{"id":794364,"date":"2019-03-31T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=815813"},"modified":"2019-03-31T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:09:52","slug":"hear-elon-musks-surprise-rap-song-rip-harambe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-elon-musks-surprise-rap-song-rip-harambe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Elon Musk\u2019s Surprise Rap Song \u2018RIP Harambe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/10156346e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> combined a Twitter joke, a years-old meme and Auto-Tune into a surprise new song called \u201cRIP Harambe,\u201d which the Tesla CEO uploaded onto SoundCloud this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis might be my finest work,\u201d the SpaceX boss said of the track, which he posted on his fictitious Emo G Records\u2019 SoundCloud page between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1112123741574586368\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweets about the Tesla Semi<\/a>; Emo G is a play on emoji, a callback to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1111871174160474112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Musk joke<\/a> from earlier in the weekend. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed that my record label failed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute track is a bouncy tribute to Harambe, the gorilla who was killed in the Cincinnati Zoo after dragging a three-year-old boy who climbed into his enclosure in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRIP Harambe\/Sipping on some Bombay\/We on our way to heaven\/Amen, Amen,\u201d an autotuned voice sings. \u201cRIP Harambe\/Smoking on some strong\/In the gorilla zoo\/And we thinking about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since it was uploaded early Saturday, the song was been streamed over 250,000 times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/elon-musk-rap-song-rip-harambe-815813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk combined a Twitter joke, a years-old meme and Auto-Tune into a surprise new song called \u201cRIP Harambe,\u201d which the Tesla CEO uploaded onto SoundCloud this weekend. \u201cThis might be my finest work,\u201d the SpaceX boss said of the track, which he posted on his fictitious Emo G Records\u2019 SoundCloud page between tweets about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 09:53:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}