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10 Celebrities Who Talked About Their Death Before It Happened by aduagbemi(m): 11:46pm On Dec 25, 2016
10.[ Jimi Hendrix ] :Even though Hendrix’s mainstream career only
lasted four years, it was enough to make him
arguably the greatest guitarist of all time and one of
the greatest musicians ever. He was the recipient of multiple music awards
during his lifetime and after his death. But before he
achieved enormous success with his critically
acclaimed debut album Are You Experienced?, he
recorded “The Ballad of Jimi”, a haunting tune that
fans regard as Jimi portending his own death. He sings, “Many things he would try/For he knew
soon he’d die”, “Now Jimi’s gone, he’s not alone/
His memory still lives on”, and “Five years, this he
said/He’s not gone, he’s just dead.” On September
18, 1970, five years after the recording of the song,
Hendrix died accidentally from barbiturate-related asphyxia.

9.[John Lennon] :John Lennon achieved phenomenal fame when he
was a member of the extremely popular English
rock band The Beatles, but he walked away the
music scene in 1975 to take care of his newborn
son. One might have thought Lennon wouldn’t
return, but five years later he was back and writing music. He was producing songs like he was in a hurry,
songs which would be included in his album titled
Double Fantasy. It looked like Lennon was writing
songs like crazy because he was running out of
time. And running out of time he was. One of the songs Lennon recorded was titled
“Borrowed Time”, and the lyrics read, “Living on
borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow.”
A few months later, before the song was released
to the public, Lennon was shot and killed by a
demented man. Interviews released around the same time the song
was quoted Lennon saying he was fearful he
would be “popped off by some loony.” Now it
made sense why Lennon was so eager to get back
into the recording booth before he died.

8. [Proof] :Rappers are no strangers to fights in clubs that
quickly escalate and become out of control, but it’s
rare that a rapper can predict that he’s going to die
in a club. Proof, born DeShaun Holton, was one of
the featured rappers on hip-hop group D12’s song
“40 oz”, where he rapped, “I’m in the club to beef, you gotta murder me there.” Two years after the track’s release, Proof got
himself involved in an altercation with Kevin Bender
Jr, a 35-year-old Desert Storm veteran, supposedly
during a game of pool. Proof was most likely drunk
at the time, as an autopsy showed that his blood
alcohol level was .32, three times the legal limit. Bouncer Mario Etheridge, a cousin of Bender’s, shot
a warning shot into the air, and Proof fired back,
killing Bender. Proof was killed by another man
who shot him twice in the back and once in the
back of his head. Proof’s death was executed just
like he predicted. What’s even more startling is that two years prior, Proof appeared in the music video
for Enimen’s “Toy Soldiers” where he played a
rapper gunned down in a club.

7.[ Michael Jackson] :
Unlike others on this list, pop legend Michael
Jackson never released any songs alluding to his
death. But he had a feeling it was coming soon. As
the opening night of his comeback tour This Is It,
approached, Jackson was reported as appearing
extremely nervous and attempted to reschedule concert dates.The singer reportedly told a confidante, “It’s not
working out” and “I’m better off dead. I don’t have
anywhere left to turn. I’m done.” The same
confidante said that two hours before Jackson
died, he said he was “tired of living.” His sister La
Toya Jackson, revealed that in the months leading up to his death, Jackson constantly talked about
how he felt someone was trying to do him in. He would later be proved right as his personal
physician, Conrad Murray, was eventually charged
with involuntary manslaughter for causing
Jackson’s death.

6.[ Pete Maravich] :Pete Maravich is generally considered to be one of
the best basketball players in history. Nicknamed
“Pistol Pete”, he played shooting guard for LSU
during college and picked up numerous College
Player of the Year awards. He was also the all-time
leading NCAA Division 1 scorer, a record that is still intact to this day.He spent his professional career playing for the
Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz during the 1970s,
where he was a 5-time NBA All-Star and led the
league in scoring in 1977. But something else
happened during his professional career. In 1974,
he made a comment in an interview with the Beaver County Times newspaper in which he stated, “I
don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a
heart attack at 40.” In what appeared to be a cruel twist of fate,
Maravich did die of a heart attack at the age of 40.
Despite being in seemingly good health, Maravich
had a rare heart condition that he developed after
being born without a left coronary artery.

5. [Dolla] : Atlanta rapper Dolla, born Roderick Anthony
Burton II, never lived to see the release of his debut
album. In one of the songs off his self-titled album
named Georgia Nights, the up-and-coming star
raps, “You see the rain on my window pane/
Waking up in cold sweats having dreams of going out with a bang/My poppa died by the gun, I’ll die
by the gun.”Months after the song was recorded, Dolla and
some associates of his attacked Atlanta event
promoter Aubrey Berry in an Atlanta nightclub. Just later that same month, they heckled Berry
outside a restaurant in L.A. before tailing him to his
car. Berry took out a gun and shot 21-year-old
Dolla to death four times in self-defense. Dolla really
did end up dying by the gun.

4. [TUPAC SHAKUR] :There’s more than one celebrity death that gets
shrouded in mystery due to inconclusive details
that leave fans and police wondering what really
happened. There’s also more than one conspiracy
theory involving what really happened the night
Lesane Parish Crooks (aka Tupac Shakur) was shot.In a collaboration song done with fellow rapper
Richie Rich, Tupac raps, “I been shot and murdered,
can tell you how it happened word for word.” The
song was released earlier in the year he was shot.
When he was questioned once where he saw
himself in a few years, he responded by saying, “Best case, in a cemetery. Not in a cemetery, sprinkled in ashes smoked up by
my homies. I mean, that’s the worst case.” Just two
months later, Tupac was shot in a drive-by
shooting at an intersection in Las Vegas and was
rushed to a hospital where he died six days later.
However, extremely loyal fans of Tupac believe he’s not really dead and that he faked his death and has
gone into hiding.

3.[ BOB MARLEY] :Bob Marley was many things. A singer. A guitarist. A
symbol of Jamaican culture. He stands as one of the
most successful recording artists of all time, and is
largely credited with popularizing reggae music
around the globe. According to his friends and
some of his fans he was also a psychic. Supposedly, Marley divulged the details of his death
to his close friends, which are only known to them.
One of Marley’s said friends claimed that Marley told
him he would die at the age of 36 because that was
the age Jesus died. Marley was a devoted follower
and advocate of Rastafarianism, a religious movement that was extremely popular in Jamaica
during Marley’s time, and his songs were imbued
with a sense of spirituality. In 1977 he was diagnosed with acral lentiginous
melanoma, but refused amputation of the infected
area because of religious reasons. His health
continued to deteriorate over the next few years
until the melanoma spread to his lungs and brain,
resulting in his death in May of 1981 at the age of 36.

2.[ The Notorious B.I.G] :The thought of death can unnerve lots of people.
It’s not a subject many like to talk about. But rapper
Notorious B.I.G didn’t shy away from the concept of
death; he embraced it.After all, it was one of the major themes in his debut
album Ready to Die. Christopher George Latore
Wallace, who went by stage names Notorious B.I.G,
Biggie, and Biggie Smalls, discussed his death in the
song “Suicidal Thoughts”, where he raps, “I swear
to God I feel like death is f—ing calling me.” Biggie didn’t commit suicide like the song
suggested. Instead, he was gunned down in a
drive-by in L.A. three years later in 1997. Two
weeks later his posthumous album was released,
eerily titled Life After Death.

1.[Kurt Cobain] :Kurt Cobain gets the special #1 spot on the list
because he not only predicted his death, he
predicted his life as well. At the age of 14, Kurt
Cobain told a classmate that he would become a
rich and famous musician and go out in a blaze of
glory by committing suicide. His classmate most likely thought Cobain was crazy,
but he never would have guessed Cobain would
turn out to be right all along. Kurt Cobain achieved
wealth and fame as the lead singer of the popular
grunge band Nirvana, which the media dubbed the
flagship band of Generation X with Kurt Cobain as the spokesman. He was found dead in his home on April 8, 1994
with a shotgun pointing at his chin, fulfilling the
prophecy he laid out for himself. Sources: ranker.com, Therichest,
madamenoire.com, vh1.com, cracked.com,
ultimateclassicrock.com, nickiswift.com,
theguardian.com
Re: 10 Celebrities Who Talked About Their Death Before It Happened by adonbilivit: 11:57pm On Dec 25, 2016
Dagrin wasn't a celebrity to to you abi?

he knew he was about to die when he dropped "if I die"...he died few months after dropping that track.

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Re: 10 Celebrities Who Talked About Their Death Before It Happened by AlienStar: 12:32am On Dec 26, 2016
adonbilivit:
Dagrin wasn't a celebrity to to you abi?

he knew he was about to die when he dropped "if I die"...he died few months after dropping that track.
I was expecting to see his name there

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