Bohemian GrOVO (Pt. III): AstroWorld as Mass Ritual, Drizzy Epstein, & Michael Jackson's 9/11 Near Miss ft. RGEB

Here's the monstrous 3rd panel in this Bohemian GrOVO triptych... We've mapped the Drake & Busters sex trafficking nexus, we've covered the XXXTentacion clipping, and now it's time for our forensic recreation of that supremely uncanny, peak pandemic (psychically speaking) mass casualty event, namely Travis Scott's AstroWorld mega ritual in Houston, TX, where Drake & Travis cavorted about on a Satanic set dressed stage dedicated to Mammon while upwards of 10 people (and possibly more, if various firsthand accounts are to be believed) died by crushing, ODing, & possibly syringe pricking in the gatecrashed scrum of ragers before them.

Thanks again to Rap Game Edward Bernays for riding shotgun on this mammoth series & bringing his encyclopedic hip hop lore knowledge & deadpan wit to the proceedings. Give him a follow at @edward__bernays on Twitter.

We discuss: 

Drugs as a Weapon Against Us & Soundcloud Rap normalizing & glorification of fent; the Lil Peep & Mac Miller ODs; Pete Davidson's revenge nudes hand in Miller's death; Davidson & A O C's 9/11 sweetheart deals; a brief rundown of celebs connected to 9/11; Michael Jackson's purported appointment at the WTC on the day, which he conveniently missed; which sends us into a tangent exploring MJ's incredibly sus connections to prominent Zios & M o s s a d assets like Unholy Shmuley & U ri Geller in the lead up to the "terror attack"—his meeting w/ Israeli PM Ariel S h a r o n at Benny S h a b t a i's apartment—which also happened to precede the crescendoing of CSA accusations against MJ by just a year or two; Klonny's contention that Shmuley was seeking blackmail leverage w/ his taping of MJ's confessional, innermost thoughts circa '00 & '01; their joint child charity shit—sus; eventual break; the likelihood that Mike received word not to head to his appt from his Zio handlers... 

RGEB decides to invite controversy & fedjacket himself by playing 6 Degrees of Travis S c o t t, Weinstein, & Epstein lmfao... We talk Epstein's scouring of Unis for victims; Columbia & NY Academy of Art interlocks; the sus scholarly prize awarded to a female business student at the elite university RGEB attended in Sweden that Epstein funded & the fact that the faculty member who oversees the selection committee keeps a list of all recipients & they are flown to NYC on this dress & heels mandatory trip; the overlaps b/w Drake & Courtney Love's respective Rolodexes—Kev Spacey, the C l in t o n s, & Kris J e n n er; Prince Andrew's cold booty call at Love's LA apt, showing up unannounced at 1 AM, supposedly set up by Epstein... 

Getting to AstroWorld as Mass Ritual: a tip of the hat to SK Bain's landmark schizo book; the numerological significance of the date on which AstroWorld fest in Houston fell (11/05/21 & the early morning of 11/06 -> 11s evoking 9/11 & Crowley; a couple 5s—evoking death & thresholds—in both the date & the digit sum of 2021); RGEB's recounting of waking up in Sweden on the morning of the 6th & how he came to be one of the 1st posters on the scene; his shitpoasting initial tweet re "Illuminati human sacrifice" gaining a degree of seriousness as he descended the rabbit hole; Twitter NERFing his thread; NukSantiago's firsthand account of seeing a sea of dead bodies on the floor & his characterization of the event as an "Illuminati ritual" & "demonic"; 11/06 — 6's Satanic significance; the chaos in the crowd & video of medic's resuscitating ppl as Travis & Drake cont playing; an ICU nurse & Nuk attesting to dragging dead bodies out; the meta & ARG quality of the AstroWorld advertising, which freakily foreshadowed the fact the fest would become a major cultural moment & source of conspiracy theorizing; Weekly World News & Nat'l Enquirer vibes in the promo materials; the deepening of the metatextual quality by placing these full page tabloid ads in the Houston Chronicle, etc; Travis -> Bat Boy; "injecting the city" (glowing in the pandemic context); "when the end arrives, it's really the beginning"; portals; "See You On the Other Side" preempting mass casualty; Travis's song "Escape Plan" creepily mirroring ppl's exp of trying to escape the crush of bodies; Travis's "Franchise" music vid evoking Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain"; Qabalistic Sephirot significance of the 3rd iteration of AstroWorld; an occulted close reading of the stage design; a portal w/ rings symbolizing the Circles of Hell; the mountains evoking Twin Peaks & vaguely resembling the Bohemian Grove altar; returning to the OVO - Bohemian Grove Minervan Owl symmetries; a briefest history of the club; its Romantic poetry & literal Bohemian origins; morphing into elite boys club bacchanal; past participants like Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, OSS founder, Bob Weir (Courtney Love connex), and more recently Clarence Thomas visiting w/ Nazi artifact collecting billionaire Harlan Crowe; the story regarding Drizzy's shell corp LLC "Silence Policy", which likely served some sex trafficking purpose, evoking initiatic & secret societies' code of silence; "Weaving Spiders Come Here Not"; the "Cremation of Care" play & effigy burning; Bohemian Grove's clandestine purpose—forging intra-class ties & serving to habituate & normalize an immoral 'Chosen Ones' ethic, not to mention an opportunity for the capitalists to get their rocks off; what are the chances Drizzy has visited Bohemian Grove?; the hyping of AstroWorld as this legendary fest & Travis encouraging ragers to gatecrash; the refusal of the sponsors & streamers ( A p p l e & L I v e N a t I o n, iirc) to stop the proceedings & help the dying, making it indisputable that this was a capitalist sacrifice of a kind, where profit motive outweighed safety; the stories of security guards getting pricked w/ fent needles which dropped immediately following the event & were later retracted, which may have served as a distraction...; Travis - "No Bystanders" & the Bystander effect; Utopian & Dystopian subtext of AstroWorld; Travis's shirt w/ stick figures falling through a portal / threshold—deepening the dimensionality of the ritual sacrificial altar dressing; the "Franchise" vid evoking mass MK w/ its stampede of sheep (sheeple) & possibly hinting at the crowd crush, not to mention the Jodorowsky homage w/ the opening shot; the Hand of Fatima / Hamsa imagery in the poster w/ the two hypnotic hands w/ eyeballs in the palms hovering over the mtn; Right Hand & Left Hand Path of magic; the Ouija Board allusion w/ the shape of the eyeballs in the sky, which look like planchettes; an academic paper on the Satanic imagery & symbolism of Travis Scott's AstroWorld published by an Indonesian Uni, which Klonny cites for the Hieronymus Bosch allusion contained in the Travis mouth fest entrance, which evokes Bosch's "Christ in Lambo", itself a representation of the Gate of Hell; the vibrational drone music that people were reporting; hemi - sync & Astral Projection vibes; NukSantiago's impending sense of doom; Master P warning people not to die tonight; the mountain stage design's shape making Klonny think of Twin Peaks symbols; pyramids & all-seeing eyes; the videos of people climbing on the camera towers during the performance trying to get Travis & Drake's attention to halt the show & help the wounded & dead; hitting the corporate greed point again; Travis Scott shouting out some dude hanging from a tree at one point, which weirdly mirrors the Falling Man on 9/11 & Hanged Man of the Tarot; some vampiric & devilish Scott lyrics; the "Will We Survive?" sign in the audience; and lastly, Drake & Travis screaming the lyrics "I'm Mr. Bodycatcher, Slaughter Gang soul snatcher" while a massive Grey Alien or cobra looking shadow appears in the portal behind them... Lol. Plus much more. 

Tracks:

| Travis Scott ft MIA - "Franchise" |

| Michael Jackson & Friends - "What More Can I Give" |

| Travis Scott ft Drake - "Sicko Mode" |

| Drake ft 21 Savage - "Knife Talk" |