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?