Music

Elon Musk Just Released A Rap Single About Harambe, Because This Is 2019

This needs to be heard to be believed.

by Joseph Earp  1 April 2019
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There’s maybe only one thing that makes being ruled over by a technocracy of uber-rich venture capitalist goons somewhat tolerable, and that’s the fact that most of said goons appear to have late-stage brain worms. So sure, Elon Musk has more money than God, but he also spends his free time dicking around on Twitter and making memes.

Indeed, Musk appears to be living proof that our new ruling class can buy themselves everything but good taste. It’s not even clear what there is to be said about the pot-spluttering, Grimes-dating South African Z-grade Bond villain anymore.

When the man’s not attempting to suppress unions and forcing his workers to live in abject poverty so he can buy another spaceship, he’s calling objectively heroic people paedophiles, getting into complicated feuds with rappers and generally acting like exactly the kind of Reddit lurker that makes the internet inhospitable for anyone with a family and a social life.

Now, Musk has doubled down on his reputation as a 14-year-old edgelord, and has dropped what I guess you’d generously describe as ‘a single’ dedicated to the memory of Harambe, the gorilla who died in 2016.

‘R.I.P Harambe’ is a heavily autotuned single that features a rapper — apparently Musk himself, though this of course could be an elaborate prank — spitting bars about how Harambe, a gorilla who died back in 2016, is still extremely dead.

There’s not really much more to say, because there’s not really much more to the song. There are lyrics about how Harambe is on his way to heaven, there’s a lotta amens, and the whole thing is about as nuanced and interesting as one would expect — which is to say, not at all.

Of course, we gotta quickly address the elephant in the room — it’s highly likely that Grimes, Musk’s equally edgelord girlfriend, had at least something to do with the track. And the idea that one of the early 2010’s most exciting and promising acts is now fucking about with her autocrat boyfriend over a three-year-old meme is so depressing I might just go straight back to bed.

Lead image: Flickr / Heisenberg media