My latest single, ‘Honey Badger Don’t Care,’ has been released yesterday on all traditional streaming platforms as well as on Wavlake.com, the decentralised alternative to Spotify. It immediately shot to number 1 on the Wavlake charts.
It is a rap song about Bitcoin’s mascot, the honey badger. This animal from Africa, India and Southeast Asia is known for its strength, resilience and tenacity. It fights fearlessly against much larger beasts such as lions and hyenas, just as Bitcoin fights fearlessly against banks and governments. The honey badger’s skin is so thick that it cannot be injured by bee stings, snake bites or porcupine quills – it is as indestructible as Bitcoin.
The honey badger became an internet meme after a video from January 2011 by comedian Randall went viral. Early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, also known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ paid $1,500 a month in 2013 for a billboard on Lawrence Expressway in Santa Clara. He used it for an ad featuring an image of a honey badger, already familiar from Randall’s video, and the slogan ‘The Honey Badger of Money.’
Since then, the honey badger has become the unofficial mascot of Bitcoin. It can be seen on many t-shirts, caps and hoodies worn by Bitcoin fans. Conferences, blogs and podcasts have been named after it. At BTC Prague, a man dressed in a honey badger costume welcomed participants, who were happy to take photos with him.
You can watch my music video, in which I rap the song in front of a video artwork by artist Max Cryptohead. This artwork plays with elements from the original video and billboard ad and was dropped in 2021 on the NFT platform Carnaval.
I originally wrote the tune for my friend Max’s artwork. It was originally 30 seconds long and consisted only of the chorus “Honey Badger Don’t Care, Honey Badger Don’t Give a Shit”, which was inspired by Randall’s video. But I liked it so much, that I recently wrote some lyrics for it and asked my producer Julio Kladniew to turn into a full song.
Here are the lyrics, so please sing along!
They call me Bitcoin’s mascot
And I don’t fear no one
I fight the strongest lions
No fight I haven’t won
I’m immutable and decentralised
Totally permissionless
I’m unconfiscatable
What’s my name? Can you guess?
Honeybadger don’t care
Honeybadger don’t give a shit
I don’t fear no venomous snake
No bee swarm and no president
No central bank, no authority
I’m invincible, that’s evident
Bitcoin Jesus invented me
I was banned by the SEC
Everybody tries to kill me
But I’ll survive, don’t mess with me
Honeybadger don’t care
Honeybadger don’t give a shit