To the window, to the wall… Mark Zuckerberg found a new calling: to be a singer. The Meta CEO released his own version of Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz’s 2002 single “Get Low” on Wednesday to commemorate the night he met his wife.
Zuckerberg — the third richest man in the world worth $205 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Index-He teamed up with rapper T-Pain to perform the “lyrical masterpiece” himself he calls himin the same Instagram message announcing the release of the song.
“‘Get Low’ was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so we listen to it every year on our date anniversary,” Zuckerberg wrote in his post on Meta’s Instagram. “This year I worked with @tpain on my own version of this lyrical masterpiece. Sound is activated and available there as well Spotify. I love you P ❤️”
“It’s so romantic,” Chan said as he giggled Instagram Stories video in response to the song. “21 years later I can’t stoop that low, but it brings back so many good memories.”
Zuckerberg, aka “Z-The pain”, and T-Pain took an acoustic, slower approach to the cover, although most of the explicit lyrics remain. Spotify’s short video shows T-Pain and Zuckerberg sitting in a small music studio with Zuckerberg playing guitar. The unlikely pair even share a punch in the video. To view the Spotify clip, you must play the song in full screen on your phone.
“Mark and Priscilla are celebrating each other’s 21st anniversary,” a Meta spokesperson said. luck in a statement “She keeps lowering the bar when it comes to gifts for herself.”
Reps for T-Pain and Lil Jon did not immediately respond luckrequest for song comments.
“On the anniversary! Thanks for letting me be a part of this 🔥,” T-Pain commented on Zuckerberg’s Instagram post.
Zuckerberg and the early days of Facebook
Although Zuckerberg did not finish his undergraduate years at Harvard University, he had two life-changing experiences: meeting his wife, Priscilla Chan, and launching the social network Facebook.
Zuckerberg met Chan at an Alpha Epsilon Pi frat party in 2003, around the time “Get Low” was at the height of its popularity. This was also the same era when Zuckerberg launched “Facemash”, one of the first versions of Facebook, which ranked the attractiveness of Harvard students. When Chan met Zuckerberg in a bathroom line at the party, he assumed Zuckerberg was being kicked out because he invented the hot spot or not.
“I’m getting fired in three days, so we have to go on a quick date,” Zuckerberg told Chan, he recalled in his book. 2017 Commencement Lecture at Harvard. “Without Facemash, I wouldn’t have met Priscilla.”
Zuckerberg was so indifferent to school at the time—and apparently so interested in Chan—that he’d rather go out on a date than finish a midterm to take home.
“The type-A first kid in me was terrified,” Chan said 2014 interview TODAY. “It turns out he was trying to convince me to spend more time with him…and I’ve since learned that he’s very clever.”
Although Zuckerberg was ultimately not expelled from Harvard, in 2004 he decided to quit building Facebook, which went public in 2012. Now, Meta — the owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — has a market cap of $1.46 trillion. , becoming one of the largest technology companies in the world.
Despite building a massive tech empire, Zuckerberg insists his relationship with Chan is even more important. Together, they have three children: Maxima, August and Aurelia.
“He’s the most important person in my life, so you could say he was the most important thing I built in my time here,” Zuckerberg said in his speech at Harvard.
