The world lost a legend-in-the-making a couple weeks ago in Jamal Dewar AKA Pro Era MC Capital Steez. We initially reported the death as a suicide shortly after he posted on twitter “the end” with no explanation or reasoning behind it. Well, I decided to put my investigating skills to the test and see if I could come up with some motive or explanation that would further explain this incident, and I think I’ve got some answers.
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Jamal Dewar was a huge advocate of spiritualism and the realms of nature. He also believed the world was going to end in 2047. He believed that dying isn’t the end in his case, and that he will be resurrected in 2047 as a god. He thought that he was destined to be a catalyst for change on earth and that the body he was in wasn’t his “true form”, so he took his life to become his true self. Baphomet = Prophet of God.
Jamal died on 12/23/12. If you add those numbers up you get the number 47. Again, he believed that doomsday will occur in 2047, and that he will resurrect as a god in that year. This number is seen in many different ways throughout his music.
Here’s a brief explanation of his theories/beliefs. You can read the full list of comments clicking these image links: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Another commonly cited diagnosis is Schizophrenia. Here’s a common definition of it. It kind of fits his theory of him being close to God, etc.
One last thing. It’s been proven that people with schizophrenia get strong symptoms of it after doing certain drugs like Marijuana, LSD, Salvia, and Shrooms. Who knows? Maybe his experimentation with these drugs might have worsened his symptoms.
Whatever the cause of his death may be, it’s pretty clear that the root of it is behind this spiritualistic mind set that is seen to be rearing it’s head in the hip hop community (i.e. Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers, Ab-Soul and even Pro Era). A lot of it is beyond my level of understanding about it, but if you want to learn more, I suggest you further research the principles behind the recent “indigo” phenomenon. More importantly, always keep an open mind and strive to look beyond the music that’s presented in front of you. The subliminals are everywhere. RIP Steelo. May your legend live on in a brighter light.
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The Truth Behind Capital Steez's Death?,
You should probably put 2012 on all of your dates because its very important to the dates added up 12+23+2012=2047
That nigga was Skitzo , he was crazy and He offd himself . The End. RIP
This is still a suicide…
Capital Steez Rest In Peace
OK, to the writer of this bullshit, if you called yourself investigating and you were working for me whether it be newspaper, magazine, or blog your ass woulda been fired. If you was really thorough you wouldve read all his tweets, tumblr posts and facebook posts. And listened to his music. All you doin is speculatin. Quit copyin and pastin shit and come up witcha own analysis. Stop puttin dirt on this man. Name and let him rest. Just because a tweet that came from his account. That read the end doesn’t make it a suicide. The tweet was at 11:59 with one more minute to Dec 24. Use discernment and cognitive dissonance before you write some bullshit. So what if Steez thought the way he did, they were his thoughts. In Dead Presidents he said “I rather die from homicide than dyin without a pride.”
California Girl,
When I wrote this article I had no intention on putting dirt on his name, especially cause I’m pretty sure nobody fucks with him musically as much as I do. It is what you way it is: MY analysis and MY speculation. No one asked you to read it, and I’m pretty sure no one is telling you to take one position or the other, that’s up to you. If you wanna go ahead and cry about how you think this articles unfair , then why don’t you get your shit together and write your own article about what you think happened. Then again, I probably still wouldn’t care….
Ok like I said quit copyin and pastin shit, of course I was gonna read this because I want some type of insight on what really happened. I read this same bullshit on another site the webaddress being imgur something. With the same damn screenshots. So you must be the author of that as well or you just. Bit off someone else. Now dis shit got everybody callin Steez a. Scitzo. That aint how he wanna be remembered. Fuck outta here wit dat. And its Carolina Girl. Quit callin dis shit truth when yo ass don’t een know just speculatin!
You couldve just said allegedly, not once did I see that word. But ok since you’re ok with this article. When writing shit like this make sure you use the word allegedly. This is coming from a true writer. You don’t want no lawsuit because of omission of that one little word. I’m leaving on a positive note and I didn’t mean to spar with you verbally. I wasn’t expecting a reply.
Appreciate your insightful analysis. I’m glad you’re using your writing ability productively. Hope you enjoyed your stay.
Carolina Girl, you criticize him and tear apart his words, yet you cannot properly spell; let alone put together a basic sentence.
How in the world are you a writer? Read what you write, it is incredibly sad you even have the nerve to bother commenting on this. And you are also a lawyer? You do not get sued for speaking your mind on a subject, and who is going to sue, steez? Using the word allegedly in writing is NOT used to keep from getting sued, it is used when the source is not credible enough to be sure about what you are writing. If you hear something but cannot confirm it, it is what allegedly happened; but I think it is pretty apparent that steez was a troubled man with mental problems and as a result, he ended his life.
Did you go hard on the auto-correct feature after realizing someone was reading your bullshit? Your words might be spelled correctly, but your grammar still sucks. I would LOVE to know where you are writing for.
Go somewhere else, this guy is taking his time to inform people on a subject, and include his opinions on it. He is delving into a hobby he is most likely interested in, and you come along and try to ruin it? How much of a low life are you?
No doubt Madd Mike, I’m apologizing for coming at you like that. I was just feelin so angry when I read this. Use this platform you have to free these robots.
How did he die on the 23rd if his last tweet was on the 24th
I just have to say this is incorrect. You cannot name something the “Truth” and you yourself have no actual knowledge or facts on the manner. Jamal was my actual brother by birth and full blood. And Jamal was a nickname from me, not his real name. This is evidence enough to me that you did not conduct a proper “investigation” and merely google searched some “information” and made theories of your own judgment providing only speculation from rumors and “hearsay”. Next, he did not have schizophrenia and did not die on the 23rd. And learn about the root of these thoughts before making assumptions. There are plenty of functioning people who aren’t or haven’t been diagnosed with schizophrenia who believed similar things and they live amongst you and probably are some of your favorite celebrities. But last but not least, the matter is no one else’s business anymore, b/c no one on the outside looking in cared enough to hear and “dig” before or even speak out before the death so why now? What will it do? And what difference will it make at this point…My brother is gone. Now everyone is “listening” and researching and concerned about his thoughts being less common than theirs…? For whose own sake? Not his. Not our family’s.
Your article’s title is being utilized incorrectly. The death of Capital Steez remains shrouded in mystery – there simply is no official ‘truth’. Unless you have thoroughly proven that your theory regarding his death is accurate and flawless, then using the word, ‘truth’ within your headline is misrepresenting and utterly false. Unless you can forge a time machine and transport yourself back to 12/2012 to conduct personal interviews with the guy, I suggest that you follow the ethical rules of journalism and add a question mark to the end of that headline. It implies that there may or may not be a major discovery in the case of Steez and also spices up your article with a taste of mystery and wonder for the reader. Just my two cents.
Two respectable points. Next time I’ll be more clear of my intentions on future articles. Thanks for the feedback.
except he died on the 24th which equals 48, but yea.
I think I just pissed a kidney laughing at Carolina Girl’s comments above, especially given the fact that she’s slamming the abilities of the author here, while trumpeting out of her shit-pussy about her own status as ‘a true writer’.
My favourite line was this beauty though:
‘Use discernment and cognitive dissonance before you write some bullshit.’
That is possibly some of the funniest bullshit I’ve read in quite some time. Champion foolishness; I’ve got a dummy boner just reading that.
Let’s break this bullshit down:
‘Use discernment’: essentially another way of saying use good judgement.
‘Cognitive dissonance’: A state of mental anguish and discomfort usually experienced when a strongly held belief is confronted with evidence that demonstrably highlights that belief as fallacious.
Carolina Girl, whose belief it is that she is a ‘true writer’, is now confronted with evidence that she is in fact a ‘shit writer’, as evidenced through the fact that she has demonstrated a distinct lack of discernment in regard to her use of language, notably the utter misappropriation of the term ‘cognitive dissonance’, which in turn renders her entire point ‘bullshit’.
No doubt, should she read this, she’ll experience a state of true cognitive dissonance between her strongly held belief that she is a ‘true writer’ and the fact that she is by example of her own fumbling gibberish here, a pedlar of serious bullshit.
I’m not a writer by the way, but I do like to read, maybe I could suggest, Carolina Girl, you give that a try first; if you’re discerning, you could well avoid all this cognitive dissonance and prevent yourself from spewing bullshit in public.
As a person with mental illness, which some doctors calI Schizophrenia and others term it Schizo-Affective disorder I may be able to provide some insight based on my experience first hand.There are times when I may have psychotic features which fall in the grey area of Bipolar 1. Let me break it down, if i can; I have highs and lows and everything written in Capital Steez’s tweets I can relate to because those of us with mental illness (and I am not saying he was or wasn’t since he was not or hasn’t not been diagnosed and wont ever be) typically have what I would call a obsession with the spirit world and we become consumed with death, manic or grandiose highs and lows follow; whether it be we feel God is calling us to become something higher or our fascination and occupation with hearing voices, In our own mind it all is REAL and in 3D,like,seeing or visualization what we believe are signs only we can see from GOD, our higher power, or the other spirit world that SUPPOSED to tell we are immortal. I must add we also have visions and dreams,violent and unsettling. Our logic and reasoning as persons with mental illness is not shared with everyone because we feel only some are privileged to be a part of our inner circle.
In short everything had a magnified meaning to me, a black man, and I feel at times that if people really knew the REAL me they wouldn’t have such little regard for me, or if they could only see me in my TRUE SELF like God sees maybe,just maybe things may be different. I had bouts of rage, anger and there were countless conspiracy theories like the government is spying on me or people are reading my mail. I really believed all this is true. With that being said it doesn’t just end there. The paranoia is so intense that we are always feeling misunderstood by the world. My doctor told me between the ages of 18- 26 is when generally most people have their first psychotic episode or dalliance with pre-meditated suicide. Please understand the person was likely in distress and didnt know it,Weed and alcohol has always been my vice and when I had heartache and drama with girlfriends things just go even wilder like i was going out of my mind. I repetitively would OCD about things with no end in sight. My first episode landed me in prison, i had no criminal record, always had a job, paid taxes but like my psychiatrist said “blacks and latino men usually slip thru the cracks” and that’s what happened to me. I thought i heard the angels speaking to me, I felt I was being called by God for a greater purpose. I had what i believed to be PREMONITIONS and I even knew things about people, like things in their past or current that i shouldn’t have known based on spirits around me telling me things. Some times I was 100% correct and thought I had a gift and other times people were miffed that I was way off and it made me questioned what spirits were actually speaking to me.
I went to church and pastors asked me Do i really think God set out to send me to prison and placed me through all this distress for a higher calling? I had a logical answer, i actually told at least 3 pastors scriptures from the bible concerning Joseph and i had aligned myself with being a Prophet (there was no evidence to prove God sent me to prison either), I was not and has never slept well due to all the emotional mental signs and visions,voices I was experiencing even at an early age. In short i started to question my existence. I told the pastors i was hearing the voices calling me and even again, quoted Eli and Samuel in the Bible when the angels were calling Samuel and after they called him over and over Eli the Prophet told Samuel to ask the lord (GOD/Angels of God) what they wanted and if it was really from God they would answer him. I never got all the answers I wanted but i compiled all sorts signs I thought came from God, i even learned that the devil could answer prayers too. I admit I was a rebel and had a black militant personality and character. I felt Demonic forces around me and i was open spiritually to all spirits because Alcohol is a spirit, Indians used various unknown substances on their peace pipes to contact the spiritual world, and all the toxins in Weed is a hallucinogen.
I felt like i didn’t belong to this world and became hyper sensitive to everything. I smoke weed, sniffed a little cocaine,made primo’s (putting raw cocaine in blunts) and drank heavily. I went to pray with Muslims, worked at a Jewish condominium, my parents were Protestant, but i went to services at the Catholic church, got baptisted in a Pentecostal church, prayed with the Moorish people, hung out at the temple with the Nation of Islam watching movies with them and learning how to be a responsible male and so on. I was non denominational in my beliefs and since i could absorb knowledge and religions without prejudice or judgement i felt it all made me a well rounded person. My friends for 5 per centers, God Bodies, Asiatic Black Hebrew/Jews and Atheist and I got along well with everyone because we all did music and I was the only singer around all rappers. When Houston the singer gouged his eye out I was very moved to get myself some help because i identified with what he did because his PERCEPTION was as such as one who has mental illness.
Sorry for going on and on, but i just wanted to say in fairness to Capital Steez even though many want to speculate and he was showing all the signs what could be very well be distress in mental illness and/or a secret fascination with death. We can never know what happened. He is Gone too soon, simply put. I just want to say for all his friends and family members, I can really feel your pain because no matter how many times you rewind and play back things in your mind your never going to be able to have prevented this, all the what if’s and was there a meaning behind this or that etc, because once persons in this distress become fixated on suicide,obsession with death, the other world and all the other names we call it – We(person in this mindset, not feeling we belong) are so secretive and soooo consumed inside our own brain that we can’t reach out for help because we really believe we are prophets and destined for something bigger and feel as though we don’t belong here. The chemical imbalance are not from the drugs we dibble and dabble with but it may be genetic(and its not the mother or fathers fault) each person may be born this way and over time come to accept the way they perceive things because its their own reality. In closing please understand those with Schizoprenia/Schizo-Affective Disorders( and again Capital Steez was never technically diagnosed with anything) are actually some of the most intelligent people around, we are loyal friends, we keep our word, and many of us have been gifted immensely from God to over compensate for our illness, if and when we are aware that we have an illness or irrational belief system. I will be in treatment for the rest of my life, and I was just one of the lucky ones who went to jail when I had my episode. Many black men don’t know what their experiencing and at 18 my moms told me i was off of her Medicaid coverage so i was literally on my own, yet I didn’t have my episode until 26. People who knew him just may need counseling for Survivors Guilt and many black families refuse to get treatment because we tend to stuff our pain. Thanks for listening and I just want to say everyone gave excellent feedback conducive for repport, Yet keep in mind as much as everyone wants to label what the tweets mean and assume it was this or that it takes years to correctly diagnose anyone, countless medications, and the drug use only complicates things. One thing I am certain of is that there appears to be some sort of Depression and based on the signs that is, unfortunately, usually the first sign that black men ignore. If we all can do anything , it would be to have a better awareness and if you know anyone who wakes up tired for a period of 6 months then its likely they are Depressed and maybe there can be an intervention. The writer of this article has done a great service to cover this young mans obvious struggles and even if he got blasted , mental illness and suicide are both subject the rap community avoids because of the stigma that the person is somehow weak, which is not the truth. This appears to have been a medical condition, that was just not recognized sooner, but when it is, it is 99 percent treatable and managed. But again, we are not certain what it was so i just give thanks to MaddMike for broach the dialogue and creating a forum for people to share and to celebrate this young brothers genius and the music he gave to us in his short time on earth.
I just might add I Googled ” Baphomet” and was shocked at what I researched. It appears as if there was some sort of religious/occult/Satan worshiping connection here which is quite revealing. I can only say I would be quite disturbed if Hip hop and rappers are SACRIFICING this CURRENT life for a life in another time believing they will be reincarnated (if that is easier to comprehend). If Carolina Girl is upset that the writer of this piece is revealing insight and educating the public is she also practicing this ?
Cults are real, and if this was my son I would be terribly disturbed and would want someone to explain what all this means, here is what I found:
Baphomet is a supposed pagan deity (i.e., a product of Christian folklore concerning pagans), revived in the 19th century as a figure of occultism and Satanism.
The name seems to have first appeared in twelfth century France and its image first appeared in 1855. Then Anton Szandor LaVey and his atheistic Church of Satan adopted it in 1966. But it all starts with the Roman Catholic Inquisition and the Knights Templar.
Of 231 knights examined by the pope’s Commissioners in Paris, only 12 admitted, under torture, to knowing anything about the icon, as against 183 who confessed that they renounced Christ and 180 who confessed to defiling the cross in various ways.
I ‘d also reference the Acts 16:16 concerning a slave girl named Rhoda who was a psychic/fortune teller. She was “OWNED” by men who profited off of her DIVINATION which was considered to be called “python/snake which is the Devil of lies”. I add this for semblance because sometimes Satan works under the guise of giving the appearance he is telling the truth and then tricks the person in the end. Paul and Silas saw what she was doing and cast the spirit out of her and that angered her masters/owners because she could no longer make money for them, so the owners had Paul and Silas thrown in Jail. Now whether you read the Bible,Quran or what the reason I added this was for enlightenment that, based on the article Capital Steez allegedly claimed he would sacrifice his life now to come back in another time (2047), as though he could see into the future and predicted future events. I don’t know anyone who has died and come back in 20 years so this is truly disturbing if rappers are now in cults of sorts where they are trying to come back from the dead
Well I can say this dialogue was extremely helpful and interesting. I am listening to his mixtape and it is truly phenomenal. All I can say is Capital Steez was really gifted and his contribution to music should not be forgotten
RIP Steez. Thanks for the insight/dialogue.
He was far too organized to be schizophrenic. If he was really a nut, he wouldn’t be able to produce his music and put together great songs. Thats the truth. He just had some off the wall beliefs.
Also, I used to believe that I was God, and as was everybody else at one point also. It’s something that many deep, young thinkers go through especially those that experiment with psychedelics (which I am assuming he did). I was pretty hard on that paradigm for a while, maybe he just took it too seriously idk though. I moved on from that nonetheless. Realized that I am on par with God but not God, we are all on par with God.
I guess never accept anything as the full truth though, because the truth would be too great for our comprehension. But who knows, Maybe STEEZ was right?
Hey sorry to be a pain in the ass, and I thought this was an interesting insight into the unfortunate loss of a rising artist, but could you remove LSD and Shrooms from the list of drugs that can heighten or cause a schizophrenic episode. While it is true that marijuana has this property LSD and Shrooms actually have no correlation with schizophrenia, but can bring on psychosis otherwise. I know it seems like an insignificant change that’s no big deal, but thanks either way. RIP Jamal. Pro Era wont be the same without you.
He could have believed in the first Armageddon predicted by the Mayan People at midnight on the 23rd seems a bit coincidental.
I’m kinda confused. I mean everything made sense and seemed to fall into place until you said he died on the 23rd? Everywhere else it says he died on the 24th. With that being said, it would actually add up to 48, not 47. Correct me if i’m wrong.
capital steez was the shit r.i.p capital steez
apparently he was talking about killing himself long before it happened according to a video director of free the robots – http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-04-17/music/the-sad-tale-of-beast-coast-architect-and-pro-era-emcee-capital-steez/
sad stuff
death is only the beginning of life @pineal gland
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It was the fucking illuminati those bitches I hope they read this… They killed him… How well if u notice he’s was the against the illuminati he even made a song about them and what they do, he made this around October of 2011 or it was 2012 about 2 months past then u hear that this good ass hell rapper apparently killed himself, NO IT’S BULLSHIT HE WROTE THE END BECAUSE HE KNEW HE WAS GONNA GET KILLED IM WITH HIM FUCK OUR GOVERMENT IT’S ALL A LIE!
Fuck this post this is a lie whoever posted this is a puppet bitch who is trying to kill steezys influence because his influence is key in fixing the society and maybe even the world.
yeahh gonna go ahead and ask why you even released this article lol. you open up with how you reported it as a suicide but now you found the truth, then basically don’t offer any alternative explanation, still leaving it at suicide which it clearly was. also you related his beliefs to schizophrenia. everything he was describing about the ‘third eye’, indigos, and any other spiritual phenomena are all belonging to the Buddhist principle, are you implying that all Buddhists are schizophrenic? you should have thought before you released this article to the public
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This man, no matter how crazy he may seem is truly insperational and led to me starying my writings
Helped me see past the light I couldn’t believe he killed himself when I found out but for whatever reason he did
Rip steelo
Dude, Steez, come back. You were already a god to so many, your music meant so much to a lot of us. You’re needed in the world now, not in 2047, bro.. NOW. If only you’d have spoke to just one fan that feels as I do before you did what you did, maybe things would have turned out differently? We need you, bro. You never even knew how much..
Rip.
Honestly if you listen to pro era lyrics its always some sort of spiritual conscious present i don’t think steez was crazy i think that he just entered a new realm of thinking which we fail to realize because we see what others view as sane and don’t attempt to venture past that you’ve labeled steez with a disease but in actual reality he was one of the few of us who wasn’t blinded by the corruption of the world and submissive to it.
Damn you guys are creative with your writings i wonder if you guys could help me out.