To the window, to the wall… Mark Zuckerberg found a new call(ing): to become a singer. The Meta CEO released his own version of Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz hit 2002 single “Get Low” on Wednesday in commemoration of the night he met his wife.
Zuckerberg—the third-richest man in the world worth $205 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index—joined forces with rapper T-Pain for his own rendition of the “lyrical masterpiece,” as he calls it, in his Instagram post announcing the song’s release.
“‘Get Low’ was playing when I first met Priscilla at a college party, so every year we listen to it on our dating anniversary,” Zuckerberg wrote in his post on Instagram, which is owned by Meta. “This year I worked with @tpain on our own version of this lyrical masterpiece. Sound on for the track and also available on Spotify. Love you P ❤️”
“It’s so romantic,” Chan said while giggling in an Instagram Stories video responding to the song. “21 years later I can’t get quite as low, but it brings back a lot of fond memories.”
Zuckerberg, a.k.a. “Z-Pain,” and T-Pain took an acoustic, slower approach to the cover—although most of the explicit lyrics remain. The accompanying Spotify music video short shows T-Pain and Zuckerberg sitting in what appears to be a small music studio with Zuckerberg playing a guitar. The unlikely pair also share a fist bump in the video.
“Mark and Priscilla are celebrating their 21st dating anniversary,” a Meta spokesperson told Coins2Day in a statement. “He continues to lower the bar when it comes to gifts for her.”
Representatives for T-Pain and Lil Jon didn’t immediately respond to Coins2Day’s request for comment on the song.
“Happy 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
While Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish his undergrad years at Harvard University, he did get two life-changing experiences out of it: meeting his wife, Priscilla Chan, and launching his 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 in which Zuckerberg had launched “Facemash,” one of the early versions of Facebook, which ranked the attractiveness of Harvard students. When Chan first met Zuckerberg in a bathroom line at that party, she assumed Zuckerberg was getting kicked out for ideating the hot-or-not site.
“I’m going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly,” Zuckerberg told Chan, as he recalled in his 2017 commencement address at Harvard. “Without Facemash, I wouldn’t have met Priscilla.”
Zuckerberg was so nonchalant about school at the time—and, evidently, so interested in Chan—he told her he’d rather take her out on a date than finish his take-home midterm exam.
“The type-A first child in me was appalled,” Chan said in a 2014 interview with TODAY. “Turns out he was just trying to convince me to spend more time with him…and I’ve since learned that he’s very bright.”
While Zuckerberg wasn’t ultimately expelled from Harvard, he decided in 2004 to drop out in pursuit of building Facebook, which went public in 2012. Now, Meta—which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads—has a $1.46 trillion market cap, making it one of the largest tech companies in the world.
Despite having built a massive tech empire, Zuckerberg insists his relationship with Chan is even more important. Together, they have three children: Maxima, August, and Aurelia.
“She’s the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here,” Zuckerberg said in his Harvard speech.
