We’re convinced that 2024 is officially not real. Not only have we experienced a multitude of life-altering events, but we’ve also witnessed the founder and CEO of a multinational technology conglomerate cover a song rap song from the early 2000s in an effort to impress his wife.
Earlier in the week, Mark Zuckerberg teased on social media that he was working with T-Pain, posting photos of them in the studio together on his Instagram story.
In one photo, Zuckerberg simply wrote, “It’s happening guys.”
While we had no idea what was coming from this random collaboration, we knew it would be something we’d never heard before. We were right.
On Thursday, in a post on IG, the CEO of Meta debuted what he’d been working on with T-Pain, and it turned out to be a cover of Lil Jon’s 2003 song with the East Side Boyz, “Get Low.”
In the caption he wrote, “’Get Low’ was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary. This year I worked with @tpain on our own version of this lyrical masterpiece. Sound on for the track and also available on Spotify. Love you P.”
As if the description of the song wasn’t cringeworthy enough, the unlikely duo decided to turn the song into a country record.
Listen below:
Naturally, the reactions to the collaboration were varied, with some finding it hilarious, others thinking it was just bad, and many just shocked that it was real.
One person commented, “This was not on our bingo card.”
Another person wrote, “There needs to be some kind of hotline I can call to figure out what’s reality and what isn’t.”
One under simply commented, “Why?”
In response to some of the negative feedback he’s been getting for the song, T-Pain posted a video, saying, “Y’all don’t like it when people have fun. Y’all don’t like it when people do wholesome things, y’all don’t like it when people do stuff for their wives.”
He continued, “But when I do songs with known drug dealers, when I do songs with actual murderers, when I do songs with known scammers, when I produced the songs with people bragging about all the bad shit they done in their life, that shit’s fire, that’s shit’s hard.”
What do you think? Was this corny? Or was it a hilarious recreation of a classic party song from the early 2000s?