The rap humorous? It is the specialty of David Andrew Burd, aka “Lil Dicky”. The singer of 31 years has been a few years since a hip-hop reversing codes. A thousand miles of the clichés of the genre, one encounters more frequently of the dinosaurs that women bare in his music videos twisted. On Friday, the singer-comedian has shared the music video for Earth picking up on the tone slapstick and absurd of his previous videos.

Published a few days of the world Earth Day, Monday 22 April, the title turns out to be above all, beyond its aspect of a comic, a manifesto to save the planet. For the occasion, the rapper has invited the actor Leonardo DiCaprio – to be very involved in the fight to save the planet – but also Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus to take the microphone.

We Are The World , version comedy modern

“originally, it wasn’t supposed to be a song green, he told the magazine Rolling Stone . I thought it would be funny to invite artists to play with different animals. (…) I didn’t know that we had only twelve years to change things before the damage that we have caused is irreversible.

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Adam Levine, Snoop Dogg, Katy Perry, the Backstreet Boys and Ed Sheeran are also joining in the cry of alarm by Lil Dicky. “We love the Earth is our planet. We love the Earth, it is our house” chant-they during the seven-minute clip, in which they appear in turn in the guise of baboon, zebra, lion and other animals. In short, a more modern version of We Are The World , to which you have added a zest of comedy, summarizes brilliantly the site CNN.