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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
the light and the darkness, the natre and the zenith.
For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Yet for others, it's something else. Entirely, it's the place
where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
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the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
this world. In this next story, we venture into the
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heart of Brooklyn, a place where cultures collide and folklore
lives on in the modern world. Here, amidst the concrete jungle,
in the hustle of city life, Rowdy Rebel found himself
haunted by an eerie figure, a man who's very presence
and stilled fear in those who crossed his path, A
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man rumored to be a practitioner of voodoo. For an
eight year old Rowdy Rebel, it was the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So this is your boy, Roddy Rebel. I grew up
in Brooklyn, New York, Eastpott pushed to be a zach.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And this happened to be a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
When I was like, I want to say, nine years old,
ten years old, I was coming up in Brooklyn, and
I used to go to school. I used to walk
to school by myself. My pops used to let me
walk to school by myself when I was young coming up.
Everybody in the neighborhood alwaysknew me. Everybody always like my
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pops and respecting him. So I used to go to
school everything same route. Used to walk up fifty first,
fifty second, fifty third, then go to piss was just
pissed two sixty eight right there on the corner. Sometimes
I used to see like this lady come out the
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store and always brought me candy. She used to buy
like all the little kids candy at the after school.
She was from the neighborhood. She was a sweet lady.
But she used to always tell us about this voodoo man.
But it's this this Haitian man. We used to call
him the Voodo man. So we never really seen this
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guy til I got older. I got older, I moved
to the nineties, alright, So growing up in the nineties,
like it was like basically it was. My neighborhood is
like mostly like a West Indian vibe on West Indian fail,
so you would have fucking Jamaicans on one block. You
I have a bunch of Haitians on another block, Trainees
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on another block.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Then you have the s hokey stores.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And then like where I was coming from, like there
was a lot of hustling going on, a lot of
danga banging going on for me. So that was really
my neighborhood. Like I don't know, I used to live
in the fifties first, and I went to the nineties.
When I went to the nineties, I used to see
this guy with like holes in his ears and holes
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in his lips. Like he had like you know, the
earrings were not like an airring, you know when you
get your ears pissed, but it's like a big hole
in your air. He had like the big ear whoops
like then he had three of those in his lips,
and like his face.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Had stars on it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He had one eye that was like not like not
cock eyt it, but like a high face shut and
the other eye was fully open. Like, Bro, this nigga
like a straight like someway a movie, Like somebody put
him on a movie scene like a straight character. It
was so scary. Bro, It's like one of the scariest
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shit I ever seen in my life. I used to
run for this guy, like I used to start like
like I don't know what it was like. It was
like like I used to be so scared, shook on
my mind. Like and one time I told my pops like, yo,
who was this guy for my pops? Like, yo's a
Haitian man minus business.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Don't worry about.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Him, so boom.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I used to go home. I used to tell my
my little brother like, YO.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Listen, when you see this man eye sitting up a TI,
don't talk to him. I don't even even lodge him.
Then later on I start having dreams about this ship
like yo, and on my tripping like yeah, I had
a Yeah, I used to have nightmares about that guy
I'm telling you. But then I used to be before
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I used to have nightmares about him. I used to
have nightmares about Buster Rhymes videos. And then it's like
one time I had a dream. I never figured this dream,
like both of them was in the dream. Bro swearch
to God. Yeah, he used to do these videos like
give me some mouth, the cheese at give me some mouth.
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He used to have like these characters in the videos,
like like the demonized characters, and like even when he
had that if you really want to partay with me
let me like the video way and the videos he
was making it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It was just so scary to me, Like his face
expression is like I was like, nah, it's a scary gler.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I used to see the magga like after you know,
when you see somebody one time they I seen him again.
I seen him again, seen him again. I should see
this sticker all the time. Bro, I used to be shook.
They used to go home, they start for night in this,
I started talking about Pops again, Like, yo, bro, this
guy is crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I should see this guy. Think he chased me or
something like.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
You see me and I run like I still see
him an hour later, like like what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Like I'll be at a park playing ball. I see
him come out and block walking. I'm like, no, I'm
doing this one.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Like a couple of days to go by again, I
see this nigga again, Bron't walk into a store somewhere
around on walking. I seen this one then. I've seen
this snicker one time. I'm going to a basketball game. Bro,
I never figure this day, but I'm going to a
basketball game. I got my shorts, everything, my bag, and shit,
I seen this nigga.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm one of my bag was sticking and drop my bag.
So now when I'm about to go back for the bag,
I'm skinned to go back for the bag. Bro, I
get to the game, I don't got my shorts.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I had to bar shorts for niggas blost my whole
bag day, bro, Like super scared for listening, Like you
know what I mean, Like let me see, like miss
I must say, like probably when I got like thirteen,
like thirteen fourteen, like I was scared of so no more,
Like I don't know, like I think I was getting
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older in the streets. She wasn't feeling me no more.
But yeah, that's one of my hord stories right there.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
That Ayes.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Rowdy Rebel chose a path to let him away from
one form of darkness into another. Ironically, by embracing the streets,
he found reprieve from the haunting gaze of his voodoo tormentor.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
But at what cost.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Fear is a powerful motivator, one that can drive us
to make choices we never thought possible. Whether it's the
fear of the supernatural or the fear that comes from
our own worldly choices, we are all haunted in our
own unique ways. Lock your doors, be cautious of the
paths you tread, and always remember some fears are conquered,
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only to be replaced by others. Growing up, we see
a world around us that we lose sight of as
the years pass. Or maybe we feel an energy to
sometimes manifests itself in the form of something we can visualize,
at least for a brief moment in time. Whatever the
case may be, this energy can weigh heavy on a
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person or even a place.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
This next story explores just that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
On this episode we have La Legend Radio Royalty and
overall amazing human being, Big Boy. We're honored to have
him on the show sharing his hip hop horror story.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
All right, let me try to paint this scenario for
you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right, it was twelve years of age and we were
living in Los Angeles and at the time we were
going through a homeless situation. So we ended up moving
with this family that lived off of ninety of them
from mont named the Coleman family.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I'm not sure how my mom.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Knew these people, but they were gracious and kind enough
to allow us to live at their home.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
The house was, you know, an LA basic house.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I think it was three or four bedrooms, four bedrooms
and the patio in the back. Being that it was
eight of us that moved into this household with these people,
we had to kind of like sleep where we could.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
So my brother and I, my brother.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Mouse, we would sleep in the back like where there
was a patio, and I remember it had like linoleum floors.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
It was the.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Last part of the back of the house that led
to the backyard. And I remember their father had passed away,
and so with their father passing, you always felt this
vibe in the house, this vibe in the house. I
remember one time I was in the living room and
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you know how when you have the arrowhead or the
gallons of water, and you would hit the button to
dispense the water and it'd get that air and it'd
go blut.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And it only does that when you're dispensing water.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I was in the living room and I heard in
the kitchen, I heard the water do the gluten And
I'm like, okay, shit, what the fuck was that? So
I get up and I look, No one's in the kitchen.
So I started to feel like, man, are we getting
these you know, these vibes of he's here. They spoke
about their father all the time, I had never seen
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a picture of their dad.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I never seen the picture of their mom, who.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Also was deceased, But you just felt these things in
the house. And their father lived there when he died,
so it wasn't like he died and then they moved
to another place.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
We were actually staying with this.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Family in his home, like his room was his room.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
This is this man's house.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So one night, my brother and I my brother Mouse,
we're sleeping in the back where we lay down at right,
and for some reason, I started to feel like this
vibe that we weren't the only ones in the room.
And when I looked over at my brother Mouse was
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completely knocked out. So I hear the door open. Now
I'm literally laying on the floor like on blankets. I
hear the door open. I'm twelve years of age, and
I'm like fucking shook. My brother's literally laying next to me.
So when the door opened, it could have been anyone
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in the house that could have came back to check
on us. So I pushed my head up and I look,
and I cocked my left eye open, and the door
is opening slowly, but there's no one on the other
side of the door.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
It wasn't like my older brother or one of my
sisters popping over.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
The door like Kurt Hey, none of that. You don't
see a hand pushing it open. You don't see a
figure of somebody standing there. You just see the door
making this steady motion as if it was opening slowly.
And I know it sounds like a scary movie, but
it was like a not the sound, but the way
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the door opened.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
And it's freaking the shit out of me. But I
don't yell, I don't scream. I don't wake my brother up.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And as I'm looking at the door, I see the
door now start to close. But it opened up where
it felt like it was wide enough for somebody to
walk into that room.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
It wasn't a jarred. It wasn't like the wind blew
it open.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It was a steady motion like someone was coming into
the room. Now, I put my head down. As I'm
putting my head down, I'm like, Okay, I don't want
to see nothing. I don't want to hear nothing. I
don't want to have nothing around me. As I have
my head laying down, I hear bare feet, like someone
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that was barefoot walking past my head. Now at this moment,
I'm not looking up to see shit. I know what
these footsteps sound like. I know that I can hear
these footsteps coming towards me, closer to me, right at
my head. Then I can hear the sound start to dissipate,
start to like the person had already walked past me.
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I don't open up my eyes. I don't look. I
don't try to see shit. Right, So now I'm buried.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
In the pillow. Okay, I don't want to see nothing.
I don't want to see nothing. I don't want to
see nothing. But my brother mouse is still knocked out.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So as I'm laying there, I rotate my head and
when I look now I'm looking at the actual curtains,
because the patio was right there.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
So I'm looking at the curtains.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But before I do that, when I turn my head,
I cock my eyes open. And when I look, I
see it looked like it's now it looked like it
was someone's face floating in the curtains.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Like I could see the person's face.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I could see the manner hysms, the bone structure, and
the person was wearing a like a Derby cap.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
But I could see this.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Vividly now I'm gazed at it and I see it.
It's not like it was a vision. And I put
my head down. I'm looking at this and I see
the person jawline, the it's his nose. I see the eyes.
Then I see the Derby hat and the Derby hat
is laid upon his head like low. So now I
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close my eyes once again, open my eyes back up, and.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
The image is gone.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And when I say image, I don't mean like it
was something like floating on the curtain or it was
like a mirage, like it was actually I felt like
it was actually there.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
When I closed my eyes and open them back.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Up, it was gone. I put my head back down
and I start to hear. Next morning, I wake up,
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I'm talking to my brother Mouse. Before I could say anything,
my brother Mouse says to me. He said, Kurt, I
think I saw something last night. And I'm like, oh shit,
I'm like Kenny man, which is Mouse. I'm like Kenny.
I said I felt something too. I felt like I
saw something. And so he explains to me that he
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felt something. I guess at a different time walked past
his head and he could feel the breeze like when
somebody pass you the same with me.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
You could feel the breeze.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Of when someone's breaking that wind when they're passing by you.
He had the same experience that I had When I
thought he was sleep. He had the same experience that
I had. While he had the same experience when he
thought that I was sleep, so I was sleeping, he
had the same experience. So now as we compare stories,
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and I'm twelve, my brother Mouse is fifteen. We get
up and now everybody's congregating in the kitchen, everybody's standing around,
so on and so forth. So we go to tell
the family what we felt from last night, this presence,
and as we're speaking, they're very intrigued. It really engaged
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to what we're speaking about. There it's not like these
kids and this teenager and they're like, oh, they're just
telling these tales. Everything that we were saying they held
on too. And so when we started talking about the
footsteps that we heard, so on and so forth, they said,
that's where our father used to go, and that was
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like his getaway room.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
So we're sleeping in his getaway room.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And they said there were nights when if he couldn't sleep,
he would get up and he would walk back into
this room, and that's where he got away. Not to
disturb anyone, but that was like the place they he
enjoyed going to. So then I tell them, I say,
you know what I think I saw your father. I've
never seen a picture of this man.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
And I said, he was like thin face. I describe
his jawline.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I describe what his nose looked like, pointy nose, and
I said, and he was wearing.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Like a Derby cap.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Soon as I said Derby cap, the entire family started crying.
They said, I explained their father exactly how their father
looks when I saw a picture of their father.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
When they went and got and and the home didn't
have all.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
These pictures of their dad, so on and so forth,
I guess with their dad dying, I don't know if
there was a packaway, but I had never seen a
picture of their father. And so as I'm telling them
about his nose, his bone structure, he was wearing a
button down, like a button down shirt with a tie.
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And once I got to the Derby hat, they lost it.
And once they went to go find a picture of
their dad, as I'm sitting here many decades later, when
I saw that picture of their father that was fucking
one hundred percent on spot with the person that I
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saw that was floating that image that was in.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
The actual curtain. So they were saying what he would
do was he would walk.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Out, go to that room hanging that dan area, and
that's how he would access the backyard.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
He would walk through there to access the backyard. So
that was like his area.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It was peaceful, the onies being scared and frightening. Shit
was upon me and possibly my brother mouse. It wasn't
like it felt like eighty thing evil. It wasn't like
he was trying to run us outside the house. And
that was the same thing with the water dispenser. They
said that he would get up late at night and
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he would drink water. It's one of those experiences, man,
that you spend some time trying to talk away, or
you spend some time like, man, did that really happen?
And as I'm sitting here today, like shit, it was
real that day and decades later, shit, it's real now.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Should we fear the things we don't understand or should
we have an open mind to the various entities we
may see in our short time here? Big Boy, although
fearful felt a sense of calm when he went through
his experience. There was a message there. Unluckily he was
courageous enough to look up and receive it. That's all
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the time we got for tonight. I'm your host, Belly.
Thank you for tuning in to hip hop horror stories.