T-Pain takes on Lorde’s “Royals”

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing.
It’s impossible to get two clicks into the Internet without running into another cover of Lorde’s smash hit “Royals,” a song everyone’s already drooled over. But hip-hop songwriter, producer, rapper, and all-around thinkfluencer T-Pain released his own cover of “Royals,” featuring rapper Young Cash, and they rewrote some crucial lyrics to make it, well, a song that means something else entirely.
T-Pain’s signature Auto-Tuned sound blurs some of the opening lyrics, and there are no official liner notes of the cover. But the hook is pretty clear:
Seems like yesterday we was drinking Crown Royal
We ain't really give a fuck
Now they try to hate on us
And I just party on my bus