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What's Crackin

from Dirty Apes Discover Science by funky49

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What’s Crackin: Honestly? This beat was for the Ben Franklin track except it wasn’t exothermic enough for good old Ben. I still liked the beat I made (inspired by DJ Premier) and I had 16 bars about Galileo I wrote for someone else. I wrote more and used a hook I’ve had in my head for a while. I’d still rather go to planetariums and not bars. :)

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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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from Dirty Apes Discover Science, released January 3, 2012

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funky49 Tampa, Florida

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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