Off That (Rationalist Anthem) - Baba Brinkman

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Run time: 04:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYVY2eLMck   Posted on YouTube: March 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: babasword Views on YouTube: 28998   Posted on DU: May 05, 2010 By DU Member: BootinUp Views on DU: 303

 
This is my kinda RAP - Science RAP. :)

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1. k & r !

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2. shameless kick

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[Ian David]

3. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Pseudo.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Pseudo.

I'm particularly pleased to bring you this Fun-with-Evidence Friday post. Didn't think I'd ever hear a professionally produced rap with lyrics like "You can't make claims without evidence." And "I don't care if you meditate. Just don't say you can levitate." Together with witty references to the Sex Pistols.

But this YouTube video by Baba Brinkman proved me wrong. I highly recommend it. Baba is an entertainer with a show called The Rap Guide to Evolution. He's appearing at the Bleecker St Theater in New York this week (oh, how I wish I could be there).

Getting good reviews. On the New York Times Opinionator, Olivia Judson says in Darwin Got It Going On that the show presents "one of the most astonishing, and brilliant, lectures on evolution I’ve ever seen.... e has concocted a set of mini-lectures disguised as rap songs. When he comes to human evolution, for example, he has the audience sing along in call-response fashion to 'I’m a African' — a riff on an earlier song of that name by the radical, pan-Africanist hip-hop duo Dead Prez. The point of Brinkman’s version is that because humans evolved in Africa, we are all Africans: pan-Africanism meets population genetics."

More:
http://www.evidencesoup.com/canopener/2010/05/never-mind-the-bollocks-heres-the-pseudo.html