Cue the “Stevie Marvel isn’t actually blind” conspiracy theorists.

Providing what’s going to little question be seen as new proof by the truthers — who depend Shaquille O’Neal amongst their quantity — his new collaborator says she takes Zoom conferences with the “Sir Duke” legend.

Rapper Chika had folks scratching their heads when she revealed that they used the video chat app for conferences through the pandemic.

However she assured the puzzled crowd that the visible part “was for me, not him,” at a listening social gathering for her debut album, “Samson,” in New York on Wednesday.

Marvel and the Warner Data burgeoning rap star struck up a friendship in 2020 at a time she described as one in every of her loneliest moments because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She mentioned Marvel shared tales and private anecdotes that had her feeling “like he’s my homegirl.”

“I felt like I had my dream taken away from me within the pandemic. One factor that did occur to me was assembly Stevie,” she mentioned throughout a Q&A with music journalist Peter Berry.

The duo grew to become so shut that he even gave her recommendation past the music business. Working example, he instructed her: “‘Earlier than you permit this earth, you could have a toddler.’ Me, Chika.”

The “Ribbon In The Sky” singer additionally made him right into a fan. He was so impressed along with her music, he requested her to be part of “Samson,” her new album impressed by the biblical story of Samson and Delilah.

She mentioned that Marvel pulled as much as the studio to take heed to “Samson” and “after attending to possibly monitor 18 out of 20, he grabbed my arm and pulled me in, and mentioned, ‘What do you want from me?’”

“Finally, he was like… ‘I’ve to be on this file,’” she added. “It was nuts!”

Marvel is featured on the finish of the album on the music “Get Right here.” Chika described their recording expertise as “simply two spirits that perceive each other and he wanting… to be beside me as I enter this chapter and exit the final one.”

Snoop Dogg and Lin-Manuel Miranda additionally seem on Chika’s album, out on July 28.

The concept that the “Songs within the Key of Life” hit-maker — who was blinded by issues brought on by his untimely delivery — can actually see has been oddly persistent, although usually in a tongue-in-cheek method.

In 2010, throughout a Library of Congress live performance by Paul McCartney, Marvel appeared to catch a microphone stand because it started to topple over, in 2016 whereas presenting a Grammy award he appeared to learn the title of the winner from a card, and in 2019 O’Neal instructed a hilarious story on “NBA on TNT” about operating into his neighbor Marvel within the elevator of their L.A. constructing. “He is available in, says, ‘What’s up, Shaq?’ Presses the [elevator] button,” he claimed.