MC Hawking: A Brief History of Rhyme
Album Description:
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.
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Dan loves rap. Where can I get this CD?
You can order it from the link above the description. ($13.98)
I should warn you that I haven’t actually heard any of it though, so this isn’t a recommendation or anything. There are a few MP3s on the site, but I haven’t listened to them.