Spend some time sifting through this stuff and your eyes will roll so far back into your skull you’ll look like you’ve been possessed by Baphomet. There are Illuminati lyrics, like Eminem’s mention of a “ New World Order” on “ Lose Yourself” or the references he and Jay-Z have made, separately, to a mysterious, powerful figure they call the “ Rain Man” (the theorists are apparently unfamiliar with Dustin Hoffman’s IMDb page). There is Illuminati semaphore, such as framing one’s eye with the palms tipped together in a pyramid shape or otherwise isolating an eye to evoke the “all-seeing eye” on the back of a dollar bill, an image with Masonic origins. The trained eye can spot Illuminati sartorial choices, like goat-themed jewelry and T-shirts, worn in ostensible tribute to Baphomet, a horned pagan deity who intrigued Aleister Crowley.
(Michael Jackson and 2Pac, it turns out, were victims of Illuminati-ordered assassination.) The Illuminati investigation unfolds sloppily but vigorously across countless sites, from YouTube to Twitter to fan discussion boards to dedicated shops like. Jay-Z? An “ Illuminati puppet.” Lady Gaga? An “ Illuminati whore.” Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Beyoncé, Rihanna-Illuminati agents all.
The best conspiracy theories go all the way to the top, and this one goes all the way to the top of the charts. Welcome to the world of pop-music trutherism, a bustling, grassroots exposé industry in which Eminem is one of many performers called out by anonymous instigators for Illuminist sympathies. Some of the Eminem/Illuminati videos have been viewed 5,000 times. From a list of suggested related videos, you can choose “ Eminem: His illuminati sacrifice Part 1” “ Eminem Fights Back Against The illuminati” “ Eminem against illuminati 2011!” “ Eminem My Darling Illuminati” and on and on. titled a song “ Cinderella Man,” it was not because the redemptive plot of the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man echoes Eminem’s own comeback from drug addiction, but rather because, like Cinderella with her wicked stepsisters, Eminem was “forced to do the chores for the Illuminati by sending subliminal messages through his music.” Ignore any comment-section sheep who bah that this is ridiculous: When that video ends, the hunt for truth has only just begun. Illuminati” explains, via solemn text and creepy music, that when the Detroit M.C. There is, for starters, a Yahoo Answers page that poses the question “Is Eminem trying to break free from the Illuminati?” and offers spirited excavation and analysis of the hidden anti-Illuminati messages Eminem embedded in his song “ Not Afraid.” There is a four-page message-board thread titled “Is Eminem an Illuminati slave?” A YouTube video called “Eminem vs. I’m not sure if Eminem has yet managed to escape the grasp of the Illuminati-the secret society of string pullers whose ranks he joined years ago in exchange for wealth, fame, and power-but I know he’s been trying very hard.