--- title: Family Boat Ride on Lake as Rap Video description: YouTube video mashes up footage from family boat ride on Lake Charles with the music video for Clyde Carson Slow Down with Mama Gin canonical: https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-24T21:46:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:14.071Z og:title: This Guy Turned His Family's Boat Ride into a Rap Video og:description: YouTube video mashes up footage from family boat ride on Lake Charles with the music video for Clyde Carson Slow Down with Mama Gin og:url: https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy Turned His Family's Boat Ride into a Rap Video twitter:description: YouTube video mashes up footage from family boat ride on Lake Charles with the music video for Clyde Carson Slow Down with Mama Gin twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Guy Turned His Family's Boat Ride into a Rap Video ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 24, 2015 9:46 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 24, 2015 9:46 PM UTC Travis Henning, 30, has managed to turn his stepmother’s repeated safety warnings into a rap song. As the youngsters take turns going tubing during a family boat ride in Lake Charles, Louisiana, watch the woman say “slow down” over and over again in between snippets from the music video for Clyde Carson’s “Slow Down” (featuring Mama Gin). Judging by YouTube views, people seem to love it. But how did his family react to the video? Henning [said on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3hndqw/edited%5Fa%5Fvideo%5Fof%5Fmy%5Ffamilys%5Fday%5Fon%5Fthe%5Flake/) that his stepmother “was not happy.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/"},"headline":"This Guy Turned His Family's Boat Ride into a Rap Video","datePublished":"2015-08-24T21:46:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:14.071Z","description":"His stepmother was not happy","url":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/","name":"This Guy Turned His Family's Boat Ride into a Rap Video"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4005235/family-boat-tubing-lake-rap-video-song/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```