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“Mr. Worldwide” wants to lift the world up during the coronavirus pandemic.
Miami rapper/songwriter Pitbull dropped a new single on Monday, turning the familiar sports chant “I Believe That We Will Win” into a pop anthem for the COVID-19 outbreak, with all proceeds from the song being donated to charity.
“You know what spreads faster than any virus is fear,” he says at the beginning of the two-and-a-half minute track, first revealed to Billboard and later shared to the artist’s official YouTube GOOG, -1.68% account. “And when it comes to fear, you can either forget everything and run, or you can face everything and rise.”
“ “Let me tell you what I believe. I believe we will face everything and rise.” ”
Pitbull — nee Armando Christian Pérez — told Billboard that a close friend sent him a beat that he’d set to the popular sports chant. The artist realized, “Man, this is what the world needs right now,” and he knocked out the record in just three days.
The song, released in collaboration with Saban Music Group, will benefit charities including Feeding America and the Tony Robbins Foundation.
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The Grammy award-winning artist and entrepreneur has already released a pretty simple cut of the music video featuring himself dancing while the lyrics crawl across the screen.
But he is also inviting fans across the globe to send him videos of themselves singing the chant so that they can be included in the music video in the future. “It will be a world movement,” Pitbull told Billboard, directing people to submit their videos to believeanthem2020.com.
And people have already responded on Twitter TWTR, -5.00%, sharing images and videos with the hashtag #IBelieveThatWeWillWin.
“We’re going to get through this, we’ll fight through this,” the rapper added. “We have a recovery number of nearly 400,000 worldwide and that’s what we need to be talking about. That’s what I look for and we should be talking about these numbers to give people hope and motivation. To be able to be a part of this historical time and see a response from people like, ‘Damn, I am strong, we can make it,’ that for me is priceless.”
In fact, the recovery rate has risen to at least 435,074 and counting as of Monday morning.
