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Rapper Juvenile is shilling for vaccines with a pro-vax cover of his late 90s hit “Back that thang up.”
The aging hip hop star, 46, who claims he’s been vaccinated, told CNN the exclusively black dating app BLK reached out to him with the idea for the song, which he supported in order to promote vaccines to black people.
“Well, BLK reached out to us and they wanted us to remix, ‘Back that thang up.’ They thought it was a good idea,” the rapper, whose real name is Terius Gray, told CNN.
“Being somebody that – being one of the guys that have been vaccinated like i said it’s a family decision. I felt like it was a great way to put awareness out there for, especially for people like me and people that look like me.”
According to the Los Angeles Times, the new lyrics state,
“[B]efore you find a date yeah, you gotta wait yeah / Gotta go vaccinate yeah, get it straight yeah” and “I know you can’t stand it / No holding hands, chick / But when we get the shot, wе gonna be romancing / Girl, you can be the queen / Aftеr quarantine.”
The song’s chorus has been reworked to say:
“Girl, you looks good, won’t you vax that thang up / You’s a handsome young brother, won’t you vax that thang up / Date in real life you need to vax that thang up / Feeling freaky all night you need to vax that thang up.”
CNN notably did not ask the rapper whether he was paid for the stunt.
BLK was tapped by the White House in May as part of a vaccine outreach effort targeting dating apps, including Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid and Match, as a way to coerce people in the dating scene into getting the vaccine.
See Juvenile’s full Big Pharma propaganda promo below:
And here’s a lyric video version of the song: