Pour one out for Silk Road with this smooth R&B tribute

“The End of Silk Road” may be the ultimate tribute to the Dread Pirate Roberts’ tumbled empire.

Patrick Howell O'Neill

Updated on June 1 2021 4:00 am CDT

You could buy limited edition ecstasy pills to pay tribute to Silk Road, the Deep Web black market seized by the FBI on Oct. 2.

Or you could just jam this priceless Boyz II Men parody—and let it burn.

“The End of Silk Road” may be the ultimate smooth R&B tribute to the Dread Pirate Roberts’ tumbled empire.

The YouTuber responsible is no stranger to tech parodies. ZhouTonged’s the Weird Al of the Bitcoin community, evidenced here by this classic Drake revision, “Bitcoin’s Here.”

Screengrab via YouTube

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Patrick Howell O'Neill

Patrick Howell O’Neill is a notable cybersecurity reporter whose work has focused on the dark net, national security, and law enforcement. A former senior writer at the Daily Dot, O’Neill joined CyberScoop in October 2016. I am a cybersecurity journalist at CyberScoop. I cover the security industry, national security and law enforcement.