Baba Brinkman – Rap Guide to Consciousness

ABOUT BABA BRINKMAN
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist and award-winning playwright. To date, Brinkman has written seven hip hop plays and released more than a dozen rap albums, toured the world, and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York.Brinkman is a pioneer in both science-based rap and also “lit- hop” or literary hip hop, and he’s known for his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh.

However, he is best known for his “Rap Guide” series. The first of those, The Rap Guide to Evolution (“Astonishing and brilliant” – NY Times), won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination and was featured on US national TV on The Rachel Maddow Show and at the Seattle Science Festival opening for Stephen Hawking. Baba is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology.

His play, Rap Guide to Consciousness, was a hit at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe exploring the material basis of brain science in hip hop form. His clever and distinctive style has earned him the attention of the New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, NPR, Macleans, CBC, and the BBC. When he is not on tour, Baba Brinkman resides in New York with his wife, neuroscientist and Discovery TV host Dr. Heather Berlin, their daughter Hannah and son Dylan.

ALBUM TRACK LIST
1. Real Recognize Real (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
2. Good Bayesian (feat. MC Lars and Mega Ran)
3. Zombie
4. Dylan
5. Forget Me Not (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
6. Mary
7. Cephalophile (feat. Alice Andrews)
8. Wizard of Odds (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
9. Room
10. Ready for Implants
11. Can’t Stop
12. Memes Up
13. Still Here (feat. Tymisha Harris)