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Dirty Apes Discover Science

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[verse1] i got sci, come fly with me, to the moon you don't got sci, you fly to your doom funk in the lab, downloads by the googleplex when it comes to learning I say, What's Next? sit the dogma, stand up, time to listen time to be a knowledgeable, world citizen in addition to whatever you wanna be science or nothing, whats it gonna be? [hook] no one in the lab got science like us science like us, sci-science like us no one in the lab got science like us science like us, sci-science like us what do you got? WE GOT SCIENCE! what do you got? WE GOT SCIENCE! what do you got? WE GOT SCIENCE! no one in the lab got science like us! [verse2] what's the story morning glory, four nine in the laboratory, log ya journals, bunsen burner HOT, better watch your ass hot glass looks like cold glass mass in action, jumpin off Periodic Tables i'm a force, capable and able rhyme collider Batavia Fresh Prince Sirius bright, I know you like this Luminosity on the increase like the Tevatron, no mean feat explode like supernova on the mic like quantum physics I'm out of sight like a cylinder son, i'm graduated USF bachelor's matriculated still learnin I'm a student forever brain in gear so I can stay clever [bridge] aiight ya'll let me hear your favorite part of the ATOM Is it the neutron? what about some proton love? SOMEBODY SAY MY ELECTRON!!! [verse3] patient observation for explanation phenomenon, worthy of your notation formulate question for testin' you don't know, cause right now you're just guesin' but trust me, gotta create hypothesis answer possibility for testing see you're groovin, experiment now approvin' or disprovin' so come to your conclusion [hook]
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welcome all ya'll to the Fermilab... on the Illinois prairie... beneath the bison... the frontier of science.... Let me introduce to you... FERMILAB! -HOOK rock stars of physics, particle business smash matter, antimatter and witness quarks, bottom to top they don't stop "where the Higgs at?" yo that's their mark where the Higgs at? x3 go go go! -VERSE1 Tevatron, OG atom smasher say hello to CERN's party crasher, the new "Lord of the Rings" LHC, hear me, this be competitive collaboration baby strippin' electrons, makin' ions of hydrogen, now pull that proton give it that speed we need to make real science get achieved, I believe, shock protons, greatly accelerated two teraelectronvolts they now rated fated to smash, and get mated creatin' smaller bits, energy still equated! we love collisions, take snapshots till we get the right shot, learn a lot yo, a mad grip of events do occur blast fast, data stream is a blur normal events, they get ignored, Higgs events, they get adored HOOK -VERSE2 high over frontier Wilson Hall tall with aesthetics, its a science cathedral for the people that see with math, collider detectors and massive graphs D-Zero or CDF, who's the best? if pressed I guess who's closest to quench the measurement thirst and who got their results in first collision detectors, fermion collectors this ain't the 60s with pocket protectors these peeps cool, like super conducted magnets, you know four nine ain't frontin' HOOK -VERSE3 to me triple beams don't mean pushin' mad coke, it's scientists in lab coats, so you ready for insight twilight or limelight? research in basic science, I'll fight. who's side you with? R&D dollars? or pork spending for anyone who hollas? brain drain? no technology policy. ballot box for better decisions in D.C. rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis keys science cutter clowns get smacked down please, I'm trippin' at students slippin' (slippin') in test scores, against the world they're dippin lets be liftin, positive like positrons before we ask where we gone wrong down with MTV, forget what you heard get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard! (repeat x2) HOOK
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[verse 1] symbol may be a lower case e but electrons are upper case to me like Brits with and their Ecstasy, that’s what you do to me, little e fast, furious around the nucleus - google dat shit if you’re curious E L E C T R O N - that’s how you’re spelling my friend outer shell fellow dancing festive, Joker asking “Why So Negative?” that’s his charge that he carries building block, it’s elementary Lepton, First generation like gray Sony Plaaaay-stations he’s Fermion with a little mass but he and his kind can shock your ass [verse2] next up what I’m telling all ya’ll why you can’t Shadowcat through walls magnetic field makes things solid ask a scientist - get some knowledge like lined up atoms spin like Sprees boost electron’s force like SHEESH! they can get a push, get a pull but I wouldn’t call all that a miracle insane clown disgraced lost cases I wanna defibrillate your faces J, Shaggy, you guys are jerks - its damn sexy knowing how things work ignorance is tragic, magnets are science, not magic - so I’m hoping this verse costs me every single listener of Insane Clown Posse [verse3] - karl olson no gossip, so i'll won't tell, which atoms bond to my shell but my role is so prevalent, connection's deep and more covalent literally at the sub atomic, feels like this bass sub sonic seems my bonding role is chronic, even when it's just ionic switched my bonds so please don't hate, you'll be my precipitate besides you were so sedate, attraction did not equate really this ain't prosecution, i just need electrocution if you stayed in my solution, it'd mess with my revolution [verse4] Little e is happening man like Little Italy in Manhattan, <DAMN> you’d be sad, mad at me if i took away electrons in your batteries he can’t get enough big ups like Van de Graff’s mess your wig up he got his own microscopes and fist fights cancer givin’ hope he’s a particle, he’s a wave, beta decay his birthday positron handshakes annihilates and that creates gamma rays I don’t want no magic wand, all I want is my ‘lectron I don’t want no dummy blonde, all I want is my ‘lectron
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A Penny saved is a penny earned well Benny read and Benny learned now his face worth a hundered dollars founding father, ask a hundred scholars not frightened of Enlightenment the sky he went with the kite he sent beat germs with a window open today we affirm what he was knowing Renaissance Man - polymath pleased with reasons to take a bath SO! fresh SO! clean SO! be impressed what problems will he tackle next? big thinker but not an Indian tho given the title First American Ben loved ladies all of his life so hide your girls, hide your wife Boston born, family not big in the cheese easy to see, they didn't have means not a Mister Drummand richie folks move the world, it takes different strokes Old Ben, bold in many roles Paris to Philly streets he strolled know, had experiments keen observation, many vocations changes in life station apprentice runaway to fun away from home split Mick, he's a rolling stone England and France, we sent him Benjamins, Franklins, we spend him didn't go to college but he started one didn't have a smile till he farted one my jams are like almanacs of rap four nine and Ben, don't take a nap
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[intro] Hey baby. Let’s slow it down... just a little bit... cause I'm gonna talk in this deep voice like a Barry White intro, see you got me feeling this way you gave me these.. URGES. they’re SO stronge... I gotta do something about them. I gotta do something right now [hook] Songb3rd / Ayana Wright I just wanna, swap my genes with you I just wanna, drop my jeaaanns I just wanna, swap my genes with you I just wanna.... [verse1] girl you attractin, i'm mackin not Rerun, but I'm What's Happenin Now, certainly we got neeeeds, spread seed perpetuate the species biological imperative, feels so nice, feels so right, mixing traits wit a great mate, can't wait, first date, let's make it tonight, dunno if i blow, X or Y chromosome so let's get it on, seen the rest on the microphone, knowin i'm strong with bird song, dance with me can't go wrong jeans droppin' under my spell doin it, and doin it, doin it well girl got the hips, gotta get with stay a while this won’t be quick (whispered) hope you liked my introduction you respond to my seduction, a junction, our function, me and you giiiirl reproduction HOOK [verse2] causing more strokes than Mavis Beacon you got data my hard drive’s seeking let’s study the notes of Kinsey and let’s get kinky wanna do it like Mendel? in the garden like so well? haha, let’s stop this gamin’ you’re craven to see my stamen voulez-vous coucher avec moi make way for my DNA ce soir you’re a natural selection for my natural injection, how ‘bout some kissing with the lips split moving hips to the bliss, trippin from my epididymis to your cervix my semen wish, girl... [break] doing what I can making you a fan of this man’s hands... on your mammary glands, just thinking with my penis, what I mean is let’s have a stroke of genius busy bee inside of me since puberty my buzz, not just for fun, see? for love, marriage, assortative pairing and a baby carriage cause HOOK x2
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[funky49] One, two, three and to the four nine Funk and Dale Chase at your door you know I’m typin this in Google Docs you know we’re hypin this cause Google rocks [dale] Google dat shit with the quickness, Page Rank, spank the search business, relentless with browser power, need the info if ya don't knowww then now you knowww they Let the Sunshine In like Fifth Dimension and one eight seven on you other search engines more hits than Elvis, Elton and Beatles G-thang baby, Don’t Be Evil people, other rappers got ice, I got Chrome plus I’m twice as nice on the microphone you ain’t bookmark syncin, you’re stinkin like Pepe le Pew in the trunk of a Lincoln [funky49] 4 bars (1/2) G double O G is my style CR48 helps me get wild ChomeOS, I put to the test free laptops are best righteous [Dale Chase] [funky49] 4 bars (2/2) damn nerds, straight outta Stanford Facebook steals their talent now, ya heard? everybody know, doesn't sound absurd cause Larry and Serg made a noun a verb, word! [Dale Chase] [Songb3rd] rise and shine, rise and grind all my crazy tattooed punk hacker bad asses in the data centers angels in the cloud doing Google proud (repeat)
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Star Trek Interlude (free) 00:48
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[funky49] nerd rage is my state of rhyme separate from church and my state of mind rigid beliefs got no appeal, tis season for reason is how I feel, I appreciate Christ parables but not guilt to burn my D&D manuals, Harry Potter ain’t teaching kids spells but its magical how reading helps you spell well young Earth creationists damn I'm pissed cause Fred and Dino Flintstooone is your gist dinosaurs went rawh rawh hey, but Adam didn't ride 'em in back his hey day Pope Palpatine leads creeps, in- appropriate touching with all the young sheep father figure smoke screen there’s fire burning in your own hell is my desire [mCRT] Fuck you. You subvert what you know to be truth Fuck your agenda and the way you try to bend the rules If you've got God on your side, who gives a damn if you lie? So I'll reiterate: fuck you, I hope you die Of cancer of the AIDS or some other disease So you'll vanish right along with your hypocrisy So hit me up with your falsified documents of nonsense Just keep on praying for fiery rain and apocalypse I've gotta bitch 'bout you, you and your friends are all liars I fucking hate you and I really hope you die in a fire Cause you're playing with fire, you are about to get burned Christian Science is a fucking contradiction in terms You say you give it all over to the guy in the sky But when you see the white light you slide into an MRI Your beliefs a little bit of ironic mojo jojo Don't believe in evolution but you act like a bonobo [funky49] I can’t stand it, how you damn shit information wants to be free so hack the planet atoms to atoms and dust to dust reproduce your data or I can't trust you much Disrobe Kobe of magic bracelets, face it, baller bling is for basket cases Crystal balls tarot real like Jack Sparrow your facts skinny like Mia Farrow scandal schism, fundamentalism how bout some fucking tolerant decisions? be impassioned but rational no screechin' question everything even pulpit preachin' living life so when you die, you ex- pect high fives from a guy in the sky, I rage at beliefs only out of a page get out the Middle Ages and join the Space Age, nerd rage!
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[funky49] failure defiant, mad sweat on the brow, we found triumph and we gonna fly now studied long and hard to the break of dawn cause we practiced too much to get it all wrong first believers, underdogs to achievers cheers of peers now we got the fever, thank the teachers, we had the finest we - are - standing - on - shoulders - of - giants [hook] Triumph... On the shoulders of Giants (that's where we stand!) x2 [AlpineKat] Minds from the past, yo they laid down tracks That you can build on, divert from, make your own path New advances owe a debt to the expanse of history Like the two old rings that feed the LHC Cuz every great breakthrough needs to be refined Correct the theories of the Curies, Darwin and Einstein Lifted on their shoulders see what no one’s seen before Ain’t nothing like discovery makes a human spirit soar [funky49] Greeks got elite in Egyptian sheets all right with brains boosted with solutions from old Kemites, Plato gave way to Descartes Rene, read by Franklin, proud of his farts but Ben was hated by transcendentists cause too much reason got them all pissed, they were nature lovin', gut trustin Gs who inspired the actions of the great Ghandi Slick Rick tick-tock didn't stop Afrika Bambatta made the whole Planet... Rock Kraftwerk interpolated made his craft work vocode the hook, track goes berserk previous teachers and all the past masters figured things out so now we doing it faster their lessons are blessin's finest we - are - standing - on - shoulders - of - giants HOOK
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The Catholic church worked into a twist over Galileo's defense of Copernicus, he made the old pope a joke in publication, Galileo got papal consternation observations didn't fit he feared so Ptolemaic ideas he jeered instead of the pope throwing down a bless, he got rest in his nest under house arrest, can't mess, with amazing star gazing, telescope reports, church hazing critical eye not a mystical guy heliocentric didn't fly, to the frog father of science, forward leapin reports from observation, no beatin repeatable by locations in other nations Galileo - this my rap ovation (what's happenin? what's crackin? x2) Got math leading to migration tracks DNA showing the way from way back bread crumbs where we all came from long before we gave the drummer some dead relatives no longer besides us live genetically up inside us mitochondria ride is us homo sapiens pride I bust ride with us africa is the motherlaaaand we hiked out to other laaaands some went left, some went right, we got split up into all these haplotypes some made it with with the ladiessss by the Tigris and Euphratessss yes yes ya'll, we kicked it with neanderthals and some of you still do... Harvest pursuit for truths even if that drive at times poops on previous paradigms minions of opinion, vanish and get dissed dogma banished when facts established my daily paper ideally lacks astrology boggling me, they report astronomy sports section shorter than biology reports, more important to me, see i cried with Columbia's reentry break up explorers for me never gonna wake up for every NASA success I cheer it like Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit Von Braun bombs wrong but right when Saturn V's are lightin up the night out of sight! I rather go to planetariums not bars cause "Oh my God, it's full of stars"
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lyrics [funky49] One, two, three and to the four nine Funk and Dale Chase at your door you know I’m typin this in Google Docs you know we’re hypin this cause Google rocks [dale] Google dat shit with the quickness, Page Rank, spank the search business, relentless with browser power, need the info if ya don't knowww then now you knowww they Let the Sunshine In like Fifth Dimension and one eight seven on you other search engines more hits than Elvis, Elton and Beatles G-thang baby, Don’t Be Evil people, other rappers got ice, I got Chrome plus I’m twice as nice on the microphone you ain’t bookmark syncin, you’re stinkin like Pepe le Pew in the trunk of a Lincoln [funky49] 4 bars (1/2) G double O G is my style CR48 helps me get wild ChomeOS, I put to the test free laptops are best righteous [Dale Chase] [funky49] 4 bars (2/2) damn nerds, straight outta Stanford Facebook steals their talent now, ya heard? everybody know, doesn't sound absurd cause Larry and Serg made a noun a verb, word! [Dale Chase]
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-VERSE1 Tevatron, OG atom smasher say hello to CERN's party crasher, the new "Lord of the Rings" LHC, hear me, this be competitive collaboration baby strippin' electrons, makin' ions of hydrogen, now pull that proton give it that speed we need to make real science get achieved, I believe, shock protons, greatly accelerated two teraelectronvolts they now rated fated to smash, and get mated creatin' smaller bits, energy still equated! we love collisions, take snapshots till we get the right shot, learn a lot yo, a mad grip of events do occur blast fast, data stream is a blur normal events, they get ignored, Higgs events, they get adored -VERSE2 high over frontier Wilson Hall tall with aesthetics, its a science cathedral for the people that see with math, collider detectors and massive graphs D-Zero or CDF, who's the best? if pressed I guess who's closest to quench the measurement thirst and who got their results in first collision detectors, fermion collectors this ain't the 60s with pocket protectors these peeps cool, like super conducted magnets, you know four nine ain't frontin' -VERSE3 to me triple beams don't mean pushin' mad coke, it's scientists in lab coats, so you ready for insight twilight or limelight? research in basic science, I'll fight. who's side you with? R&D dollars? or pork spending for anyone who hollas? brain drain? no technology policy. ballot box for better decisions in D.C. rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis keys science cutter clowns get smacked down please, I'm trippin' at students slippin' (slippin') in test scores, against the world they're dippin lets be liftin, positive like positrons before we ask where we gone wrong down with MTV, forget what you heard get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard! (repeat x2)
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Uncle George's Outro (free) 02:00

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BEATS, BASS AND BEAKERS! Rapbassador, the album funky49 created to promote Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry now has a sequel: Dirty Apes Discover Science. This release is aimed at the nerds, geeks, scientists and engineers who need some hip-hop in their life. It is also for rap fans who have had their fill of songs about cars and jewelery.

Dirty Apes Discover Science is a genre-spanning work with influences from dubstep, electro-house, R&B to old school hip-hop. In the lead track “Science Like Us”, the scientific method (observation, forming a hypothesis, prediction, experimentation, conclusion) is amazingly distilled into 8 bars of rap. “Gene Swap” humorously delves into the under-represented biological side of sex. There is praise for the humble particle in “My Electron” as well as jabs at the willful ignorance by the Insane Clown Posse. Kudos are given to everyone’s favorite internet company with “Google That”. Personal to funky49, there is mad love for the scientist/inventor in “Ben Franklin is my BFF”. The track "Particle Business" highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery that existed between CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. A music video for “Particle Business” was shot at various locations at Fermilab and was created by Dan Lamoureux of Nerdcore for Life acclaim.

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released January 3, 2012

Thanks and greets to: All of the collaborators on this album. Without their awesome contributions, this album would be a lot less rich in timbre and texture. Big ups to the Florida nerdcore massive, especially the Emergency Pizza Party (MC Wreckshin, Sir-Up, Betty Rebel and Benjamin Bear) and the rest of my nerdcore massive on the internet especially the fine folks at Nerdcore Now. All my science teachers. All scientists & engineers of the world. The employees of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, especially Dr. Ben Kilminster, Tona Kunz and the CDF band, the Drug Sniffing Dogs. The Tevatron. The people at the National Academy of Science, especially Ann Merchant. Dan Lamoureux of for making the music video for “Particle Business”. Gabriel Spitzer of Chicago’s WBEZ. Everyone who follows me on the Twitter. Everyone that works in front an LCD screen or four. The people chilling their butts off in data centers and it is so noisy in there they gotta crank this up. Thanks and greets to all the people I’m forgetting. If you were sampled, please don’t sue. If I’m wrong on something, consider your listen part of a peer review. Let me know and I will issue a rap retraction!

The idea for this album came out in summer 2009 but I’m not done. Future tracks I want to make along the “Dirty Apes” vein: A rap battle between Tesla and Edison, a song for our Voyager/Pioneer space probes called “Escape Trajectory”, a song discussing the spinoff technologies from research in basic science, a song about our Out of Africa migration (we are all homo sapiens!) and being humble because we’re just a speck on this pale blue dot and can die because of tiny specks like germs (think Carl Sagan meets Bill Nye meets Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex). I also want to make a track with my EPP family where we rap about different chemicals effects on the brain. mCRT imagines a rap battle between Lysenko and Lamarck and a story about the voyage of The Beagle. Ultimately, I would love to get big name musicians to help marry science and music.

Peace and humptiness forever,
-steve
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funky49 is a rapper and science enthusiast living in Tampa, FL. He has presented at TEDx, Fermilab, and the National Academy of Sciences. He was named a “Nerdcore Hip-Hop All Star” by Wired magazine. He has performed at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and geek-friendly concerts such as Nerdapalooza. His album Starblazer is available on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby. ... more

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