Rap artist Baba Brinkman demonstrates, with examples spanning Eminem and Jay-Z to Chaucer and Lord Byron, that rap is a modern, innovative, and playful form of poetry. Catch Brinkman's Rap Guide to Climate Chaos live in NYC or help crowdfund a Climate Chaos album.
Get Up Stand Up | Song Around The World. The Big Lebowski Silences Donald Trump. Gravitational Waves Hit the Late Show. Trump Ad by the Poorly Educated. Boots Riley Performs "Underdogs."
At "I Love Malcolm: A Legacy of Love and Liberation," Rapper Boots Riley (The Coup) performs "Underdogs."
A short compilation of hard times music. Run DMC Hard Times. Ry Cooder No Banker Left Behind. Josh White Hard Times Blues. Willie Nelson Summertime. Charlie Palloy Buddy Can You Spare a Dime.
An unauthorized tribute to Run DMC done to the images of the financial panic of 2008.
The rap song, sung by Sofia Ashraf, exhorts Unilever to clean up the toxic site of its abandoned mercury thermometer factory and compensate hundreds of its workers who have been exposed to mercury poisoning. The factory moved to India after it was shut down in Watertown, N.Y., in the early 1980s when concern over mercury in the Great Lakes was at its peak.
Rap artist Baba Brinkman doesn't argue for science over religion; he uses evolutionary science to explain religion's origins, function and development.
Jon Stewart challenges Fox to a lie-off. Beethoven and the epigenome. The evolution of religion. Men in skirts protest violence against women in Turkey. 'Chuy' Garcia for mayor of Chicago.
Baba Brinkman, a Canadian hip-hop performer with an intellectual bent, sexy beats and sumptuous lyrics, tackles where religion comes from, what purpose it serves and how it evolves. NYT: "like attending the best Ted Talk ever." See him at the Soho Playhouse in NY, or get his album (pay what you want) here.
Runaway CEO Pay in 30 Seconds. Jimmy Greene -- Where Is the Love? Delta Flight Attendants: Vote Union. Baba Brinkman – So Infectious. Vindicating Freedom Fighters.
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