A Soundtrack For the End of the World

Ride out Armageddon with these apocalyptic anthems.

10 Songs About the End of the World - If you're reading this, the world hasn't ended—yet. But until the clock strikes midnight tonight, December 21, we won't know if the Mayans were wrong about today's impending armageddon. All we can do is wait in fear, with the blankets over our heads, while listening to the following apocalytpic soundtrack. If we're going to die, there may as well be some great music playing.   (Photo: Three Lions/Getty Images)
Busta Rhymes - Busta joined the YMCMB squad in November 2011 and has yet to drop an album on the label. Busta has stayed busy with several mixtape-like albums and cameo features, however, and is supposed to finally drop his Cash Money debut, E.L.E..2 (Extinction Level Event 2), this year. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)
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Marvin Gaye, "I Should Die Tonight" - Leave it to Marvin Gaye to find the romance in dying before your time on this 1973 ballad. "Oh, If I should die tonight...I won't die blue, sugar, 'cause I've known you," he croons.  (Photo: David Redfern/Redferns)Jay-Z, "If I Should Die" - Jay-Z reups Marvin's concept for the streets with this 1998 banger, which recounts the full life he's lived. "If I should die, don't cry...it's been one hell of a ride," he and Roc-A-Fella duo Da Ranjahz spit on the hook.   (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Turner Networks)

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Busta Rhymes, "Extinction Level Event (Song of Salvation)"  - Back in the '90s, Busta Rhymes was rap's premier proponent of Y2K paranoia, and he lays out his case, with plenty of bragadocious digressions, on the title track to his third album in 1998.  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)

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