It's been 5 days since David Bowie started his journey back to the astral palace he descended to Earth from, and the world is still reeling from his departure.
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Bowie was giant in every sense of the word, and musicians like Kanye West--who've carefully constructed a monumental persona--have absolutely taken their cue from the David's effortless largeness.
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Some people have taken the Kanye/Bowie comparison to an extreme, as Tom Barnes of Mic.com reported earlier, with a conspiracy theory that basically states Bowie predicted the coming of Yeezy well before West was even born, as his successor to be music's savior.
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The article broke down the "prophecy," that apparently dated back as a far as 2007 to a blog calling Bowie "the John the Baptist of Music."
The two main points of evidence:
On the album cover for Bowie's 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, the musician is standing under a sign that says 'K.WEST', which apparently was just the name of a fur store in London.
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The first song on the album is called "Five Years," where the titular Ziggy is told the world will end in 5 years, unless a 'Starman' will come to Earth to save humanity from itself; five years and (two days) after the album was released, Kanye West was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Oh...
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Mic also draws parallels to "Lazarus," the third track on Bowie's recent (and final) album Blackstar and "I Am a God," ALSO THE THIRD TRACK on West's album Yeezus.
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LAZARUS was the biblical character who Christ raised from the dead to show GOD'S redemptive power; through Kanye, Bowie will RISE AGAIN.
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If you want to go further into a wormhole, there's an entire (somewhat convincing) Reddit thread that delves deeper into the Blackstar/Yeezus, and other morbidly accurate connections:
On January 7th, Sia previewed her new song 'REAPER'--co-written and co-produced by...Kanye.
3 days later, 3. DAYS...David passed away.
What's that old saying? "And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day..."
Whether or not David was a literal soothsayer remains unknown, but what is certain is, by now, Mr. Bowie has left our Solar System, and is speeding across a silent desert of interstellar space, grinning with bittersweet assurance that despite all of our treachery, we will be OK.
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