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

Still from the Particle Business music video

Nerdcore for Life, coming to DVD & Netflix!

November 3rd, 2009 | By 49

This is a message from my friend, Dan Lameroux…

Believe it or don’t, but Nerdcore For Life is really, finally, for real coming to DVD. The unofficial target release date is November 30th. Some weeks after sales start, the movie will be available to rent via netflix. Our distributor told us that Netflix decides how many copies of a film to buy and what distribution centers to send them to based on how many people “Save” the film to their queue. So, you’ll of course be my best friend ever if you decide to buy a copy of the DVD when it comes out but if you’re more of a renter, you can also help us by heading to netflix and saving the film. And if you’ve seen the film and liked it, a 5 star rating probably wouldn’t hurt either.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Nerdcore_for_Life/70126787

Note: That’s not the final DVD cover. The distributor needed to give netflix something and the art wasn’t ready yet
12/16/2009 NOTE: This DVD release has been pushed back to January which will allow me to host a NC4L viewing party just after it comes out instead of a month later. This is great news!

funky49 goes to Fermilab… (video)

September 2nd, 2009 | By 49

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

funky49 video release party! Oct 25, 2008

October 8th, 2008 | By 49

This is going to be awesome! Unleashing for the first time, the Milk and Doo Doo video! Recorded in high definition with professionally choreographed dancers to the phat beat created by funky49 & DJ Q, this video be will see in public for the very first time!

Performering live will be the Emergency Pizza Party, Rocket Propelled Geeks, Magitek, redvoid & funky49… with DJ Q on the decks! You need to be here to see what’s up! Will it be dancers? Hula-hoopers? Breakdancing? Beatboxing?

Did I mention there is going to be a raffle?

Come prepared to eat and drink. The Hip Hop Soda Shop has plenty to drink and eat. Try the CHICKEN & WAFFLES they are OMGWTFLOL good! The special on the menu will be $10 for two beers and ten wings! The Hip Hop Soda Shop also has a grip of LCD tvs and Xbox360s in the back for game playing!

Cost: $5 (includes raffle ticket)

for all the info: live.funky49.com

FUNKY49 VIDEO RELEASE PARTY!

September 26th, 2008 | By 49

The release party for the “Milk & Doo Doo Video” will be Saturday, October 25th! The show starts at 8pm at the Hip Hop Soda Shop in Tampa, FL, USA!

Performering live will be (so far) the Emergency Pizza Party, Rocket Propelled Geeks… other people once they check their myspace… and funky49 with redvoid! Holding down in the DJ booth will be DJ Q.

Entry is $5 which includes a raffle drawing for a gaming session on the Hip Hop Soda Shop’s Xbox 360s!

You need to be here!