Korn's Jonathan Davis Covers Lil Wayne's "Got Money"

Jonathan Davis and Korn have treated us to some unintentionally terrible cover songs over the years, from an unplugged version of Radiohead's "Creep" to a conglomerate take on Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." Now Davis, without his bandmates but with Slipknot's Jim Root, has unfurled the strangest cover of them all after attempting Lil Wayne's "Got Money." Like its predecessor, Davis' "Got Money" utilizes AutoTune vocals and is pretty faithful, except for the fact that the chorus sounds less like "Got Money (Remix)" and more like Limp Bizkit's "Nookie." This isn't the first time Davis has tried his hand at hip-hop, as Korn also covered Ice Cube's "Wicked" back on 1996's Life Is Peachy. "Got Money" is available for as multi-format download for the low price of your email address on a mailing list over at Jonathan Davis' website.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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