Science + Rap?

[The Spith]

Somehow I managed to stumble across the website of one 'MC Hawking' - a rapper who likes to rap about science.

 

If you think I'm making this up then just read the (somewhat hilarious) lyrics to his song about entropy:

 

Verse 1

Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,

to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.

Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,

in a system that is closed, like with a border.

It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,

proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.

"What the **** is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,

it seems I gotta start the explaining.

 

You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?

You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.

But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,

if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.

 

That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,

the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.

Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,

allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.

Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,

at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.

That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,

if you are here's your membership.

 

Chorus

You down with entropy?

Yeah, you know me! (x3)

Who's down with entropy?

Every last homey!

 

Verse 2

Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,

'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.

So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,

and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.

First we need to understand that entropy is energy,

energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.

In a closed system entropy always goes up,

that's the second law, now you know what's up.

 

You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,

'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.

The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,

that entropy must increase and not dissipate.

 

Creationists always try to use the second law,

to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.

The second law is quite precise about where it applies,

only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.

The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,

so **** the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!

That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,

you're now down with a discount.

 

So far I have been unable to find an audio file, but if you want to read more lyrics from such classics as 'E=mc Hawking', 'F*ck the creationists' and the somewhat less science related 'All my shootin's be drive-bys', then go to http://mchawking.com

 

Seriously I can't make this stuff up

[AL]

One of the earliest posts I made on this forum was about MC Hawking. Only back then, most of his mp3s were freely available on his site. Now you have to buy his CD for most of it.

 

It's hilarious to listen to a few times, but it gets old fast. I always wondered how Stephen Hawking felt about being parodied this way, but apparently, he met the guys behind MC Hawking and was OK with it.

[AzurePhoenix]

I always wondered how Stephen Hawking felt about being parodied this way, but apparently, he met the guys behind MC Hawking and was OK with it.

Hawking has always had a good sense of humor about his sorta stuff, like an Onion article about him trading in his wheelchair for a super-killer mech suit.

[bascule]

Don't forget Blackalicious's Chemical Calisthenics!

 

I can do anything

Neutron, proton, mass defect, lyrical oxidation, yo irrelevant

Mass spectrograph, your electron volt, atomic energy erupting

As I get all open on betacron, gamma rays thermo cracking

Cyclotron and any and every mic

You're on trans iridium, if you're always uranium

Molecules, spontaneous combustion, pow

Law of de-fi-nite pro-por-tion, gain-ing weight

I'm every element of brown

Lead, gold, tin, iron, platinum, zinc, when I rap you think

Iodine nitrate activate

Red geranium, the only difference is I transmit sound

Balance was unbalanced then you add a little talent and

Careful, careful with those ingredients

They could explode and blow up if you drop then

And may hit the ground

Let it flow, yo, just let it go, get back

C-A-O-H-2 wine water solution of calcium hydroxide

Slobbin it, C-A-O lime will make bleach powder

Galvanic metal beats stomp out louder

Dried ice, C-0 squared refrigerant

N-O-2 makes you laugh, it's laughing gas used by the dentists

I nearly added acid glue, I'm like oil of a toil, the king of chemicals

And the G heat gas waved all your mats

Chemical change, ice point, melt all your raps

Atomic weight, hold shocks, when you call

Refillable gas keep going way beyond

Biotch I'm only ill with buzzin, feel the ambiance

A diabetic process outta calm your ass

After I warm your ass, I'll give sodium, silicate N-O-2-S-1-O-3, a water glass

Borax flexure full of brimstone sulfur

Boraxic acid, hip-hop preserver

C-O-2 could never put away the fire

Style aroma is scientific; the lyrical fuse would be connected

To teach you chemical calisthenics

The Theory is that all matter is composed of at least three fundamental particles

Protons, electrons, neutrons, Protons charge is positive

By now you've guessed electrons are probably negatively charged

Neutrons don't follow either, neutral, in the middle, only no apologies

Centered, unmoved by yin and yang ideology

Neutron, bomb songs, electron fury

Cosmic musical radio-activity

Different points in joints within infinity

Oxygen and hydrogen alive within all types of energy

Within all types of energy

Within all types of energy

Within all types of energy

Within all types of energy, inside a world, inside a world

Inside a universe, inside of me existing although I can't see it

Hydrocarbon, nitrogen cycle, ionization

Heavier than electric motor metals that weigh over a ton

This has been a chemist, Blackalicious creation

Clean out your desk, put your papers away cause class in almost done

This is chemistry plus calisthenics

I'm calcium plus potassium, magnesium, newspaper of sodium, sulfate

Your solvent, chloroform, remedy from the norm

glycerin, purest form Titanium

there is no way out, when this newfy is out

of all arms vibration, forming in a nigga

some bleachin' to teach ya religious is equal to pieces of meteor

Eager to be here or is it, can see here I know all of all

I'ma pickin' up pretty little Cindy

I'm more, I'm thinkin of more,

I'm cookin a potion!

[Genecks]

I always wondered if someone could rap about science in such a way.

[AL]

Hawking has always had a good sense of humor about his sorta stuff, like an Onion article about him trading in his wheelchair for a super-killer mech suit.

The Onion article seems pretty innocuous though. The MC Hawking stuff on the other hand can be really offensive (not to me, but to others), and is highly opinionated, like the song about wishing for Jesse Helms' death. Not that I have a particularly high opinion of Mr. Helms, but I might be a little concerned about a group using my name to joke about Helms dying. But I have to give it up to Stephen Hawking for being cool about it. I know I'd be squeamish.

[JohnB]

This type of music has been around for a while. Tom lehrer released "The Elements" back in 1959. Tune is "I am the very model of a modern Major General."

 

" There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium

And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium

And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

 

"There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium

And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium

And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,

And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

 

"Isn't that interesting?

I knew you would.

I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.

 

"There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium

And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium

And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,

Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium

And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,

Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and

Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)

And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

 

"There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium

And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium

And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium

And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,

Tungsten, tin and sodium.

 

"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,

And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.''

 

It's always entertaining.

[abskebabs]

I'd never heard of Mc hawking before.This stuff is legendaryy lol:D

[1veedo]

Like AL said, it gets old pretty fast. The same jokes are only funny for so long.

[Illuminati]

Heh, I just found the F*ck the Creationists song lyrics, that is some funny stuff!

Verse 1

**** the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,

every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.

They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,

Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.

Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,

straight up fairy stories even children don't believe.

I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say,

all I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.

 

 

 

By the way, Genecks, I love the avatar, Washu Hakubi. Can't beat the science god on a great anime.

[FreeThinker]

check out Canibus.. same sort of thing