Background MC Hawking
1 background
1.1 lyrical content
1.2 dark matter & greatest hits album
1.3 reaction stephen hawking
1.4 mc hawking s podcore nerdcast
background
mc hawking s entire body of work , rapper persona created american web developer ken lawrence. lawrence earned degree in music composition hampshire college. raps synthesized text-to-speech program willowtalk. beats mc hawking provided dj doomsday (another alter-ego of ken lawrence). beats combination of samples of classic hip hop tracks, commercial royalty-free loop libraries, live performances, , midi compositions.
lyrical content
the lyrics mixture of gangsta rap topics, science topics , stephen hawking quotations (such famous when hear of schrödinger s cat, reach gun , became every time think of them trigger finger itches , referring creationists). among subjects of mc hawking songs various scientific topics , hawking s professional relationships mit rivals, standard fare of gangsta rap, including street violence , drug use.
the lyrics display insight many aspects of current scientific thought, newton s laws of motion ( shootings drivebys ), einstein s theory of relativity ( e=mc hawking ), big bang ( big bizang ), thermodynamics ( entropy ), , quantum physics subjects such schrödinger s cat , wave function collapse ( rock out hawk out ).
the creation evolution controversy mentioned in fuck creationists , entropy .
dark matter & greatest hits album
he involved heavy metal group called dark matter — parody of ice-t s body count — whom has performed such songs why won t jesse helms hurry , die , uft mc (a parody of sex pistols song anarchy in uk ), , big bizang . occasional song fight! participant.
his greatest hits album called brief history of rhyme: mc hawking s greatest hits, parody of hawking s book brief history of time. included many songs available on official website, plus new material (four songs , 3 interludes fictional radio interview).
reaction stephen hawking
stephen hawking has said flattered, s modern-day equivalent spitting image . on inside cover of brief history of rhyme, lawrence stephen hawking taking joke in spirit intended.
mc hawking s podcore nerdcast
in 2013, lawrence, along longtime collaborators len pal , dave b. mitchell (voice actor), launched mc hawking s podcore nerdcast, podcast in hosts discuss movies, games, books, , music (and particularly nerdcore hip hop). interviews nerdcore musicians including mc frontalot, mc lars, random (musician), , atheist (scott knopf). in june 2014, cassie joined cast fill in mitchell (due scheduling conflicts). regular features include suck, in hosts discuss upcoming films , predict opening weekend box office , rotten tomatoes results, dino news, in cassie brings latest news dinosaurs, nerds need know, highlights books, movies, or television shows relevant nerd culture, , wants rule world, in hosts debate potential new laws or decrees make world better place. episodes feature new mc hawking tracks.
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