MC Hawking - A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits
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Artist: MC HawkingEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Music Label: Brash Music
Soundtracks:
- The Hawkman Cometh
- The Dozens
- Big Bizang
- Excerpt From A Radio Interview (Pt. 1)
- Entropy
- The Mighty Stephen Hawking
- Crazy As F#@k
- Bitchslap
- Excerpt From A Radio Interview (Pt. 2)
- F#@k The Creationists
- E=mc Hawking
- All My Shootings Be Drivebys
- UFT For The MC
- Excerpt From A Radio Interview (Pt. 3)
- What We Need More Of Is Science
- GTA3
Music reviews of A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits
Music Review: A unique techno driven voice with great beats disguised as a joke
Rating: 5 Stars
Yes, this is a joke CD. Stephan Hawking as a gangsta rapper. This sounds like a joke that would get old, say, after the first 20 seconds. But you know, it works. This is one the best rap records I've bought in a long time. I don't know what this means for the current state of rap and hip-hop, but I just plain enjoyed this CD.
First off, this is a funny CD. Yeah, the premise is lame, but the smart lyrics mixed with the pure absudity makes it a perfect "smart-stupid" comedy. The lyrics are either based on gangster rap, quantum physics, or other innane topics like Grand Theft Auto. You will be chanting "You down with entropy, yeah you know me, who's down with entropy, every last homie". This is, however, mostly original music.
Now don't let the joke motif fool you. Sure, this is not gangsta rap, but I find this less absurd than a guy who's been shot nine times who can barely ennuciate words making millions of dollars. The beats are fantastic, and the Stephan Hawking voice is more like a techno laced rapper that suprisingly well. I'd consider this "alternative-rap", not satire.
The CD has about 13 songs, each with varying degrees of beats, funk, speed, and the like. The creator spent time and effort on this - and it shows. Most people will write this off as an attempt at humor. I'd say this is a piece of inventive art.
Description of A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits
What if physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking had a secret life as a gangsta rapper? Confined to a wheelchair due to Lou Gehrig's Disease, Dr. Hawking lost the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985. Since then he's used a speech synthesizer that speaks for him when he types in the computer what he wants to say. After seeing the Beastie Boys in 1988, be became obsessed with rap and immersed himself in the culture, favoring the harder-edged music by NWA and The Ghetto Boyz. From this, MC Hawking was born. Here are 16 dope, booty shaking, digitally mastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics, collected on one CD for the first time. "It's hard to decide whether the parody is downright brilliant or borderline offensive, but it certainly made us laugh"--Salon. "I'm flattered in an odd sort of way"--Dr. Stephen Hawking.Novelty Music CDs
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