The original video, as it aired on CBS:
There’s one more wrinkle to this whole thing that internet trivia fans will appreciate. That mummy yell from the joke video isn’t just a random yell. It’s the voice of an artist named MC Ride, performing with his hip hop group Death Grips on their 2011 song “Guillotine (It Goes Yah).”
YouTube even has its own edited video of MC Ride just making that shouting sound for an hour. If you thought the yell sounded familiar, you weren’t wrong.
So there you have it. Yes, scientists really did make a mummy yell. But it wasn’t very funny when they did. The internet helped spice it up by sampling the yell from a hip hop artist. And the rest was viral video history.
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