Musicians often live the craziest lives, and far too many have lost their lives before even hitting 30. Some musicians also predicted their own passings in a way that’s weirdly accurate.
Below are some famous music stars who predicted their death.
Michael Jackson
The public generally accepts that Michael Jackson passed from an OD, but who was responsible?
According to the courts, the answer was Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary actions.
However, not everyone buys the notion that Jackson’s death was an accident. The singer’s daughter, Paris Jackson, told Rolling Stone she believes the truth is a lot more sinister and says everyone in her family agrees with her on this.
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She said: “He would drop hints about people being out to get him. And at some point he was like, they’re gonna off me one day.”
In his last weeks alive, Michael Jackson wrote letters to one of his closest friends claiming he was going to be offed and was terrified for his life.
Jackson’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley once told a similar anecdote to Oprah regarding the singer’s belief that someone wanted him gone, allegedly in order to seize the money from his music publishing catalog.
Left Eye
Lisa Lopes, best known as “Left Eye” of TLC, was only 30 years old in 2002, but her life had already become an explosive cocktail of controversial headlines, domestic troubles, and public fallouts.
That year Lopes flew to Honduras for a recovery sabbatical and to film a documentary about her life. Throughout the documentary, her belief in premonitions was a focal point.
Sadly, things took a dark turn. A van she was riding in collided with a young boy, who didn’t survive his injuries. Though, Left Eye had only been a passenger in the van, she still paid for all of the boy’s hospital and funeral costs.
According to documentary footage from the time, she was noticeably chilled by the fact that she and the boy shared a surname. “These are the shoes that belonged to the little boy. And his last name was Lopez,” she said.
According to the documentary footage, she became convinced that some sort of malevolent spirit was following her, meaning to take her instead of the boy.
Later, while still in Honduras, the car Left Eye was driving swerved off the side of the road. The chilling moment was caught on film. She did not survive the crash.
Tupac
There’s no denying that Tupac Shakur will go down in history as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Part of what made him such an iconic figure was his intelligent understanding of society and culture. The man who made “Thug Life” into a household phrase also had a strong feeling early on in his life that he’d never make it to old age.
Back in 1994 an interviewer asked him where he thought he’d see himself in 15 years. “Best case, in a cemetery. Maybe not a cemetery, sprinkled in ashes, smoked up by my homies,” he responded.
He quickly corrected this to say that was a worst case scenario, and he’d rather be a multimillionaire than dead.
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But that wasn’t the only time Tupac expressed such certainty about an early passing. In 1995, Tupac told Vibe magazine that he was giving them what he called his final interview, expressing a desire to have his story told accurately before he died.
Then, in 1996, he filmed the music video “I Ain’t Mad at Cha,” which depicted him in the afterlife, communicating with his loved ones.
Just a few weeks later, Tupac’s life ended in a drive-by in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.
John Lennon
The world recoiled in shock when John Lennon was attacked, but Lennon himself might’ve been less surprised than everyone else.
Freda Kelly, who worked as a secretary for the Beatles when she was a teenager, told
The Guardian: “The first thing that came into my mind [when he passed] was that he used to say: “I won’t be here when I’m 40. I won’t make 40.”
However, Kelly’s story isn’t the first time that someone has talked about Lennon’s cynical expectations for his future.
Newsweek revealed that all the way back in 1965, Lennon told a reporter his expectations for himself and his fellow band mates, sharing: “l’ll either go in a plane crash or will be popped off by some loony.”
He was right. “Lennon was shot and killed at about 11 o’clock last night outside his apartment building.” He was 40.
