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Particle Business music video – Fermilab Rap

April 7th, 2010 | By 49

It’s here to save the world and promote science!

Particle Business!

Free mp3 for Particle Busines

Lyrics for which Symmetry Magazine has a breakdown of:

[chorus]
Rock stars of physics, particle business
smash matter, anti-matter and witness
quarks, bottom to top
they don’t stop
“Where the Higgs at?”
Yo that’s their mark!
Go! Go! Go!

[verse 1]
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 tera electron volts they rated
Fated to smash and get mated
Creatin’ smaller bits, energy still equated
We love collisions, Take snap shots
Till we set 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!

(Chorus)

[verse 2]
High over frontier. Wilson Hall tall
With aesthetics, it’s a science cathedral
For the people that see with math
Collider detector and massive graphs
DZero 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’

(Chorus)

To me, triple beams don’t mean
Pushin’ mad coke, Its 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’ in
Test scores, Against the world they’re dippin’
Let’s 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

“Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be learned” – Carl Sagan

Filmed on location in and around the tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, “Particle Business” is rapper Funky49′s hip-hop tribute to the “O.G. Atom Smasher.” The video was directed and edited by Dan Lamoureux, the filmmaker behind the Nerdcore hip-hop documentary, “Nerdcore For Life.”

Particle Business Credits:
Music – funky49 & redvoid
Shot and edited by: Dan Lamoureux
Lyrics – funky49
Guitar – c plus student
Additional vocals – Dr. Ben Kilminster
Mixed and mastered – The HT @ Studio 6, Port Orange, FL
Costume design – Christy Redd

Particle Business still

Still from the Particle Business music video

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funky49 goes to Fermilab… (video)

September 2nd, 2009 | By 49


Video clips from my trip to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. ENJOY!

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Science Outreach via Rap Presentation

August 14th, 2009 | By 49

Last Tuesday I gave a presentation in the Wilson Hall at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. It was about Science Outreach via Rap. If you don’t mind RealPlayer, please give it a watch. You can also read the speech at my Rapbassador.com website [speech]

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Milk & Doo Doo music video

October 25th, 2005 | By 49

Milk, Milk, Lemonade! Around the corner fudge is made!
Milk & Doo Doo is from the album, Starblazer, available on iTunes and CDBaby, etc. This is funky49′s take on Miami bass, a potty humor hook and a silly dance. Recorded in Tampa, FL, USA with professional dancers. Which is your favorite?
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