--- title: Elon Musk Has Apparently Released a Harambe Hip-hop Single description: The tech billionaire tweeted out a link to a song on Soundcloud entitled "RIP Harambe," which he appears to have made himself canonical: https://time.com/5561790/elon-musk-hip-hop-single-harambe/ author: Alejandro de la Garza article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-31T21:34:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:48.235Z og:title: Elon Musk Has Apparently Released a Hip-Hop Single — And It's About Harambe the Gorilla og:description: The song is called "RIP Harambe" og:url: https://time.com/5561790/elon-musk-hip-hop-single-harambe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2037800534bbc2c/6989478e97cdff54906b7956/elon-musk-harambe.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: US-AUTO-TESLA-MODEL Y og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elon Musk Has Apparently Released a Hip-Hop Single — And It's About Harambe the Gorilla twitter:description: The song is called "RIP Harambe" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2037800534bbc2c/6989478e97cdff54906b7956/elon-musk-harambe.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Elon Musk Has Apparently Released a Hip-Hop Single — And It's About Harambe the Gorilla > Sponsored content. 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Brown—AFP/Getty Images  by [Alejandro de la Garza](https://time.com/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/)  ## Alejandro de la Garza Mar 31, 2019 9:34 PM UTC What might compel a billionaire tech entrepreneur to record a song referencing a nearly 3-year-old meme about a dead gorilla? Hard to say, really. Though in 2019, it’s somehow not entirely surprising. That seems to be exactly what happened on March 30, when Elon Musk [tweeted out a link](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1111916290375974917) to a song on Soundcloud entitled “RIP Harambe.” The song had apparently been recorded and uploaded by Musk himself. The single apparently references a dated [internet meme](http://time.com/4461256/harambe-gorilla-memes/) revolving around the [death of Harambe](http://time.com/4352001/cincinnati-zoo-gorilla-killed-harambe-boy-toddler/), a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, which was killed in May 2016 after a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla’s enclosure. The song features a digitally-modified voice and references the death of the gorilla in its lyrics: “RIP Harambe, sipping on some Bombay, we on our way to heaven, amen, amen.” Musk tweeted the song link along with image of an album cover featuring a gorilla. Shortly afterwards, he tweeted, “I’m disappointed that my record label failed.” Musk’s Twitter use has recently landed him in legal trouble, after the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a judge to hold the billionaire in [contempt of court](http://time.com/5538240/elon-musk-contempt-sec/) in February for violating a settlement requiring him to get Tesla’s approval before communicating material information to investors. In a Feb. 19 tweet, Musk said the company would make about half a million cars in 2019, before posting a few hours later that they would deliver only about 400,000. 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