"Chocolate Rain" is a song and music video by Tay Zonday, created as a commentary on racism and social injustice in the United States. It quickly went viral after it was posted to YouTube on April 22, 2007, and has since been viewed more than 100 million times. The music video portrays a bespectacled Zonday in a recording studio wearing a white T-shirt and singing into a condenser microphone. Occasional cutbacks to Zonday playing a digital piano are also shown.