Blu.
California based rapper, Blu (known more notably for his Blu & Exile collaboration), has been one of my favorite artists ever since I came across his music a few years back. With a very "Common" conscious mind-set, Blu's subject matter in his songs are often dealing with poverty upbringings, soulful love, and his destination on the afterlife. Now even early on his music, it can be understood that Blu is not a "religion" type of guy. In his song "Below The Heavens", he lyrically describes how he feels as if God is nothing more than a being which we all manifest within ourselves and Heaven and Hell are fictional destinations. Blu's somewhat gnostic beliefs is not what concerns me, its the creative actions he has taken lately in his music. It seems as though ever since his much public affame in 2009's XXL Freshman Cover, his affiliations with the industry's big-namers have increased. Blu shared the cover with the likes of Asher Roth, KiD CuDi, Curren$y, and many more. But his collaborations remained within his indie inner-circle for quite sometime. Until in early 2009, we saw our first mainstream Blu feature with fellow gnostic rapper, Talib Kweli on the remix to his very controversial song "Hostile Gospel". Now Talib Kweli has been very vocal against church and organized religion in the past, specifically Christianity. On his album Eardrum, Kweli expresses his hatred toward Christianity on his very blasphemous song called "Give Em Hell". Here is a clip of Kweli performing the lyrics to the song on Def Poetry Jam last year:
Here is where things get interesting. A few months ago after the release of the "On To The Next One" video by Jay-Z and all the controversy that was brought with it, Talib Kweli actually shared his opinions on his twitter about the Illuminati claims in rap music. Here are a few of his thoughts:
An interesting thing with most rappers that tackle this issue of occult conspiracy is that they never deny the claims, they only verbally walk around the questions by imposing sarcasm or unrelated facts that don't necessarily have anything to do with the topic at hand. We have seen enough of Kanye's antics and even public confessions of his occult affiliations to know he is at least influenced by it all. Which then imposes the question of "What is Talib Kweli defending exactly?" Notice that he doesn't disclaim anyone's involvement, he only makes obscured rhetorical questions and even throws a few shots at Christianity. It seems as if these twitter statements were more of a diverging ploy than a defense.
Now why is Talib Kweli so important in understanding Blu's state of being? Because you often tell what type of person somebody is if you look at the company they keep. Just this past month, Blu shows his lyrical face again on Asher Roth's "Sour Patch Kids" remix featuring yet again, Talib Kweli. The song touches on mostly political and social subjects, however there's a verse from Blu that raises a few eyebrows.
"Uncle Tom drop bombs/ while people stay calm and humble/ awaiting there turn to push the button on the NEW WORLD ORDER"
It seems as if Blu is refering to mainstream artists as "Uncle Toms" having their turn at success and that "people" which could be referring to himself, are waiting for the time where indie artists will have a voice (which is already eminent) and be able to pledge their allegiance to the Illuminati. Maybe I am reading to much into the verse, but it seems very clear.
To add to the speculation, just recently Blu and his partner/producer Mainframe has just jumpstarted their own indie label in hopes to bring in more artists. The name of it?...
A very subtle (yet effective) play on the wording of the label, it is obviously a clear reference to "New World Order". In celebration of creating the new label, Blu and Mainframe released a bundle of new songs as well as released a video for one their most stand out records from their Johnson&Jonson album. The video, however, shows blatant symbolism of Illuminati control:
Watch how the eye of Horus on the pyramid starts looking at Blu, maybe meaning that they are keeping their eye on the status of his success. (1:40 mark)
I think time will tell where Blu's state of mind is, Below The Heavens, or perhaps below the Earth.
"Been broke before/ All I'm saying is get doe/ get CHOSE/ and get up in this door before sh*t close" - Blu
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