Yahoo News Did Goldie just reveal Banksy's real identity?
Drum and bass legend – and one-time Albert Square resident – Goldie may have just let slip one of the art world's biggest secrets. Oops.
While chatting to Scroobius Pip for his Distraction Pieces podcast about, well, pretty much everything, Goldie may or may not have accidentally outed Banksy's real identity.
As the two talked about the commodification of art, and especially graffiti, Goldie referred to Banksy as "Robert" in pretty much the same breath.
"But give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write Banksy on it and we're sorted, we can sell it," he said.
"No disrespect to Robert, I think he is a brilliant artist. I think he has flipped the world of art over."
Related: Banksy just gave this school a mural for an adorable reason
Goldie swiftly changed the subject to jazz, but some listeners had already clocked the sound of bombshells dropping the art world over. (Or maybe not, we don't really know.)
It does seem plausible, though, given that one investigative journalist claimed to have figured out the man behind the street art last year, unmasking him as Robert '3D' Del Naja of Massive Attack.
Suddenly Goldie's slip-up seems more convincing, doesn't it?
During his investigation, Craig Williams looked at the timings of Banksy murals around the world, and found that many cropped up shortly before or after Massive Attack gigs in the same city.
Hey, at least the heat's off Robin Gunningham for now.
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