![]() A slideshow of the thread uploaded to Youtube has garnered over 49,000 views (shown below, left) while another unofficial music video for the song recreating Higgs' story has tallied up over 28,000 views (shown below, right).ĭue to the stories of William and David, AceDaCreator, the original uploader of the unofficial music video changed its title to add "R.I.P David Higgs & In addition, the comments section has become noted for becoming a way for others to pay respects to the deceased, with Vice UK writing: Despite the unconfirmed claims to its validity, the story of David would later come to notoriety, eventually resulting in the phrase "RIP David Higgs" on a number of uploads of the song. On July 23rd, 2015, a 4chan user going under the pseudonym David Higgs posted a greentext story to the /b/ imageboard detailing a failed relationship he had with an ex-girlfriend that had cheated on him named Julie, and how the song played a large part in that relationship, before ending with his suicide from a drug overdose and vodka. In the weeks prior to his suicide, he posted a number of pictures with captions that would allude to his final actions on his Instagram including a reference to the song (shown below).Ī post shared by DJ Kill Bill on at 10:03pm PDT On October 26th, 2014, 17 year-old William Derrick Watts of Hamtramck, Michigan committed suicide by jumping off the MacArthur Bridge in Detroit. ![]() □️□️□️ /fOcMTYsrMU- Clams Casino (clammyclams) April 24, 2020 “I’m God” with imogenheap streaming everywhere now! Part of a collection called INSTRUMENTAL RELICS which is some of my favorite instrumentals, many of which have been previously unavailable to stream. On April 24th, 2020, the song was remastered and released to digital storefronts and streaming services for the first time as a single and as part of Clams Casino's Instrumental Relics compilation after clearing the Imogen Heap sample used throughout the song. In addition to other unofficial uploads of the song, it's estimated that it currently has over 75 million streams total. Due to the music video's popularity, its imagery would become associated with the song for the following years. On July 9th, 2011, a fanmade music video for the song, using footage from the 1989 film Perdues dans New York, was uploaded by AceDaCreator to Youtube (shown below), where, in slightly over 9 years, it would garner over 25 million views. Utilizing cut-up vocals sampled from Imogen Heap's 2005 song "Just for Now" (shown below, right), it was later released for free by Clams Casino on June 4th, 2012 as a part of his second instrumentals mixtape, which comprised of instrumentals and productions for other artists, following an unofficial release in 2011. "I'm God" was produced by Michael Volpe, better known by his stage name Clams Casino, and given to rapper Lil B to be a part of his first studio album 6 Kiss, released on December 22nd, 2009 (music video shown below, left).
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