Many stars already have a mythic air about them, so if they make predictions or even
jokes about their deaths - and fate follows through - those stories become otherworldly.
The fatal foreshadowing on this list played out in songs, letters, and haunting conversations.
XXXTentacion
Soon after the shooting death of controversial rapper XXXTentacion on June 18th, 2018, a
strangely prophetic Instagram Live video went viral.
In the video, posted months earlier, X addresses his own untimely death.
"Worst thing comes to worst and I f---ing die a tragic death or some s--- and I'm not
able to see out my dreams.”
The rapper, who was just 19 at the time of his fateful video, continued,
"I at least want to know that the kids perceived my message and were able to make something
of themselves.”
Despite X allegedly engaging in a lifestyle of violence and crime, according to the New
York Times, the young rapper clearly hoped to make a difference in the lives of others.
6 months later, he was gone.
Tupac
Iconic rapper Tupac often spoke about his eventual death in his music.
In the posthumously released video for "I Ain't Mad at Cha," his character is shot and
killed by a masked man.
In January 1995, two months after being shot five times in a robbery, Shakur told Vibe,
"This is my last interview.
If I get killed, I want people to get every drop.
I want them to have the real story."
That wasn't his final interview, but that hasn't stopped fans from obsessing about some
divine force being behind his demise.
One of the most telling omens comes from an unlikely source: Tupac's co-star, Tim Roth,
on the movie Gridlock'd.
"Ever feel like your luck's runnin out man?
Lately I've been feelin’ like my luck's been running out.”
Roth told Rolling Stone he was concerned with how many guns the rapper carried and the drama
that followed him around.
When Roth asked Tupac about it, the rapper reportedly told him,
"I think there's a bullet out there with my name on it, man."
The 25-year-old rapper was shot and killed in September 1996, four months before the
film's release.
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
Rapper and singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, best known as a member of TLC, was involved in
a tragic car accident just weeks before the one that claimed her life.
In the first incident, a van she was riding in struck and killed a little boy.
In the doc, The Last Days of Left Eye, Lopes holds a pair of the boy's shoes and says,
"His last name was Lopez.”
According to filmmakers, Lopes believed a spirit that had been haunting her had "killed
the child" instead of killing her.
A few weeks later, on April 25th, 2002, MTV reported Lopes, then 30, lost control of the
vehicle she was driving, crashed, and died.
Years later, Lopes appeared to send a message from the afterlife to her former TLC bandmate,
T-boz, on Hollywood Medium.
"She's just from her perspective happy that no one else was killed in this incident.
She's more focused on others and their well-being.”
“There was eight people in the car, and she's the only one who died.”
Dolores O'Riordan
For the friends and family of Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries, her death
from accidental drowning was devastating.
O'Riordan's friend, Barry Egan, told the Belfast Telegraph that O'Riordan had long battled
depression and previously attempted to take her own life but had since found some peace.
"A lot of people were going, ‘so what happened, so were you anorexic, were you bulimic, were
you depressed?’
It was like, I was an anorexic, and I was depressed, yeah.”
As part of her healing process, Egan said the singer would talk to herself in the mirror.
When asked what she'd say to her reflection, O'Riordan responded:
"[…] it is not your fault.
And I love you.
Be nice to yourself.
And slow down.
Because I am not going to live that long.
I'm 43.
If I see 50, I'll be happy."
O'Riordan died on January 15th, 2018, at age 46.
John Lennon
Conspiracy theories surrounding The Beatles have circulated for decades, but one of the
most famous is that John Lennon accurately predicted his death.
The best example might be a 1965 interview in which Lennon said,
"We'll either go in a plane crash or we'll be popped off by some loony."
But that isn't the only evidence that he may have tapped into his fate.
In what may be his final interview, Lennon told Rolling Stone,
"What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean.
I’m not [interested] in being a dead […] hero."
There's also footage of Lennon laughing off a letter from a fan warning that there would
be attempt on his life.
"I believe that there will be an attempt to assassinate you.
The spirit that gave me this information was Brian Epstein.”
The 40-year-old musician was killed in New York on December 8th, 1980.