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We’re in the final stretch for the completion of Rapbassador! I’m waiting on some collabo bass+guitar parts and some time to do cover art. Miquiel will be doing post-production mastering. Yesterday I went by MOSI Tampa to take some pictures of their Recyclosaurus for cover art. I also scanned a special piece of awesome to be included with the release. The tracklisting is as follows:

RAPBASSADOR by funky49
01 mad science (cover of a fanatical/jaylyn coffin song)
02 thats not imax
03 the future is calling
04 your body (is a world)
05 mosi got the party
06 still nerdy
07 still nerdy (chopped and screwed remix)

After Rapbassador is done, I’ve got some music with Kabuto and MC Lars.

Guess what? (what?)

I’m working on a new album. It’s to support and promote my local MOSI… Museum of Science and Industry. Tampa’s MOSI has a brand new exhibit called Body Worlds. That’s one of the songs. Here are some lyrics to “Your Body is a World”

shatter apathy of anatomy, physiology
Doc Gunther thanks for your discovery
MOSI, Science and Industry
hooks it up (yeah) for all to see
what’s under the skin of humanity
ignore what’s in store? insanity.
see where I’m coming from with this
go and witness the epididymis

Another song is about MOSI itself. It’s called “MOSI got the Party” Sample lyrics:

Mariposa, butterfly in Spanish, got
MOSI in your town and that’s an advantage,
manage to adopt, so that these fliers, can’t be stopped,
Bio Works Butterfly Garden rocks

Another song pimps the IMAX theater at MOSI. This one is called “That’s Not IMAX!”
Check it!

so whatcha, whatcha wanna watch?
whateverrr, you’ll like it a lot!
animated features, ones about creatures
documentaries for all to see, what
did my Aunt Rose Marie like best?
BRRR – the sound track to Everest!
so, doesn’t matter what you got at home
it’s nothing like the MOSI Dome!

The fourth song for the EP is a bit more personal. The song is called “Still Nerdy”. Here are 32 bars of it.

got
Lil ‘Debbie hunches, Star Crunches, in my
lunches, never throwin punches in school,
never was a fool, made to feel foolish
toolish, like a big dork, cause endomorph
my body type, now I rhyme right
fat then, fat pockets now outrageous
cause voracious I’m a reader
it took some patience, girls got flirtatious,
metamorphosis from that to this
gettin’ dissed to being on the guest list
transformed outside and paradigm to be a
winner, took girls to dinner and got in her
never stopped rockin with the PCs, mp3s
and a MC they helped make me, PS
three the new Atari twenty-six fix,
never gonna stop nerd being in the mix

no chicks, no girls, no opposite sex
twenty-four baud I would connect
enter cyberspace, hello to BBS
use that smart mind that I was blessed
Coke made my glasses, my frames the worst
everyday had a pimple to burst, cursed
by feelin’ like a schlemiel, had to deal with
depression, aggression, ka turned the wheel
now i don’t feel that trouble, rubble at my feet
butterfly busted out of the geek, I speak
with faith in self, confidence wealth
retired the old me on the shelf
new school me got savour faire
now whatcha wanna compare?
sizes of the pee-pee or SATs?
scrotums or intelligence quotients?

Honestly, this is some of my proudest work as of late. 2009 is going to be a good year for rhyme! I’m also working on the music for these songs too…. using my newly upgraded Pro Tools LE 8 baby!

If I can get one extra person to Tampa’s MOSI… then its worth it! What inspired all this? Julia @ Brandtampa.com and her “Virtual Ambassador” program. I’m not much of a blogger, but I can hook up a rhyme and deliver it over my beats! I appointed myself the unofficial rapbassador (rap+ambassador) to Tampa’s MOSI. I’ve been the Chicago’s MOSI, the Franklin Institute in Philly as well as science museums in NYC and Munich. I want Tampa’s to shine the brightest!

FUNK

p.s.

sorry if i’m not the best, most prolific blogger. i feel that who the hell wants to hear from me? As Q-Tip says, check the rhyme yo.