Elon Musk might have started a zombie meme apocalypse by dropping a tribute track for the 2016’s most famous gorilla, Harambe.
We know Elon Musk as the space travel entrepreneur, electric vehicle evangelist, meme connoisseur. Turns out he’s also a rapper.
For those of you that don’t follow the prodigy’s Twitter account, we’ll explain what this is. Elon Musk just combined:
- a Twitter joke,
- a years-old meme,
- Auto-Tune,
- and dropped his first Rap single.
Elon Musk, the Rapper?
Yes, he can rap. But you know what the most surprising thing is? Following this ‘event’, he changed his Twitter name to ‘Jung Musk’. He can rap and now he has a Korean name. We can’t help but think that Elon Musk may join a K-pop (Korean Pop) group next.
That’s a story for another time but in the meantime, lets get back to RIP Harambe, his rap track. You didn’t imagine it, Elon Musk’s rap song really is called RIP Harambe.
Emo G Recordshttps://t.co/zsuB2NDl48 pic.twitter.com/anVkKeFMGr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
This is no April Fools’ joke. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla made a rap song about that gorilla who was killed in 2016.
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Musk tweeted out a Soundcloud link to the song. “Emo G Records” produced the single (does Elon Musk own this too?).
I’m disappointed that my record label failed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
A Tribute to Harambe?
The track starts off with a tribute to Harambe, with the opening lines ‘Harambe, we love you’.
“R.I.P Harambe, sippin’ on some Bombay, we on our way to Heaven, Amen, Amen”
The song has been streamed 480,000 times already. Will this top the Billboard Hot 100 charts (like One Pound Fish)?
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Only Elon Musk can let the cat out of the bag on ‘What is the meaning of this!?’
One tweet suggests that maybe BloodPop produced the track with emoji artist Yung Jake behind the artwork?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2019
Behind that name, Emo G is a whole other meme.
Duck emoji defeats Emo G Records. Crushing victory.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
Who was Harambe?
Harambe, a Western lowland gorilla, was put down after an incident with a 3-year-old boy in 2016. The toddler fell into Harambe’s enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in May.
Most animal lovers and animal rights activist argued the threats of keeping wild animals in zoo enclosures and protested against the gorilla’s killing.
Others argued that the blame for the child falling into the animal enclosure was the parents’ fault.
Meanwhile, Twitter as always, turned it into one of the biggest viral sensations in 2016.
The Harambe meme was one of the things people quit in 2017. Two years later Elon Musk brought it roaring back to life.
If 2016 memes come back to life (are we looking at a zombie meme apocalypse?), does that mean crying Jordan, and Pepe the Frog didn’t delete your account and even Grumpy cat is onborad for fake news?
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