...The most blatant was a CD by The Coup, a rap group from Oakland, California, founded in 1990. It was set to release an album in September 2001 called Party Music. The CD was on the label 75 Ark and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Music.

Party Music's cover displays this "prophetic" popular culture. Boots Riley, a known radical activist through his lyrics and attitudes, had previously released three albums with commentaries on the oppression of the poor by a callous wealthy class. The Coup worked with graphic artists in May and June of 2001 to create a cover to continue the symbolism.

The result was Riley and band member DJ Pam the Funkstress celebrating a bombing of the World Trade Center south tower. Riley is hitting a guitar tuner rigged as a detonator, while Pam is waving two conductor's batons as if to give this destruction violent rhythm. Behind them, orange flames and smoke issue from 2 World Trade Center.

It looked way too much like real life, especially since thousands of photos were taken at the very moment United Airlines Flight 175 hit WTC 2.

Riley said it was supposed to be symbolic subversiveness, an expression of his distate for the rich and their policies that disenfranchise people. He added that he did not support terrorist attacks such as the WTC incident:

It was supposed to be a metaphor to symbolize us destroying "capitalism." What The Coup talks about is what I think it takes to make a revolution. If anybody has ever listened to our music ... I definitely espouse revolution and overthrowing the system.

My way in which I think this has to happen is through hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people moving, organizing and making something happen. I do think in the end it will be a violent revolution, but I don't think it's something that will happen by the act of a few people. I wanna say that off that bat, that last Tuesday's tragic act is not something that The Coup endorses...

http://septterror.tripod.com/coincidence.html

very eerie coincidence

Yes, it is an eerie coincidence, but I don't think it is reasonable to suspect it to be anything more than that.

If I'm not mistaken that CD was pulled shortly after the attacks and had the art changed, (at great cost to the artist and label.)

Of the thousands of CD covers released every year, (not to mention all the other forms of visual art.) it is totally reasonable that some of them are going to "predict the future". Especially when the future contains a large, highly symbolic event like this.

I remember another CD that was made by a music group called "World Trade Center" or something that had a song called "September" as the 11th track. :ph43r:

I challenge you to that to produce the evidence! Or else it's just bullshit. The Coupe one is real. Seen it directly after 9/11.

No BS.

Out of the Loop is the debut album from synthpop band I Am the World Trade Center. This album gathered enormous controversy after the 9/11 attacks due to the bands name and the coincidental title of their 11th track, "September". The band was seen as gathering shameless attention out of the attacks but in actuality the album was released almost two months before the incident.

11. "September" – 3:31

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Loop


Out of the Loop
I am the World Trade Center

Audio CD (July 17, 2001)
Original Release Date: July 17, 2001

11. September (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/...9862884-3895205)

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Loop-World-Trade...r/dp/B00005LN4Q



The Coup album cover art was finished in June 2001 and released on the net on July 19, 2001.

There's also this one by Dream Theater with the art showing NYC in flames, and had an original release date of September 11, 2001:



Higher res of the Coup art:




Coincidence? Maybe. Impossible? Of course not, anyone can be unwitting dupes and have information/graphics fed to them, The Lone Gunmen pilot episode is a prime example.