The days are gone of waiting for someone to come save you from your nightmares of bills, stress and mediocrity. More than ever, people are being forced to take things in to there own hands and strive to succeed, in spite of and not because, of the people who would have traditionally provided a place for this life improvement.
Who cares how hard it may seem, or how unfair it is that the person standing next to you was 100 times less talented but still gets a paid 100 times more than you and is praised for his small accomplishments while you are criticized for your many. It's this same analysis over time that will keep most people captive, or deter them from what it was that initially inspired them to do what they do in the first place.
It's a battle against what is real and what is fake, what you are willing to do to fit in to the mold, or what you are not willing to do to break it. A long hard journey for anyone who wishes to be contrary to the norm, because the norm comes with numbers. Building a subculture isn't an easy task, because the majority of people don't want to support something no one else know about. This creates a catch-22 for any outsider wishing for inside acceptance with foreign thoughts.
It takes charisma, determination, and persistence because who knows, all the seeds you reap today may not bear any fruit for years. It is only through your faith that you will eventually fill your garden with the ripest gain because you never gave up on replanting ideas or giving nutrients to old ones despite other's lack of discernment.
It is the long haul that counts, your ultimate mission that once accomplished you can truly be at peace with yourself. Material things are only temporary and although it is comforting to possess beautiful objects and build your palace here on earth, the onset of spiritual death for instant gratification, is one that most will have to deal with for an eternity.
Creation cannot be contrived and/or forced and have the same effect of something that came about organically. It is impossible to duplicate emotions, especially when they did not originate from you, which will lead to disappointment and abandonment once it is realized that you cannot live up to your original standard, because it wasn't original at all.
Your best bet, is stick to you despite what the money and people may say. Someday it will be worth it.
No offense to guitarist that don't sing, but since I was a kid, it was always the ones who could strum and belt out vocals who earned serious cool points with me, even idolization. This list is appreciation for the singer/songwriters, who didn't mind taking on a double duty. The guitarist who inspired me to pick up an ax just cause they looked so damn cool doing what they did.
7. John Lennon
Their overexposure always kept me at a distance and it wasn't until recently that I really started venturing into the Beatles & Lennon's catalog his story, and i'll tell you, I've certainly been long over do. Lennon had a bouncy way of playing his guitar on stage that brings me to my feet every time, despite him being fairly unsophisticated in technical skill compared to his contemporaries. It was his song writing and energy that truly had me enamored. In addition his desire to speak up and not always say the right thing resonates deeply with me because I am the same way.
6. Jimi Hendrix
Admittedly, I was never into Hendrix as much as I probably should have been, at least till now, but I was familiar with his image long before I even appreciated his music. He created the template for being a cool rock star in my eyes and showed me that skin color didn't matter when you are that cool (or at least it shouldn't). His cool demeanor when he picked away at his Strat and his even cooler blues style singing had me won from the get go. Nobody was a undeliberately awesome as this guy, check his interviews. He has a shy confidence that I see in myself.
5. Buddy Holly
There is just something so quaint and perfect about this guy and his music. Seeing him perform with rapid down strokes and his confident "your gonna love this" swagger and sway, as if he was in a whole nother' era, caught my attention instantly. When I first saw his live performances, words couldn't capture just how ahead of his time this guy really was or just how impressed I was in seeing it so long after the fact. Besides that, I've always longed for the simple things he talks about in his songs. He made love sound like such a good and easy thing.
4. Nick Drake
I recently stumbled upon Nick Drake by accident on a Google Images search for whatever doesnt matter now. It amazed me that I had not known about this guy earlier or that he isn't even really discussed by critics at all. The mystery surrounding this guy, his death, and his perfectly doomed music is so enthralling for a person like me who deals with allot of internal strife. Listening to his Pink Moon album, it is like he said everything I've been holding in for the past 5 years in a less than 30 minute, stripped down to the bare, masterpiece, and did I mention how superb this guy was on the guitar? I don't think I've ever heard anyone play so clear and beautifully and then sing on top of it with such an angelic voice that just completely takes my breath away. This passively disenchanted man to me, is as cool as it gets. I cant get enough. It's a shame that their is no live footage of him playing, perhaps that is what jades people from giving him the credit he deserves. By far my favorite solo guitarist ever.
3. Bille Joe Armstrong
This little ball of energy inspired me to seriously pick up the guitar for the first time in a long time and forget about how hard everyone was telling me it was to play period, let alone play and sing at the same time. I was watching the "Long View" video for whatever reason in 2010 and the sheer simplicity and ruggedness of the video and his lyrics coupled with his crazy faces and perpetual head rocking really got me excited as shit after a period when I was getting really sick of music's monotony. The flashiness and his everyday loner topics got me back to a more familiar/real place when it came to writing lyrics. Seeing something so rough come out of someone so small definitely invoked a resurgence in me. As a matter of fact, the first song I ever learned to sing and play in it's entirety was "Welcome To Paradise" and then "Holiday" shortly after. Although sometimes I find some of their newer music "assembly line" quality, I rarely hit next when a Green Day track comes on the shuffle. His voice, image, and whole attitude have made me a life long fan.
2. Kurt Cobain
I swear sometimes that he is singing about my life. Kurt Cobain was/is the epitome of a soul that just said "fuck it" i'm not going to be like you and I never really was. His whole attitude coupled with his ferocious music, which was like pure unfiltered emotion, gave me somebody to listen to whenever i felt like shit, which is always lol. The fact that he didn't really have a great singing voice, or couldn't really play the guitar that pretty were the main things that made me obsessed with him, his band and his death. This guy was contrary to everything, as I am, and seemed like such a benevolent soul who was just seeking happiness. Another thing about Kurt Cobain that changed the way I approached music forever was his writing. Never had lyrics caught my attention so much I guess because growing up as a hip hop/r&b/soul guy, the words those artist say usually tend to be extremely literal. Post listening to Nirvana, I started to attempt to say allot more with less in my songs, as I felt it was something truly worth emulating that gives the music a timeless quality. It's crazy, but I have a feeling I am just like this guy in allot of ways (minus the weird gay shit and being dead).
1. Deryck Whibley
Initially, before I even thought it was possible for me to strum some power chords and make a song, I was a huge fan of Sum 41 mostly due to their punky lead man and his shyness that I related to immensely. Thinking back, at about 12, I really didn't even understand something as simple as what instruments I was hearing, or what the hell he was even talking about 100%, but when I heard All Killer No Filler and saw the accompanying videos, I was ready to dress just like him, do the things he did, hell I even started trying to spike my hair (i had an afro!). One thing that always caught me about him, is that even though from the beginning his band got lumped in with jokesters like blink-182 and Good Charlotte, never once did I hear a song from Mr. Whibley that I thought was the slightest bit corny (which I sure as hell cant say about the latter). Even on their most commercial efforts, it seems like the topics that they cover are very universal with a serious tone and can apply to many things across the board. I remember "Rhythms" was my theme song for that summer and would always remind me of the way I was feeling about this one chick I had to move away from... but I digress. Deryck Whibley is the whole reason, in my mind, why I write the way I do when it comes to making music. Also, for the record, Dave's riff from "The Hell Song" is the first thing I ever learned to play on a guitar. Not to mention that they, as a group, have never put out an album I couldn't listen to the whole way through... Only artists, that I have everything they have ever recorded on my iPod. Sum 41 4 Life!
Far to often, upon celebrities passing, many of their accomplishments are pushed to the wayside and they are more so remembered for the nature of their death. Whether it be as a drug addict, a selfish suicidal, or just a neurotic who was going to die anyway, it has always disappointed me too continually have some of my favorite star's names soiled, because either the media and police were too lackadaisical to follow up or they had an incentive to not report it right in the first place. Here you have it, 10 celebrity deaths with the strong supporting evidence that the media either got it completely wrong, or wanted us to do the same.
10. Brian Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969)
Brian Jones, a founding member
of the world renowned Rolling Stones, was vastly influential in the groups
sound, choosing their name, getting them gigs and was praised by many as the
best musician they ever had exuding abilities on over 20 different instruments.
However after years of success, fame, and drug abuse, he slowly began to disconnect
from the other band members, unwilling to work, until he was kicked out of the
band in June 1969. Brian was found dead less than a month later at the bottom
of his pool.
Official Cause: On July 2-3rd,
1969, Brian Jones was found motionless at the bottom of his swimming pool by
girlfriend, Anna Wohlin. She had insisted that he was still alive, but it was
soon determined that he was dead on the scene. The official cause was “death by
misadventure,” and an enlarged liver and heart were also noted due to years of
drug abuse.
What Really Happened? In the
wake of his death, rumors immediately started swirling that the actual cause of
death was murder by, Frank Thorogood, the last man too have seen Jones alive.
It is implied in the 2005 dramatized biopic of Brian’s life, Stoned, that the motive behind the death
was miss payment and disrespect. In 2009, investigative journalist Scott Jones,
petitioned to get the case reopened, but was denied as the Sussex Police felt there
was not enough additional evidence.
09. Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
Marilyn Monroe, America’s first sex symbol, made a career in
the 50’s and 60’s out of modeling, film acting, singing and her associations
with very powerful men. Most noted for
her steamy relationship with then president, John F. Kennedy, Monroe made
dazzled men and woman alike across the country with her flowing blonde hair,
video girl like curves and ditzy faux pas until her untimely death in 1962.
Official Cause: OnAugust
5, 1962, at 4:25 am, a call was placed to the LAPD stating Marilyn
Monroe had been found dead at just 36 in her Los Angeles home. Upon performing
an autopsy, it was revealed that her body contained high contents of
prescription drugs, and the official cause of death was decided to be “acute barbiturate
poisoning” as a result of a “probable suicide”.
What Really Happened? Jack
Clemmons, the first LAPD officer on the scene, had believed that she had been
murdered upon first examination. The police said when they arrived, the maid,
Murray was washing sheets, and although the room was extremely clean where Marilyn
laid with a phone in hand, there were several empty pill bottles but no source
of water as the water in the house was turned off, interesting because Monroe
was known to gag on pills even when water was available. Upon later
investigation, a glass is found that police claim wasn’t initially there. Later
on, before leaving for Europe to never be questioned again, Murray would change
her story several times in questioning, similar to the doctors who initially
decided upon a time of death around 10:30-12am, who changed death time to 3AM.
Her body was found face down in a position indicating she had been moved after
death. There was also no evidence that she had ingested the drugs that had
killed her, for if she had, she would have been dead long before taking the
final dosage which was enough to kill 10 people.
08. Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 –August 16, 1977)
Often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll”, Elvis Presley,
was a vastly influential icon in his time, pioneering the merging of country,
blues, and pop music to popularize what would later be referred to broadly as
rock music. Also majorly responsible for exposing black culture to a captive
white audience, Elvis was far beyond his time. His death in 1977 marked one of
the greatest entertainment losses for many, and he would go on to sell near astounding billion record worldwide since then.
Official Cause: On August 16, 1967, Elvis was scheduled to
fly out of Memphis to begin on his next tour. He was found unconscious on his
bathroom floor later that afternoon, and pronounced dead at 3:30PM upon his
hospital arrival. 14 different drugs were found in his body, 10 of which had
any significance. This and his already enlarged heart were attributed to the
cause of his death, “sudden violent heart attack”.
What Really Happened? Many know of Elvis’s long time manager
Colonel Tom Parker, but few know that he was an international criminal employed
by the FBI to keep tabs on the ever influential Elvis Presley, who at the time
of his death had become obsessed with the JFK assassinations and would
feverishly analyze the tapes for hours on end attempting to find the evidence
that would indicate an inside job. Is it possible that they feared the all-powerful
Elvis questioning the government and getting his fans to do the same in the
wake of prepping to get back in the limelight? Not too unlikely.
07. Eazy E (September 7, 1963 – March 26, 1995)
Eric Wright, a Compton native, better known as Eazy-E was
solely responsible for popularizing gangster rap in the early 90’s as front man
and the financial hand behind his group N.W.A., which changed the landscape of
popular music as we know it. After a relatively short lived time at the top,
N.W.A. fell apart and Eazy was focusing on his solo career with plans of
working with the likes of Gun N Roses as well as his many new artists on his
Ruthless Records. However, it would not be so. Eazy E died in 1995.
Official Cause: On February 24th, 1995 Eazy was
admitted into the hospital with what was believed to be a bad case of asthma,
but turned out to be AIDS. Losing his virginity at the age of 12, and having 7
children by 6 different women since then, Eazy’s lifestyle finally caught up to
him. He announced his disease March 16, and was dead 10 days later at the age
of 31.
What Really Happened? Since his death, several people close
to Eazy including former group, Bone Thugs N Harmony members, his eldest son,
Lil Eazy, and then business rival Suge Knight have all indicated that there was
much more to Eazy’s death and that it was almost certainly a murder. Evidence
also points to foul play, when it is considered that none of his 7 kids, 6 baby
mothers, or any woman after the fact ever came out that they received the
disease from Eric. Suge Knight in a recent interview joked about how Eazy E was
actually injected with the disease during his final hospital visit. Bone Thugs
has also questioned the quickness of his death, stating they had never seen
anyone else die so fast from it. A motive if any, just the threat of an
independent black millionaire/business man who was capable of moving millions
of units of records, without the help of a big time label… Having too much
influence.
06. Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964)
Sam Cooke, singer and song writer, played a big role in the
1960’s in bringing popular black music to the forefront of American Radio. With
26 top 40 hits from 1957 through 1964, Cooke set the standard for R&B and
soul influencing any and everybody who came after him. In addition to being a
highly accomplished singer, composer and performer, Cooke towards the end of
his life also became a huge advocate of the Civil Rights Movement, alongside
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.
Official Cause: On December 11th, 1964, Sam Cooke
was at the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, entertaining a young lady in his room
which was infamously known to be a brothel of sorts. Apparently the lady who
had for some reason or another (according to her, impeding rape) had taken off
with Cooke’s clothes and bolted out of the room leaving him in his drawers. He
chased out but could not find her. Convinced that the owner of the motel was
hiding her, he aggressively pursued her despite saying she was not. The hotel
owner feared for her life and shot Cooke, 33, to death in self-defense.
What Really Happened? As most know, the Hacienda Motel at
the time was a very seedy locale known for its part in the solicitation on
young ladies. Many inconsistencies in the stories of the girl and the motel
owner have arisen since Cooke’s untimely death, but many figure that it was a collaboration
between the two to rob Cooke, known for being boastfully flashy, who had at the
$1000 on him that was never recovered. Sam Cooke’s erratic behavior, inebriation
and the two testimonies where enough however to leave the case closed for good.
05. John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)
One half of the world’s most successful songwriting duo and
member of the world’s best-selling musical act of all time, The Beatles, John
Lennon was a living legend in his time and a very out spoken activist in his
own right. He had been out of the spotlight for nearly a decade when he decided
to make a comeback in the early eighties alongside wife Yoko. Unfortunately, it
would not be so. John Lennon was murdered at the end of 1980.
Official Cause: Beatles fanatic and criminal Mark David
Chapman had long been plotting to take out John Lennon for three months prior,
spending much of his time listening to “Helter Skelter,” the record said to be
behind the Manson killings, by The Beatles and succumbing demons in his head
telling him to kill Lennon and end the peace movement of the 60’s and 70’s once
and for all. On December 8th, he waited outside Lennon’s apartment
and upon seeing him and Yoko returning around 10:50PM he shot Lennon four times
in the back. He was pronounced dead upon arrival for inflicted gunshots wounds.
Chapman was found on the scene reading The
Catcher in the Rye when police arrived to arrest him.
What Really Happened? Military agent and criminal Mark David
Chapman had been sent to Hawaii on special assignment by the FBI for three
months to be brainwashed into killing John Lennon to end the peace agenda once
and for all. He was repeatedly exposed to “Helter Skelter,” and suggested ideas
about Lennon’s real plan and how he must be stopped. Lennon had been quite for some
time after a public battle with Regan and immigration that he had finally won,
due to his stature as a threat to national security in speaking against war. He
was gearing to make his return to the mainstream as his new album was receiving
praise as if he had never left. After Chapman had shot, he did not recall
pulling the trigger or other crucial details involved and practiced extremely
neurotic behavior reading The Catcher in
the Rye, waiting to be arrested, fairly conclusive evidence indicating a
typical Manchurian Candidate.
04. Jim Morrison(December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)
Best remembered for his wild antics and stream of consciousness
style of lyricism with The Doors in the 60’s, Jim Morrison is one of the most iconized
figures of the time with an attitude that stuck with many rock stars who would
come after him. A profound poet, with an aloofness that made him seem all but
loopy, Morrison lead most of his life misunderstood and being judged for the
worst by the media until his move to France with his girlfriend, where he would
die that same year.
Official Cause: On July 3rd, 1971 at 27, Pam
Courson, Jim’s girlfriend, had said he had complained to her prior about being
unwell after they had been drinking and doing heroin together and was coughing
and vomiting blood. Morrison drew a bath, and assuming he was doing better Pam
went to sleep. She awoke to find a dead Morrison in the tub. They performed no
autopsy due to finding no evidence of foul play.
What Really Happened? In July 2007, Sam Bernett, former bar
owner for a spot Jim Morrison frequented in France, came forward about what
really happened to his buddy Jim. It appears that on the night of Jim’s death,
he had been hanging around the bar waiting to score some heroin for his
girlfriend. Upon receiving the package, Jim who didn't use needles, figured he
would sample some of the powder through inhalation. He took the package into
the bathroom stall, and this was the last time he would be seen alive. The
owner of the bar went into the bathroom after; Morrison had taken a longer than normal time. He saw a familiar pair of boots which belonged to Jim and kicked
open the door. He saw him sitting their unconscious and went to get a doctor who
also frequented the bar. Jim Morrison was pronounced dead on the scene by the doctor;
however, the two dealers presumably fearing being responsible for such a high
profile death, would return to the bar and grab him out of the stall proclaiming
he was still alive. Pam Courson and the original reporting doctor were both
dead within years following Morrison’s accidental overdose. Click Here For Official Story
03. Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994)
The spokesperson for Generation X and the reason the 90s weren’t
as pretty as the decade before, Kurt Cobain was a hero to many who just didn’t give
a fuck about being a part of the vein country the United States had become. He
exchanged pretty 5 minute solos and shiny suits, for sporadic 20 second
feedback forays and ripped sweaters, encouraging a whole nation wear used
clothes brand new. The inventor of grunge wouldn’t however get to enjoy the full
swing of his impact as he took his own life less than three years after gaining
his mass celebrity.
Official Cause: On April 8th, 1994, Kurt Cobain
was found dead in his Seattle home with a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the
head, ending the grunge movement that the 90’s had so openly embraced. After
just having escaped a rehab clinic and being reported on the lamb by wife
Courtney Love, he was discovered in his green house where he had been lying
dead for days, overlooked by the private investigator that Courtney had hired
to find him the day before. He had written a suicide note, detailing how he was
sorry he couldn’t handle the pressure and it was also found that he had a
lethal dose of heroin in his system.
What Really Happened? The same private investigator Courtney
Love had hired, Tom Grant, after discovering Kurt Cobain had committed suicide
decided to dedicate his whole career from that point on too proving he was
actually killed. Although he eventually ruined his career in doing so, he had
compelling evidence including the following. He questioned how Kurt Cobain
could have even picked up a gun to shoot himself in the head when he had so
much heroin in his system that he would have died instantly. In addition, the suicide
note was partially forged and the finger prints on the gun were smudged out of
recognition, all hard tasks for someone who was already dead too partake in. Also
he has presented telephone recordings that indicate Kurt & Courtney were
planning a divorce, and Courtney was feverishly trying to see to it that she
got a share of his fortune, revealing that she had already spent some of his money on her new lover Billy Corgan. In the most compelling piece of
evidence, one man, El Duce, came forward stating that Courtney had offered him
money to take out Kurt not to long before he “committed suicide” and even passed a lie detector test on the incident. Within a week
of making a documented testimony and saying he knew the real killer, Allen Wrench, but to "Let the FBI catch him", two days late he was
found dead on train tracks not far from his house. This was never investigated
and ruled an accident. A whole documentary called Kurt & Courtney was done on the topic.
02. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942–
September 18, 1970)
The greatest guitar player of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a
messiah for music and pushed it too places it had never dreamt of going before
his time of nurturing. A quite and gentle man from the city of Seattle, who was
able to transcend genre and racial boundaries and just make good music, was unfortunately
not able to accomplish even a fraction of the things he had envisioned in his
mind. A true vessel for the spirit of music and an embodiment for the civil
rights movement of the 60’s, Hendrix only truly enjoyed less than 5 years of
acclaim before he succumbed to drugs in 1970.
Official Cause: After leaving a party with girlfriend,
Monika Dannemann, Jimi Hendrix unbeknownst to her had taken 9 of her sleeping
pills, unaware of the strength of that brand. Worried as he became increasingly
sicker, Monika called the ambulance around 11:00AM where they came and took her
and Hendrix to the hospital where he was still alive around 11:30AM. Upon
arriving they pronounced him dead from asphyxiation on vomit. The word suicide was
even thrown around by the media as an official and accepted explanation.
What Really Happened? The police arrived at the flat at
11:27AM where Jimi Hendrix was alone, fully clothed and had been dead for
hours. Upon taking him to the hospital they reported he died of asphyxiation on
vomit. Interestingly enough, in 1992, the original diagnosing doctor, John
Bannister, came forward and added the bit about red wine that had been left out
of all accounts prior. Apparently Jimi Hendrix’s whole entire air passage was
filled with copious amounts of red wine, yet there was no alcohol in Hendrix’s
blood content. Monika committed suicide in 1996 in a court related manner to the
same trial after being held in contempt for libel against Jimi’s prior
girlfriend. Former roadie for The Animals went as far as accusing Jimi’s former
manager, Mike Jeffrey, saying he had confessed to having him killed to cash in
on an insurance policy since he was about to terminate their contract together.
Despite who it was who did the deed; it has become quite obvious that Hendrix
was in fact killed.
01 Tupac Shakur(June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996)
Tupac Shakur, a man who was truly larger than life when he
was alive and even more so today. Known most for his frequent troubles with the
law and the vast amount of material he provided for the media to report on, the
loud mouthed advocate of thug life, gave a voice to the have not’s in not only America
but around the world. The son of a black panther, Pac filled each and every
song and message with passion and drive that made it relevant whether he was
wrong or right. It would prove to be however this same tenacity that got him
his worldwide fame would also prove to be the same reason he was slain in 1996.
Official Cause: On September 7th, 1996, after attending
a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Tupac and crew got into a verbal altercation with gang member Orlando
Anderson, whom with Pac had already been beefing with prior. Needless to say,
the verbal altercation soon turned physical and Orlando being outnumbered got
the worst of it, as he was stomped out by the whole death row crew in front of
thousands of passerby’s in the lobby of the casino. Upon leaving, Pac and Suge
where in their car stopped at red light when a Cadillac pulled up next to them
firing shots and fatally wounding 2Pac who would go on to die at the hospital 7
days later.
What Really Happened? With literally thousands of conspiracy
theories surround what really happened to Pac that night among the most
compelling are as follows. On the night of the shooting, Tupac was told not to
wear his bullet proof vest, and his security team was ordered to disarm and
reassigned leaving Pac with only one bodyguard. Upon getting shot, police
surrounded the car that contained Suge and Tupac (Suge Knight apparently never
drove except on this night) and detained them as Pac and Suge bled out from
their suffered gunshot wounds. These topics and more are covered in the Tupac: Assassination documentary
produced by Frank Alexander, the one guard present with Tupac on that fateful
night. The motive is said to be the over $100 million in royalties Suge was
said to have owed Death Row artist including Pac, and that Shakur was just
about ready to call it quits on them. According to Alexander, it was all
orchestrated by then head of security, Reggie Wright, who since then has been
cleared of any involvement. So much misinformation however has been spread
about this incident, it’s hard to imagine we will ever get the full truth or
anything even remotely near it.
Honorable Mentions:
Donny Hathaway: Exuded extremely neurotic behavior at a recording session exclaiming white people were out to get him. The session was cancelled and he was sent home. He was found the next day dead on the pavement outside of his window, which he had purportedly committed suicide out of.
Whitney Houston: In a hotel where Clive Davis's Grammy Party is located, she drowns in her bathtub the floor under while party is on going. Upon examination a small puncture wound is found on her buttocks. No foul play?
Bobby Fuller: Scored a hit record with "I Fought The Law," moved out to L.A. and within weeks he was found dead in his car outside of his home. His body was doused in gasoline and was bruised. Police suspected no foul play.
Buddy Holly: Probably not foul play, but if you ever have heard how unlikely it is too die in a plane crash, then why have so many high profile celebrities died in this manner since the 50's? Food for thought.
Imagine if everything you thought about Tupac's death was completely wrong, and the man whom everyone would never even thought to expect was now at the forefront of suspects responsible for slaughtering one of the greatest icons of our time.
Now this is just for kicks but just imagine... It's not that unlikely a scenario. I mean I've seen men do crazier stuff over a female (Jada Pinkett), and not only that but Mike Tyson beat that nigga Will's ass just to add to the motive.
Anybody remember Willow's (Will & Jada's daughter) strange letter to the missing Tupac?
Here is the story, I didn't write this by the way, but this is one that the revisionist aren't gonna like.
I present too you the "Will Smith Hired Tupac's Killer Theory":
Tupac Shakur, born in
New York City in 1971, grew up to be widely noted as the greatest rapper in the
history of the game. His death came prematurely, at the age of 25, in a very
violent fashion. Speculation continues about the identity of the true killer,
but recently leaked government papers suggest that there is little doubt as to
who had the killing carried out.
Tupac spent his adolescent years in various
locales, from New York, to Oakland, to Marin City, to Baltimore. Though he
lived with his single mother in abject poverty, his mother scraped and saved
enough money for her son to attend a relatively upper-crust arts school in
Baltimore. It was there that Tupac met a woman with whom he developed an
extraordinarily strong kinship. In various interviews and documentaries, Tupac
remarks repeatedly and enthusiastically on their powerful and transcendental
relationship. This woman was Jada Pinkett, the woman who would go on to be the
wife of celebrity wannabe Will Smith.
In the early 90s, Will Smith was in the midst of a
career that seemed destined to rank among the shittiest in the industry. He had
started off by referring to himself with the rather undeservedly regal title
'the Fresh Prince.' An obnoxious smartass rapper, Will Smith's juvenile anthems
against authoritarianism went on to be rallying cries for 12 year old white
suburbanites across the country, and indeed across the world. In fact, his song
"Parents Just Don't Understand" was being pumped from the intercom
during the grisly assassination of Weird Al Yankovic at a Houston night club in
1993. Accordingly, it didn't take long for the FBI to open what would
eventually become a rather large file on Mr. Smith. His dossier, which is now
reported to be over 3,500 pages in length, contains plenty of revealing and
sensitive information about Smith, and is said to include photographs of his
atrophied genitalia.
By the mid-1990s, Will Smith's career was beginning
to falter. His subpar rapping style was dismissed by fans and critics alike,
and nobody wanted to hear his self-congratulatory remarks anymore. Will Smith,
it seemed, was an ugly, egotistical, washed-up has-been. And while Smith was
only a "prince," Tupac, was being hailed as rap's new king. Tupac's
sales figures were huge, and he was loved by audiences, critics, and the mass
media. He seemed unstoppable. But then, in September 1996, Tupac was gunned
down in Las Vegas after leaving a sold-out Mike Tyson boxing match that
culminated in Tyson gouging the eyes out of a man in the front row after the
match.
Immediately after Tupac's death, rumors began to
circulate about who was responsible for the killing. While most fingers were
pointed at Biggie Smalls' crew at Bad Boy Records, and at Death Row head honcho
Suge Knight, hardly anyone even considered the idea that it was a deed ordered
by the jealous and power-hungry Will Smith. Smith, it turns out, was seeking
the affections of Ms. Jada Pinkett, Tupac's best friend from Baltimore.
Jada Pinkett was everything a man like Will Smith
could ask for; she was smart, talented, beautiful, and full of integrity--
everything Will Smith wasn't.
Will was a talentless, self-absorbed slob with an
embarrassing teeny-bopper rap career shadowing him, while Tupac was a rich,
charismatic rapper with genuine talent, an affable personality, and
down-to-earth grace and charm. As long as this was what he had to contend with,
Will Smith knew he had no chance with Jada. Jada and Tupac's relationship went
too far; it was too deep, there was too much shared experience, and too much
mutual respect and affection.
It was in the summer of 1996 when Will Smith began
speaking with a man FBI files only refer to as Shock-Z to plot and plan the
assassination of Tupac Shakur. It is generally acknowledged that Shock-Z was in
reality Walter Henderson, a Las Vegas drug dealer with a 12 page rap sheet and
gunshot scars to match. In his meetings with Shock-Z at various seedy
restaurants, strip clubs, and award presentations, Will Smith began to carve
out a plan to make sure that his archenemy Tupac would never get in the way of
him edging his way into the life of Jada Pinkett.
Knowing that Tupac was a good friend of Mike
Tyson, and knowing that the Tyson match was a highly-anticipated and
highly-hyped event, he knew that Tupac would be in Las Vegas on the night of
September 7, 1996. Away from his usual entourage and familiar settings, Tupac
would have no escape from a cold-blooded assassin.
But more than for any other reason, Smith chose
the Tyson fight due to his ongoing feud with the celebrity rapist. It began
innocently enough, on Will Smith's album And in This Corner, which featured a
single entitled "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson." The song's
egotistical bent was nothing unusual in Smith's catalog, and he rather
pathetically rapped about how he could "whoop" Tyson. Unfortunately
for him, Mike Tyson wasn't behind bars yet, and was instead sitting at home in
his opulent $6.5 million mansion in Catskills, NY, watching MTV and lifting
400lb barbells when the video for the song aired. Tyson, seeing Smith's call to
arms, decided that he would show Will Smith a little piece of 'Kid Dynamite.'
When Smith was filming the video for the song "Too Damn Hype," Tyson
lept out from a studio trailer and beat the living shit out of Smith, breaking
his jaw in two places, and permanently damaging one eye. One stagehand remarked
at the time that the altercation reminded him of "that one scene in the
Temple of Doom." Although all charges were eventually dropped against
Tyson, Smith held a grudge; one that he wouldn't have the guts to take out on
Tyson, but would rather circuitously take out on his good friend Tupac Shakur.
According to top-secret FBI files on Will Smith
that were leaked, Shock-Z handed the job of carrying out the killing to a man
named Wallace West. West was already wanted by the Nevada State Highway Patrol
for having a broken rear left blinker, and was under investigation by the
Nevada DMV for failure to register his car.
Two weeks before the Tyson fight, West walked into
Walker's Gun Shop, a firearms store in Victorville, CA and purchased a .40
caliber Glock pistol and 600 rounds of ammunition. A dated receipt from the
shop shows that West spent $392.94, nearly a $50 discount from the
manufacturer's suggested retail price. Marginalia on the receipt indicates that
a discount coupon from LA Weekly offering 10% off was used.
After leaving the gun shop, West drove to Las
Vegas, where he holed up in the Las Vegas Luxor for the next 12 days,
reportedly subjecting himself to copious amounts of crystal meth. Hotel
employees later said that he spent 11 straight days in the casino, a feat not
uncommon in the gambling mecca. On the night of the shooting, West emerged from
the hotel and got in a black 1992 Chevy Cavalier, parked 10 minutes away from
the Las Vegas strip. Will Smith's connection, Shock-Z, was in the driver's
seat.
After the fight, West (the shooter) and Shock-Z
(the driver) carefully shadowed Tupac and Suge Knight, who were leaving the
venue together. At an opportune moment at a stoplight, when Tupac was talking
to two unidentified women, he opened fire, laying 13 rounds into the car.
Shock-Z hit a right turn and sped off into the Las Vegas night.
Also in Las Vegas that night was a certain Will
Smith. Smith told the Las Vegas Police Department that he was staking out some
rental properties on the east side of town, in the hopes that he would be able
to lease them out, but the Las Vegas Police Department has released information
suggesting that Will Smith hardly had enough money in his bank account to even
buy a vibrating armchair from the Sharper Image catalog, much less apartment
complexes in a thriving metropolis.
Furthermore, it was discovered that Will Smith had
transferred over $600,000 in unsold He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper CDs to a Swiss
record store, who then transferred the smuggled goods to stores in Indonesia
and Saudi Arabia. The assets were frozen by Indonesian authorities pending an
investigation of possible illegal misconduct. Just about when the FBI was about
to close in on Smith's laundering scheme, the political thriller Independence
Day starring Will Smith hit theaters. Though legitimate movie critics correctly
assessed that "ID4", as it was commonly known, was a piece of fucking
shit, the public loved it. Suddenly Will Smith was cock of the walk, though
most people who knew him acknowledged that he was just a cock.
Facing public outcry from Smith's new audience,
the LVPD, in conjunction with the FBI, ceased the investigation of the Tupac
assassination and did not even file charges against Will Smith, who they had
plenty of evidence planned the killing. In an affadavit signed January 10,
1996, LVPD Commissioner Randall Stewart claimed that all paperwork involved in
the Tupac case had been "misplaced" and the investigation had reached
a dead end. Two days later, the LVPD headquarters received 5,000 free copies of
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's "Summertime" CD single.
As a pioneer of rock and roll and key inspiration of arguably the most influential groups of all time, it is easy to see why Buddy Holly is so revered even in modern times. Although he would succumb to an early death after a tragic plane crash, it is evident that Mr Holly is one of the most inspirational performers of all time being among the first to receive acute attention from the FBI due too the power of his music.
I have not escaped his clutches either. I present to you
I encourage you to check out the original version too, it stood the test of time extremely well.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Check out my interview at Skope Magazine. They say I am here to revive hip hop! I respectfully accept this pressure lol. Great read
