# Pixel-art rap about Claude, made in code

> A three-minute rap and pixel-art music video starring Clawd, the Claude Code mascot, made from one prompt in about two hours. Every sound, including the rapping voice from a hand-written formant synthesizer, is generated in TypeScript.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: TypeScript, FFmpeg
- Services: Whisper (local)
- Style: Music videos; pixel art, rap, music video, 8-bit, karaoke lyrics, synthesized voice, self-referential
- Length and format: 3 min, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Shared by u/v3rbxtim in r/ClaudeAI (Reddit), Sep 24, 2026: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1woy70m/claude_made_a_rap_and_music_video_about_itself/
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: Node.js 24+ and FFmpeg to re-render from the published code; Optional: Python with openai-whisper for the lyric check.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change "a rap song" to another genre and "the clawd pixel art mascot" to your own character. The last line ("research what u wanna make the song abt first, u can research claude opus 5.5 and claude memes") sets the topic.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
make a rap song from scratch, no samples, entirely in typescript.  then once its done you will make a music video for it with the clawd pixel art mascot.
 you will make the instruments, voice, beat, everything yourself. use whisper to recognize speech to make sure the lyrics are understandable. spectrum pictures to catch mud, fizz, and aliasing. loudness mixed and balanced.
research what u wanna make the song abt first, u can research claude opus 5.5 and claude memes
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A terminal-window music video: Clawd, an orange pixel crab, on a near-black screen above a bar-graph meter, with karaoke lyrics along the bottom and a title bar reading clawd -- absolutely-right -- 90 bpm.

- Color: Near-black terminal with terracotta-orange pixels, green and white monospace text, cream speech boxes, and one green handheld-game screen.
- Type: Pixel monospace throughout: a shell prompt (~/absolutely-right $ claude_), green test results (test_kick_is_punchy, test_clawd_is_a_crab, 5 passed), Thinking… (esc to interrupt), a big orange ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, and karaoke lines with the current word in orange.
- Framing: 16:9 terminal window with traffic-light dots and a title bar naming the section (intro, hook, verse 1, verse 2, outro). Clawd sits center or right, an orange bar meter runs along the bottom, and the lyric line sits in a strip at the foot.
- Sound: A rap with a synthesized voice and instruments, all generated in TypeScript, according to the creator.
- Structure: A claude_ prompt beside a cracked egg, five passing audio tests, a Thinking… spinner, the song's own waveform over a sine wave, ABSOLUTELY RIGHT among you're absolutely right! boxes, an 8-BIT HANDHELD screen at MOUNT MOON B1F, Clawd under a SAFETY shield, Clawd in a starfield, then the ABSOLUTELY RIGHT (CRAB WALK) end card with credits (100% TypeScript, no samples, lyrics checked with whisper, mixed to -14 LUFS).

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 9.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 29.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 48.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 67.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 87.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 106.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 126.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 145.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 165.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/absolutely-right-crab-walk-claude-s-rap/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: About two hours
- Reported spend: About 3 to 5% of a weekly usage limit, from the creator's comment on the r/ClaudeCode copy
- Notes: Run on Opus 5.5 at high effort. Claude researched Opus 5.5 and Claude memes for the lyrics, then wrote a Klatt-style formant speech synthesizer with hand-written pronunciations for every word, a rhythm engine that puts syllables on the beat, and instruments built from oscillators and noise, and mixed and mastered it to a measured loudness. It checked the lyrics with Whisper and used spectrograms to catch mud, fizz, and aliasing. The video is 320×180 pixel art scaled to 1080p and drawn frame by frame in TypeScript. The code is public.

> every sound including the rapping voice was generated entirely in TypeScript. no samples, tts apis, or ai music generators.
> (u/v3rbxtim)

## Links

- Watch: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1woy70m/claude_made_a_rap_and_music_video_about_itself/
- Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1woy70m/claude_made_a_rap_and_music_video_about_itself/
- Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/eszn/claude-absolutely-right
- The same video on r/ClaudeCode: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wov4e8/claude_made_a_rap_and_music_video_about_itself/
- The video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpjaJwMg4SQ