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Jay Z Wears Controversial Medallion To Make People Forget He's Illuminati
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 6, 2014
Modified Apr 6, 2014
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Last year, Jay Z raised some eyebrows when he wore a medallion with the logo of the Five-Percent Nation, an off-shoot of the Nation Of Islam that believes "the black man is God and created the universe, and is physically stronger and intellectually stronger and more righteous naturally." Jay Z was spotted with the medallion again last week at a Nets game (see above), which means the NY Post is FREAKING OUT that Jay Z hates white people now or something.
But it's time to wake up people, because this clearly is all just a bit of subterfuge in order to distract people from the truth: Jay Z is, will be, and always has been a ranking member of the one-world authoritarian government known as the New World Order that guides every important moment in history (kind of like The Winter Soldier!).
Jay Z is dangling his car keys in front of you to keep you from knowing the truth about the Illuminati, the only really real secret society controlling real secret world events (that are real). Why do you think he dropped the hyphen? Nobody in the history of the Earth has dropped a hyphen from their name unless expressly told to by the Illuminati, that's just history.
Let's list all the evidence:
- Medallion that looks like something out of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom? Illuminati.
- He was wearing it on April Fool's Day? Illuminati. April Fool's Day is Opposite Day for the Illuminati.
- Chanting "Tom Ford" like an ancient spell? Illuminati.
- Hand signs? Illuminati.
- Time traveling? Illuminati.
- Embracing vegetarianism? Illuminati.
- "Blue Ivy" is secret code for "Born Living Under Evil, Illuminati's Very Youngest"? Clearly a slip up by the Illuminati. Except they never slip up, so it's perfectly Illuminati of them to pull a triple-double mindfuck like that.
- Could it just be a coincidence that Jay Z sold his stakes in the Nets just a few months before Phil Jackson was hired to bring his TRIANGLE basketball philosophy to the Knicks? There are no coincidences. Illuminati.
- Asked if the medallion were important to him, Jay Z shrugged and said "a little bit." This is classic Illuminati trickery.
- Beyonce? So Illuminati there's a website dedicated to revealing the truth.
"Jay Z is not an active member—no one has vouched for him," Saladin Allah, a Five Percet Nation representative, told The Post. "It was always understood that you don’t wear the regalia if you don’t totally subscribe to the life." So there you go. Case closed. We've also broken down the photo above to try to show all the hard evidence of the Illuminati, in case you still have doubts.
It's all right there in front of us
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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