--- title: Watch Sax Bae Saxophone Player Covers Drake VIDEO description: A saxophone player who posts covers of songs by artists like Drake on Twitter won the hearts of the Internet, nabbing the name #SaxBae. canonical: https://time.com/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T19:14:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:20.114Z og:title: Meet 'Sax Bae' The Internet Loves This Sax Player's Pop Covers og:description: From Drake to New Edition, he loves it all og:url: https://time.com/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/ 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: Meet 'Sax Bae' The Internet Loves This Sax Player's Pop Covers twitter:description: From Drake to New Edition, he loves it all twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meet 'Sax Bae.' the Drake-Covering Musician Who the Internet Can't Stop Crushing On > Sponsored content. 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However, there’s one thing that Twitter users can collectively agree on right now and it’s the swoon-worthiness of this dreamboat of a saxophone player who posts charming jazz covers to his Twitter account. Nathaniel Lane, [an Atlanta KSU industrial engineering student](https://www.instagram.com/nate.w.lane/?hl=en), has captured the hearts of the Internet with his soulful saxophone covers of popular contemporary songs like Drake’s “Fake Love” and Chance the Rapper’s “No Problem” as well as old favorites like New Edition’s “Can You Stand the Rain.” In fact, the Internet is so enamored with Lane that they’ve given him his own delightful hashtag moniker, #[SaxBae](https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23saxbae). > [](https://twitter.com/natewlane/status/828023632429461504) > [](https://twitter.com/natewlane/status/834194107278966784) This isn’t the first time that Lane has become an Internet sensation however; a video of him squatting a car as a part of his leg exercises went viral, even making it to _ESPN_. > [](https://twitter.com/natewlane/status/841681321046994944) Keep living your best life, #SaxBae! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/"},"headline":"Meet 'Sax Bae.' the Drake-Covering Musician Who the Internet Can't Stop Crushing On","datePublished":"2017-03-28T19:14:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:20.114Z","description":"Meet #SaxBae","url":"https://time.com/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"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/4715371/sax-bae-twitter/","name":"Meet 'Sax Bae.' the Drake-Covering Musician Who the Internet Can't Stop Crushing On"}}]}] ```