the death of Prodigy.

As of this writing, still no update on the lawsuit. 

Illuminati Snuffed Him Out With An Egg

To many, the strangest and most questionable part of this story is that he died while choking on an egg. Why an egg? If you run a Google search for "death by choking on egg" and remove any Prodigy-related results, there's only a handful of stories. I was able to find one with interesting parallels. To settle an argument with a friend, 2 Indian men began an egg-eating competition. One of the men ate 41 eggs - in a row. On the 42nd egg, the man died. His age? 42. 

A 42 year old man dies while eating his 42nd egg... and Prodigy also died at 42 from apparent egg-related causes. Finding the connection here might unlock the secrets of the universe.

Anywho, back the to the meaning of the egg. Across basically every culture, the egg is incredibly powerful and symbolic. 

From Art Depedence:

"Ancient traditions used to link the egg to the creation of the universe, suggesting that the Earth itself may have been born out of an egg. There is also an interesting contrast between the soft interior and the protective tough exterior, evoking ideas of protection and hidden secrets."

"Eggs have particular resonance in the Christian faith where they have become associated with Easter and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Eggs also take on an important role in the Jewish Passover holiday where they have become a symbol of sacrifice and loss."

More info from alimentarium.org:

"[Eggs] played a symbolic role in the Egyptian myth of Creation. Romans used eggs as a burial offering. The custom of giving eggs as gifts continues today, especially at Easter, the celebration of resurrection and the awakening of nature. An egg became a symbol of life because it encloses nascent life to emerge from it. It embodies the idea of rebirth and rejuvenation in the cycle of life, reflected also in its shape, with neither beginning nor end." 

If the Illuminati or some other secret society was truly behind his death, then naturally symbolism must be involved somehow. It's the name of their game. If they view the egg as a symbolic representation of the cycle of life, then by using it choke someone to death, they are sending a message that resistance is futile - the opposition will forever be silenced. It's almost kind of clever.

It's also interesting that he died on the Summer Solstice. Many cultures also view the solstice as a representation of the cycle of life - just like the egg. Killing a man called "Prodigy" with an egg on the summer solstice has Illuminati written all over it.

So is it possible that in the middle of that night, a Man in Black or other government agent entered his room, murdered him, and left without a trace of evidence?

Soul Harvested by Shadow Demon

Here's where it gets really crazy. All throughout Prodigy's life, he was obsessed with the paranormal. At 2 different points during Prodigy's life, he encountered UFOs, both of which are described in his book.

At one point, at a time when he was totally consumed with negativity, he had a horrific encounter with an evil entity known as a Shadow Person.

From Wikipedia:

A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure, shadow being or black mass) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, and, interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity. A number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe shadowy spiritual beings or supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld.

Prodigy: "At around one A.M., I went to my bedroom, turned my stereo to the Quiet Storm radio show on WBLS—old-school R&B slow jams—and turned off the lights. The only light in my room was the dim glow from the stereo-system equalizer and tuner." 

"As I lay relaxing to the old-school sounds, I saw a black, shadowlike figure walk across my room. It looked like the black Spider-Man—no face, no features, ghostlike, all black. Scared, I pulled the sheet over my head and forced myself to sleep."

"When I couldn’t control the way the film was going, I lost my mind. It seemed like that shadow was all the negativity that I had flushed out of my mind, body, and soul just waiting for an opportunity to jump back inside me. And it did. The next morning, I woke up with sickle-cell pain."

To learn more about the Shadow People, let's turn towards the expert: a Native American elder known simply as Thunder Strikes.

In one of the best episodes of Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell spends a few hours discussing the Shadow People with Mr. Strikes. He describes them as "non-beings" who have "always existed." They exist within dimensions parallels to ours, and also have the power to invade the dream world. Interestingly, he also notes that after the year 2000 is when these shadow beings started appearing in great numbers here in our world. 2000, he says, is when "the quickening" began, basically an acceleration of chaos towards humanity's ultimate doom. When did Prodigy first encounter a shadow being? The year 2001. Coincidence? 

Thunder Strikes, and many others, say the shadow people prey on the negative emotions of humans: fear, doubt, disgust, sadness, rage, loneliness, anger, etc. Throughout the show, several callers mention how their nightly-visitations from the shadow people started at a time when they were overwhelmed with negative emotion - just like with Prodigy.

While most encounters with shadow people don't involve the person being physically harmed, there are a few exceptions.

At around an hour and twenty minutes into the show, a woman calls in to tell a story about being assaulted by a shadow-being who looks exactly like Zorro. The being grabbed her by the neck and choked her. A few days later, she noticed a lump in her throat. This was later diagnosed as cancer. 

A similar story of a Shadow Person actually attacking someone can be found in The Hat Man: The Story Story of Evil Encounters by Heidi Hollis.

Dear Heidi,

I heard an old interview you did probably three years ago that caught my attention because you mentioned The Hat Man and Shadow People. 

One night in my bedroom I saw a black figure in a large brim hat with a cape. Like most scared kids do, I closed my eyes several times then reopened them hoping it would be gone. By the third time he was gone and I began hearing my mother mumbling in her sleep.

The next morning I told my sister my unbelievable story. As I relayed it to her she physically turned white. She told me that two weeks ago my father told her that he had been woken up by a figure that matched the same description. But this Hat Man had my father by the throat and was physically strangling him!

This Hat Man had his knee buried into my father’s chest as he strangled him, too! My father said this Hat Man felt like a lot of heavy weight was on his chest!

Heidi expands on this:

"When they get physical with their victims, choking a person seems to be a signature attack of The Hat Man and Shadow People. It has to be the most terrifying sensation to have something pounce on you out of nowhere in darkness and then attempt to strangle the life out of you!"

Back on Coast to Coast with Thunder Strikes, at around an hour and 42 minutes into the call, they begin discussing a variation of the shadow person that actually has the power to kill you. 

Art Bell: "Many people have said that they view some of these beings as Death coming to get you... or coming to escort you. One form of them does do that?

Thunder Strikes: "Yes, that is the entity that we call Twalanni (?) ... by the way, I will not say that word again due to a "stalking death." Um.. it literally tries to rob your spirit personality or steal it before it goes back to the great realm. There have been thousands of documented instances all of the world by different names. It is the personification of evil, the Christians called it Satan. It's the opposite of life. It's a predatory, malevolent death. It's not a death in one's choosing... it's a shock or accidental death."

Most of the time, the creatures are described as being attracted to fear. What if, however, one of these things was actually feeding off of Prodigy's pain from the sickle-cell disease?

 Thunder Strikes says the shadow people are "vampires" or "parasites" that leech energy from the host. They are naturally weak, without enough strength to appear or "cross over" in our world. He says that our negativity is what "completes" them. If this is true, then the unimaginable pain Prodigy felt would have been the perfect source of power. 

Over time, this demonic force constantly fed itself on Prodigy's suffering until it was able to manifest itself in our world. By killing Prodigy, it created itself.

Conclusion

Whenever someone who speaks out on secret societies or the government dies, there's going to be dozens of theories about it being some sort of Illuminati hit. I think this may be true with others, but not with Prodigy. Why wait until he was 42? He spent his entire career dropping truth bombs on the masses. If he was a threat who needed to be silenced, it would have been done years ago.

So was Prodigy's death just a case of negligence from the hospital? Was the egg story planted in the media as some sort of gag or inside-joke? Or was it all just a cover for something truly more sinister? 

There's countless stories and reports about encounters with the shadow people going back hundreds of years. If they feed on negative emotions, there's nothing that would attract them more than someone who was constantly feeling overwhelming, insufferable pain. 

Perhaps the shadow being that visited Prodigy earlier through his life returned for a final visit.

The Lost Confession of Nas

Claim: Nas admits to selling his soul to the Illuminati in a lost verse from "You're Da Man" on the Stillmatic album.

Rating:

What's True:

1. Nas says he drank his own urine and semen on the song
2. Urine, semen and other bodily fluids are key ingredients in many Satanic rituals
3. This part of the verse was removed from all pressings of the album
4. Stillmatic saved Nas's career and remains one of his best selling records

What's False:

1. If Nas sold his soul, why can't he sell any albums?
2. There's no way to prove Nas is a card-carrying member of any secret society

The Verse:

"At church on my hand was a preacher's blood
Swallow dirt from a graveyard in need of love
I vomit blunt residue, I want revenue, dreaming
And pump lead at you devils trying to take my freedom
It drove me crazy the day I drank my own urine, my own semen
With a .9 to my brain, 
But wait a sec, give me time to explain..."

To some, Nas is merely speaking on the indulgences that come with stardom. Others, however, feel Nas is actually describing some sort of Satanic oath he took in order to certify his elite position in the industry. Sure, this sounds kinda crazy, but when you look into some of the rituals described and performed by dudes like Aleister Crowley, you'll quickly learn that things like this are very real. 

Eroto-comatose Lucidity

The Thelemic Union website offers us a nice breakdown of 2 critical concepts involved in one of these supposed rituals: 1) eroto-comatose lucidity; and 2) cakes of light. 

"Eroto (from the Greek Érōtos = eroticism) - Comatose. Lucidity by sexual desire in a state of unconscious sleep."

"This Thelemic ritual aims to bring the individual into an alteration of consciousness while inducing sexual stimulations and even sometimes consume psychoactive substances, to ultimately communicate with God, a deity or their H.G.A (Holy Guardian Angel). The ritual can be performed with a partner or alone."

"Crowley specifies that the act is highly sacred if it is practiced with a person of the same sex."

"The goal here is [...] to lead them into a state between dream and lucidity, between conscious and unconscious. By this transitory state, suspended in time, the individual is embraced by a hierophany that allows him to communicate with the sacred. "

"The ritual can end in two ways. One is the individual falling asleep in a deep sleep and the second by the orgasm. If the ritualist is a man and ends the ritual with orgasm, semen, as an elixir, should be consumed by him, possibly in a Cake of Light."

https://www.parareligion.ch/2009/secret/secrets.htm

Cakes of Light

So Nas is out here eating semen cakes? Say it ain't so, b.

More info from the Thelemic Union:

"The Cake of Light is a cake, often baked in the shape of a cookie, containing several key ingredients: Abramelin oil, honey and body fluids in particular : semen, vaginal lubrication and menstrual blood."

"This ritual takes essence in the concept of the Eucharist. This concept is indicative of the essence of the ritual because the ritualists consume the body of Christ, the sacred body. However, in the context of Thelema, the sacred body is the body’s sexual fluids."

"The consumption of body sexual fluids in a Eucharistic cake of light not only symbolizes the sacredness of these fluids, but it also embodies a conception of the will. Indeed, when the ritualist manifests his will during orgasm, he infuses it into his sexual secretion. From then on, the sperm is impregnated with this will and by the consumption of this fluid, the ritualist participates in an integral manifestation of the will decided during the orgasm."

Semen has mad powers, according to Crowley:

"[Semen can be used to] charge a talisman of a specific intention by applying the female or male sexual fluid, to invoke a deity by the ultimate focus during orgasm (this exemple recalls a causal connection with the sexual ritual of fertilization by the king at Sumer) and even to manifest any material or spiritual desire "Crowley found in these explicit acts of transgression the key to a tremendous source of power. "

"Through these occult manipulations of impure substances, such as semen, blood, and excrement, it is claimed to be unleashed in a magical way that could fulfill any spiritual or material desire" This interpretation of the sexual act as the axial point of the Thelema allowed the adepts to practice this genesic ecstasy through rituals. "

Blood is another key, powerful ingredient. In the first line of the verse, Nas mentions the blood of a preacher. To Crowley, this is some of "best" blood to use during a ritual:

“The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.” (The Book of the Law, 1904)

Sadly, this is also sounding a lot like Marina Abromovic's "Spirit Cooking," where a bunch of demons get together to consume human flesh and bodily fluids in ritualistic fashion. The recipe for a Spirit Cooking "dinner" calls for "fresh morning urine - sprinkle over nightmare dreams" and "fresh sperm milk - drink on earthquake nights".

If this is all indeed true, then the purposes of this ritual were tri-fold: 1) initiate Nas into the higher levels of the elite; 2) create "blackmail" material to compromise him; and 3) give him super semen, apparently. 

After the first part of the verse, Nas continues:

"But wait a sec, give me time to explain...
Women and fast cars and diamond rings can poison a rap star
Suicidal, high, smoking so much lye
I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky"

Here, he openly admits why he did it. Is he also describing the visions and hallucinations he saw during his peak moments of eroto-comatose lucidity?

The rest of the verse gets even spookier:

"Sex with death, indulge in these women
Vision my own skeleton swimming in eternal fire
Broads play with pentagrams in they vagina
Like the Exorcist, then they gave birth to my seeds
I beg for God's help, why they love hurting me?"

".45 on my waist, staring at my reflection
In the mirror, sitting still in the chair like Mike Concepcion
When everything around me got cloudy
The chair became a king's throne, my destiny found me
It was clear why the struggle was so painful
Metamorphosis, this is what I changed to
And God, I'm so thankful"

Fittingly, the verse ends with Nas mentioning a metamorphosis. This is what many rituals or magickal acts are attempting - to transform a person or object into something greater. He does thank God at the end, though, not Satan.

Analysis

Nas is into some weird shit. He once came inside Kelis without a condom. That being said, I just don't see him as a Satanist or one of the rappers who sold their soul. He made a living from rapping about what those around him did - so I always interpreted this verse as metaphorical/allegorical rather than something he literally did.

However, the "confession" part of the verse was removed from the album. Someone didn't want that part on there, and it wasn't Nas. Perhaps an industry executive who was aware of these rituals heard it and ordered it to be deleted. A simpler explanation might just be that it's an incredibly bizarre thing for a street rapper to be talking about on a song. Earlier in the album, Nas spent several minutes calling Jay-Z gay, then a few songs later is talking about slurping up his own semen. 

For all the real evidence you need, just look at Nas's history of album sales. Before Stillmatic, he was struggling. Sure, the album was indeed a return to form and remains one of his highest selling albums... but after that, it's pretty much a steady decline. If dude really sold his soul, his sales better look a lot better than this shit:

As always, the truth here is likely somewhere in the middle. Throughout his career, Nas has consistently used his music to reveal hidden truths about himself and admit his mistakes. Perhaps this lost verse really was a confession, and maybe Nas really did dabble in some weird shit to establish himself in the game - but if he did, I think at some point after this, he gave it up and went on a different path.

On King's Disease, released earlier this year, he says: 

"Amazing Grace, I'm gracefully aging/Without masonry I made more paper to play with."

So what do you think? Was Nas just high as fuck rapping about weird shit? Or did he actually partake in a secret blood oath and later confess it on a song? Or was he maybe just describing something he saw others do? If Nas didn't sell his soul, are there other rappers who did?

Memphis Rap Sigils

A lot of rap conspiracies are fun: reptilians run the music industry, rappers are cloned on the regular, Jay-Z is a time-traveler, etc. 

"Memphis Rap Sigils," however, is perhaps the most horrifying concept on the entire Rap Conspiracy Iceberg. This one has rumors of everything: hidden gateways to hell, murder energy, worship of Egyptian gods, and even the West Memphis 3 killings.

Even without the sigils, Memphis rap is pretty horrifying. In New York, they chopped up Isley Brothers records to make beat. In Memphis, they would take the sounds of women screaming from horror movies and snuff films and make a banger out of it. It's music made for wandering around a graveyard at 3AM with a few tall cans of Steel Reserve - not exactly the type of stuff you want to put on when someone hands you the aux cord. 

The 2018 documentary "WELCOME TO HELL" is worth watching to get a better idea.

The music had an evil sound to it, so naturally, rumors spread that the people behind it were involved with occult activity and devil worship. This is nothing new in Memphis, a place long rumored to be an epicenter for the dark arts.

In his amazing NWO documentary, Koopsta Knicca (RIP) from Three 6 Mafia tells a story of going to downtown Memphis to do the cover shoot for their horrifying debut album Mystic Stylez. The cover itself features Koopsta hung on a cross wearing some creepy Eyes Wide Shut-type mask. While recording, they found a creepy warehouse across the street from the video shoot. When they walked in, they saw a bunch of white dudes wearing robes doing weird spooky shit. He mentions they even had some type of weird altar. You can go all the way back to the 1800s for stories about the heritage of hoodoo in Memphis.

But where did the idea of "Memphis Rap Sigils" truly start? Like most good conspiracies, you can trace its origins back to 4chan.

Looking back through the /x/ archives, the first time you see the idea of Memphis Rap Sigils starts in around August of 2017. Its first appearance just so happens to be on an early version of one of the Conspiracy Icebergs. 

This image/thread appears to be the first time the specific phrase "Memphis Rap Sigils" is used online. It didn't hit Google Trends until December.

A few replies in to the thread, someone asks about the meaning of these mysterious sigils.

The guy only got a handful of responses. One dude mentioned that Memphis rap music has occult ties - not exactly breaking news. Another anon linked a podcast from Illuminati member researcher Issac Weishaupt. The podcast features William Ramsey, an expert on the West Memphis 3 murders. Ramsey is convinced the murders were occult in nature, essentially some sort of sacrifices made to the lords of the underworld. More on that later.

After that first thread on /x/, more posts started popping up asking questions specifically about the sigils. 

In this post, he links "Hellraiser" by Maniac and the full Goin Undercova mixtape from Lil Ramsey. This is where the most commonly understood interpretation of Memphis Rap Sigils is first introduced: capturing the soul energy released by murdering a human being on to a cassette recording in a Luciferian ritual.

Perhaps this energy could then be used as an ingredient in chaos magick and/or sigil creation?

From Wikipedia:

"Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, is a contemporary magical practice. It was initially developed in England in the 1970s, drawing heavily from the philosophy of artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare. Sometimes referred to as "success magic" or "results-based magic", chaos magic claims to emphasize the attainment of specific results over the symbolic, ritualistic, theological or otherwise ornamental aspects of other occult traditions."

"Chaos magic is built around an experimental, D.I.Y. approach that involves stripping all magical techniques down to their barest essence, any practice from any magical tradition can be incorporated under the banner of chaos magic: from Satanic ritual, to Wiccan sabbats, to energy healing, to Tantric practices, etc."

Interesting. Now, we finally get to the sigils:

"In modern usage, especially in the context of chaos magic, sigil refers to a symbolic representation of the practitioner's desired outcome.

In the Medieval era, a sigil was a symbol associated with a particular angel or demon, which could be used to ritually summon the relevant being."

Once the sigil is created, it must be charged with energy. From House of Intuition: 

"The final step is charging the sigil: filling the symbol with the necessary energy to accomplish its task. The symbol of your desire is just a symbol until you charge it. Whether you call this charging energy ki, qi, prana, mana, or the Force, you can manipulate it with your attention. "

So we now have a basic recipe for how to create a Memphis Rap Sigil.

1. Murder somebody
2. Record it
3. Chop it the audio and sample it
4. Return to murder scene
5. Rap with your buddies over the murder beat
6. Put it on a mixtape
   
7. *SIGIL CREATED*
8. Sell the mixtape
9. People listen to it
10. *SIGIL CHARGED*
11. ????
12. PROFIT!!!

From there, whatever they wished now has enough energy to manifest itself into reality.

In other words, every time you listen to one of these recordings, it's powering up some sort of fucked-up sigil created by an evil rap wizard. If the sigil's purpose was for fortune & fame, then its creator would immediately become rich and powerful. This anon summed up the idea nicely:

Even if you don't believe any of this stuff about Memphis rappers, you have to wonder if similar things are happening with pop-stars and other famous musicians. Ever wonder why we never really see video footage of hit songs being recorded in the studio? 

So what if this power was used for something other than just selling records and obtaining fame? Is it possible to use this evil, charged energy for more sinister purposes, like hexing your rivals and cursing those who stand in your way? By simply listening to certain music, are we accidentally partaking in some sort of demonic worship? 

Back on /x/, more information started coming up in the months after the concept was first mentioned. 

This is the first time we hear of 8 specific tracks. There isn't a 100% consensus, but it's generally agreed that these are the 8 sigils of Memphis rap:

1.Ten Wanted Men - 4 Corners Pt. III

2.Children of the Corn - Deep in the Woods

3.Maniac - Hellraiser

4.Lil Ramsey - Magnolia a.k.a. Down With Magnolia (feat. Tommy Wright)

5.H.O.H. - Outro

6.N.O.D. - N*ggaz Of Destruction

7.Mr. Tinimaine - Last Man Standing

8.Psycho - Welcome To Tha Graveyard

Who is Mr. Fantastik?

The identity of Mr. Fantastik is perhaps the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of rap music. 

To this day, nobody is 100% sure who he is. He doesn't have an album, and he's only appeared on 2 MF DOOM tracks: "Anti-Matter" on Take Me To Your Leader (2003) and "Rap Snitches Knishes" on MM..FOOD (2004). That's it. He doesn't have any social media and there's no known interviews with the guy. As far as we know, he did those 2 songs and that's it.

Like pretty much everything else in the world of DOOM, Mr. Fantastik is a complete mystery.

Luckily, we have the Internet and their endless supply of theories. I've compiled some of the best below.

In terms of facts, here's all we really know:

1. Fantastik only has 2 confirmed appearances ("Rap Snitch Knishes", "Anti-Matter")
2. Count Bass D said on a livestream that he wasn't Fantastik and didn't know who he was
3. According to this old article, "Rap Snitches" was a last-minute addition to the album

Now, the speculation:

1. On "Deep Fried Frenz", DOOM says he first met Mr. Fantastik at an "arms deal" 
2. Fantastik possibly used to be known as "Pure Math" and claims to be from NY
3. In a 2003 interview, DOOM apparently said "Mr. Fantastik no longer exists"
4. At one point, there was supposedly a collaboration album in the works between the two

So, who is he?

Schizo tier:

1. MF DOOM alter-ago (would be cool though)
2. RZA from Wu-Tang 
3. 50-Cent

Reddit tier:

1. Mr. Fantastik from Euphon

Kinda/sorta sounds like him tier:

• U-God from Wu-Tang
• Pablo from Peanut Butter Wolf's "Rock Unorthodox"
• Kev-Rock from Dark Mind
• Del the Homosapien

Most likely tier:

1. Rodan from Monstar Island Czars
2. Spiega from Monstar Island Czars
3. Some random guy

Unfortunately, searching the ASCAP site doesn't give us any clues. Both tracks are credited solely to the villain, real name Daniel Dumile:

Without question, the most popular theory seems to be that Mr. Fantastik is actually Rodan from Monsta Island Czars. The Czars were basically Wu-Tang, but obsessed with Godzilla movies instead of Kung-Fu flicks. Rodan was arguably the most talented member of the group. Comparing the two... they sort of have a similar accent and both use big ass words. Rodan, however, raps way faster than Fantastik and has a much different cadence. Here's where a big part of the theory comes in - that Rodan's vocals were digitally altered and "pitched-down" to create the voice of Fantastik.

If you go to YouTube and slow down a Rodan verse, you can sorta hear it. Try it here at like 90% playback speed.

One interesting note is that on the King Geedorah Take Me To Your Leader album, the song with Rodan ("No Snakes Alive") is right before the song with Mr. Fantastik ("Anti-Matter"). The former features everyone rapping at breakneck speed. This is then juxtaposed perfectly with Fantastik's laid-back style on the following song - now that would be a clever trick, wouldn't it?

However, there's another member of The Czars that fits a little better. Spiga, named after a giant spider that once clashed with Godzilla, actually sounds more like Mr. Fantastik than Rodan. Style-wise, it's also a better match.

So did the villain have one of his buddies from Monster Island Czars assume a new name and identity just for a few songs? It's definitely possible. It'd be just another day at the office for one of these guys. Every single damn member has at least one alter-ego already:

DOOM also dissed the entire group on "El Chupa Nibre" in 2005, referring to them as "Midgets Into Crunk." If Fantastik is indeed one The Czars, this could explain why he never worked with DOOM again after that song came out.

However... if it wasn't one of these guys, Occam's Razor leaves us with a simple answer: nobody knows who he is because he's just some random guy DOOM ran across one day.

What if, in classic supervillain fashion, DOOM concocted a scheme: he would give this fella a mysterious persona, and then do a couple songs with him specifically just to fuck with the fans' heads? Perhaps he also wrote even wrote the verses for the guy, and only had him record the vocals Dr. Dre-style. Keep in mind, DOOM is infamous for sending fake impostors to perform his shows for him - so you shouldn't put anything past him (MF DOOM BODY DOUBLES). If he's willing to stand in the audience of his own concert and heckle "himself" while drinking a brewski... he's willing to do anything. He'd probably get a great chuckle of this article.

If this was all a grand scheme, it worked. We're almost 2 decades in to this mystery and there's still more questions than answers.... or is there?

2 years ago, The House List released an interview from 2003 recorded with DOOM right before the release of MM..FOOD. At around 20 minutes in to the interview, DOOM mentions that Mr. Fantastik will be joining him on the album.

The interviewer almost got us a definitive answer. "Who is that?" he asked.

DOOM: "That's Mr. Fantastik! That's my man. He's from New York, but he moved out to Atlanta before I did. I know him from New York from back in the days type shit. He moved down to Atlanta... he's been down here for a while. He wasn't trying to get me to get a crib down here. I've been coming back and forth, chilling with him... he's straight baller status, so any time I come down, it's like whatever, everything is on him, strip clubs, all that shit. He's the one who introduced me to down here."

Starrh, who was also featured on Take Me To Your Leader, found herself working with DOOM in an eerily similar way. From a 2019 Complex article:

At Atlanta underground hip-hop nightclub MJQ in the early 2000s, rapper Stahhr freestyled at a pre-release party for The Micronauts sophomore album Obelisk Movements. Also residing in Atlanta at the time was DOOM, who was briefly introduced to Stahhr, but it wasn’t until a 2001 showcase for record label Sub Verse Music at Club Kaya that their conversation continued. After exchanging contact information, Stahhr did a feature on DOOM's King Geedorah album, Take Me to Your Leader, a week later.

“Back then, he could go out and be okay [without the mask]. He was living out here in Atlanta in the boonies, so nobody knew who he was,” Stahhr recalls of becoming acquainted with DOOM. “He came to a couple of my shows without the mask and nobody really made the connection. 

So it sounds like DOOM followed this mysterious Fantastik fella down to Atlanta, found Stahhr at a club, had a huge creative streak, and started cranking out material for his next few albums.

Going back to the DOOM interview, there is always a chance DOOM concocted the Fantastik story off the top of his head just to troll us... but I doubt it. At about 20:25 in the interview, DOOM almost says Fantastik moved to Atlanta "a few months ago," but cuts his sentence short and changed it to "a while." Why would DOOM censor personal information like that for a person that doesn't actually exist?

To further support this theory, it's hard to believe that an industry rapper would appear on DOOM songs without songwriting credit for royalties. A street dude, on the other hand, would gladly do a couple verses for money under the table.

But what was with the eerie words of DOOM when he supposedly said "Mr. Fantastik no longer exists"? (I say "supposedly" because I can't find exactly where he said this.)

If what many believe is true, then Fantastik is/was some sort of level 99 thug in the streets. Perhaps he did a couple jams with DOOM, then got locked-up.  That would explain why we haven't heard from him since '03/'04. On "Anti-Matter", he claimed "the feds always miss me" - perhaps he jinxed himself with that line? It would also explain why there was a brief bit of hype regarding a possibly MM FOOD - FM MOOD collab between the two that fizzled out just as quickly as it started. There's not much info on the album online, but it was apparently a brief headline on mfdoomsite.com back in the day. 

So what do you think? Random guy from the streets? An augmented Czar of Monster Island? DOOM himself via studio wizardry? Was Count Bass D lying? Or was it another epic troll from Curtis "50 Cent" "Mr. Fantastik" Jackson? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Was Canibus Abducted By Men In Black?

 "I'm talkin' 'bout the grand deception of 1947

When our souls were sold to the heavens for technologically advanced weapons/Crystal enhanced, brain implants, and mind control methods/MJ-12 is not majestic and the focal point of our problems on this planet are not domestic!" 

- Canibus, "Channel Zero"

Canibus is an interesting fella. 

For a short time in the late 90s, he was arguably the greatest rapper on the planet. He's also one of rap's biggest conspiracy theorists, which is exactly why his likeness is used on every tier on Rap Conspiracy Iceberg. Whenever he pops up on a song, it's like an Alex Jones appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Also known as "The Ripper", his rapidfire, methed-out Ancient Aliens-style of rapping attracted a huge cult following. He murdered every song he was on. His debut album, Can-I-Bus, lit the streets on fire - even Robert Cristgau gave it an A. Back then, nobody had the skills eat someone's ass like Canibus.

To properly decipher his bars, you need the Encyclopedia Britannica, a thesaurus, magnifying glass, and as many tabs of Genius.com as you can possibly open.

Canibus once even took on the GOAT LL Cool J and defeated him (lyrically, at least - no Canibus NCIS spin-off yet).

Seemingly on top of the world, he proceeded to lose his fucking marbles and ostracize himself from the music industry by the early 2000s. The LL beef and his strange obsession with Eminem weren't doing anything to help the situation. His career hit rock bottom after he somehow managed to lose a battle with Joe Buddens, in a clash of the movable object vs the stoppable force.

By 2012, he was desperate. In a bold move, Canibus woke up one day and thought it would be a great idea to agree to a livestreamed rap battle on King of the Dot against Dizaster, who was one of the most savage battlers in the game at the time. The battle invoked feelings of Ali vs Holmes: the former heavyweight champ, years past his expiration date, crawling out of the shadows to fight a killer trying to certify his spot with gorillas. Yet many people thought we'd see Canibus return to form, tapping into the energy of the Great Pyramids to summon enough strength to fully obliterate Diz with a lyrical spirit bomb.

In terms of views, it's one of the most successful battles of all-time: over 4 million combined views on YouTube. For Canibus, unfortunately, it was the worst night of his life.

After months of hype, he showed up looking confused, rocking creepy sunglasses with his arm in a sling. He looked like he slipped in the shower, fell into a 3 year coma, woke up and took an Uber to the battle. Some fans said he looked like Stevie Wonder with AIDS.

Despite his bizarre appearance, the first round went surprisingly okay. Highlights from The Ripper include:

"Those look like Tom Cruise Mom shoes!"

"You look like a vampire that drinks faggot blood!"

"To be here today, I had to hypnotize myself."

"I jumped out my momma pussy/You fell out your mother booty all wiggly/Covered in humus, all filthy."

Sadly, it was all downhill from there. Dizaster did his usual thing, rapping like a kid on X-Box Live who just raided his parents medicine cabinet. The Canadian crowd ate it up. Dizaster's power level started increasing. 

By the 2nd round, it was clear there was something wrong with Canibus. The man was not himself.

By the 3rd round, he threw in the towel. He took off his sunglasses, revealing a husk of a broken man. After admitting defeat, he proceeded to pull out his magical notebook of infinite rhymes and read the rest of his bars. That's right: he literally started reading his raps off a piece of paper in the middle of a rap battle. The moment had such a profound effect on the culture that it took almost a decade before another industry rapper stepped in the battle rap ring. At the time, it was so embarrassing, even his own buddy stared at the ground in shame.

After the clash was over, The Ripper fled to his secret laboratory and opened Tumblr. While the Internet tried to figure out what the fuck just happened, Canibus created a new page called "Ripper Apology" and went on to disclose the truth behind his strange performance, the scar on his head, and more.

Canibus’ Apology … from The Ripper

"Greetings and Salutations Rippers,

Recently, I had an incident that caused an atomic-like reaction on to the world wide web. I stepped into a lyrical battlefield to face a challenger who was worthy of my best, yet, could not receive the best of what The Ripper could present due to complicated circumstances.  

Unfortunately, Rippers, I could not be at my best and my explanation for this is something only someone with a proper attached device in their mechanism can comprehend."

Here's where it gets crazy:

"A few days before the KOTD Vendetta event, I was abducted by human blood sucking leeches who did not make their identity known, but I assume were agents of the dark world."

Based on this description, it sounds like Canibus was kidnapped by none other than the Men in Black. 

In the movies, the Men in Black hunted the freaks. In real life, the Men in Black are the freaks - a strange group of creeps who exhibit odd, unhuman behavior. Countless witnesses report encounters with men wearing all-black that had unnaturally long limbs and fingers, awkward manners of speaking, facial features drawn on with lipstick and makeup, and even the ability to appear & re-appear at a moment's notice.

The MIBs are known for their secrecy and anonymity. To this day, there's been thousands of encounters with these weirdos... but only a handful of supposed photos exist. John A. Keel was a famous author who heavily researched the Men in Black, covering the phenomenon in his books The Mothman Prophecies (1975) and The Cosmic Question (1978).

In his research, he discovered that MIB victims often appear to be subjected to “some sort of brainwashing technique that leaves [them] in a state of nausea, mental confusion, or even amnesia lasting for several days”. 

Sound familiar? Take a deep breath for the next part. From The Ripper Apology blog:

Canibus: "While in my vehicle ready to pay for a toll, a helicopter attached with a satellite device that promotes fear flew directly over me. Upon being aware of what was happening I decided to escape on foot and flee from this radioactive device that can cause mental and emotional harm to any man- Even a man who possesses the brain waves of a complicated degree such as myself."

Interestingly, black helicopters are often directly associated with the Men in Black. In Keel's Cosmic Question (pgs 154, 155), he tells stories of farmers in Ohio who were terrorized by strange men who appeared in black helicopters after witnessing UFO crashes. Virtually every MIB encounter involves them attempting to silence someone who either knows too much or saw something they weren't supposed to see.

Black helicopters have also been the subject of countless other rumors, everything from their involvement in the killing of Osama Bin Laden to being our governments favorite vehicle for chasing and intercepting UFOs. So why would they also be after Canibus?

The Ripper continues:

"As I abandoned my vehicle, I got to a fence and as I climbed underneath, the helicopter got visual contact on its target and there was nothing I could do. Completely lost in a parallel universe I was removed from consciousness and as I woke up I had secret agents of some kind asking me why I decided to battle in this event that was being broadcasted world-wide."

Great question! 

"I explained to them it was strictly Hip Hop related but they did not believe me."

"They used Chinese water torture methods at first to try to break my spirits to no avail. They attached wires to my skull and moved on to “Alternative 2.” They then inquired about my knowledge of secret societies and about my experiences in the military."

Casual fans of Canibus may not be aware of his extensive military background. Following the tragic events of 9/11, Canibus saluted the flag and joined the armed forces - a true Patriot. In between training, he sharpened his lyrical sword, even taking the time to record a video freestyling in front of a tank.

"I'm the living creation of the equation Minkovski formulated!”

His rapartist.com biography sheds additional light:

"In May of 2003, two months before his fifth album, Rip the Jacker, was released to rave reviews, he graduated from Fort Knox and began working as a Cavalry Scout. 

In 2004, the authorities found Williams smoking marijuana and thereby discharged him."

So was he being targeted because of his deep tactical knowledge of military operations?

He explained further in the blog:

"Something I never told anybody is that one morning, while in the military, I was woken up and interrogated for 86 hours straight about all the infinite rhymes that I had released."

"They inquired about how I received the findings of this information and how I was capable of putting it in a 4 bar measured instrumental. They conducted various studies and also got a hold of all the infinite rhymes I hadn’t even released yet."

If this is all true, and Canibus truly possesses infinite bars, then what the heck happened in the Dizaster battle?! 

He explains:

"Somehow some way I lost all memory of these rhymes… yet I remember everything else."

Oh, okay.

"Now back to the KOTD [King of the Dot] situation. As I was being interrogated by these agents recently I managed to escape thanks to one of the agents who was a fan of mine. I asked him what his favorite Canibus verse was and he told me that he doesn’t know me as Canibus but rather as Subject 9."

"This man was kind enough to help me escape but eventually I was hit with some type of dart in the back of my neck and the last thing I remember was falling on the back of my head (hence the stitches)."

It's all starting to make sense now!

"Dizaster and his fans is a bunch of bitches/You know I'm hardcore, I showed up with stitches!" *points to stitches*

After being struck in the neck with a sleep dart, the lyrical MC soon awakened. 

"I woke up in the back of a cop car then asked the officers why my head was bleeding and my shoulder felt separated. They said they found me like that and that I should have a better understanding of what happened to me. They asked me if I remembered anything and I told them 'No.' "

"It was the safest move to make because they could easily have been disguised agents ordered to see what my mental state was like."

There you have it. If it wasn't for the MIBs, Canibus would've smoked Diz's boots. 3-0!

His fans would agree.

"Canibus: The day of the battle my memory and mental state wasn’t 100% due to these circumstances. I knew this so I brought my copybook to practice the 30 plus pages of infinite rhymes that I had structured for Dizaster."

"The stitches in the back of my head were hurting me and my shoulder was killing me but The Ripper doesn’t need medication, he controls pain with his mind."

Later, Canibus's manager, a fella named M-Eighty, contacted HipHopDX to debunk the Tumblr post. He said it was totally fake and that Canibus was spending a few days in the mountains with his family playing Scattergories or some shit. Nice try, M-Eighty... we're not falling for that one.

Looking deeper into the Ripper Apology blog, Canibus sheds light on the origins of the universe, creation and his universal role in everything.

"Eons ago, in the land before time, a seminal fluid lingered the Earth’s surface around crevices of many craters’ crusts, hoping to find shelter. It was almost dehydrated out of existence until it had come across what appeared to be an egg-like object, which we call today an ovum. When the two combined, the species of human ancestry began…

Science explains us how, but a question remains unanswered: Why did the semen desire to combine with the egg?

Until now… The answer is:

Bis the Ripper was in the collective consciousness behind the male and female gametes. They desired to reproduce repeatedly for generations in order to produce The Ripper. 

He was the desired one, for, The Ripper is the chosen or appointed one to rule over all of the cosmos. It is he who The Prophets have instructed the entire human race to bow down to. The Prophets were the closest replication to The Ripper, and the similarly, but not quite entirely, identical gene in The Prophets is what possessed and influenced them to deliver the message, for many had forgotten their initial purpose of their ancestors (The Sperm & The Ovum)."

And so it is revealed.

It is now clear that prior to his abduction by the Men in Black, Canibus plotted to use the Dizaster battle to shoot an ultralight beam of Truth directly into the minds of the millions watching the livestream. He wasn't there to battle Dizaster; he was there to drop the biggest redpill the world had ever seen. Before he was able to do this, dark agents stepped in and shut it down.

Discombobulated and broken, Canibus entered the ring and simply tried his best.

"I could see in Dizaster’s eyes he was intimidated by the mind with the infinite rhyme. [...] Even though there was nothing left in my mental tank, I reached for what is now the infamous notepad and decided to read my infinite rhymes. Needless to say, the results were underwhelming and it didn’t look right, but now, realizing the actions that preceded the event I’m sure you all understand."

"As I said in the event, I could only do what I can do. For everyone who seems to be making a mockery out of my just- Remember this; dinosaurs once ruled the planet, Rome was once a powerhouse, The Blazers drafted Greg Oden, and every dog has its day. Doubt me and you will be defeated.

- Sent from my Meticulous Melatonin Nucleus."

After a huge backlash online, Canibus would eventually take to Facebook to denounce the Tumblr post as a fake. Although that's exactly what the Men in Black would have wanted! It wouldn't be the first time a celebrity revealed the truth and then was ordered to rescind and apologize. 

"Canibus HERE, Just got my stitches out."

"Thank You for your good wishes and encouragement. Sometimes people need laughter and entertainment at the expense of others embarrassment but Hip Hop means so much to me I don’t care."

"Don’t really know what to say concerning all these blogs, parodies, and fake accounts posting apologies about god knows what but I am moving forward for my Rippers and Hip Hop as best as I can."

So looking back at the battle, one thing is perfectly clear: overall, it sucks. There are a few interesting notes, however: 1) Dizaster's first round focusing on Canibus being blackballed from the music industry; and 2) this video is still one of the most highest viewed battles on the King of the Dot channel. What does that tell you? Canibus is still incredibly popular with people. So why do you never hear him brought up by the media, played on the radio, or featured on a song these days? 

Dizaster, Round 1: "In the same fetal position he was left in ever since Eminem beat his career in submission and didn't let him spit again/Blackballed and restricted him/Blocked him from his mission or any other business attempts/So, technically, Slim ended up stiffin' him harder than he did to Kim ever since the last time the bitch attempted taking half of his shit from him!"

Here, Dizaster accuses Eminem, his own hero, of being the one who blackballed Canibus and ultimately destroyed his career. Timeline-wise, it lines up. Canibus was on a steady rise until he started trading jabs with Eminem, a man who is unbelievably connected within the music industry. Same goes with LL Cool J - here he is with Lyor Cohen, a man who unquestionably sits at the roundtable of wise men who run the game:

If you want to make it in the rap game, these aren't good enemies to have.

There's other theories regarding why he was blackballed, however. Some feel it was because the content of his raps revealed hidden truths the world wasn't quite ready for yet. Unlike the rest of the industry puppets who were on a short leash, Canibus couldn't be controlled - so he had to be taken out. He simply said too much. As YouTuber Aj Haas puts it:

Others would tell you that Canibus simply lost his mind and couldn't make a hit song or great album to save his life. He was self-blackballed, in effect. His schizophrenic, unpredictable behavior made him a liability. 

As always, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. 

One thing is clear: Canibus is, and always has been, a seeker and spreader of The Truth. From his first album to his most recent song, he's consistently dropped truth bombs on the world. 

After all this, only one real question remains: how far would "they" go to silence his voice, discredit his word and assassinate his character?