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Originally posted by MissInformation
I think rappers just add that kindof stuff for entertainment value-nothing more. If the illuminati exists (I'm not 100% sure whether I think they do or not) it's the politicians, bankers etc. who are involved. People with real power.
Originally posted by mateandbucky06
Well if rappers do not have power than how have they gotten millions of people (white and black and everyone in between) to dress and act like them?
Originally posted by Monsterenergy791
reply to post by scientist
It's not a matter of listening to it backwards.
The reverse lyrics are not meant to be heard in a conscience state, but the words are interpreted in the sub-conscience. Of course you are unaware of this, just like you are usually unaware of breathing or your heart beats, until you focus on it.
1h.) Spamming: You will not post identical content, or snippets of identical content
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
First of all, the present day "Illuminatti" have absolutely nothing in common with the illuminated mystics of old. So, to say that someone is part of the "Illuminatti," just because they have a fascination with "strange" spiritualities and philosophies is very false.
[edit on 9-1-2008 by SpeakerofTruth]
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969),[1] better known as Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings[2] and Roc-A-Fella Records. He co-owns The 40/40 Club and the New Jersey Nets. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America,[3] having sold over 26 million units in the United States.[4]
Originally from Marcy Houses housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City,[9] Jay-Z was abandoned by his father Adnes Reeves and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry[10] when he was twelve years old.[11] Jay-Z attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Information Technology High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate.[12] He claims to have been caught up in selling drugs, to which he refers in his music.[11]
Nasir Jones, IPA: [nɑːˈsiər], (born September 14, 1973),[1] better known by his stage name Nas, IPA: [nɑːz], formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge housing projects in New York City. Although he dropped out of middle school, he attained a high degree of literacy that he would later use in his lyrics.
Nas, whose given name Nasir means "helper and protector" in Arabic, spent the first years of his life in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.[6] His father Olu Dara was a jazz trumpeter and his mother Fannie Ann Jones was a Postal Service worker. He has one sibling, a brother named Jabari Fret who assumes the alias Jungle. While in Brooklyn, Nas would listen to his father's trumpet in his house's stoop at age four.[7] The family soon after moved to the Queensbridge Houses. Olu Dara left the household in 1986, when Nas was 13, and Ann Jones raised her two boys on her own. Nas soon dropped out of school in the eighth grade.[2] He educated himself, reading about African culture and civilization, 360° Lessons, Nubian Islamic Hebrew scrolls, the Bible,[8] and the Qur'an.[9] He also studied the origin of hip hop music, taping records that played on his local radio station.
Life and career
Kanye West was born in Atlanta, Georgia,[10] where he lived with both of his parents. When he was three years old, his parents divorced, and he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois.[11] His father was Ray West, a former Black Panther who was one of the first black photojournalists at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and is now a Christian counselor.[11] West's late mother, Dr. Donda West, was a Professor of English at Clark Atlanta University, and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University before retiring to serve as West's manager. He was raised in an middle-class background, attending Polaris High School[12] in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois after living in Chicago.[13]
West took some art classes at the American Academy of Art, a Chicago art school, and also enrolled at Chicago State University, but dropped out due to poor grades and a primary interest in working on his music career.[14] While attending school, West produced for local artists.