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Speaker 3: There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
Speaker 3: the light and the darkness, the natre and the zenith.
Speaker 3: For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Speaker 3: Yet for others there's something else. Entirely, it's the place
Speaker 3: where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
Speaker 3: the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
Speaker 3: this world. Welcome to Hip Hop Horror Stories. I'm your host, Belly,
Speaker 3: and each week we're going to take you to the
Speaker 3: limits of your imagination as we explore the reality of
Speaker 3: paranormal experiences. I believe in this shit for real, and
Speaker 3: the stories you're about to hear might make you believe too.
Speaker 3: Before I introduce our first guest, I want to share
Speaker 3: a personal story of mine, the hip hop horror story
Speaker 3: of my own.
Speaker 2: So let's go back.
Speaker 3: This was probably nineteen ninety three, nineteen ninety two, Ottawa, Canada.
Speaker 3: I was probably in Canada at that point for only
Speaker 3: a few years. You know, there was there was there
Speaker 3: was just a lot of rules in my household. It
Speaker 3: was a lot of things that we couldn't do. One
Speaker 3: of those things was to not go in my parents' room.
Speaker 3: First of all, shout out to my parents, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: incredible people, great inspirations, but they just had something about
Speaker 3: going in the inside their room. So one day, usually
Speaker 3: the door was locked, one day the door was open.
Speaker 3: It was a hot summer day. I noticed the door
Speaker 3: kind of cracked open. I walked in. There was a
Speaker 3: disposable camera sitting on a night stand. So, of course,
Speaker 3: being a little kid, I picked up the camera. I
Speaker 3: wounded up, and you know, when you're a kid, you
Speaker 3: think the world revolves around you. So the only thing
Speaker 3: I could think of doing was taking a picture of
Speaker 3: myself in the mirror. So I took that picture, put
Speaker 3: the camera down, snuck out of the room before my
Speaker 3: mom caught me, and then you know, went about my day,
Speaker 3: probably like wrestling with my brothers, getting beat up by
Speaker 3: my older brother, you know, having like low key racist
Speaker 3: comments said by like my neighbors. They didn't even know
Speaker 3: they were being racist, Like accidental racism. What's going on?
Speaker 3: And probably like a week later, my mom got the footage.
Speaker 3: I mean, my mom got the film developed and she
Speaker 3: came home. She was going through the pictures, and then
Speaker 3: she literally just went off on me. So I told you,
Speaker 3: why would you grab my camera? Why the hell would
Speaker 3: you go in my room? When the hell did I
Speaker 3: leave it unlocked? So it just made her even more
Speaker 3: mad that she wasn't on her p's and q's like that,
Speaker 3: and she threw the picture at me. So it's the
Speaker 3: picture of me in the mirror. She threw it at me,
Speaker 3: completely heated. So I grabbed a picture. I look at it.
Speaker 3: Of course, being a little kid, I'm smiling and laughing,
Speaker 3: being like a this is math funny. I'm gonna hang
Speaker 3: this shit up. So I look at the picture and
Speaker 3: it's me. Obviously, the flash is blocking out my face.
Speaker 3: In the background, there's a window. This was a split
Speaker 3: level house, so that window would have been probably about
Speaker 3: ten to twelve feet high right.
Speaker 2: From the ground.
Speaker 3: Then I look closer and noticed there was a hooded
Speaker 3: figure standing in the window, peeking in both eyes, showing
Speaker 3: just red eyes, a hooded figure, and I remember just
Speaker 3: every hair on my body. At that time, I was
Speaker 3: too young to have hair on my body. But if
Speaker 3: I had hair on my body, it would have all
Speaker 3: stood up, definitely had goosebumps. I showed it to my brothers,
Speaker 3: we all started tripping out. So that night at dinner,
Speaker 3: I pulled it out and I showed it to my
Speaker 3: mom and I was like, look, this is the this
Speaker 3: is the picture that I took. Tell me what that
Speaker 3: is in the background. And my mom took it and
Speaker 3: said everything she could to basically disprove what I showed her,
Speaker 3: and then she ripped the picture in half, and through
Speaker 3: the picture. Throughout my life, every single time I have
Speaker 3: a nightmare, that figure is there. And the worst part
Speaker 3: about this is one of my friends. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: say no names protect that identities. One of my friends,
Speaker 3: uh probably like twenty years ago, had a nervous breakdown
Speaker 3: and came to my house. So he was drunk, he
Speaker 3: was high, you know, everything under the sun. You know,
Speaker 3: he was in tears. I calmed him down, you know,
Speaker 3: we spoke. I tried to use comedy to lighten the
Speaker 3: mood a little bit, and you know, just just just
Speaker 3: just someone that was near and dear to me. I
Speaker 3: wanted I wanted to see him happy again, you know.
Speaker 3: And finally, when everything was calm. He started crying out
Speaker 3: the blue. He was like, there's something that follows. I'm like,
Speaker 3: when you're talking to me, he said, tonight, the whole night,
Speaker 3: when you walk around your condo, there's a hooded figure
Speaker 3: that ship think. Oh, that's when I realized you don't
Speaker 3: see it. That shit been with me my whole life,
Speaker 3: and the only time I captured it was in that picture.
Speaker 3: This week we have French Montana and he's here to
Speaker 3: tell us his hip hop horror story.
Speaker 2: A couple of years.
Speaker 3: Ago, French went back to Morocco and he thinks he
Speaker 3: brought back more than just food poisoning.
Speaker 4: It was about November twenty nineteen. It was a regular
Speaker 4: old day. I'm about I was waking up exhausted from
Speaker 4: all the trips I had. Went to Saudi Arabia, then
Speaker 4: I went to Egypt, and after Egypt, I went to
Speaker 4: Morocco and I'm aba. It was my birthday, so I
Speaker 4: was doing a lot of drinking in Morocco and I
Speaker 4: guess I probably went and I ate at the wrong
Speaker 4: people house. I think I had that mentality over there
Speaker 4: and I was like, you know, and I was just
Speaker 4: talking shit.
Speaker 2: I was like, give me whatever I want.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, I was moving around Morocco reckless, and
Speaker 4: I think somebody was like, okay, I think somebody definitely
Speaker 4: had a little.
Speaker 2: Sprinkle in there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: When I when I ate at them people house, its
Speaker 4: just ship just got crazy. Like I started seeing shit
Speaker 4: that wasn't there, like I had Like when I was sleep,
Speaker 4: Zack had this little dog and I woke up like
Speaker 4: like four am, and like the fucking dog is just
Speaker 4: like on top of me, barking, that ship all around
Speaker 4: me and there's nobody there, right, So I thought I
Speaker 4: was tripping.
Speaker 2: So that passed. I flew back.
Speaker 4: The day started when I came back from Morocco. I
Speaker 4: remember the weather that day being you know, regular La temperature.
Speaker 4: You know, it was a valley regular at like eighty
Speaker 4: Right now, mind you, my mother is still in Africa.
Speaker 4: Everybody's still there, Zack is still there. So I get home.
Speaker 4: I just start seeing people in my backyard. There's nobody
Speaker 4: there though. Well I'm not on mushrooms. I'm not on nothing,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So I just start seeing
Speaker 4: people back there. It's almost like people came and camped
Speaker 4: in the back of my house. I'm just I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm telling niggas like you see that, Like there's nobody
Speaker 4: back there, but I can see shit. So I just
Speaker 4: start tripping the fuck out. I remember after that, I
Speaker 4: went to the mods and I called the fuck here
Speaker 4: and I was like, yo, come, I need you.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they gave me to eat. I
Speaker 2: gotta get this shit out of me. So he came.
Speaker 4: He played the Koran and this and that, and I'm
Speaker 4: just sitting there, you know, and he's like and he's like, yo,
Speaker 4: I don't know if you possessed this and that. Like
Speaker 4: he just start scaring the shit out of me. Right then,
Speaker 4: my mother just walks in. I could hear her voice,
Speaker 4: like she's inside of the house, right, So I no,
Speaker 4: I just hear her voice for a little bit. I
Speaker 4: hear her voice. I'm like, yo, my mother down there.
Speaker 4: So she was in Africa. So he's like, nah, like
Speaker 4: you know, she's like, she's not here, nobody downstairs.
Speaker 2: I can hear shit.
Speaker 4: I go to the studio. I walk in there, so
Speaker 4: I'm playing cams, some music, my mad cams, and I
Speaker 4: just see somebody sitting in the studio with that's some
Speaker 4: mad guns. I'm like, yo, what the fuck is avenue?
Speaker 4: Then after that, and then after that, I went outside
Speaker 4: the crab and I went across the street. I look
Speaker 4: back and my mother is like outside the gate, she
Speaker 4: telling me by wherever I'm going. I was like, nah,
Speaker 4: I'm bucking.
Speaker 2: I'm tripping.
Speaker 4: Everywhere I looked, I saw something. I seen the figure
Speaker 4: that had one eye. I seen two figures that were
Speaker 4: ying high behind a tree. I seen these two ladies
Speaker 4: that were spinning around and whispering to each other. I
Speaker 4: seen like a black bird, like the same one that's
Speaker 4: in Vikings, a raven, flying around the room. At first,
Speaker 4: I can see them, and as time went by, when
Speaker 4: when whatever it is kicked in fully kicked in, they
Speaker 4: could touch me. And that's when I was bought. And
Speaker 4: that's when I bumped out. Like when I was inside
Speaker 4: my room, something just grabbed me. I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 4: this is for real. I'll go see what's wrong with
Speaker 4: it didn't kill me. And all the spirits that came
Speaker 4: from it was there wasn't like evil spirits.
Speaker 2: In the beginning.
Speaker 4: It was, but as as as a trickle down, it
Speaker 4: was like, okay, I was safe. I was just like, wow,
Speaker 4: I can't believe this happened to me. I was backtracking
Speaker 4: actually just to see where did I eat at the
Speaker 4: house that I've been to, and I just started calling
Speaker 4: people cursing them out. Yeah, if y'all didn't do this,
Speaker 4: then find out who did it. It was just like
Speaker 4: my imagination and whatever it is just like came back.
Speaker 4: It's like it became reality basically, kind of vibe. I
Speaker 4: think I was tapped in, Like I think I was
Speaker 4: tapped into a different world for a little bit. Even
Speaker 4: if everything came from my imagination or everything was within,
Speaker 4: I think that it would still be real because even
Speaker 4: imagination is made by you know, about a high power.
Speaker 4: You know, there wouldn't be no imagination if it wasn't
Speaker 4: already made. So I honestly just think that, you know,
Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with experiencing things like that in your life,
Speaker 4: you know, so you could see that there is different
Speaker 4: places that you know you can go, whether it is
Speaker 4: in your mind, whether it's in your reality. What's in
Speaker 4: your world? I asked one person before I asked the
Speaker 4: fuck here. He was like, you were just between life
Speaker 4: and probably deaf in different world. You were seeing the
Speaker 4: things that people see on the other side. I'm a praying,
Speaker 4: spiritual person one million percent. If I didn't believe in
Speaker 4: it's supernatural, I believed in it after my incident.
Speaker 3: We divert from hunted houses and mystical beings to enter
Speaker 3: a setting it seems on the surface ordinary, a hotel
Speaker 3: room on the road with a college basketball team. NBA
Speaker 3: star Javal McGee tells us a story so crazy it
Speaker 3: makes one question the very fabric of reality. Imagine this
Speaker 3: a night filled with card games, the spirit of youthful
Speaker 3: invincibility filling the air. But as the clock takes towards midnight,
Speaker 3: Javel makes a seemingly innocent mistake. He leaves his hotel
Speaker 3: room door wide open, but follows next Defire's explanation.
Speaker 5: My name is JaVale McGhee aka Perre three times and
Speaker 5: this is my hip hop horror story. So if you
Speaker 5: don't know who I am, I play basketball and I
Speaker 5: went to the University of Nevada. Areno. The story begins
Speaker 5: us on a road trip. We had a road trip
Speaker 5: to a little city. I would say it might have
Speaker 5: been like Sacramento or something, but one of those cities.
Speaker 2: And I went to a mid major.
Speaker 5: So I went to the University of Nevatreino, So we
Speaker 5: weren't going to like major cities. But we went to Sacramento,
Speaker 5: which is a major city. But we went to I
Speaker 5: think we were in Sacramento. We were landing to play someone.
Speaker 5: I forgot who we were playing. We had to get
Speaker 5: to the hotel. So we got to the hotel. Is
Speaker 5: you gotta think it's fifteen sixteen, just twenty year old
Speaker 5: eighteen year old boys. So the first thing we decided
Speaker 5: to do figure out what we're all gonna do together.
Speaker 5: What we decided is we're gonna play like this game
Speaker 5: called high Die. The way the game is played is
Speaker 5: in the name. Whoever has the highest die wins, So
Speaker 5: I roller one, you roller five, you win the money.
Speaker 2: So that was the game we.
Speaker 5: Were playing, and we would go once we checked in
Speaker 5: the hotel, we find out where everybody's room is, and
Speaker 5: all of our teammates because we were bunked up to
Speaker 5: to a room, we'd find out where everybody's room is
Speaker 5: and we would go in their room and play high Die.
Speaker 5: And I was actually winning. I probably made it like
Speaker 5: fifty sixty dollars because we're playing for dollars, so I
Speaker 5: have sixty x my money for sure, I'm going to
Speaker 5: room the room just gambling, gambling, gambling, and I'm winning,
Speaker 5: feeling good. The way that we were able to go
Speaker 5: in people's rooms where we put a deadlock, we put
Speaker 5: the deadlock. You know in hotels when they can flip
Speaker 5: the little deadlock in the door so that the door
Speaker 5: doesn't close all the way if you're going to get
Speaker 5: ice or something. We got the deadlock on the door. Everybody.
Speaker 5: I'm sure everybody else were smart enough to take the
Speaker 5: deadlock off and go to sleep. But I'm kind of
Speaker 5: forgetful when it comes to certain things. So I'm in
Speaker 5: there with my teammate, reminded Sessions MD. Sessions is two
Speaker 5: years older than me too, so I'm the freshman, he's
Speaker 5: the vet. But I leave the door. I definitely leave
Speaker 5: the deadlock. It was my fault at dead like with me,
Speaker 5: he wasn't in a gambler, so it was my fault
Speaker 5: the deadlight. So the reason I mentioned the deadlock is
Speaker 5: so we go to sleep with the dead Like on
Speaker 5: I go to sleep whatever regular night, my teammate remind
Speaker 5: screaming out.
Speaker 2: And I can hear them.
Speaker 5: It's like get up, and I'm just like I'm thinking
Speaker 5: it's a dream or something's going I don't know what's
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 2: So I wake up and look. I look at him first,
Speaker 2: and then I.
Speaker 5: Look in front of us, and there's nothing there, so
Speaker 5: I'm like, who's this person talking to?
Speaker 2: Then I hear the door hit the dead boat.
Speaker 5: If anybody knows, that's kind of like a pet peeve
Speaker 5: of mine too, is when you put that dead boat
Speaker 5: in there, if you don't catch the door, it makes
Speaker 5: a loud, like a giant clunk against the wall. And look,
Speaker 5: sometimes it damages the door too, So it made that noise,
Speaker 5: It made a giant clunk, So from my perspective, it's.
Speaker 2: Just get out. And then I look up.
Speaker 5: No one's there, but I hear the deadlock, so I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: it can't be lying. I just heard the deadlock. So
Speaker 5: somebody definitely was in here. I just didn't visually see them.
Speaker 5: So I asked him, like, what do you mean somebody
Speaker 5: was in here? Who was in here? What happened? He said,
Speaker 5: when you woke up, he felt something looking at him
Speaker 5: when he was sleep, which is the only reason why
Speaker 5: he woke up. So when he woke up, he said
Speaker 5: he saw a guy, a older white guy but white
Speaker 5: hair in a trench coat, standing in front of our beds,
Speaker 5: like in the middle and just standing there staring at us.
Speaker 5: And then when he woke up, that's when That's what
Speaker 5: I guess I heard, was him telling him.
Speaker 2: You gotta go, hey, hey, hey, get up, get out, get.
Speaker 5: Up, And then I heard the door close. So I
Speaker 5: technically didn't even see it. I just literally experienced it
Speaker 5: sort of, but didn't actually get to see the guy
Speaker 5: and never found the guy and none of that. But
Speaker 5: it was just a real creepy situation that I literally
Speaker 5: never forget. And I literally never even seen the guy.
Speaker 5: So I have a memory of a person that I've
Speaker 5: never actually seen, but it's really just the guy in
Speaker 5: the trench cover who was in front of our bed
Speaker 5: in college. The crazy part is he was sure it
Speaker 5: was a real person. He wasn't like, no, it's not no,
Speaker 5: the dude didn't slowed away. He said it was a
Speaker 5: real dude, like just standing there in front of our bed.
Speaker 5: If I wouldn't have heard to tell the truth, if
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have heard the deadlock, I wouldn't have believed him.
Speaker 5: I would have been like, bro, you're dreaming or you're
Speaker 5: having a nightmare or something. But the deadlight is what
Speaker 5: really like put me over the top to Okay, there's
Speaker 5: no reason for him to lie about that, So I'm
Speaker 5: I'm dead sleep. It's I'm probably in rim. If y'all
Speaker 5: know what rim is, then you go ahead and look
Speaker 5: that up. But I'm sleep sleep, I'm feeling amazing, and
Speaker 5: all I hear, I'm just abruptly awakening by my teammateers.
Speaker 2: Yelling hey, hey, get out of here. Hey, hey, just
Speaker 2: look up.
Speaker 5: And when I wake up, I'm not really a coherent
Speaker 5: person that wakes up. I'm kind of foggy a little bit,
Speaker 5: so I'm just confused at what's going on. And him
Speaker 5: explaining that to me really just it messed up my
Speaker 5: head a little bit.
Speaker 3: Despite the extensive investigations, the mysterious figure of appeared that
Speaker 3: night remains as elusive as a shadow on the wall,
Speaker 3: unseen in surveillance footage, unknown to witnesses, yet clear in
Speaker 3: the memory of those who felt his threatening presence. So
Speaker 3: what are we to make of this insane tale? Was
Speaker 3: this a visitor, a manifestation, or a trick played by
Speaker 3: exhausted minds? Some questions are not made to be answered,
Speaker 3: and others should just be left alone. Sometimes we carry
Speaker 3: things with us that we don't understand. In my case,
Speaker 3: it was some kind of demon. To this day, I
Speaker 3: don't know who he is or what he wanted, only
Speaker 3: that he was always there. I wasn't the only one
Speaker 3: that could see him. I know somebody close friend of
Speaker 3: mine that was in crisis saw him all those years later,
Speaker 3: and it really makes me wonder what this thing was
Speaker 3: or what it really wanted, And I'll probably never find out.
Speaker 3: The point is we're never alone, even when we think
Speaker 3: we are. French seem to have the whole village with him,
Speaker 3: and his fakir advised him that perhaps these people were
Speaker 3: a bridge between the living and the dead. Were they
Speaker 3: warning him of something that was coming, or was it
Speaker 3: just a peak into a world beyond our own? I
Speaker 3: guess we'll never know. Thank you for listening. I'm your
Speaker 3: host Belly. Join us next week for more hip hop
Speaker 3: horror stories.
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