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Blood money movie rap1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rap's Illuminati talk wasn't just a one-time fad, however. Around the same time, CeeLo Green made reference to it on “ Cell Therapy,” claiming, “Traces of the New World Order/Time is getting shorter if we don’t get prepared/People it’s gon’ be a slaughter.” Mentions of the Illuminati in hip-hop quickly spiked from there: Jay Z sampled Prodigy’s line from “I Shot Ya” for “ D’Evils” on his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt, sparking rumors that persist to this day that he is associated with the organization U-God encouraged listeners to “get your shit together before the fuckin’ Illuminati hit” in 1997 on Wu-Tang Clan’s “ Impossible.” Prodigy was referring to the Illuminati conspiracy theory: the idea that there’s a network of shadowy, powerful individuals bent on controlling society by rebuilding it as a “New World Order” under a totalitarian worldwide government. It was the beginning of an entirely new school of thought in hip-hop, one as intelligent and informed as it was suspicious and paranoid. ![]() “Illuminati want my mind, soul, and my body.” It was the first time the Illuminati was mentioned prominently on wax, nestled in the middle of a needlessly complex series of beefs. What is important is that line, from Prodigy, that everyone remembers. The particulars aren’t especially important. The genesis of the lyrics quoted above, from the 1995 remix to LL Cool J’s “ I Shot Ya,” involves a beef between Tupac and that song’s featured artist, Keith Murray Murray’s subsequent beef with Mobb Deep’s Prodigy and a notable cameo from a 15-year-old Foxy Brown. The story of how the Illuminati first ended up in a rap song is a lot like your average Illuminati conspiracy: There’s a byzantine plot and a shifting cast of somewhat famous characters with varying allegiances and interests. Lluminati want my mind, soul, and my body/Secret society, trying to keep they eye on me/But I’ma stay incogni, in places they can’t find me.” ![]()
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