Illuminati in Hip Hop: It is Not What You Think

There has been a lot of talk on Illuminati in Hip Hop which has become a very controversial topic in the last 3 years or so. I have written this article to give my own opinion on the matter, and sort of lay down my findings so that you can have a new view on the matter. Before I go on, I would like to let you know that this is going to be far from what you have been reading about, or what your heart strongly longs for. What I am trying to say is that, my write up is not going to be one-sided; I really just want to lay everything down on the table, and let you make your decision. And at this point, I would like to introduce myself; my name is Kayode Olumide Odusanya, and I live in a very remote part of Lagos state in Nigeria. Walk with me.

First, I would like to educate you on the history of the Illuminati. The Illuminati, formed sometime in the early last millennium was made up of a bunch of scientist, writers, painters that were involved in enlightening the masses; educating the world on the powers of man's mind, and the truth about the world (both physical and spiritual). And sometime around the 15th and 16th century, the church started hunting them down and killing them one by one. Christianity was the dominant religion at the time, and anybody believing anything contrary to that, or educating the people on the powers of the mind, was termed a heretic and burnt at the stake. Heretic by the way is gotten from a Greek word which means “different”. I would like to state here that you have google as your tool to check the authenticity of any of my claims.

Galileo, a scientist, and an enlightened fellow, had to be transported to France to publish his theory on the Sphericity of the earth. At that time, the world was controlled by the Roman Empire (which also was the home of the church) and they believed the earth was flat. As I said earlier, the church at that time did not entertain any individual going contrary to its beliefs and teachings. I do not want to dwell too much on this issue; it is very controversial and a hard pill for a lot to swallow. I just wanted to get a message across, and I have achieved that.

The Illuminati, at least before the lot of them were wiped out, were a bunch of everyday scientist and artist that believed in enlightenment; they were not a bunch of devil worshipers. If you want to use the term “free thinkers”, that would go just right. But if you want to believe all the videos you have been watching on youtube, then you can say Tai Solanrin (A Nigerian Visionary) was a devil worshiper, you can say Zack Efron is a devil worshiper, you can say Julian Moore is a devil worshiper, or Fela, or Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Warren Buffet, Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Bruce Lee, George Clooney, Bruce Willis...the list is endless. All the people I have mentioned are free thinkers; they do not belong to any religion, but it does not mean they worship the devil. Do you know one more thing? All the people I mentioned are the ones that have made the world a better place; whether through entertainment, fighting for the rights of the people, development, medical breakthrough, inventions…and the list goes on.

I want you to stop and think for a second; forget everything you have always known and have been told, and just think independently. What does the fact I have just brought to your knowing mean to you? What can you make of it? These are facts and not fallacy. You can check up on any name I have mentioned for what I claim about them. So, as I ask, what is really happening in this world? Nothing; they are not devil worshipers, they have just been able to think beyond religion and find God. And when you have a personal relationship with God within you, you would know no bounds. Personally, I am a Christian, but I do not hold any pastor as God; I relate with the father within on a consistent basis. They know one thing; God is in all of us, regardless of your religion.

Not to get lost in all the religion talk, I would like to come back to the basis of this article, which is trying to clarify issues of whether or not there are Illuminati activities present in Hip Hop. People believe all the successful artists in hip hop are devil worshipers- Jay-Z, Kanye West, Drake and Rick Ross are some that are regularly mentioned. I told a couple of people about Don Jazzy and D banj (Nigerian artists) getting signed to Kanye’s G.O.O.D Music label and all these people could make out of it was that they had joined the Illuminati. What an absurd suggestion; their hard work and believe in their abilities got them there, and nothing else.  The Universal Laws worked for Kanye, Drake, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and whoever might be mentioned as an Illuminati member.  But, as Nas said on his Hate Me Now song- “people fear what they don't understand”.

Back in 2009, when this whole issue about Illuminati in music started popping up, my friend and I decided to write a book on it. We found out that people like controversy, and would believe anything. The majority of people are attracted to anything that has mystery written all over it; they like to believe there is this evil force somewhere. So, after we agreed on it, I went to work and started researching. Of course, at that point I was on the fence, not really believing in the stories, or that they were lies. My friend on the other hand believed they were stories based on people's ignorance. So, my open-mindedness led me to a series of researches that have spanned 2 years. I must say it has been a very interesting 2 years, and when I look back, I laugh at the things I would easily believe back then.

I have to say that the videos on youtube are pretty convincing, but as my friend always says- “You will always find what you are looking for, and you can make people believe whatever you want them to believe as long as their focus is on that thing.” During my study, I researched the illuminati; I researched principles of success; characteristics of the greatest men in world history; religion and the power of the mind. Because this article is on illuminati in hip hop, I would focus on just that. I would like to give you a little detail on the most targeted individual when it comes to all these illuminati talk- Jay-z. An old rapper from the late 80s called Jaz-O, who mentored Jay-Z in the early stages of his career (his late teens), had some not so nice things to say about jay-z in a recent interview. They had a falling out sometime in the early 00s, so it was not a surprise. But when this man, Jaz-O, was asked if he thought Jay-Z was a member of the Illuminati, he just laughed and said he didn't think so. He said he believed jay was just a puppet fro the real perpetrators.

Not to use too much time on jay, I would like, if you had time, go and watch the biography of jay-z on youtube. There you would see how he had one purpose, to be the greatest rapper, and he followed that one dream through all the hard times. From 1987, when he was just 18, to 1996, when the world finally got to know him; he stuck with just one goal. If you know about the power of definiteness of purpose, you wouldn't believe all these stories you hear around. This is just to erase the belief in a lot people's mind's which associate any big success with darkness.

To end, do I believe there is an illuminati movement in hip hop? No, I don't; but I do believe there are people in the upper echelon of the music industry (not just hip hop) who have a mission of keeping the majority of people dumb. And this people are not just in the music industry, they are everywhere. Well, you can call them whatever name you want…I don't know what name to give them, but their idea and believe is that as long as they can keep people from thinking for themselves, they would forever keep them ignorant of their own individual powers. The Supreme Being would communicate faster and easier with a “still” mind than one that never has time to think. No time to think because of all the games, ipods, dvd’s, BlackBerry’s and other toys he has that are taken his time. And also, the ton of work he has to do, that doesn't even allow him an hour each day to reflect on where he wants to be, and how to get there. And the last ingredient- “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”. You think about what you see, hear and talk about- and who controls that? Through the kind of music that gets played on radio, the kind of movies that get out there, and the million upon million violent games you get to play.

To end this, I would say, the majority of the people are looking in the wrong places. From my earlier definition of Illuminati, you would know, if they still exist, they can't be the ones responsible for all these allegations because they believe in the exact opposite of all these accusations. We have been fighting the wrong enemy, and the real enemy has been helping to propagate all these Illuminati nonsense so that you would never discover their real mission. They have succeeded in making you associate wealth with darkness in your mind. Open your eyes, and your mind, and stop following the follower.

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