{"id":270392,"date":"2019-03-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1028438"},"modified":"2019-03-31T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"elon-musk-just-released-a-rap-song-about-harambe-the-gorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/elon-musk-just-released-a-rap-song-about-harambe-the-gorilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Just Released a Rap Song About Harambe the Gorilla"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic for HBO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elon Musk<\/strong> has not forgotten about Harambe<\/strong>. That much is clear.<\/p>\n

The Tesla CEO dropped a surprise song<\/a> called “RIP Harambe” on SoundClould under the account name Emo G Records. The album art (if you can call it that?) features Harambe memorialized in some ornate medallion with a crown on top of his head.<\/p>\n

At first, Musk did not say much about the song when he announced its debut on Twitter. In a subsequent tweet, however, he wrote, “I’m disappointed<\/a> that my record label failed.”<\/p>\n

There’s still time! He could be Elon Musk: CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and record producer extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

The single “RIP Harambe” is just under two minutes long and is virtually all auto-tune. It memorializes the gorilla and essentially imagines what he would be doing now if he were still alive.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk tweeted at artists BloodPop<\/strong> and Yung Jake<\/strong>, so they, too, should be given credit for the song.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Harambe became a viral sensation<\/a> and meme in 2016. A 4-year-old boy entered the gorilla’s enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 and Harambe ended up dragging the boy around for a few moments. Harambe was then shot and killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The song begins, “RIP Harambe we love you \/ And we thinkin’ about you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The rapper then chimes in, “All y’all gorillas, we love you.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyrics include the following: “RIP Harambe \/ Sipping on some Bombay \/ We on our way to Heaven \/ Amen, Amen.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Another line in the song goes, “<\/span>RIP Harambe \/ Smoking on some strong hay \/ In the gorilla zoo \/ And we thinking about you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The song asserts that the musicians are constantly “thinking about [Harambe].”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Towards the end of the song, the artists ask, “Where my gorillas at? \/ We miss you \/ We really, really miss you.”<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, the song has been played over 484,000 times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on Musk’s tweets from Saturday and into Sunday, he was having some sort of competition when it came to different emojis. On Saturday, he tweeted the duck emoji <\/a>with no other text. That one tweet received over 21,000 retweets and 182,000 likes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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A second tweet followed that just said “Lame,” making it a play on emoji words with the political phrase “lame duck.”<\/p>\n

He wrote later, “The quality of emojis varies wildly.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Based on the social media interactions, the duck emoji response far exceeded the Emo G Records announcement (get it?). <\/p>\n

“Duck emoji defeats<\/a> Emo G Records. Crushing victory,” the 47-year-old tweeted.<\/p>\n

He then applauded himself for the achievement with the words, “This might be my finest work.”<\/p>\n

We’re eagerly awaiting the next Emo G track to drop.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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