Did your favorite rapper rock the mic and tell the future?

While lyrics can definitely resonate with what we see going on today, here are four times

rappers actually predicted the future with their lyrics.

This is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Rappers talk about everything in their songs, but what about those times when they actually

foretold the future?

Consider these examples of songs that gave us a preview of events to come.

Killer Priest, in his 1998 song information, predicted wiretapping by the National Security

Agency.

Of course, the government has been spying on us since at least the 1950s with Cohen's

outbro.

But in 2001, the Patriot Act made it official.

Mr. Busta Busta Busta rhymes not only predicted planes flying into buildings as on 9-11,

but his album cover also showed lower Manhattan and golf than flames.

If his 1998 song against all odds was just rapping, that's a mighty coincidence.

On his 2007 track Hard Times, the game, not only predicted Barack Obama would become president,

but also that Obama would be the one to catch Ben Laden.

And then there's the goodie mob.

These members of Southern Rap Royalty released cell therapy in 1995, and in doing so, warned

us about smartphones, increased gentrification, and even the social effects of the COVID-19

pandemic.

The honesty of these lyrics not only provided us with dope music, they also showed us

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