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An image shared on Instagram claims rapper Playboi Carti predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in 2018 on his song Foreign. View this post on Instagram A post shared by America’s favorite meme page (@scoobydoofruitsnacks) Verdict: False The song Foreign does not mention the COVID-19 pandemic in any way. Check Your Fact didn’t find any evidence Carti predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in other songs. Fact Check: Carti released the 19-track album Die Lit in 2018, according to Pitchfork . Social media users have recently been sharing a screen grab of a tweet claiming to show lyrics from Foreign , a song on Die Lit, that supposedly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic. The tweet, which itself dates back to March 2020, has garnered over 55,700 likes and 12,100 retweets to date. In 2020 a flu-like disease that began in Wuhan, China (yuh) will cause a worldwide pandemic and shut down all major events for months (slatt) and cause major economic collapse (buh buh buh), Carti purportedly rapped in Foreign. (RELATED: Did Kanye West Buy Spotify?) Multiple websites dedicated to song lyrics have published the words Carti raps in the song Foreign. A review by Check Your Fact of the song’s lyrics turned up no mentions of Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first reported , or a flu-like disease. The song talks about foreign-made cars, diamonds, guns and other topics unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no references to COVID-19 in the lyrics of other Die Lit tracks such as R.I.P. , Right Now , Love Hurts and Poke It Out . Check Your Fact also didn’t find any evidence the rapper predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in any of his works prior to 2018, such as his 2017 song Magnolia and his 2015 song Count It Up . Carti released his second studio album, Whole Lotta Red, in December 2020, NPR reported.
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