Carrie Underwood invites her mom on stage – to rap! – and the audience couldn’t get enough
If you’re a country music sensation who has recorded a hit song with a hip hop star then you have to get pretty creative when you perform it on tour.
Carrie Underwood is finding creative solutions to performing her smash hit “The Champion (ft. Ludacris)” on her “Cry Pretty 360” tour.
In Boston, she invited a man named Chuck Choi to the stage who had used hip hop to learn English when he moved to the U.S. (Side note: we’d love to talk to Choi since he learned specifically from listening to Eminem – that must be some vocabulary!)
Underwood declared Choi “a champion” for having a good attitude and working hard to learn the language:
“Chuck says his experience has taught him that nothing is impossible, and you can overcome any struggle with a positive attitude.”
In Indianapolis, she invited the WNBA’s Erica McCall on stage.
But at a recent concert closer to home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Underwood – who shot to superstardom faster than any American Idol winner in history (she won in 2005) – invited her own “champion” to the stage to stand in for Ludacris.
She asked her mom Carole to rap the part.
It’s only about 12 lines, though most of us would forget them immediately on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans, but mom was, indeed, a champion as she rapped:
“Born champion, Luda
The C is for the courage I possess through the drama
H is for the hurt but it’s all for the honor
A is for my attitude working through the patience
Money comes and goes so the M is for motivation
Gotta stay consistent, the P is to persevere
The I is for integrity, innovative career
The O is optimistic, open and never shut
And the N is necessary ’cause I’m never giving up
See they ask me how I did it, I just did it from the heart
Crushing the competition, been doing it from the start
They say that every champion is all about his principles”
Does Carole look like a mom rapping? Oh heck yes. Is she getting her own recording contract any time soon? Well, no.
But did she get up there and show how fun and brave and ready to support her daughter she is? Absolutely!
While her daughter rapped along for a few lines to keep her on track (after all, how can you hear yourself with that many people screaming?), Carole got the job done and became an overnight sensation.
In just two weeks since Underwood posted the performance to Instagram, three-quarters-of-a million people have watched the original upload alone.
She captioned it:
“Nailed it! I kept trying to keep her on track! 😂 At the end she said ‘Did I do OK?’ Who knew Mom could rap?! #MyMomsCoolerThanYourMom.”
Well, we don’t know about you, but our moms are pretty cool too. However, we’re happy to skip the rap-off to prove it.
Underwood posted another set of videos the same night showing her in her dressing room predicting what her mom’s performance would look like (and she was spot on!) followed by a version where it’s easier to hear her lyrics.
But to see the original video – screaming chaos and all – be sure to scroll down below.
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Source: @carrieunderwood via Instagram, PEOPLE