Music Debate: "Rakim Reflects on Listeners Feeling He 'Predicted 9/11' in 1992 Song Lyric: 'I Try to Tap Into Something Deep"

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Rakim Reflects on Listeners Feeling He 'Predicted 9/11' in 1992 Song Lyric: 'I Try to Tap Into Something Deep'

Rapper Rakim is looking back at a 1992 lyric that fans believe "predicted 9/11," and opened up about the prophetic line in a new interview with Stereogum.

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In "Casualties of War," the hip-hop great rapped: "I look for shelter when a plane is over me/ Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G."

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