Particle Business

April 7th, 2010 | By 49

Particle Business: mp3 & music video

Notes: This is the song I did for Fermilab.

Lyrics:

[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

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

Positive (lyrics to a new track)

January 30th, 2005 | By 49

I don’t have the hook. I have the barest pieces of the track. I do have the rhymes.

1

These rhymes, positively about positivity

are possibly explicitly in my pocket see

good health, staying away from surgeries

I’m fighting germs, they’re not fighting me

my mind full, my belly full, my bank full

got so many reasons to be thankful

RSX not a Hummer, SUVs are a bummer

just got a cute girl’s cellular phone number

juiced, excited, caffinanted, elated

strong, bright like a light not shaded

energized with head held high with pride, cheeks

dry – been long time since last I cried

not frontin’, can’t get held down by nothin’

feel so fine all I wanna do is start struttin’

fully charged, protons radiate from me

easy to see in me all the energy

2

zestfully clean – nobody can best me

since day number one, God has blessed me

yeah I rock, pumped like fad Reebok’s

electricity runs from Kangol to socks

Dragon is the Year, Libra is the sign

eye for an eye turn’s the whole world blind

turn the other cheek, world goes to those meek

God made you and you and you and me unique

Love it when rebate checks get cashed

love runner’s high when I make a mad dash

love it in class when I earn an A plus

love the feeling when on a girl I crush

love being in seventh heaven floating on cloud nine

love being in the groove, spitin’ my own rhymes

love shifting Type S, six speeds, it’s the best

love touching nice breast while back at my nest

3

life hit me with minor thirds and seconds

I hit back, perfect fourth and fifth reppin’

my proclivity to positivity and creativity

is reactivity to negativity in the cities

my theory, lift others up and you’ll get lifted

let smiles by the mile shine when gifted

do unto others my brothersssssssss….

as you’d have do unto your owns mothers

love it when the breakbeat moves my feet

Mocha Frappachino, my preferred coffee

the assembly of my flows is like Lego

but how its going to end up, nobody knows

there ain’t no box, instructions for construction

but to be Stevie-Steve, that is my function

every day like the sun I want to rise and shine

many beats per minute — flies my mind

outro

love livin’ life on the natural high

save your goodbyes tilI the day I die

so till that day I’m about hellos, stayin’

mellow, looking for a girl to wrestle in Jello