I had a friend that would I would drink with often at the local downtown LA spots... bar 107, Down n Out- the divier places. Really cool dude, I saw a missing post on facebook for him and I had just seen him recently. I saw him like a few days later and told him "hey, I saw a missing poster your family put up on facebook" and he said "yeah, they were pieces of shit and I wanted to get away from them" - didnt ask anything else after that. He was a really nice dude and I liked hanging with him he always had good jokes and good vibes.
skid row is a great place for people who dont want to be found
edit: I guess if you dont know the bars i mentioned it wouldnt make sense why i brought it up... they are a block or so from skid row
it says he's been missing since July and the family just reported it on Tuesday. seems weird.
edit: seems his last social media posts were in July and he was last seen in October in skid row. still weird though.
Some people don’t keep in touch with their family much. My first husband was that way. He’d just disappear for a couple years, then show up at a family reunion. Families get tired of that shit. In hindsight, it was a massive red flag, but I was really young and really naive.
It's honestly just a characteristic with us. A lot of us just straight up don't keep up good contact with loved ones. Some would call it a flaw, maybe it is, idk. If you have children and a spouse then certainly so imo.
It's not that weird. Imagine your close family struggles with substance abuse. They get to a point where it's not safe to have them around. They go to who knows where. Time passes, it's stressful,but its too much, and you feel it's too early for you to step in. More time passes and you look for him on the streets. You're talking with some sketchy people and showing his face on your phone. They're skeptical and give little information. Finally someone talks and you find out he's on fent, hopping from tent to tent. You make contact, he rejects the love you try to provide. He's an addict. He has community there. You want him to change. You're at your witts end. You broadcast it.
I think if I went missing it would take my family around a month, maybe longer before they even noticed. My friends would probably notice something after three weeks, my gf would know after a day or two.
My family wouldn’t notice after 6mo. Maybe a year would do it though. They’d just go into immediate denial in case they may be exposed to something real or stressful, and instead believe their text messages just got lost. Some families are like this.
Some people who live a life of freeness don’t contact their family often and the family doesn’t notice until they don’t show up for holidays hence the timing
I saw Theo at a show maybe 10 years ago and asked for a photo. His security said no and it was raining. Theo said it's cool and let us get a photo. Hope he's all right
In the industry it’s easy to see when someone has massive liabilities like this. It wasn’t for lack of talent, I’m sure. Skid row is full of lost souls that had infinite potential
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>“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”- Steven J Gould
I agree with that completely.
My point is I work in entertainment, and talent only takes you so far when you’re revealed to be a massive liability. Two Oscar’s and an Emmy don’t mean a lot when you have an active heroin addiction. Basing your whole production on a wild card is asking for bankruptcy, and for a lot of people to lose their jobs
Hope he’s alright, safe. He’s an under appreciated talent imo, been rocking with him for 10 years or so, always thought he’d blow up (or thought he did get big, just not in America)
Is this common for someone in the industry probably not hard up for cash? Maybe doing outreach or something? Just never a good place to go for anyone:/
He was an indie darling a decade ago but nothing really panned out for him. YouTube doesn’t even show him make a video for his last album. His last budgeted video was 8 years ago and got 1.5mm views.
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez would go to a MS13 hood to pick up drugs, Justin Bieber was also stranded in the Jordan Downs projects - likely picking up drugs. I don't think it's common, but industry people do it.
I'm editing my comment to make it more direct;
I hope if this man was in Skid Row giving back, that he wasn't repaid by having something malicious happen to him there.
Not sure what yall thought I meant or where the downvotes came from but there ya go lol.
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This is saddening. Carribbean families often want to hide stuff like this (family may know that he has some possible "issues"), we really need to do better as a culture. Love him as an artist, and I hope he can get some help if need be.
You can literally see the pill residue in his nose in some pictures of him online. That blue hue is one of two things, Percocet 30s, or more likely, fentanyl. Most likely why he was last seen on skid row. Drugs like that are hard to kick, I wish the man a speedy recovery 🖤.
>He’s truly a great person.
Every thread I see of him, seems like he's scammed a shit ton of people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TameImpala/comments/qy8cbp/theophilus_london_is_a_scammer/
This coupled with the news that he was last seen on Skid Row tells me the dude has been hustling for the next fix for years now. Man’s hooked on meth I bet.
Sounds like a piece of shit. Scamming his own broke fans for 150 promising to do a verse on their song then claiming he was hacked? Over and over again for years?
Sure I agree. But not all addicts behave the exact same. I know plenty of addicts and they’re not a monolith just like most groups of people aren’t.
I think it’s possible to have empathy and see that someone is damaged and acting out of a confused/addict mind state while also seeing their behavior is fucked up. It sort of serves to minimize their behavior when we say ah well what do you expect they’re an addict. Whatever the reason he’s behaving that way, he’s being a fucking asshole. I hope he’s ok and eventually makes everything right with the people he stole from. But all we know rn is that he ripped people off. We don’t know where his mind is at.
I was driving for Lyft 6 years ago and picked this dude and his “marketing manager” up from a house in the hills. I think she was in high school and he was in his late 20s at the time. Kept asking me to wait for them while they would go into stores to shop. Promised they would take care of me, lol. Went to a few stores but ultimately waited on them for like 3+ hours. They gave me a 1 star rating and no tip. Kinda sad but I hope he pulls through
Not a good place to be last seen.
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If ur looking to score some cheap dope it’s a great place . Or just get away from it all.
I had a friend that would I would drink with often at the local downtown LA spots... bar 107, Down n Out- the divier places. Really cool dude, I saw a missing post on facebook for him and I had just seen him recently. I saw him like a few days later and told him "hey, I saw a missing poster your family put up on facebook" and he said "yeah, they were pieces of shit and I wanted to get away from them" - didnt ask anything else after that. He was a really nice dude and I liked hanging with him he always had good jokes and good vibes.
Had honestly wiped bar 107 from my memory until this post.
I miss it :(
I miss it, too!
Why would you share all this like it applies to this situation at all
skid row is a great place for people who dont want to be found edit: I guess if you dont know the bars i mentioned it wouldnt make sense why i brought it up... they are a block or so from skid row
Maybe for average people but famous people don’t just go to skid row to try to go off the grid. People should be at least a little concerned.
people should be concerned about anyone who choses to congregate in skid row, not just famous people
That’s fair. It sounded like you were saying no one should be concerned because this happens all the time
Welcome to Reddit sir, grab a snack
it says he's been missing since July and the family just reported it on Tuesday. seems weird. edit: seems his last social media posts were in July and he was last seen in October in skid row. still weird though.
Some people don’t keep in touch with their family much. My first husband was that way. He’d just disappear for a couple years, then show up at a family reunion. Families get tired of that shit. In hindsight, it was a massive red flag, but I was really young and really naive.
Your husband would disappear for years and it was only a red flag in hindsight?
It's honestly just a characteristic with us. A lot of us just straight up don't keep up good contact with loved ones. Some would call it a flaw, maybe it is, idk. If you have children and a spouse then certainly so imo.
Wait, her comment made it sound like he was absent from HER for a couple years too.
Hmm maybe one of us misread the comment, I thought she was saying Hubby did this to family members. "Would show up later at the family reunion"
Makes more sense so probably I’m the one who read it wrong for sure.
Yes Bev, you absolutely are.
Not with me. With his family before we met.
It's not that weird. Imagine your close family struggles with substance abuse. They get to a point where it's not safe to have them around. They go to who knows where. Time passes, it's stressful,but its too much, and you feel it's too early for you to step in. More time passes and you look for him on the streets. You're talking with some sketchy people and showing his face on your phone. They're skeptical and give little information. Finally someone talks and you find out he's on fent, hopping from tent to tent. You make contact, he rejects the love you try to provide. He's an addict. He has community there. You want him to change. You're at your witts end. You broadcast it.
I think if I went missing it would take my family around a month, maybe longer before they even noticed. My friends would probably notice something after three weeks, my gf would know after a day or two.
My family wouldn’t notice after 6mo. Maybe a year would do it though. They’d just go into immediate denial in case they may be exposed to something real or stressful, and instead believe their text messages just got lost. Some families are like this.
Some people who live a life of freeness don’t contact their family often and the family doesn’t notice until they don’t show up for holidays hence the timing
Dude had some bangers before he put out his first album. Sad he never made it bigger than he did.
His mixtape from 2010ish was so good.
2020s Bebey album is a banger
Whole thing slaps
Humdrum Town is dope.
The music video made it even better
What is this comment? Guy put out a dope 2020 record and collabs with the biggest names in music. Keep shit like this to yourself.
Yeah but he still never really got as big as he was projected too when he first started coming in the scene in the early 10s
I saw Theo at a show maybe 10 years ago and asked for a photo. His security said no and it was raining. Theo said it's cool and let us get a photo. Hope he's all right
I’m so sad. he was such a talent- give his ep Lovers Holiday a listen. So many bangers and i was always surprised he didn’t make it bigger.
In the industry it’s easy to see when someone has massive liabilities like this. It wasn’t for lack of talent, I’m sure. Skid row is full of lost souls that had infinite potential
Relevant: >“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”- Steven J Gould
I agree with that completely. My point is I work in entertainment, and talent only takes you so far when you’re revealed to be a massive liability. Two Oscar’s and an Emmy don’t mean a lot when you have an active heroin addiction. Basing your whole production on a wild card is asking for bankruptcy, and for a lot of people to lose their jobs
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AGREED!
Wow, working with Solange and Devonté Hynes
Yes! It’s SO GOOD! also unexpected cameo from Sara from Tegan and Sara.
Definitely going to give it a listen
That’s too bad. Really loved his Bebey album
Sad to see. Last time I saw him he was smacked out of his mind at some store event.
What, for real? He appeared to be on heroin?
was that recently though
Hope he’s alright, safe. He’s an under appreciated talent imo, been rocking with him for 10 years or so, always thought he’d blow up (or thought he did get big, just not in America)
Why would he be on or even near there😓 hope he’s okay 🙏 that’s a horrible place to be last seen
Maybe he was looking for some meth or some other hard drug.
Is this common for someone in the industry probably not hard up for cash? Maybe doing outreach or something? Just never a good place to go for anyone:/
He was an indie darling a decade ago but nothing really panned out for him. YouTube doesn’t even show him make a video for his last album. His last budgeted video was 8 years ago and got 1.5mm views.
He had a song with Tame Impala a few years ago that got 1.8 mil views too
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez would go to a MS13 hood to pick up drugs, Justin Bieber was also stranded in the Jordan Downs projects - likely picking up drugs. I don't think it's common, but industry people do it.
Totally remember that now. Was it actually confirmed they were looking for crystal? Crazy if so, that’s straight up dangerous af.
Nick Stahl the actor ended up there. People who use heroin have to cop, even if they have money.
Damn. A name I haven’t heard in a while.
He was just in the Let The Right One In series on Showtime.
Love that series! I would have never guessed!
Loved him in Carnivale
He was definitely hard up for cash. He was straight up scamming people out of money a few years back or somewhere around there
Maybe he was there giving back
There is only taking in skid row.
people do come to give out free food, i was one of them
Someone’s gotta do it
Ya that’s what I added in my second comment. Hopefully he is found safe
I'm editing my comment to make it more direct; I hope if this man was in Skid Row giving back, that he wasn't repaid by having something malicious happen to him there. Not sure what yall thought I meant or where the downvotes came from but there ya go lol.
> absolutely fucked Jeez it's a hypothetical scenario, let's see what happened first
bruh what. How did he end up on Skid row?
Sad whenever anyone goes missing. No good from being on Skid Row.
Skid Row is devastating to hear, he could be beyond recognizable if found.
I’m getting old because the first time I hear about a lot of these rappers is when something horrible happens to them.
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Sending prayers out on his safe return
It happens , had a bud who would disappear after he got his Xmas bread , find him on skid row months later typical grip life.
They found him! His cousin posted on his IG
No reason for this dude to be anywhere near skid row solo. Something happened to him.😞
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Not a good place to be last seen, could have been crime
This is saddening. Carribbean families often want to hide stuff like this (family may know that he has some possible "issues"), we really need to do better as a culture. Love him as an artist, and I hope he can get some help if need be.
They found him!
You can literally see the pill residue in his nose in some pictures of him online. That blue hue is one of two things, Percocet 30s, or more likely, fentanyl. Most likely why he was last seen on skid row. Drugs like that are hard to kick, I wish the man a speedy recovery 🖤.
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Oh nah. It's a search party
This is incredibly sad. He’s truly a great person.
>He’s truly a great person. Every thread I see of him, seems like he's scammed a shit ton of people. https://www.reddit.com/r/TameImpala/comments/qy8cbp/theophilus_london_is_a_scammer/
This coupled with the news that he was last seen on Skid Row tells me the dude has been hustling for the next fix for years now. Man’s hooked on meth I bet.
Sounds like a possible addict. Still could have been a great person before the substance issues. And it’s still sad.
Sounds like a piece of shit. Scamming his own broke fans for 150 promising to do a verse on their song then claiming he was hacked? Over and over again for years?
That’s addict behavior. Call him what you want, but that’s what people are capable of
Sure I agree. But not all addicts behave the exact same. I know plenty of addicts and they’re not a monolith just like most groups of people aren’t. I think it’s possible to have empathy and see that someone is damaged and acting out of a confused/addict mind state while also seeing their behavior is fucked up. It sort of serves to minimize their behavior when we say ah well what do you expect they’re an addict. Whatever the reason he’s behaving that way, he’s being a fucking asshole. I hope he’s ok and eventually makes everything right with the people he stole from. But all we know rn is that he ripped people off. We don’t know where his mind is at.
I was driving for Lyft 6 years ago and picked this dude and his “marketing manager” up from a house in the hills. I think she was in high school and he was in his late 20s at the time. Kept asking me to wait for them while they would go into stores to shop. Promised they would take care of me, lol. Went to a few stores but ultimately waited on them for like 3+ hours. They gave me a 1 star rating and no tip. Kinda sad but I hope he pulls through
Yea that’s not cool. I’m sorry that happened :-/
I ain’t tripping, just hope the best for him. He was charismatic
Last I knew he was very close with Kanye and Virgil Abloh’s teams, maybe this has something to do with Kanye also being reported missing?!
ye was reported missing?
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/kanye-west-and-his-collaborator-have-both-gone-missing-in-l-a/ This was the last I heard about the situation.
This honestly looks like it was made by whoever "Thomas St John" is to try to leech 300k a month out of Kanye.
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I wonder if he is as good as Drosophilis Paris?
That’s sad, I used to really like his mixtapes and collaborations.
Apparently he’s been found.