Doc Brown (real name Ben Smith) is an underground British rapper. He is a member of the London rap group Poisonous Poets. He receives regular airplay on national radio stations such as BBC Radio 1^[1][2][3][4], 1Xtra^[5] and BBC Asian Network.^[6][7], This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... BBC 1Xtra is a UK radio station from the BBC specialising in urban and black music. ... Asian Network logo BBC Asian Network studio at The Mailbox shopping centre, Birmingham. ...

In 2004 he released Donnie's Lament, a collaboration with fellow Poisonous Poet Lowkey, featuring the duo rapping over a sample of Gary Jules' hit, Mad World. The song garnered major critical acclaim and especially heavy airplay for a UK hip hop track, arguably helping to increase the popularity of the genre as a whole. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lowkey (real name ???) is an up and coming English hip-hop artist. ... Gary Jules (born March 19, 1969 in Fresno, California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American singer. ... Mad World is a song originally written by Roland Orzabal of the British band Tears for Fears. ... Alphanumeric List 1-9 1200 Techniques 2 Live Crew Fresh Kid Ice Luke Skyywalker Mr. ...

On 5 May 2006 he was featured in the BBC Radio 4 show Do You Know What You Are Saying?, a programme on the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg. The programme considered and analysed language in light of a recently developed computer system that analyses the language used by a person, and which offers percentages for its linguistic content and origins in such categories as "Everyday English," "Anglo-Saxon," "Norman," "Dutch", "Old Norse" and so forth. Subjecting one of his songs to this analysis, Doc Brown was deemed to be using an extremely high percentage of Everyday English (over 92%), up in the realms normally only associated with "conventional" poets. His work also scored extremely high in Anglo-Saxon (82.9%), which did surprise him, in view of his circles of association and domestic and cultural roots (South London father, Jamaican mother). He commented that a lot of rappers are "impossible to understand." So, for him, the deliberate use of easily understood short words is very much to do with their rhythmic flexibility and musical potential. He describes using short words with impact as being like using a percussion instrument. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939, in Wigton, Cumberland) is a British author and broadcaster. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Norman is a Romance language and one of the Oïl languages. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...

Doc Brown is the younger brother of bestselling writer Zadie Smith.^[8] Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is an English novelist. ...

References

1. ^ Zane Lowe playlist
2. ^ Steve Lamacq playlist
3. ^ Bethan and Huw playlist
4. ^ Ras Kwame playlist
5. ^ Blakey playlist
6. ^ Bobby Friction playlist
7. ^ Bobby Friction playlist
8. ^ Doc Brown interviewed by his sister, Zadie Smith

External links

• Poisonous Poets official website
• BBC R4 Programme info