Gims unveiled this Thursday a new piece entitled Hernan Cortes, named after the Spanish conquistador. He indirectly evokes the controversy caused by his remarks on the pyramids which would have served as antennas at the time of the pharaohs.
Gims responds. The rapper who caused controversy at the start of the week by developing conspiracy theories in an interview, explaining in particular that the pyramids of Egypt were used as antennas at the time, drew a new song on Thursday.
Surfing on this story of pyramids, to promote the piece and increase its visibility, the rapper chose to illustrate the piece of pyramids with a golden top, next to an electricity pylon. At the end of the song, we can also hear journalistic remarks evoking the rapper’s “conspiratorial slippage”.
“You like to take my words out of context too much”
“Under the spotlight, I leave traces like an error. I say nothing more, you like to take my words out of context too much. I’m coming, ill-intentioned like Hernan Cortez”, he raps.
The song, unveiled on YouTube on Thursday, has already been listened to more than 110,000 times. He is baptized Hernan Cortesnamed after the 15th century Spanish conquistador, who enslaved and decimated the Aztec population.
“Damn Antennae”
“At the time of the Empire of Kush there was electricity. The pyramids that we see, at the top it is gold! Gold is the best conductor for electricity. It were goddamn antennas and historians know it”, thus advanced Gims, in an interview with a youtubeur called LeChairman on his channel Yes Hustle.
The remarks, which date back to March, resurfaced this week on social networks. Many historians, such as Egyptologist Claude Traunecker have disputed this theory.
“No, the pharaohs did not know electricity and we have no evidence either in the texts or in the archaeological reality of the presence of gold on the pyramids”.
Others have pointed out how dangerous such a discourse can be, because it fuels a conspiratorial discourse and discredits historians.
Gims’ latest album, his fifth disc, entitled Mozart’s last wisheswas released in 2022.
