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BTS star Suga apologizes for using Jonestown massacre leader Jim Jones’ voice in song

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The management company for BTS star Suga released a formal apology after social media backlash to the South Korean rapper’s use of cult leader Jim Jones’ voice on his new mixtape.

In 1978, Jones notoriously had 918 of his followers — 304 of them children — commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-dosed Flavor Aid at his jungle commune in Jonestown, Guyana, before shooting himself in the head.

The sample was featured at the beginning of the track “What Do You Think?” from Suga’s late-May mixtape, “D-2.” Pulled from a sermon Jones gave in Philadelphia the year before his death, the preacher says, “Though you are dead, yet shall you live, and he that liveth and believeth shall never die.” Many took to social media to express their outrage at

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