Aspiring rap star shoot friends as a sacrifice to the Illuminati

[bigwon]

A mystical organization that's powerful enough to run the world....shooting weed bro in the head....You'd think he would've tried something more ambitious if he was crazy enough to believe in all of that junk.

I mean obviously the guy wasn't in a rational state, but still....call me curious....

 

[game-lover]

Hm... everything I kept hearing about the Illuminati had something to do with being related to Satan in some way. This is a first for me to hear it not necessarily related to anything religious.

Anyway, this guy is full of issues. Hope he gets some help after proper punishment first.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

How does someone smoke so much pot that they forget an entire month of their lives? Oh yeah, that Illuminati stuff is crazy. Though if I remember carefully many rappers have actually been playing into the jokes that they are part of the Illuminati and incorporating fake secret messages in their videos.

 

[Something Amyss]

I read an interesting book called Music, The Brain, And Ecstacy, by Robert Jourdain, that dealt with some of that stuff. While I'm not very paranoid, I can understand how some people can be when you realize how close to mind-control some of it is. I'm still convinced that Star Wars prequel defenders are just stuck under the hypnotic spell of the masterful John Williams, because all shittiness aside, the score still rocked. At least that's what I tell myself.

I blame it on Stockholm Syndrome, myself.

Is that CGAF? You can put them in any order for basically the same effect, really. I've always just called it "the Dammit arrangement". lol

Well, it's that progression (Root, fifth, a usually minor sixth and a fourth). I'm not sure it has the same effect in another order, as I tried playing them sequentially and it sounds bad.

It's funny, though, how far back it goes.


What's scary my crappy cover is high on the list when you search for that song. What's even scarier is that almost all my comments and emails are "what are the chords?" Which I learned from this guy:


It's amazing how often it shows up in the key of C, but my point is that it's more the progression. You can transpose it, like this:


(Barbara Keith again. This one's in D)


(The Cars, in E, which is another common one because of guitar tuning)

Both of those only use it for part of the song, but hopefully they illustrate my point.

Oh, I just remembered an actual modern pop example.


I think this one's in F.

But yeah, it's more the arrangement than the chords themselves.

 

[McMullen]

Um. Okay. Can someone explain what the fuck these people are suppose to be? Because I see youtube comments all the time accusing everyone from Jay Z to Usher as being a member of this thing.

Here, I'll explain the Illuminati to you:

They are a secret society (Or a group of Secret Societies), founded around the Enlightenment era in Bavaria (Southern Germany). They were pretty much the most liberal group in Europe at the time: Believing in Women's Equality and Education, opposing Superstition, Religious influence in government and Prejudice. They were also against abuses caused by those who were in power. Around the time of the French Revolution/French Wars, they were officially disbanded, but they were able to survive and regroup in America. Some symbols the Illuminati used were adopted by the American Government (The Pyramid with the Eye in the top), but none of the Founding Fathers themselves were Illuminati (Most were in another Secret Society, the Free Masons, which is another discussion entirely).

Even though the original Illuminati died, because of all the new Illuminati organizations that claim to be descendants of the original Illuminati, and because some people believe the original Illuminati didn't die, there are people who believe the Illuminati is an underground government trying to form the New World Government, dictated by their principles. People believe that the Illuminati are an insanely powerful group that has caused Revolutions, Communist Uprisings, Political Assassinations and Political and Cultural Infiltration (An Example: Every President America has elected in the Modern Day is somehow an Illuminati, even if they have no possible connection with them). It's completely paranoid and ridiculous.

OT: This guy is crazy, and needs some serious mental help.

Well, from the description of their ideals, we can at least be certain they have little influence in the US. Too bad.

 

[Phuctifyno]

Well, it's that progression (Root, fifth, a usually minor sixth and a fourth). I'm not sure it has the same effect in another order, as I tried playing them sequentially and it sounds bad.

Well, not literally any order, but a few variations.

all those vids

Bingo. That's the one.


For the record, I didn't know this video existed prior to now, but I just searched "pop chords" on Youtube because I figured somebody must have done something like this by now. Low and behold:

 

[Something Amyss]

For the record, I didn't know this video existed prior to now, but I just searched "pop chords" on Youtube because I figured somebody must have done something like this by now. Low and behold:

Yeah, I was annoying friends by doing this before there even was a Youtube. Sort of makes me wish I had thought to make a video of it before this or Rob Paravonian (same idea, different chord progression) did it. Seems obvious after the fact.

Paravonian's video:


Couldn't have told you what Dammit's chords were, because I've tried to avoid Blink 182 like the plague.

 

[adamsaccount]

As a stoner with a triangle eye tattoo this worries me.

 

[Pawkeshup]

Well I guess you could say it was a job to DIE for... Or that the rapper was trying to start making a killing....

Oh God, I'm a horrible person.

Well, the industry is a bit of a slaughter house...
So i guess someone has to bite the bullet...

[sub]We're both going to hell but at least we enjoyed the ride.[/sub]

It seems rap isn't his kind of thing, maybe he should go into Death Metal?

He could also go into a bit of rock, maybe do something like The Killers.

Or even branch out into Death Rock? With dedication like his, there's nothing in Heaven or Hell that could stop him.

This is what happens when you get your brain from the Thrift Shop

Well, if he had succeeded, he would have gotten to number 1 with a bullet. But as it stands now, it looks like his career is shot. I would keep going, but some of these jokes are off target, and I'd hate to start firing blanks.

 

[krazykidd]

Well at least now he has some street cred .... Too soon?

Also someone tell this guy he's doing it wrong . He's not suppose to shoot people , he's suppose to get shot . Kinda like 50 cent . 50 cent wouldn't have been worth 25 cents if he didn't get shot.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

...
So i guess someone has to bite the bullet...

[sub]We're both going to hell but at least we enjoyed the ride.[/sub]

It seems rap isn't his kind of thing, maybe he should go into Death Metal?

It's not as funny when you draw attention to the pun. Or do you assume people are too thick to get it? /disgruntled_moaning

OT: Just a shame he didn't sacrifice himself. I'm sure there's something dodgy going on behind the scenes in the music industry, but the illuminati seems a bit of a stretch. It's all Dan Brown's fault.

 

[TrulyBritish]

It seems rap isn't his kind of thing, maybe he should go into Death Metal?

It's not as funny when you draw attention to the pun. Or do you assume people are too thick to get it? /disgruntled_moaning

OT: Just a shame he didn't sacrifice himself. I'm sure there's something dodgy going on behind the scenes in the music industry, but the illuminati seems a bit of a stretch. It's all Dan Brown's fault.

That's the point, they're bad puns. It's like when you make the set up, do that ridiculous pause then say the pun in an over exaggerated manner (possibly followed by wearing sunglasses and yelling "YEEEEAAAAHHH!" afterwards. They're supposed to make you groan.
Isn't the rapper actually dead though? I thought someone pointed out that he shot his friend, but the friend survived and shot him back? Maybe I'm wrong though... As for Dan Brown, I don't think he's the only person to blame the illuminati Actually, doesn't he just blame the church in all his books?

 

[Techno Squidgy]

It seems rap isn't his kind of thing, maybe he should go into Death Metal?

It's not as funny when you draw attention to the pun. Or do you assume people are too thick to get it? /disgruntled_moaning

OT: Just a shame he didn't sacrifice himself. I'm sure there's something dodgy going on behind the scenes in the music industry, but the illuminati seems a bit of a stretch. It's all Dan Brown's fault.

That's the point, they're bad puns. It's like when you make the set up, do that ridiculous pause then say the pun in an over exaggerated manner (possibly followed by wearing sunglasses and yelling "YEEEEAAAAHHH!" afterwards. They're supposed to make you groan.
Isn't the rapper actually dead though? I thought someone pointed out that he shot his friend, but the friend survived and shot him back? Maybe I'm wrong though... As for Dan Brown, I don't think he's the only person to blame the illuminati Actually, doesn't he just blame the church in all his books?

I blame Dan Brown for drawing the idea of the illuminati into popular culture, it may not actually be his fault, but I'm going to blame him anyway.

Regarding the puns, maybe I'm just a grouch, but I find it completely kills the delivery. Then again, comedy is subjective!

 

[Heronblade]

Um. Okay. Can someone explain what the fuck these people are suppose to be? Because I see youtube comments all the time accusing everyone from Jay Z to Usher as being a member of this thing.

The Illuminati of historical record was a late 18th century political group in Bavaria that attempted to overthrow the local government. They were inspired by and held to the same ideals used by the founders of the USA, who were in the middle of their revolution at the time the Illuminati were founded.

Unlike the US revolution however, the Bavarian Illuminati were decimated. Less than nine years after its founding, every single member was either arrested, dead, or in hiding. Thus ends the TRUE tale of the Illuminati.

Where it gets starts to get weird is about 20 years after this event. A fiction writer writes a book claiming that the movement is still active, and somehow have gone from being beaten underdogs to masters of manipulation embedded in various positions of power. For some inexplicable reason, people believe him, and the legend has been annoyingly impossible to get rid of since.

These days, the Illuminati are basically synonymous with government conspiracies. For every shady story about some nebulous THEM f***ing with the lives of the people, from mind control additives in the water to maliciously increased monetary inflation, there is at least one version of it with the Illuminati blamed for everything.

Personally, I find it bitterly ironic that the tales concerning the Illuminati involve them doing things the actual people who were involved would have fought tooth and nail against.

 

[Lord Penney]

Some symbols the Illuminati used were adopted by the American Government (The Pyramid with the Eye in the top), but none of the Founding Fathers themselves were Illuminati (Most were in another Secret Society, the Free Masons, which is another discussion entirely).

Just for future reference; the pyramid with the eye is not an illuminati symbol, it is a free masons one.

OT: Weird, I just had someone telling me the other day about the illuminati controlling hip hop. I imagine then to be all gangster and shit.

 

[TrulyBritish]

That's the point, they're bad puns. It's like when you make the set up, do that ridiculous pause then say the pun in an over exaggerated manner (possibly followed by wearing sunglasses and yelling "YEEEEAAAAHHH!" afterwards. They're supposed to make you groan.
Isn't the rapper actually dead though? I thought someone pointed out that he shot his friend, but the friend survived and shot him back? Maybe I'm wrong though... As for Dan Brown, I don't think he's the only person to blame the illuminati Actually, doesn't he just blame the church in all his books?

I blame Dan Brown for drawing the idea of the illuminati into popular culture, it may not actually be his fault, but I'm going to blame him anyway.

Regarding the puns, maybe I'm just a grouch, but I find it completely kills the delivery. Then again, comedy is subjective!

Well next time I do puns, I'll avoid the emphasis just for you (I'm still alllowed to go "YEEAAAHHH!" after the pun though, right?)
As for the Dan Brown, I blame him for a lot of things but I prefer to blame people who think they're somehow clever enough to uncover this vast conspiracy. Like We would ever give ourselves away so easily...