Denzel Curry claims to be first rapper played in space
Denzel Curry has claimed that he’s the first rapper to be played in space.
NASA’s Artemis II moon mission woke up 236,022 miles from Earth on April 6th after setting off at the beginning of the month.
Taking to social media this week, NASA revealed that Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen woke up and played a Denzel Curry song.
“Ooh, now you’re letting go,” they wrote on X. “As our Artemis II astronauts prepare to leave the lunar sphere of influence and return to Earth’s gravitational pull, they listened to ‘Tokyo Drifting’, by Denzel Curry and Glass Animals, as their wakeup song.”
‘Tokyo Drifting’ was released in November 2019 and appeared on Glass Animals’ 2020 album, Dreamland.
The song has over 166 million streams on Spotify, in addition to the music video accumulating 8.7 million views on YouTube.
Reacting to his song being played in space, Curry replied, “Even Aliens Fuck with my Shit! First Rapper Played in SPACE N*GGA! To infinity and beyond muthafucka.”
Curry’s claim may well be true. will.i.am premiered his song ‘Reaching for the Stars’ from Mars in 2012, but it was more of an electronic track. The Black Eyed Peas artist wrote the record to mark the successful landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet.
Speaking on ‘Tokyo Drifting’ when it was released, Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley said, “The first thing Denzel said to me about the track was, ‘This is fire’. Then he said, ‘Is this you flexin’?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it is… sort of.’ It’s an ironic internal flex – me as a narrator describing/taking the piss out of an extreme alter ego version of myself; a version of me that can do things that I’m uncomfortable doing.”