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"Whales", also referred to as Money, Motherfucker or Get Money after prominent lyrics, is a satirical rap song by Hail Mary Mallon. The rap is frequently included in song mashups due to its simplistic beat and its hyperbolic references to money.

Origin

"Whales" was originally included as a part of Hail Mary Mallon's 2014 album Bestiary.^[1] The rap alternates between two rappers (Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic) describing what they do to make astronomical amounts of money and how they spend it.^[2] The song explicitly satirizes the idea of rappers having access to all the money they claim to possess; both Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic are both portrayed as vagrants in the music video. As of February 1st, 2016, the music video has over 520,000 views on YouTube.

Spread

On May 1, 2015, SoundCloud user Llama Lamp set the rap against the Goron Village theme from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time (shown below, left).^[3] On May 9 of the same year, YouTube user BotanicSage created a mashup of the theme against music from the Wario Land series (shown below, right).^[4]

The rap gained a greater degree of exposure when SoundCloud user archdiggle set it against the Temmie's Shop theme from Undertale on September 21, 2015.^[5] The Soundcloud stream has over 734,000 plays as of February 1st, 2016.

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