OG Maco Denies Having HIV

OG Maco is at the center of a rumor that has the internet buzzing. There’s a thread over on Reddit asking if the rapper has AIDS or is HIV positive. The speculation stems from an audio-only video titled “Possibly OG Maco admitting he’s dying?” which appeared on YouTube Tuesday (Dec. 23).

There is no confirmation that the man speaking in the video is Maco, though the voice does sound similar to what’s heard in his music. In the video, the male voice can be heard saying, “I’m dying, slow,” and repeatedly coughing. While there is no explicit mention of HIV or AIDS, the male voice does reference prison, and the thought over on Reddit is that Maco may have infected two other people, what would be considered a serious crime.

“They are not going to give me shit. You can not send me medicine in a jail. You are not a doctor,” the voice says, pleading with a female voice to “be strong for me when I’m weak.”

The woman in the audio insists that the man should go to the hospital, but he fears a visit will send him to prison. “I’m not going to die in the next four days but if I don’t have any medicine in a month and a half, I don’t know,” he states.

Towards the end of the nine-minute call, which was anonymously leaked, the male voice says, “I’m sorry I just wasn’t good enough for you. I wasn’t smart enough or respected enough for you to listen to me. But I’m going to write my will as soon as I get back home because I do not know how long I have left in real life. And I’m only telling you because you are the person I trust most in the world. And I apologize that bothers you so fucking much.”

The only real link to the “U Guessed It” rhymer is that the female repeatedly calls the man on the other end of the conversation Ben. While Maco’s real name is Maco Mattox, if you let the internet tell it, there is reason to believe that Ben is either a nickname or a moniker he used in the past.

Update:

Despite rumors to the contrary that have swept through social media, the Atlanta rapper OG Maco has confirmed that he does not have HIV or AIDS, nor is he suffering from any other “degenerative or deadly diseases.”

In a statement he posted on Instagram, he writes, “Despite the vicious rumors, I am in fine health and have no degenerative or deadly diseases. My best holiday wishes to the person spreading this irresponsible and cruel rumor throughout social media, but know we are unmoved and will not falter in the face [of] such cowardly and underhanded tactics.”





Speculation began after a blind item was posted on the gossip site Baller Alert last night (Dec. 22). The post, “Which Rapper Is Deathly Ill & Refusing Medication?” cites a nine-minute phone call recording, which was uploaded to Youtube earlier this month and appears to be a man admitting his disease to a female friend.

Users on Reddit speculated that the rapper was OG Maco, due to the caller’s voice, and having narrowed the field of possible rappers after Baller Alert said the artist in question was from Atlanta. Posters attempted to make the connection by collecting circumstantial evidence, such as tweets that refer to Maco–who has not publicly listed his given name–as Ben, the apparent name of the male caller, and a tweet posted the day after the call was first uploaded that reads, in part, “This hoe must have a death wish.”

However, there is nothing in the way of reporting that links Maco by name to the phone call, nor have any reliable news outlets verified the authenticity of the recording. Furthermore, while the male voice in the call shares some similarity to Maco’s, no experts have indicated whether the voices are a likely match, or whether or not the audio has been manipulated.

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