Paranoid, conspiracy theory lyricism

Examples of debunked, nonsense conspiracy theories making it into lyrics of songs by your favorite artists. Bonus points if you stopped listening to them cos of the audacity of it.

Nas (he has a ton of these that he's been repeating since 2001, I picked one)

"War Against Love"

Scientists told us how the Mayans lived
Highways are landing strips for planes to land
Before the Wright brothers planned aerodynamics
Now I am chilling 20 karats like a savage
Not embarrassed
Buy what I'm copping while I'm shopping out in Paris
Parasites try to steal the culture (True)
While chem trails and satellites hover over

Apathy, "The Villain"

Picture people that will profit off religion
Now picture physicians who profit off certain prescriptions
Picture principals, parent-teacher conference
ADHD and all that other nonsense
Psychologists will talk us out of all wisdom
While vaccine shots give children autism
Our community leaders mislead us
With laws that’ll take away our 9mms

B.O.B. - "Flat Line"

Woo, use your, use your common sense
Why is NASA part of the department of defense?
They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees
Feeding kids masonry, bruh, be careful what you read

Megadeth - Hangar 18

Welcome to our fortress tall
I'll take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For, you see, the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly I've seen too much
Hangar 18, I know too much

Foreign life forms, inventory
Suspended state of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold, but who'd suspect
The military intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense

Haha yea Mustaine is good for a lot of these

latter-day Killing Joke has a pretty huge amount of this

I actually haven't listened to Apathy since i heard that lyric cos i got too mad

immortal technique is a good rapper who chooses good beats, but

Does this count?

Water, fire, air, and dirt
Fucking madness, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

GY!BE to thread

Lol lj i totally thought of Immortal Technique. Some of his shit is accurate but he veers into o_O territory too often

Why is NASA part of the department of defense?

I guess we’re not supposed to be fact-checking these lyrics, but... for the record, it’s not.

Maybe this is a trifle obvious, but: Third Eye Blind, "Non-Dairy Creamer":

They call it KFC, cause it's not really chicken

Fucking madness, how do they work?

I believe the way that Madness worked was if you've come in off the street and you were beginning to feel the heat, then you'd better start to move your feet.

I always liked this early track from Kae (then Excentral) Tempest. Tbvf I don't think the "'lluminati of the beast" and shape-shifting aliens are posited here as fact.

https://youtu.be/TkR0uwjFjXg

What about this?

https://www.discogs.com/Muse-HAARP/master/11097

First thing I thought of was this DK classic that Jello "revised" later

Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes, here's a pretty flower

latter-day Killing Joke has a pretty huge amount of this

― the typo doer (Simon H.), Thursday, October 1, 2020 8:25 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was the first thing that came to mind — they have a song called "FEMA Camp"!!!

also the lyric "Poison the waters so that only G.M. crops grow"

Kanye’s got 2 songs that mention the government giving people AIDS.

Primal Scream's 'Rise', the one that was called "Bomb The Pentagon" until 9/11, actually not that much to argue with here tbh,

A life of work is a life of crime
You pay your taxes, you serve your time
All that money, where does it go?
Schools, prisons, hospitals, roads
Government funding of military science
Genetically engineered, ultraviolent
DNA, killer genes
To program microchips, marines
See stealth bombers and tomahawks
On CNN, pay-per-view war

did he steal those from megadeth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0Vmt-QIDc

Our country's like an empty cup
Ready for the people to rise on up
Lock and load while the bombs explode
Deep state comin' for ya down the road
Wave your flag, red, white and blue
Use ya mind like Roy laRoux
Build the wall, just stand tall
Better not kneel before ya throw the ball

Clinton, Soros, Podesta too
Stole our country in one fell swoop
Don't listen to the MSM
Look around, who's funding them?
Where we go one, we go all
The government is due for an overhaul
Roy laRoux, just ask the Q
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

- Roy St. Charlemagne la Roux, 2019

GY!BE to thread

GY!BE don't have any lyrics.

but the thought is conspiratorial.

kind of like how de la soul's songs do not have explicit lyrics, but the thought is erotic. similar idea, i think.

"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel" is kind of antithetical to paranoid conspiracy thinking.

It’s just a small step for him
It’s a nice break from Vietnam
(filmed in a factory)
Out on a backlot in Houston
Who says the world isn’t flat?

This one was actually true though, as the FBI was keeping a file on the Stones.

Fingerprint file, you get me down
You keep me running
Know my way around. Yes, you do, child
Fingerprint file, you bring me down
Keep me running
You keep me on the ground
Know my moves
Way ahead of time
Listening to me
On your satellite

Feeling followed
Feeling tagged
Crossing water
Trying to wipe my tracks

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin' papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down
Related

On your telephone
Wrong number
They know you ain't home

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin' papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down

Who's the man on the corner; that corner over there
I don't know. Well, you better lay low. Watch out

Keep on the look out
Electric eyes
Rats on the sell out
Who gonna testify
You know my habits
Way a head of time
Listening to me
On your satellite

And there's some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin' papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down
It gets me down

Hello, baby, mm-hmm
Ah, yeah, you know we ain't, we ain't talkin' alone
Who's listening? Well I don't really know
But you better tell the SIS to keep out of sight
'Cause I know they takin' pictures on the ultraviolet light
Yes, uh huh, yeah, but these days it's all secrecy; no privacy
Shoot first, that' s right... you know
Bye bye.
Right now somebody is listening to... you
Keeping their eyes peeled... on you
Mmm, mmm, what a price, what a price to pay
All right. Good night, sleep tight