Baba Brinkman is a former tree-planter who worked in the Rocky Mountains of… Read Full Bio ↴Baba Brinkman is a former tree-planter who worked in the Rocky Mountains of B.C. every summer for more than ten years, personally planting over one million trees. He is also a scholar with a Masters in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. His thesis drew parallels between the worlds of hip-hop music and literary poetry. After graduating in 2003, Baba began his career as a rap troubadour.
Since 2004 Baba has toured his award-winning hip-hop theatre show, "The Rap Canterbury Tales", to dozens of cities around the world, including two tours of Australia, three critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, several college campus tours of the USA, including Harvard, and frequent returns to the UK and Europe. His rap adaptations are now used in hundreds of classrooms around the world.
In 2007, Baba founded the indie record label Lit Fuse Records, and released the debut album "Butterfly Man" from up-and-coming Vancouver singer/songwriter Aaron Nazrul. The lead single "When the Night" was recently featured on network television on 90210, and the video enjoyed Top Ten rotation on Much Music.
In 2008, Baba joined forces with UK BBC Slam Champion MC Dizraeli to form the hip-hop group Mud Sun, and they co-wrote and released two albums, including "The Rebel Cell", a hip-hop play that was one of the biggest critical successes of the Edinburgh Fringe, winning the "Spirit of the Fringe Award".
Baba's latest project, "The Rap Guide to Evolution" won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009, and went on to tour the UK and USA, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
Baba is currently working with Brighton-based DJ/producer Mr. Simmonds on two new shows (and CDs) for the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, a sequel to the Evolution show entitled "The Rap Guide to Human Nature" about the science of human behaviour, and a new rap storytelling show, "Rapconteur", which will feature adaptations of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and the Finnish Kalevala.
When he is not touring, Baba Brinkman resides in Vancouver.
-Bio from his website, http://www.babasword.com
Since 2004 Baba has toured his award-winning hip-hop theatre show, "The Rap Canterbury Tales", to dozens of cities around the world, including two tours of Australia, three critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, several college campus tours of the USA, including Harvard, and frequent returns to the UK and Europe. His rap adaptations are now used in hundreds of classrooms around the world.
In 2007, Baba founded the indie record label Lit Fuse Records, and released the debut album "Butterfly Man" from up-and-coming Vancouver singer/songwriter Aaron Nazrul. The lead single "When the Night" was recently featured on network television on 90210, and the video enjoyed Top Ten rotation on Much Music.
In 2008, Baba joined forces with UK BBC Slam Champion MC Dizraeli to form the hip-hop group Mud Sun, and they co-wrote and released two albums, including "The Rebel Cell", a hip-hop play that was one of the biggest critical successes of the Edinburgh Fringe, winning the "Spirit of the Fringe Award".
Baba's latest project, "The Rap Guide to Evolution" won the prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009, and went on to tour the UK and USA, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
Baba is currently working with Brighton-based DJ/producer Mr. Simmonds on two new shows (and CDs) for the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, a sequel to the Evolution show entitled "The Rap Guide to Human Nature" about the science of human behaviour, and a new rap storytelling show, "Rapconteur", which will feature adaptations of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and the Finnish Kalevala.
When he is not touring, Baba Brinkman resides in Vancouver.
-Bio from his website, http://www.babasword.com
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Baba Brinkman Lyrics
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Artificial Selection Artificial selection, it starts with a question How did peo…
Babel See now is the time When freestyles combine And wild minds…
Beowulf Yo, listen up, I wanna say some things About the days…
Creationist Cousins Creationist cousins, they're my relations, I love 'em But w…
Darwin's Acid In 1859 Darwin spilled the first splashes Of his universal …
David Buss Message Hey Baba, David Buss here. Just reading over your lyrics…
David Sloan Wilson Message Hey Baba, this is David Sloan Wilson. I’ve read your…
Dead Poets A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It…
DNA We are made of DNA We are made of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Ac…
Fame in the Brain So many theories of human nature to choose from So many…
Fatalist It takes individuals to make statistics With sophistication…
Genesis In the beginning I was just a kid, listenin' to…
Gilgamesh Run your fingers over the stones of this ancient city These…
GOCASE G stands for "General intelligence", which Some people seem…
Group Selection "Sure, I could get up at dawn, go to a…
Hypothesis 3 Of course evolution is true! It’s one of the central planks…
I'm A African I'm a African, I'm a African And I know what's happenin' I…
Induction These riddles I write In the middle of the night Got me…
Insomnia It’s 4:45 and I’m fortified and on track Awake overnight, a…
Lotus Eaters Sitting on a beach With a guitar in my hand Moments on…
Mad Style Disease Don't take me for nothin' but a punch-line jester Inside my…
Merchant's Tale It’s the story of a rich old man, January He’s still…
Microphone This ain’t a microphone; it’s a microscope It’s like a slid…
Mosquito Once upon a noontime dreary, while I rested, weak and…
Natural Selection "Whoever is lead to believe that species are mutable, will…
No Bugs On Me Now the monkey swings by the end of his tail As…
Pagan Party We goan’ party like we just came home from war And…
Procrastinator I'm a procrastinator, planning to act later A chronic nap-t…
Scientist As an act of defiance, I insist On disrupting silences with…
Sexual Selection I'm cocky and single and I got your genes tingling Girl,…
shaman In the rainforest, I can hear a strange chorus Of frogs…
She's Ovulating She's ovulating – if she was a stripper I wouldn't know…
Short-Term Mating Dance Assembling in these dense colonies Provides the social stim…
So Infectious Don't be jealous if I'm overzealous My flow is so infectious…
solar eclipse Thunderous beats shake the ground underneath Hundreds of fe…
Survival of the Fittest We livin' this 'til the day that we die Survival of…
The Planter's Dilemma So you want hippies huh? Alright, I'll give you hippies Co…
toxified I really hate to do this to fakes, but the…
Twin Studies Twin: Hi, is this, uh, Baba Brinkman? Baba: Yeah, who's t…
Wannabe G's Ghetto boys Die by twenty-five Or catch a quick three-to-f…
Worst Comes to Worst "As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are unite…
You Can't See Me The blind stares of a million pairs of third eyes Lookin'…
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Josh Schreibman
It is a crime against humanity this only has 2200 views. This is outstanding, and I just shared via my Facebook. If I had the power to "instantly make world famous", I would use it, here, now.
Inquisitor Christopher
Had this on in the background while I was writing a comment on a friend's post about the Charlie Hebdo attack in France... and then I heard "sexual dimorphism." ~ I love it when you guys say stuff I've read about, or you say something that makes me want to ~go~ read about something I wasn't already aware of, like Tombstone and that line about the "Dunning Kruger Effect." ~ #GU music friggin' rocks.
PrincepsDinus
This is brilliant!
featheredskyblue
This is my favorite Rap Guide song. Respectful discussion. Yes.
duzyureks
This is Baba's best. Very well done! Thanks:)
Lude Crestfallen
Immediately shared it with my creationist cousins.
Dorfus Bara
I love the scene with the dude sucking a dummy whilst reading the "book of myths"! Bang on!
ShellyDZ99
Just imagine what Thanksgiving dinner must be like in his family...
the Dictator
I've added this to my playlist. Thanks.
G R
Love this.