In two thousand one, a young, energetic, recent college grad named Tableau returned from the States to South Korea and helped form the alternative hip hop group Epic High. Tableau and Epic High rose to international fame, and before long they helped make hip hop mainstream in Korea. By they were beating out Jay Z and Kanye on the international hip hop charts, all while rapping mostly in Korean. And it was then, right when Tableau in his group were at the top of their game, when Tableau's Life Out of Nowhere got Joe to off course, landing him in the center of a bizarre conspiracy. Rumors had started spreading on the Internet. People were posting on online message boards saying that Tableau wasn't who he said he was. He went to Stanford so he could become an international hip hop star. You know, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The accusations started out small, questions about his academic credentials, doubts about where he went to college, but pretty quickly they started spiraling out of control. They were like claiming that I had dribed the FDI and that I had ties to the Illuminati. What Tableau experience had never really happened before, not like this and not on this scale. Black Mirror wasn't out yet, but I felt like this was some horror sci fi thing where the entire country I had been living in I had collectively agreed to basically, mind me, We're gonna look at how a wild but honestly kind of trivial accusation starts on an anonymous internet forum, and then follow it as it explodes into a national obsession. They were trying to attack everybody who was associated with Tableau. I was about to hang up the last time, and I hear him yell, will pay you ten tho dollars. It was like a wildfire. It was insane how fast it's spread, and an entire country divides itself, but never once looks away from Vice and I Heeart podcast Network. Listen to Authentic the Story of Tableau starting February twenty four on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast both wherever you get your podcast da

In two thousand one, a young, energetic, recent college grad named Tableau returned from the States to South Korea and helped form the alternative hip hop group Epic High. Tableau and Epic High rose to international fame, and before long they helped make hip hop mainstream in Korea. By they were beating out Jay Z and Kanye on the international hip hop charts, all while rapping mostly in Korean. And it was then, right when Tableau in his group were at the top of their game, when Tableau's Life Out of Nowhere got Joe to off course, landing him in the center of a bizarre conspiracy. Rumors had started spreading on the Internet. People were posting on online message boards saying that Tableau wasn't who he said he was. He went to Stanford so he could become an international hip hop star. You know, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The accusations started out small, questions about his academic credentials, doubts about where he went to college, but pretty quickly they started spiraling out of control. They were like claiming that I had dribed the FDI and that I had ties to the Illuminati. What Tableau experience had never really happened before, not like this and not on this scale. Black Mirror wasn't out yet, but I felt like this was some horror sci fi thing where the entire country I had been living in I had collectively agreed to basically, mind me, We're gonna look at how a wild but honestly kind of trivial accusation starts on an anonymous internet forum, and then follow it as it explodes into a national obsession. They were trying to attack everybody who was associated with Tableau. I was about to hang up the last time, and I hear him yell, will pay you ten tho dollars. It was like a wildfire. It was insane how fast it's spread, and an entire country divides itself, but never once looks away from Vice and I Heeart podcast Network. Listen to Authentic the Story of Tableau starting February twenty four on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast both wherever you get your podcast da