I wrote this Christmas carol imma be outside peoples houses singing this shit Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 pic.twitter.com/NoXPQP9WVr
— Rae Sremmurd (@RaeSremmurd) December 26, 2017
Christmas has come and gone, but there’s still time to highlight at least one more holiday song. Namely, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee shared an original Christmas carol last night, and unlike most Christmas songs about dashing through the snow and mothers cheating on fathers with Santa Claus, Lee’s carol is about an unrequited love.
He shared a 52-second clip of himself performing the song, with chains but without a shirt, singing over a piano instrumental about a love interest whose heart he hasn’t managed to capture:
“Ho ho ho
I don’t have you under my tree this Christmas
But I had you all over my wish list
Ho ho ho oh oh
You’re not under my mistletoe
Ho ho ho ho ho
The weather outside is cold
I don’t have you under my tree this Christmas
But I had you all over my wish list
Ho ho ho ho woah
The weather outside is cold”
The song got some love on Twitter from, among others, Cypress Hill, Marshmello, and Rich Chigga:
— Cypress Hill ™ (@cypresshill) December 26, 2017
This is so fire
— marshmello (@marshmello) December 26, 2017
@goSwaeLee im still gonna be bumping this on thanksgiving
— Rich Brian (@richbrian) December 26, 2017
Between this and DMX’s legendary recording of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” it’s been a pretty darn good holiday season for hip-hop Christmas carols. It’s also a great time for Rae Sremmurd fans, since their next album is set for 2018.
Listen to Swae Lee’s Christmas carol above.
