We’ve seen him sweating it out at congressional hearings, surfing with a thick layer of sunscreen, and posing shirtless at the gym. Now, Mark Zuckerberg he decided to do something completely new: to sing.
The 40 year old CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms released a cover of ‘Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz’ 2002 song ‘Get Low’ yesterday.
Zuckerberg collaborated with rapper T-Pain for this new venture and from the photos he shared on Instagram, he is very happy. The CEO sings instead of raps, saying lyrics like “stop, wiggle with it, yeah” and NSFW (short for “not safe for work”)
He did it out of love. The song was playing when he first met his wife, Priscilla Chan, at a college party 21 years ago, Zuckerberg said in a post on Instagram, another social media app owned by his company. “We hear it every year on the anniversary of our meeting,” he wrote of the song. This year I teamed up with @tpain for our version of this lyrical masterpiece”
The lyrics are probably a bit inappropriate though the duo is called Z-Pain for their version of the song, which includes a recommendation to parents about the content. “So romantic,” Chan said in a reaction video, when she stopped laughing.
‘Crooning’ as it’s called is the latest ‘extracurricular’ activity for the social media mogul, who has taken up a number of hobbies that have helped him shed the college ‘nerd’ image that marked him in his early years at Facebook. In recent years he has been involved in wakeboarding and martial arts, challenging even his billionaire rival Elon Musk in a cage match that never happened.
Zuckerberg, one of the world’s richest men, also changed his look and attire, ditching his signature clothes for T-shirts, gold chains and a longer mane.
Meanwhile, the company he runs is recording record revenues. Meta recently posted sales of $40.59 billionan all-time high. Zuckerberg is pouring resources into tapping into the AI frenzy, hoping to create the world’s most used AI assistant.
A representative for Lil Jon, the rapper behind the original version of “Get Low,” did not respond to a request for comment. T-Pain did however thank Zuckerberg on Instagram for letting him be a part of his venture, with the mogul replying: “Loved working with you on this. Looking forward to more shenanigans”
