Elon Musk releases rap single tribute to the late Harambe
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https://people.com/pets/elon-musk-releases-rap-song-about-harambe/
Grimes’ passion for music seems to be rubbing off on boyfriend Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO released an auto-tuned rap tribute to the late gorilla Harambe Saturday in a
short song uploaded to his SoundCloud account.
The two-minute track was uploaded to the site under the faux label Emo G Records, and shared to Twitter by Musk, 47. “I’m disappointed my record label failed,” he wrote. “Duck emoji
defeats Emo G Records. Crushing victory.” He later added, “This might be my finest work.”
It’s unclear if it’s actually Musk rapping on the track, which includes lyrics like, “RIP Harambe/Smoking on some strong hay/In the gorilla zoo and we thinking about you.” As of Monday
morning, it had been played more than 914,000 times.
/mu/ and Fantano must be having a seizure right now
hnghhhhh must resist making a joke about rap, black people and harambe....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98k05_bM2e4
Actually pretty good and funny. Sorry that some dude changing the world has a sense of humor and isn't perfect
making harambe jokes in 2019 should be a crime
How do you do, fellow sentient carbons?
Making Harambe jokes the year it was popular should've been a crime. It was annoying then, and it's absolutely terrible now.
Dude, stop being horrible
Elon musk is single handedly the reason why I want to purchase an EV that isn't Tesla.
Elon puts his "fuck you" money to good use, it could be a lot worse.
I don't think that's the issue, at least not for me. I'm almost impressed by how easily Elon Musk has swayed public opinion - not too long ago he was acting like a bratty child and calling someone a paedophile. He's the living embodiment of the Wendy's Twitter account; Be down with the kids and have a shiny superficial personality, all in an effort to deflect any criticism. It works wonders too, because he doesn't even need to defend himself; people like you will do it for him because they are distracted by the whimsical exterior and how he is, I quote, 'changing the world'. It's like the Amazon Effect (we can criticise and criticise but everyone uses it and would complain if it disappeared), except this is a living person. I don't care that he's referencing Harambe, because I too think the internet needs to calm down with the Meme Police™. Instead, it's what this represents. The internet likes to joke about 'how do you do fellow kids', and, yeah sure, it's a tad embarrassing, but I think the bigger issue is that, no matter how old your references are, this sort of behaviour helps build up an almost cult of personality; Reddit in particular fawns over Elon Musk.
Cringy but harmless so whatever.
I cringed at this but I guess he's just having some fun with Grimes...
Here's an actually good rap named Harambe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7n2VC45-88
https://twitter.com/bloodpop/status/1112454343544823808
https://twitter.com/yungjake/status/1112469261727850496
https://twitter.com/carolineplz/status/1112469402203521024
It wasn't made by Musk. Just some musicians having fun and pushing it out through Musk for April Fools(?) (BloodPop did a remix of a new Grimes single so they've probably been hanging out)
Large corporations and successful/popular people acting all hip and cool with memes and lingo is one of the worst trends to pop up within recent years
I don't really get this. Are people not allowed to like memes and shitpost once they get popular? I assume this will be a more frequent thing as our generation ages.
Greetings valued consumer, are you experiencing the human emotion known as "Amusedment?" This is good, we hope you remember this Amusedment when you see our Quality Products.
I think he's coming from the assumption that they are insincere, i.e only engaging in memes to further endear themselves towards people. To me this is clearly an overly cynical position to take - clearly popular folk are equally capable of liking or 'getting' memes.
The thing is Elon has always been this way. His tweets are his sincere thoughts to the point the SEC fined him $20 million dollars and punished his company for $20 million more over a 420 joke and mandated his tweets be screened which they still accuse him of not doing. If there's any rich businessman who doesn't have a careful curated and marketed Twitter, it's probably Elon.
His first blog post as CEO (before Twitter) was titled "super secret master plan just between you and me."
Also when they released Teslas patents the post was named "All our patents are belong to you." This painting is in the factory:
https://i2.wp.com/www.intelligentliving.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BqhBFmMCIAA4TfX.jpg
Many the robots in Teslas factory are named after the X-Men.
The Falcon rocket is literally named after the Millennium Falcon.
The Dragon capsule is named after Puff, the Magic Dragon in response to critics.
one of his sons is literally named Xavier
Its not like this is some mandated change made by Tesla marketing executives to be more appealing to millennials. The guy has always been this way.
Yeah, the guy is a gigantic dork. He's notorious for this kind of shit by now.
Or maybe you can stop being so cynical and understand that people can have nuanced viewpoints about public figures. Most people understand that Elon Musk is kind of an egotistical dick, but he's also very much a human being too, one that has been a net positive for humanity by pushing the boundaries in internet, electric vehicles, renewable resources, and most of all space. I'm sure if you met someone normal like that in real life you wouldn't have a problem with him, but everything about a public figure is amplified by 10, even more so the negatives of them, and so even the most petty shit to hate someone for (Elon vaguely suggested he was a pedophile because the diver was a dick and insulted him first, it was a pissing match between two egotists, chill out), is made to be reasons you should hate someone forever when no, it's just people being people. The reason people love Elon so much is because he's so much not like a normal public figure and is willing to express himself like a normal human being, for both good and bad, in a way that's a positive for the future. Whenever he's out speaking in public it's not like the well rehearsed speeches we're used to, he's a nerd talking passionately about what he loves to do and the good things he's trying to do. That resonates with a lot of people.
You're right that some of the more cult like behavior of his really hardcore fans is a bit extreme, but being outright disgusted with him and other people for Elon being Elon, is just stupid, and I really think people here need to take a chill pill. Does him publishing this song really affect you all that much? He released this for a good laugh, and maybe some other people will have a good laugh at is as well. Can we please stop being cynical fuckheads who rain down on other people's parades for once?
"Vaguely suggested"
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-cave-rescuer-accusations-buzzfeed-email
That ain't what 'vague' means.
My mistake, I thought he suggested it before doubling down on it as he though he had evidence of it actually happening. It was a year ago, which only makes it even more stupid imo that we're still focusing on it.
Not half bad for a weird white rich guy.
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