[Music] it's like an African champ more what the puffy doing but I knew that it was God talking to me you know what I'm saying because of the way it made me feel emotionally I broke down start crying all over the place in the car and I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I was thinking about trying to do this to somebody cuz it was really in my heart to kill him J now a lot of folk don't believe that cig amen you had love stolen from you amen the devil tried to steal your soul too
yes amen but we took care of that Thief yes the Lord so Rolling Stone just dropped a bombshell investigative report that sheds new light on the tragic story of Craig Mack the first artist who ever dared to walk away from Bad Boy and just when we thought we'd heard it all 50 Cent who's been working on that highly anticipated documentary about Diddy has spilled even more tea revealing shocking new details about how Craig Max's life took a terrifying nose dive after crossing paths with Diddy first it was The Nightmare of working under Diddy's thumb at
bad boy and when Craig finally managed to escape he ended up falling into the clutches of a doomsday cult that prayed on his trauma and just when you think it can't get any darker there's more to this creepy story see Craig isn't the only bad boy artist who turned to religion after their run-ins with Diddy from mace to shine and loon all these bad boy artists had to cleanse their souls after dealing with Diddy as for Craig Mack before his heart gave out at just 47 years old he was so deeply scarred by his time
with Diddy that he actually came this close to pulling the trigger and ending Diddy's life so what really happened to Craig Mack how did his time at bad boy push him to the brink and what did Rolling Stone and 50 Cent uncover about Craig's untimely death let's dive in and find out let say um you know what I'm saying to everybody over there the bad boy family you know what I'm saying God bless y'all you know what I'm saying and everything else and and my soul and my heart is with y'all you know what I'm
saying now did you foresee a lot of times yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean did I want to be my man big no did I want to be pop no but did I see it yeah I saw it you know what I'm saying and I I saw because I saw the way it was headed tragic life of Craig Mack Craig Jameson Mack better known to the world as Craig Mack was born in the Bronx but grew up on Long Island back in his early days he went by the stage name MCE EZ and started
rapping as a teenager his talent was undeniable and he was already hitting the road on tours pretty early in his music career in a 1995 interview with the New York Times Craig shared that it was his cousins who first introduced him to rap when he was just 9 years old by the time he was 12 he was already writing his own lyrics I knew I wanted to be like LL Cool J and Run DMC he said reflecting on his early inspirations starting out so young meant Craig had the chance to rub shoulders with some industry
veterans including Alvin Tony that connection with Alvin played a crucial role in Craig's Journey leading him to both the peak and the struggles of his career it was Alvin Tony who set up a meeting for Craig to rap in front of Shawn Diddy combes and Diddy was so impressed that he immediately offered Craig a record deal with his newly launched label Bad Boy Records in fact Craig became the very first rapper to drop music under the bad boy Banner his 19 94 hit single flavor in Ya Ear blew up topping the charts and even hitting
number one on Billboard's us hot rap songs the remix of that track also became legendary marking the breakout of the notorious b and one of Buster Rimes's first solo moments Craig was literally on fire with everyone in the industry falling head over heels for him eagerly waiting for what he'd drop next after his debut album Diddy even hyped things up in a 1994 interview on yo MTV Raps saying he was already working with Craig on a second album that was supposed to drop in January 1995 but here's the kicker Despite All That Talk the album
never materialized I want to congratulate Craig Mack on his Grammy nomination no question yes baby cool that's cool and I'm sure you got much things in store for my man yeah definitely we got a new album we're working on him to drop in January besides that we about to just drop our R&B stuff but did you notice how confused Craig looked when Diddy confidently claimed they were working on on Craig's second album well that's because the reality at bad boy was a whole different story and years later Craig spilled the tea in an interview about
what really went down with that album I got with somebody you know I'm saying I'm not going to say their names I'm just going to say somebody that wanted to do another album with me so I said cool I go I gave him my price and the price was to me was low you know and it was supposed to give me the money and I go in the studio and I start banging out so he came to me and was like yo I can only cut you a third of the money I'm supposed to give
you I said you know what man I want to do these songs you know what I'm saying if you going to do this that the third let's do it you give me the money as we go you know what I'm saying I'll take a third again I'll take a third again when we finish the actual recording of the album Nothing happened no money so I stopped recording I said I'm not going to be you know an idiot and sit here and do all this stuff for everybody and then I'm not going to see anything from
it you know next thing I know money come you know with this with this this bullish Mafia mentality with him and his goons and all that stuff like that you know talking about yo you know you owe us an album and I'm like excuse my friends but I ow you owe me money you know what I'm saying so if you can come with the rest of the D then we can come up with the rest of the album no D no records Craig revealed that Diddy straight up threatened him but Craig wasn't backing down he
was ready to stand his ground and he even contemplated taking out Diddy however he changed his mind at the last moment that's it I don't think you know what you mean when you saying that man you know what I'm saying you know what type of dude I am you know what kind of muscle I got you know what I'm saying right now you need to be in the studio so I said all right meet me up there at 7:00 and I went and got one of my gunmen my man um I'm not going to men
his name even he came with me up there okay and they saw him and they fell back cuz they was going to do something to me but they didn't so we talked about you know came defin look no cash no record I'm not going to be sitting here going in the studio all night every night busting my ass and I ain't seeing nothing from it and you're making me feel like even if you did have the rest of that cash us taking it to the next level it's going to be a problem because it's going
to be money problems I can see it already so I caught a couple of threats a couple of you know passes by in the street and everything else I caught a couple of threats and I was sitting there U going to pick up my sister from work I'm in her car I'm driving her car to go pick up from work I just was sitting in the chair and I was like God I'm so tired of everything that's going on I was in my sister I call my sister cuz we've known each other for so long
you know what I'm saying it's like brother and sister you know but I was in my sister's car and um I had a gun in my lap and I'm sitting there I'm talking to God I'm like Lord I don't want to do this but if it comes to getting ugly where somebody's going to be trying to kill me I'm going to have to do something first or do something to prevent that from happening you know what I'm saying and I was like I'm frustrated I really need your advice and your love right now and I
started flipping around the radio station 660 a.m. or fm1 stations where the Supreme Team used to be on early in the morning the dude from Al Hamstead would have that joints blasting you know so I was looking for that and when I turned the station all this gospel music came on and it was this song I've never heard before in my life ever but I knew that it was God talking to me you know what I'm saying because of the way it made me feel emotionally I broke down started crying all over the place in
the car and I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I was thinking about trying to do this to somebody cuz it was really in my heart to kill him you know what I'm saying I was going to do it but I knew in my conscience also that that's not the right thing you supposed to be doing now Craig did manage to drop a second album in 1997 without bad boy however it didn't hit like his debut none of the singles made it onto the charts and he couldn't recapture that initial success fast forward to 2002 and
Craig popped up in the music video for Diddy's hit I Need A Girl Part One sparking hopes that maybe he was gearing up for a comeback word on the street was that Craig was working on his third studio album in 2002 with plans to drop it in 2007 he even teased fans with a single called Mack tonight in 2006 but after that Craig pretty much disappeared from the hip-hop scene until 2012 when a shocking video leaked on YouTube revealing that he had joined a cult called Overcomer Ministry down in Walterboro South Carolina great Ma here
huh what you call yourself child of God no no no no you said that when you started out oh um uh incredible mat incredible man you'll be surprised how many people on the world know about Craig M that's why I Tred to tell you when he showed up here I didn't pay him no respect at all then when they told me he had money I showed him less respect that's right that's right amen amen you sure I did now say he got faith I'm giving them more respect Glory hallelujah thank you Jesus he told me
he can do that iella is that right yes in the name of Jesus well I know to the world the rap I kick will make you think I'm a lunatic lost my mind or mentally sick but For All Mankind this is it New Kingdom on the Earth where the devil don't fit Hallelujah no more bad times and no more Wars New Jerusalem the city with the gold on the floors righteous Lords a Thousand-Year PA the Earth rejuvenated Christ illuminated I fight for the cuse I kick down doors a devil set up see I'm about to
erupt Max a warrior I wear the armor of God fix your face raise the Bas and stop looking so hard you see praising the Lord is easy for me Craig Max right where he's supposed to be you're not close to me you fo to me the Saints praise God and the pope Praises Rosary see we about to take it to the next millennium on Judgment Day I know where he sending them the Earth and God on one Accord and I'll be in the choir singing Praise the Lord now Overcomer Ministry was not your typical Church
setup it was a secluded Christian commune of about 70 people all living together in a kind of isolated self-sufficient Community cut off from the outside world they lived in mobile trailers worked the farm and prepared for the second coming of Jesus but it gets even more Sinister than that the leader of Overcomer Ministry Ralph Gordon stair that old man you just saw in that video hugging Craig turned out to be anything but holy in December 2017 stare was arrested on a laundry list of charges including some despicable crimes involving young members of his cult unfortunately
stair died before he could be brought to justice but despite all of this Craig Mack chose to stay with Overcomer Ministry until his final days even as his health deteriorated so what pushed Craig Mack to join this cult how did he go from being a rising star in the rap game to ending up as a Broken Man in a cult well you won't be surprised to hear that Diddy plays a role in this story Rolling Stone just dropped an investigative report that spills some shocking never before heard details about Craig's time at Bad Boy Records
and trust me it's a lot to take in Rolling Stone investigates so here's the Scoop from Rolling Stone's latest investigative report turns out that Craig was actually in talks with SH Knight about jumping ship to Death Row Records back in the mid90s Apparently Craig was seriously considering joining death row especially since his career was hitting a rough patch even though he had that massive hit Flavor in Your Ear which was pretty much the anthem that put Bad Boy Records on the map the report goes on to reveal that things got so bad for Craig at
bad boy that he tried to file for bankruptcy just to get out of his contract his sophomore album operation get down was stuck in limbo until 1997 and he was feeling the heat but thanks to constant clashes with Diddy and some tough bankruptcy laws Craig couldn't break free that's when sug Knight came into the picture and the two reportedly started discussing the possibility of Mack joining death Rose East Coast post division Shug Knight actually flew Craig out to Los Angeles and dangled a pretty sweet deal in front of him a $200,000 advance and a whopping
$11.25 million recording budget it looked like Craig was all set to make the switch to death row but things got complicated fast once bad boy got wind of these secret negotiations they stepped in to even get a chance to leave his bad boy contract Craig had to withdraw his bankruptcy filing and agreed to give up a portion of his potential death row earnings but just when it seemed like Craig was about to make this big move everything fell apart the tragic murder of Tupac in September 1996 shook up the entire hip-hop world including death row
with Tupac gone plans for Craig's future with death row went up in smoke leaving him stuck in an even more uncertain situation Craig's ex-wife roxan Alexis Hill Johnson told Rolling Stone he was scared puff was pissed Mack was leaving Bad Boy and the fact that he was going to go with SH from what I understand puff was was enraged roxan added puffy became a vindictive bastard and really stuck it to him for doing that I do feel like Puffs the trigger he effed my family up puff kicked it off he was the Catalyst but just
when you thought it couldn't get more tragic Rolling Stone dropped a bombshell about Craig's cause of death and turns out he didn't die of congestive heart failure as previously reported Craig's suspicious death on March 12th 2018 news broke that Craig passed away at just 47 years old and it was initially reported that he died of heart failure the funeral took place in his hometown of Long Island New York and according to DJ scratch who was the only famous person in attendance there was something strange about that day scratch later posted a picture of Craig's obituary
with a message saying that the funeral was weird I've never been to a service for someone famous and I was the only famous person to show up scratch wrote very weird day today but what puts a smile on my face is that lil bro was at pece way before he passed away that's what matters most to me now like I said reports were saying that heart failure was the cause of Craig's death and there was a lot of speculation at the time that Craig didn't get treatment for his heart issues because of his involvement with
the controversial cult whose members apparently don't believe in modern medicine but just when you thought you heard it all Rolling Stone drops a bombshell claiming that Craig's death certificate showed the cause of death was HIV AIDS and that Craig refused to seek treatment now we don't know the exact moment Craig got his diagnosis but it's rumored he was aware of it before he joined the Overcomer cult but hold on to your seats because things are about to get even darker fans are buzzing with wild theories that Diddy might have had a hand in Craig's death
and some are even suggesting that Diddy could have deliberately infected Craig with the virus I know it sounds pretty far-fetched but remember back in the late '90s there were all these insane rumors about people allegedly getting injected with HIV as a way to get rid of them without leaving a trace remember when sh joked about injecting people with HIV and mentioned Easy E it's real simple you know man I love your show I like what you're doing BR right that's why here fresh out of G I'll come to check you out right right why the
bulletproof V oh it's not oh no that's just it's new style you've been in the C for a while this what everybody this what all the talk show host are wearing this is a new thing right yeah see if somebody going to do something nobody see technology is so high right right so if you shoot somebody you go to jail forever kids you don't want to go to jail forever right so they got this new thing out there people sell them all the time they got this stuff they call they get blood from somebody with
AE and shoot you with it so that's a slow death yeah Easy E thing you know what I mean yeah no okay way a light in the moon Wow E went public with his diagnosis on March 16th 1995 and back then it was reported that he'd contracted the virus from a partner by the week of March 20th while he was still in the hospital EAS sent out a final cryptic message to his fans and warned them about getting involved with what he called their institution don't be a fool and join their class they want you
to enroll in their institution so they can you with their new tragically on March 26th 1995 EAS passed away from pneumonia related to AIDS just a month after his diagnosis now at first no one really thought there was anything odd about E's death especially since in the 9s AIDS was often seen as a death sentence but over time all sorts of conspiracy theories started swirling with the most persistent one pointing fingers at Shug Knight it's unclear exactly where this Theory started but sh himself mentioned it during his notorious interview with Jimmy Kimmel and it's not
just fans who are into this Theory E's son young EAS also claimed that his dad was killed back in 2015 young easy shared a clip from the that Jimmy Kimmel interview and wrote his death never added up to what people have always said maybe they think we're idiots blind to the truth I don't know but for you new fans youngsters and people who just don't know much notice in Straight Out of Compton easy did not get sick until after the studio incident with SH young easy went on to say that sh himself admitted in the
interview with Kimmel that injecting people instead of shooting them is a new thing that's done also adding that the truth is out out there so now that Rolling Stone revealed that Craig Mack also died from HIV AIDS fans are starting to wonder if Diddy played a part in Craig's tragic death after all we heard from Craig himself how Diddy threatened him and how he came close to ending Diddy's life and then the fact that Craig didn't see any other Escape but to join a call is another major red flag but what makes this story even
more tragic is the fact that Craig wasn't the only bad boy artist who found religion after dealing with Diddy and according to 50 Cent all these artists had to run for their lives after dancing with the devil 50 Cent exposes Diddy so some of 50 Cent's old IG posts have started making the rounds again and let's just say he didn't hold back in these posts 50 actually called Diddy Satan hinted that Diddy was involved in Biggie's death and even made a list of all the artists who as 50 put it had to run to church
after dancing with the devil one of the post shows a photo of Diddy and in true 50 Cent style the caption reads I rebuke you Satan what you say no puffy juice 50 Cent didn't stop there he also posted a photo of former bad boy artist G Deb who was convicted of murder in 2012 and given a 15-year to life sentence but here's the wild part this case was beyond bizarre because G Depp actually turned himself in nearly 17 years after the murder on December 15th 2010 G Depp just walked into an NYC Precinct and
confessed to killing a man in Queens back in 1993 at first the police were skeptical especially since gep was reportedly Under the Influence when he made the confession but when they matched his story to a cold case they went ahead and charged him with murder and if you ask 50 Cent there's definitely something off about this whole situation 50 wrote GP after dancing with the devil got high walked into a police station and confessed to shooting a man 16 years earlier now serving 15 to life where they do that at after this 50 shared a
photo of Diddy with biggie suggesting that Diddy is responsible for Biggie's death 50 captioned it big dead after dancing with the devil then 50 Cent went on to post about a bunch of former bad boy artists who turned to religion after distancing themselves from Diddy first up was a photo of the late Craig Mack with his cult leader and 50 captioned it Craig Mack after dancing with the devil puff beat them all out the money now they praying for something good to happen no puffy juice and then 50 posted photos of former bad boy artists
shine Lon and Maize all of whom found religion after severing all ties with shine made headlines when he converted to Judaism in 2010 not long after being released from prison remember he served nearly a decade behind bars for his role in that Infamous 1999 nightclub shooting involving Diddy and his bodyguard as for Lon he left bad boy in 2008 and converted to Islam stepping away from the music industry altogether finally 50y posted a photo of Mace who became a pastor after leaving bad boy and 50 wrote in the caption after After You Dance with the
Devil you need God in your life look at what puff did to murder mace and if that wasn't enough word on the street is that 50's upcoming documentary is set to dive deep into Craig Mack's tragic life and suspicious death with some brand new details about Diddy's rumored involvement fans are already buzzing with anticipation hoping this documentary will finally shed some light on what really happened to the legendary Craig Mac one fan said just like Diddy killed Kim and injected her to make it seem like she had pneumonia did Diddy did something to Craig and
another one added Diddy is the Grim Reaper of the industry taking everything and anything he wants by all means this takedown has been a long time coming and well overdue so sad Craig Mack had to go through this Rip but let's hear your thoughts on Craig Max's tragic story do you think whatever trauma he suffered at Bad Boy made him vulnerable to being used by a cult and how do you feel about this theory that Diddy had something to do with Craig's passing from AIDS drop your comments below and don't miss out on this next
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