Bone Thugs Drama: The Writing's on the Wall

 So, the latest Bone Thugs-n-Harmony drama is the same as every other Bone drama in the history of this very dramatic group in many ways:  a concert or tour is underway and certain members are not present.  Bizzy, because he's Bizzy and has to be difficult.  And one other member is also absent, it's [checks notes] LAYZIE?!  Hol' up.  Resident spokesman and peacemaker who has always been seen as the "face" of the group and held things together when times were tough?  THAT Layzie?  The one who has done side projects with both Bizzy (as Bone Brothers) and Krayzie (as, uhhh, Bone Brothers 4 Lyfe) as well as a 3-man Bone album with Bizzy and Flesh entitled The Art of War:  WWIII and co-founded the legendary Mo' Thugs with Krayzie Bone... THAT Layzie?  The guy who even played go-between at the disastrous Verzuz after Bizzy threw a water bottle at rival group Three 6 Mafia and they began calling him crazy and a sissy?  

T H A T   L A Y Z I E ?

Excuse my confusion but this is just a *tad* out of character.  Granted, this group has had its fair share of trauma and tragedy over the years:  Flesh-n-Bone served 8 years on a 12-year sentence due to violent crimes fueled by PCP abuse; Bizzy Bone went on a drug-and-alcohol fueled downward spiral in the early 2000s after losing his close friend and label-mate Capo Confucius to murder as well as nearly every other rapper on his label 7th Sign Records; Krayzie Bone had a serious health scare in 2023 when his sarcoidosis caused extensive bleeding in the lungs, leading to a 9-day hospitalization and medically-induced coma.  Layzie and Wish are the only members who HAVEN'T had any major news-making health or legal issues, which is why this is so puzzling.  




Hard Times

Even good guys go through bad times

But it's not entirely unbelievable if you've been paying attention.  In 2022, Layzie's mother "Mama P" who served as a mother figure for the entire group back in the day passed away, taking a major toll on Layzie and his brother Stanley Howse (Flesh-n-Bone).  Earlier today, Krayzie Bone released a video alleging that the reason Layzie isn't on tour has something to do with needing to go to rehab, which is troubling if true... but also understandable. 

In the past, he's alleged that the reason Mo' Thug Records dissolved years ago had to do with Layzie's excessive drinking and "partying".  (To be fair, Krayzie is a Jehovah's Witness who has renounced his own marijuana use, so he may not be the most reliable source on this).  But everyone including Kray has a history of getting wasted in their youth so I tend to believe him on this.  I could definitely see Layzie over-indulging to deal with the pain of losing his mom and all the responsibilities of being in the spotlight.  Holding a chaotic, often-childish (looking at you, Bizzy) group together can't be easy.  Having a felon for a brother takes its toll.  Just being alive in a post-2020 world is not easy for anybody.

And you can't win with the fans.  If you're one of the two, three or four members who shows up to concerts, people complain that it's not a good show because they "paid to see all 5 members".  If you don't show up, people complain and flood your inbox because you weren't there.  If you look at it from a purely rational perspective, nobody skips out when it's time to promote a solo album, side project or their own record label; there's only issues when it's a Bone Thugs-n-Harmony show, album or tour.  That really says it all.  Like Krayzie said, if you wanted to be there, nothing could stop you from being there. 

Layzie calling out Bizzy's BS in 2010

The writing is on the wall:  Bone Thugs as we knew them in the '90s and 2000s is no more.  They haven't been a cohesive group for a long time--maybe even longer than people realize.  We know Bizzy started deliberately skipping videos by the time of Art of War if he "didn't agree" with the choice of single, but go back and watch the video for "1st of tha Month":  was he also not physically present in that video with the other guys?  It appears he was spliced in later if you watch closely.  He has a whole damn verse to himself while the other guys share theirs with each other, riding in the car together and stuff.  Even if he was physically present with the other members, he clearly wasn't very democratic about the video itself.  🙄

This shit started EARLY.

So I say to fans:  It's over, pack it up, let it go.  Bone had a great run and gave us tons of music that we'll have forever.  I hope they get the rights to their masters soon and can retire rich and leave something to their (many) kids.  I hope Krayzie's health remains solid into old age and he gives us more solo music and ditto Bizzy's mental health/sobriety and solo career.  I hope Flesh stays out of legal trouble and Wish finally gives us at least one solo album, even if it's just an EP.  And I hope for his sake that Layzie gets the help he needs for his drinking and/or drug problems if he indeed has them.  His rage at the comment on his Instagram toward the person who brought up alcoholism was out of character for the same guy who screamed at Bizzy Bone in the 2010 documentary that "You got a fucked up problem!" (see video above).  

Bizzy has always denied that he did any drugs harder than weed and alcohol, but we know for a fact he did ecstasy, and that "demonic" (read: severely manic) radio interview from 2005 suggests he may have done even more than that.  Still, he acts like it's a point of pride that he "only" drank and smoked weed, as if it's shameful to have a problem with other substances.  The way the guys in this group talk about addiction is not only wrong but offensive.  Addiction doesn't make you weak or a "fiend".  It's not shameful or an insult.  It's a bad coping skill, period.  It has both genetic and trauma-based roots, and getting help for it just means putting yourself in the shop for a minute to learn some new coping skills.  Failure to do so will lead to deteriorating health and relationships and eventually, death. 

We saw this with Gangsta Boo, who appeared healthy and feisty onstage at the Verzuz event and was dead a few months later from an accidental fentanyl overdose (despite not being an opioid user).  And ODB, who is notably absent from the stage at the Bone/Wu-Tang tour.  And Coolio.  And Shock G.  And DMX, Mac Miller, Lil' Peep, DJ Screw, Pimp C and countless others.  It's all fun and games and partying until it's not.  

Legendary band; legendary tour.  $19.50 concert ticket.  

Perspective

One of BTnH's many achievements

The very fact that all 5 members of this group are still alive and healthy enough to perform is a blessing, and they should be grateful to still have a fanbase who loves them enough to pay these INSANE ticket price to see them.  (Seriously, y'all are getting RAPED by Ticketmaster and other middleman companies!  There was a time when you could pay $19 to see Nirvana at the height of their fame in '91. IDGAF if they brought 2Pac out of hiding in Cuba to perform (lol jokes), I ain't paying $800 or $1200 for ANY concert!) 

Instead, the Bone boys remain stuck in a childish cycle of bickering, flakiness and petty drama.  So I say again, the writing is on the wall, fans.  If you continue paying an entire month's rent to support this mess, that's on you.  Sometimes you have to love people from afar.  As our borderline IQ president George Bush Jr. once said:  "Fool me once, shame on... shame on me.  Fool me--you can't get fooled again."   

Just for fun, here's what I'd like to see each member put their creative energy into going forward:   

Krayzie - Solo work + collabs with other legends like DJ Paul, Big Boi, Fatlip & artists with a fast flow like Do or Die/Busta Rhymes, who sound great on tracks with Bone.  Urgent:  Undergo an autologous blood donation at local hospitals in case of another bleeding incident since he doesn't "believe" in receiving blood transfusions from others.  Since he has a chronic disease and has already experienced a near-death bleeding event, this should be a top priority as it could mean the difference between life and death.

Wish - That solo joint(!) + collabs with Krayzie and Mo' Thugs.  We don't care if it's an EP or if half the album is Bone or Mo Thug features, just do it!  

Flesh - Mo' Thug appearances & performing solo/Bone material at oddball events like Sturgis.  Doing community outreach in Cleveland & speaking events at high schools about his time in prison.  Staying out of legal hot water.  Finishing his education (he was always said to be the brainiest member). 

Layzie - Shift his energy from being the face of Bone to Mo' Thugs, doing full-time development/promotion of talented acts like Havik, Thin-C, Cat Cody & whoever else is a current member (it's damn near impossible to find this info online which is a problem).  There were a LOT of highly talented acts on that label and I feel like they dropped the ball big time with them.  Make performers feel confident that they'll be treated well in the Mo' Thug family and you won't have to do much in the way of looking for talent.  Do guest appearances on the occasional track if you feel like it, but focus on emulating Eazy at Ruthless and securing Bone's masters.  And if the rumors are true, get your ass in inpatient rehab because we want you here with us for the long run.  

Bizzy - Focus on solo work, JamTV and Bloodline Harmony, but make them more cohesive and focused with all members contributing equally or else they need to break up and let the ones with true interest in music do their solo thing.  And work on getting us that full Heaven'z Movie album like he promised.  Stop with the "solo album every September 12th"--just give us an album when it's truly inspired.  I liked the idea of working toward getting Bone the rights to their masters as that's a smart business move, but it'll likely require all members to be on the same page, and we KNOW that's like trying to nail jelly to a tree.  🥴

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The Fate of Violent Criminals Who Escape Justice in America

Even though we have a two-tiered justice system that is both objectively classist & racist, I do take great pleasure in the fact that many of those who triumphantly slip through its cracks end up destitute, isolated & fucked up on the fringes of society.  Our media has blood on its hands as well for too many reasons to list here, but there's one instance where I feel their coverage helps bring its own form of "justice" when the legal system fails:  in cases like those of Casey Anthony, George Zimmerman, Ethan Couch, Kyle Rittenhouse & Brock Turner.  These incredibly lucky assholes got away with everything from rαpe with instrumentation to quadruple murdεr without spending any meaningful time behind bars thanks to biased/corrupt judges, expensive legal counsel & their pasty white skin. 

But the communities in which they reside as well as social media haven't been nearly as forgiving.

No justice for the victims of this fαt rαpist fvck.

The most recent example of this is serial rαpist Jesse Mack Butler, who strαngled one girl so badly she nearly died.  Originally he was facing 78 years in prison for 11 felony counts of rαpe and domestic violence involving strαngulation.  But because his dad was a former official at local Oklahoma State University and the judge is a corrupt rαpe enabling cow, he walks free today.  His "sentence" included attending some fucking classes and he's no longer even under court supervision, free to return to the community in which he committed the brutal crimes... to the mansion in which his enabling parents created this monster & the alternate reality in which he had a promising career in pro baseball... or some bullshit.  That's right, criminals.  Rαpe and strαngulation are practically decriminalized in Oklahoma!*

*If you're rich, male, white & have a powerful donor daddy to bail you out of your bullshit.  

Brock Turner's post-crime reality

I'm hoping Jesseboy's actual life turns out like a mix of George Zimmerman (broke & homeless with PTSD) with a splash of Brock Turner (a washed-up registered s3x offender who's afraid to go out in public due to his notorious status as cowardly rαpist of an unconscious girl) and a hint of Ethan Couch, a 1st class BUM who was captured fleeing the law in Mexico and did some minimal time in jail (along with his enabling mom) followed by several years of probation. 

I just hope Butler doesn't hurt or kill anyone on his way to the bottom, but that blood will be on the hands of the Payne County courts, not me.  Please keep ALL of these pathetic violent criminals' names and faces fresh in your memory and don't let them fade; let them know they're not welcome in your business, on your private property or in your community as a whole.  Because they ARE a threat to you and your loved ones, especially after being emboldened by the legal system previously.  Each of them has one or more victims whose faces I won't share here because they've been through enough.  Some of their victims aren't even alive now because of these bottom-feeding bums. 

You have a right to keep your community free of known threats to your health and safety, be they in the form of violent individuals, polluting corporations or what have you.  If police and the courts aren't going to do their jobs, it's on you to step up and protect your kids and yourselves, not through acts of illegal violence but by plastering their ugly mugs all over the internet and public posters to inform your neighbors of their presence, and by refusing them service in your businesses, which you have a right to do.  Make them feel like the criminal outcasts and exiles they are, just make sure not to break the law yourself in doing so.

(You have no idea how enraged it makes me that I have to add special characters and censor the crimes of these rabid animals in order to avoid having the whole article placed behind a wall of unreachability by this evil corp.  Different issue deserving of its own article).  

Ally vs. Friend & Why the Distinction Matters

The ruling class has no problem forming unlikely alliances

Americans don't seem to know the difference between a political ally and a friend, and this can have dire consequences both at the local level and when it comes to electing a president, whom they often choose for entirely the wrong reasons.  Let me break it down:  

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Ally:  Someone who stands together with you to accomplish a specific goal based on a shared interest.  They need not agree with you about anything else or be someone you'd want to sit down and have a beer with--the only qualification is having a shared political or social goal.  You may love, like or hate them on a personal level, but that's irrelevant.  The relationship is a practical alliance, not (necessarily) a deep or lasting connection.  

Friend:  Someone you'd want to sit down and have a beer with.  Usually shares more than one position or viewpoint with you.  Someone you vibe with; a person whose company you enjoy.  (You should NOT choose a president you would in theory like to "have a beer with," as this is both irrelevant to their ability to do the job and not gonna fucking happen). 

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Class war often requires uncomfortable ally-ship.  

When people try to equate "TERFs" (aka women with the gall to say "no") with the conservative Christian types who also oppose gender identity nonsense, I have to remind them of this.  Yes, we stand together on this one issue.  No, we don't share views on literally anything else.  We're not friends in real life.  We don't even agree on the trans stuff for the same reasons, but that's beside the point.  Women know we can't afford to engage in ideological puritanism because we'll get nowhere.  If we let people get us distracted by our differences, nothing but infighting will happen.  The mantra with any political movement must be:  Stay focused, get the job done, shake hands and go your separate ways when it's over.  This becomes even more important when your allies have such opposite beliefs from you.

This is a lesson the Left and, as a whole, the entire U.S. could really stand to learn.  I recall during the SAG/AFTRA strikes of 2023, there was an attempt to divert attention by bringing up the issue of Israel/Palestine, claiming that people like Fran Drescher weren't doing enough to take a stance on the matter.  Kathy Griffin recently was accosted with similar allegations.  This is patently ridiculous considering A.)  They're both actors/comedians, and B.)  They're both beloved human rights' activists who lean heavily to the Left, meaning they're ON YOUR SIDE.  Also:  this has nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons they were striking.  It's a totally separate issue worthy of attention, but not when they're already in the midst of another fight.  This raises the question:  who's really behind these nitpicky ideological purity tests that always seem to be dividing the Left into 50 warring, ineffective factions? 

It's not the job of entertainers to take a stand against ANY social issue--that's on our elected representatives who are literally paid to make laws, create budgets and do other political tasks.  If performers choose to take a public stance, great.  But you can't "force" them to.  And if they lend their name, image, time and effort to a movement or social cause that has civil rights implications, be grateful and stand with them.  Even if you disagree with their personal lives or other political views.  Stay focused on the goal at hand and don't let informants and disinformation agents stir up shit.  The Powers That Be know that our strength is in numbers, thus they'll always try to cause division and break up large movements like Occupy Wall Street, the No DAPL movement, the Black Power Movement, Anti-Nuclear Movement & Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS).  Any time a social movement gets increased funding or visibility, it's a good thing.  But that also means it's now a prime target for those who wish to sew dissent & discord among its supporters, hence the need to stay focused & remember what differentiates a friend from an ally.  

Eating Disordered Celebrities and & GLP-1s: The Convo Nobody's Having

Remember when I wrote that long-ass article detailing the benefits & risks of GLP-1s for weight loss as opposed to diabetes management?  Here it is.  Yeah, I mentioned waaaay back then that eating disordered people would likely get their hands on them and either be triggered again or for the first time as they dropped weight rapidly, and that appears to be exactly what's happened.  See:  the current crop of dangerously thin celebrities who seemed to pop up out of nowhere.  

Body positivity was everywhere... until it wasn't.

For the last decade or so, curvy-bordering-on-obese was seen as the ideal body type, as if body shape and weight were another trend for women to follow.  In the spirit of the Kardashians & Beyonce, women flocked to doctors to get deadly Brazilian butt implants to make themselves appear more voluptuous.  I also covered that in an article on extremes in the American consciousness.  Now suddenly we've seen a swing back in the opposite direction.  But why?  Why are women (always women) suddenly looking like a slimmer version of Twiggy on the red carpet with no warning?  What innovation in weight loss hit the market at roughly the same exact time as these public-facing figures began to look skeletal?  

That's right:  GLP-1 medications.  Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy, Rybelsus and all the rest.  Even in the earliest days, there were whispers of doctors too willing to prescribe these medications to people who weren't obese and had NOT tried "everything" to shed the few vanity pounds they wanted to lose, which is the only population they should be used by outside of diabetics.  Everybody and their mama began shedding pounds rapidly and, as is customary for Americans, there was a rush on this class of medications.  Claims they could be used to prevent everything from cancer to drug, shopping and gambling addiction ("miracle drug") hit the media and suddenly everyone had to have them.  

Everybody.  Even people who didn't need them at all.  

The reality:  Anorexic/bulimic patients have BEEN abusing these drugs.

Just one problem:  they're prohibitively expensive for most people, and unless you have diabetes, you're not getting insurance to cover them.  Womp womp.  Enter grey-market peptides and compounding pharmacy concoctions.  These substances are much cheaper and more accessible and generally require no doctor's visit.  The only problem is they're produced in unregulated conditions and can kill you.  Nevertheless, Americans persisted in obtaining their magic potions by any means necessary.  RFK is now considering bypassing the usual human studies and making these substances fully legal with no restrictions, much to the FDA's chagrin.  

I feel a pendulum swing coming on.  

It wouldn't be the first:  amphetamines, Quaaludes, Fen-phen, opioids and other drugs have gone through the exact same miracle drug-to-demon drug cycle and we have the bodies to prove it.  But nobody seems to remember these tragedies, or learn from them.  Exhibit A:  Ariana (Not-So) Grande.


  

Sad & scary weight loss.

One of the dumbest takes I've seen claims this is part of some "early 2000s" trend returning, as if eating disorders started in the 2000s or are part of a fad.  They didn't and aren't: they're as much a mental illness as schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder.  Other opinionated morons go in the other direction, claiming that even speaking on it is "body shaming," which is equally absurd.  Do you say that when a celebrity is obviously drugged out of their skulls in public?  Having any other kind of mental health/financial/legal crisis?  No, of course not.  But because this one involves bodies and women and appearances, it's somehow taboo.  

Let me clear that up for those who are confused:  The criticism isn't about how they LOOK.  It's about the fact that they're going to DIE.  And likely take a lot of impressionable young girls (and a few boys) down with them.  Because eating disorders are a largely media-driven phenomenon.  Here are some more examples of recently-emaciated stars, with their alleged 2000s counterparts on the left:

Now if you honestly expect us to believe this isn't a result of GLP-1 or peptide abuse, I'm gonna need you to re-evaluate that position.  I don't know for a fact which of these women is taking which drugs, but I can say with a fair amount of certainty that weight loss drugs are involved in this sudden "trend" of scary-skinny celebrities.  Celebrities historically have no problem obtaining any drug they like from starstruck Hollywood doctors.  Big-name celebrities from Elvis all the way up to Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson & Matthew Perry died from Rx drug overdoses--medications prescribed legally, if unethically, by their doctors.  Why would anyone doubt that there'd be doctors willing to prescribe the non-addictive, non-mind altering GLP-1s?

My prediction:  a few of these beloved public figures will have to die before the tide officially turns on pharma's biggest cash cow.  Lawsuits will pour in, the media praise will turn into demonization & GLP-1s will be the latest demon drug du jour.  After that, good luck accessing them for anything other than the worst cases of diabetes as a last resort after metformin and all the rest.  Because that's what happens after the pendulum swings into "demon drug" territory:  the irrational fear sets in and the banhammer drops.  All benefits of a given substance are forgotten and it's now considered 100% dangerous & evil.  No middle ground.  This isn't the drug's fault, it's the fault of overzealous prescribers and a public with the collective memory of a fruit fly utterly incapable of understanding nuance.  You heard it here first.  

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FYI: 1% of TV Static = Light from the Big Bang

 

Yep, sounds crazy but it's true.  Here's the in-depth explanation in under 3 minutes:

The snap, crackle, pop of old analog TVs was Big Bang energy.  Who knew?

It's called cosmic microwave background radiation, and it's yet more proof that energy is neither created nor destroyed but merely recycled in new forms across space & time.  IDK about you, but I'd much rather come back as a short-lived piece of static fuzz in an old TV set than a human being after this life is through.

Keefe D's Creepy 2Pac "Trophies"

 

Below are some snippets of evidence found in murder defendant Keith "Keefe D" Davis's home when police raided it.  While 2Pac was world famous and highly beloved by millions, the presence of this abundance of creepy, obsessive "memorabilia" is damning for Davis, as some of it comes from stories released BEFORE the rapper died.  Now why would somebody hold onto that for all these years?

Snipped from the newspaper before 2Pac even died...

Dated September 16th, 1996.  Tupac died on September 13th, 1996.

Yellow highlighting mine.

Deceased rapper with his arm around the hitman's financier.



Just a few selections entered into the 2Pac murder trial evidence bank.  It should be noted that Keefe D began coughing and hacking violently as these clippings were presented.  Methinks he's not gonna have a great time in prison.  2Pac was almost deified by Black people and the wider world in general, plus he'd done time himself.  Keefe D?  Just a low-level "crackhead" (Reggie Wright's wording) bum whose only claim to fame is murdering said beloved entertainer.  

That said, I hope prosecutors don't plan to stop with Keefe D.  The evidence is abundant that he and others were incentivized monetarily to kill the victims and rob their crew by Bad Boy label owner Sean "Diddy" Combs.  

Phlegmatic defendant hocking a loogie.  

We Own Nothing and We're Fucking SICK of It

Y'all remember when we could buy things with our money?  And then we OWNED them?  After that, we could do whatever we wanted:  take good care of them, crush them in the street in protest, have them repaired or repair them ourselves...

I still have some of the things I got in childhood, like my Super Nintendo and all my games (still works perfectly!), a few books from early childhood and a lot of my clothes.  Things were made to last, not to fall apart after a few trips through the washing machine.  That's because most of them were made in the U.S.A. or other Western countries with high quality materials.  My parents still have a clock radio from the 1970s they use to wake up every morning.  That thing will outlive us all....

Stompin' CDs in protest of gangsta rap (1990s)

Planned obsolescence changed all that.  Tech products like the iPhone are literally made to stop working after a certain point, or to slow so significantly you're forced to upgrade to the next $1,500 version.  On the other end of the spectrum are items made so poorly and cheaply they fall apart after a couple of uses, like our Chinese-made clothes.  "Fast fashion," they call it.  Our landfills are full of it and we've got stores like Temu, Shein, Zara and H&M to thank.  China makes most of our consumer products now including important things like generic medications.  This has caused some life-threatening problems with both medication shortages and quality issues.  This is not a "Chinese conspiracy" but a result of U.S. politicians selling this country out from under us by allowing U.S. corporations to outsource their labor to the lowest bidder.  "Lowest" means lowest; it doesn't matter if they're incarcerated, undocumented, trafficked against their will or underage sweatshop or slaughterhouse workers.  Aside from the obvious slavery and criminal nature of this practice, it puts consumers at risk.  

There's another kind of consumer issue happening that absolutely shouldn't be, and I'm not even sure it has a name.  The subscription issue.  Instead of buying tapes or CDs that we own after purchase, we rent our music from streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, which charge monthly fees that cost as much as a cassette tape and nearly as much as a CD.  EVERY FUCKING MONTH.  They can remove songs or entire artists' catalogs at any time with no warning, make it difficult to log in or do other shady shit such as charging less than half the price for a Premium subscription in countries like Romania compared to the U.S. for the exact same service, or occasionally force unwanted & unrelated add-ons like Hulu to justify the ever-rising price.  

Comparison of Romanian & American Spotify Premium prices.

It's the same with TV and movies:  subscribe to 50 separate networks and pay 50 separate fees every single month, then you STILL have to pay to "rent" certain movies or shows on networks like Amazon Prime.  You can watch any episode of SNL once you pay for a Peacock subscription, but not the whole episodes as they were originally broadcast.  They've cut out over half the broadcast on most episodes, including most of the musical guests because they don't wanna pay for the rights (but they don't mind taking YOUR money for a subscription!).  Some episodes are as short as 20 minutes, making them essentially "clips" or highlight reels.  At the same time, these corporate giants use DMCA takedown threats to rid the Internet Archive of alternative ways to access this content, rendering the cut footage essentially Lost Media. 






Muzzling the Internet

[nostalgia intensifies]

That's the other side of this coin:  If you weren't around for Internet 1.0, you missed out on something truly special.  Actual freedom of speech existed for a brief glorious time, as well as a sense of community in whatever weird niche area you were interested in, be it a favorite TV show, True Crime, politics, music, drug chat, local current events or what have you.  Sites like Topix & Zoklet were a Wild West of chaos where bad things indeed did happen, but it was your choice to involve yourself in them or not.  I was a mere spectator shaking my head at the drama... 

Craigslist and Backpage.com were the backalley of the clearnet where prostitution was rife and hopeful romantics shot their "missed connections" shot with pathetically hilarious Want Ads about briefly locking eyes with a stranger in the meat aisle.  There was Experience Project, which hosted every kind of written content you could imagine, as well as grey-market substance discussion boards like The Altered States and the short-lived Yellow Brick Road (YBR).   

Internet 1.0 was not really appealing to kids because there was no social media, no Youtube... you had to know how to code to an extent to access anything worthwhile.  It was all chat rooms, discussion forums and other dry "boring" formats.  Instead of Instagram, Facebook & TikTok, we had Angelfire, Tripod and Geocities, where making your own page was both an art and a science and you had to have some degree of OCD to make it look halfway decent.  But your finished page could say or contain basically anything you wanted.  ANYTHING. 

And oh, how great was the beauty of Napster, Kazaa, Limewire and mp3 Rocket, where you could download (for free!) music shared by peers and it was yours to own forever.  I would gladly pay for a service like that again; instead I pay $12.99/month to "stream" music that may go poof at any time and will be riddled with intrusive ads if I stop paying.  

"You Will Own Nothing And You Will Like It"

The dream is dead.

What happened to the promise of human advancement via the information superhighway?  Being able to share things you love with people on the other side of the world with the click of a button?  Corporate greed is what.  If sharing said thing causes them to lose even one penny, it must be stopped.  The Napster ruling was the first big shoe to drop followed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).  There are still some great pirate sites available on the clearnet (shout out to Cineby, Bflix & Scribd) but even those are under constant threat of being wiped out.  (R.I.P. ev01.to & Z-Library).  

When I think of all the forums and websites that have been dropped by their webhost, sued out of existence, DDoS'ed into extinction, taken down directly by the Nanny State or even de-indexed by the Internet Archive, I get sad.  Then angry.  None of this was about "protecting children," saving people from drug OD, preventing bullying or stopping sex trafficking.  Not one iota.  Peer-to-peer sharing of music and movies cuts into corporate profits, as does the selling of drugs like research chemicals (bath salts, Spice, kratom, Salvia and others that weren't explicitly illegal at the time but didn't require you to pay three times for: once at the doctor, once at the private insurer and again at the pharmacy). 

Sex trafficking didn't stop when they shut down Backpage, it just moved back to the streets where it's more dangerous for the victims and harder for law enforcement to monitor, not that they really care that much anyway.  The vast majority of pedophile busts are conducted by citizen journalists like Chris Hansen and the hundred other vigilante predator hunter groups out there doing the Lord's work (also, the cops' work).  It's ALL about money, 100% of the things our government does.  They now exist solely to protect the profits of billionaire CEOs regardless of how it affects us.  And we allowed it to get to this point every time we didn't get in the street and protest loudly and, if need be, violently like the French.

The recent "age verification" porn laws are the latest egregious example.  Imagine having your real name, address, the photo on your driver's license, entire watch history, all the comments/messages you've sent and any uploads leaked to the dark net in a data breach, which happens daily with big corporations like Sony & Walmart, who should have airtight data security.  The potential for blackmail and threats to one's life are huge.  Teens are dying due to "sextortion" all the time in the U.S. after sending a single nude photo to scammers... imagine what they could do with your entire porn history! 

And our leaders don't give a one damn.  These are the same leaders who haven't brought a single Epstein client to trial despite literal video footage of them raping children, hours of flight logs, financial receipts and much more.  That's not a coincidence, btw.  It's our punishment for demanding they be brought to justice for THEIR crimes. 👴🏻🏝





Final Thoughts

Not a rhetorical question

What happens if the internet goes down for an extended period for some reason, be it war, telecommunications/satellite failure or anything else?  What products and services would you still be able to access?  Could you do your job?  Pay your bills?  Purchase basic necessities? 

This might seem like "Old woman shaking fist at sky" now, but if you were to add up all the money you've spent over the years on subscriptions and realize you own nothing in return for it, maybe then you'd see the impact.  Or maybe the internet would truly have to go dark for an extended period for you to realize what they've taken from us.  Either way, I need you to start giving a damn because none of this is normal. 

Contact the FCC about Spotify, Amazon, your local cable company & other online and communications-based companies that are blatantly ripping you off.  I wrote the FCC about my local scammy ass cable company a couple years back & had surprisingly positive results.  Just saying.  There's strength in numbers as you can see with the kratom community's effect on the quality of kratom-related journalism, so speak up!  🗣📣

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Cop Confesses Under Oath to Knowledge About Diddy's Involvement in 2Pac Murder (and Doing Nothing!)

We've all known it forever, but to hear a police officer say it under oath is something different.  Diddy offered a bounty to have Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight murdered by the Southside Crips.  When only Tupac was killed, he paid $500,000 to middle man Zip Martin (deceased), who never gave it to the Crips.  

Ex-LAPD officer Daryn Dupree testifying under oath.

And there it is.  But here's something we didn't know:  they suspected the Southside Crips of also murdering 2Pac's rival Biggie Smalls because the Crips were never paid by Diddy for the 2Pac murder!  

Compton police officer casually discloses this bombshell.

There are so many things wrong with this picture I don't know where to start.  The officer above was assigned to a Biggie Smalls murder investigation task force when Biggie's mom sued the LAPD a few years back.  They STARTED with the assumption that Diddy paid for 2Pac's killing but did not share any evidence with Las Vegas Metro PD, the city where 2Pac's murder investigation took place.  It was just considered a given.  But they also suspected this payment was responsible for the death of ANOTHER beloved rapper and did nothing.  Then they acted surprised when Keefe D (of the Southside Crips) "confessed" to killing 2Pac and even gave him a proffer agreement as if it was valuable information.  Meanwhile for all these years, Sean Combs has been free to rape, beat & "disappear" more people.  

WHY DID NOBODY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT ON THIS INFORMATION?  Could you or I pay half a million dollars to have someone--a celebrity--killed and be left alone by police entirely for THREE DECADES?  Fuck no, we couldn't.  It's immaterial whether the payment was given to the Crips or kept by the middle man.  He was also paying bounties of $10,000 for every Death Row chain the Crips could snatch in the run-up to the MGM fight that cost 2Pac his life.  That's literally why they attacked Orlando Anderson:  because of the Lakewood Mall incident in which a Death Row chain was snatched from MOB Piru affiliate Trayvon Lane's neck.  Take away the cash incentive from Diddy and that likely never would've happened.  

I've said it before but Diddy was more involved in the 2Pac murder than Charles Manson was in the "Manson Murders".  If this heartless murdering chomo is released from prison without standing trial for the killing of 2Pac, it's 100% proof positive we live in a gangster society where wealth excuses murder.  I say investigate the cops who knew this info and didn't share it as well.  Were they paid to keep quiet?  Threatened?  Did they already know Diddy was a Fed asset and just left him alone?  

There's a lot of blood on a lot of hands and nobody currently paying for it except a low-life half retαrded blowhard named Keefe D.  🤬


#justicefortupac  

Attack of the Clones

No.

Just a quick question for all the proudly unmedicated schizos* who like to claim that various celebrities & other public figures have been killed and "cloned".  WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?  Do you realize how utterly retarded you sound?  How out of touch with reality you are?  I'm serious.  Everything else you say after this point goes straight into the 🗑 because the premise for your thinking is so faulty it's not worth humoring, kinda like that maniac Daniel David Palmer who created the chiropractic discipline based on ghosts telling him some shit.  I--here, see for yourself:

Chiropractic is quackery and its creator was insane.

...thus, nothing that comes after that kind of faulty premise can be of legitimate factual basis.  The foundation has to be solid before the rest of the argument can be taken seriously.  So when you make the absurd, unproven and supernatural claim that a human being has been secreted away and replaced with an exact physical replica in the form of a clone or a body double, you'd better come with some airtight evidence to prove it.  It's similar to how that grifting maroon Alex Jones started the "crisis actor" nonsense during the Sandy Hook tragedy.  I don't know if you guys are smoking too much weed or what, but it's not doing nice things for your perception of reality.  Stop it.

The most recent public figure I saw make this embarrassing claim was a guest on SNL alum Jim Breuer's Youtube show, and he absolutely did nothing to refute or deny the idiotic claims.  In fact, it was his own vague claims about comedian Dave Chappelle, once his close friend and co-star on projects like Half Baked, that prompted the guy's comments.   See below:

Hunh?

Breuer claims Dave was "visited" by unnamed assailants shortly before his trip to Africa in the early 2000s and then lets his guest run with the suggestion.  It's a shame because other claims he's made about what goes on in Hollywood were intriguing and troubling, and I wanted to believe him.  I actually liked him on mid-'90s era SNL, but it seems like he's gone around the bend to the religious fundie side which tends to be tits-deep in conspiracy BS like this.  

And let me just say, it does a major disservice to actual victims of financial exploitation, sexual abuse, human trafficking, child abuse of all kinds... everything bad that happens in Hollywood, D.C. and other "institutions".  When "run-of-the-mill" horrors like those I just listed aren't enough to keep your attention so you sprinkle in supernatural, sci-fi or fantasy elements, you're diverting focus from victims and helping abusers.  Read that until you understand it.  Don't nobody want to hear about aliens, vampires, zombies, cloned humans or other Satanic Panic, L. Ron Hubbard-level horseshit when researching the awful things humans do to each other.  We want offender names and other useful details.  Preferably you'd turn this info over to the cops instead of the Internet Bureau of Investigations, but if you're going to vent it publicly, at least stay on topic.

It's the same with people who allude to a "Jewish conspiracy" running the banks, the media, Hollywood, Wall Street & other powerful institutions:  it's not that such a thing would be impossible with the America-Israel alliance; the problem is nobody ever provides a shred of evidence to support said conspiracy.  No names, no examples of Jews in high places abusing their power (personal anecdotes we haven't heard of, I mean--things only the victim and maybe a handful of others know), specific times/places/receipts.  It's all vague allusions to "tunnels," New World Orders and some shit Kanye said while in a nitrous induced yes-man enabled manic state.  When I say "proof," I don't mean a sus 1940s-era quote from an Israeli leader or similar.  I.  Mean.  Proof.  Something you could present in a court of law:  raw video, unretouched photos, financial receipts, flight logs, security cam footage, etc.

If you're afraid for your safety, there's always privacy measures like remaining anonymous by using a VPN + incognito browser & sharing the info with a journalist or other 3rd party via encrypted email like Protonmail based in Switzerland.  For added safety, type the text part of your message into a website like privnote or one of its competitors & link it in the email.  Strip your photos and videos of their Exif and metadata before sending.  If you have a Chromebook, restart it and log back in as "Guest" so it doesn't link your activity to your real email account.  Whatever you gotta do, but stop with the vague allusions to things that most certainly didn't happen.  It doesn't make you sound smart or powerful unless you consider the guy pushing a shopping cart on the street and muttering at the clouds to be a powerful genius.  🛒🚶🏻🗯




* No offense to actually schizophrenic people who take medication and stay on top of their condition.  This is strictly directed at those who lean into their delusional thinking and accuse others of being the problem.