MC Hawking is a fictional nerdcore artist who gained some popularity in the early 2000s, largely due to the availability of his music on the Internet. It may actually be a stretch to consider the music rap, as the lyrics are not spoken, but rather synthesized by a commercial text-to-speech program. Nerdcore hip hop is a musical genre. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ...

Although MC Hawking's entire body of work and his imaginary rapper personality were created almost entirely by American web developer Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, MC Hawking is purported to be an alter-ego for theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking and is thus a parody of the physicist. Keeping with this joke, the official MC Hawking website (singlehandedly created and maintained by Leavitt-Lawrence) is set to look like a personal fan site for the MC. From the mchawking.com home page: "While there are dozens of other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific achievements, I am unaware of a single site (aside from this one) devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist." Web design is the design or designing of a web page, website or web application. ... Stephen Hawking in 2005 Professor Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, (born January 8, 1942) is considered one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...

The use of Stephen Hawking's name and reputation could be considered extremely off-color, as Hawking's reliance on a speech synthesizer is a result of the debilitating Motor Neurone Disease. However, it appears that no offense is intended, as the lyrics are largely references to and parodies of actual Stephen Hawking quotes (such as the famous "When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun."), and the original Hawking has said that he is "flattered, as it's a modern day equivalent to Spitting Image". [1] Among subjects of MC Hawking songs are various scientific topics, Hawking's professional relationships with MIT rivals, as well as the standard fare of gangsta rap, including street violence and racism. The motor neurone diseases (MND) are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Schrödingers Cat: If the nucleus decays, the geiger counter will sense it and trigger the release of the gas. ... 155 mm M198 howitzer U.S. Army soldier with a compact M249 variant USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16/50 and six 5/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. ... Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britains ITV Network from 1984 to 1996. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, mathematics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and (to a lesser extent) animals and property. ... It has been suggested that Racism in Mass Media be merged into this article or section. ...

The beats for MC Hawking are provided by DJ Doomsday. Most of the beats are samples of classic hip hop tracks. Doomsday is a Christian term for the end of the world. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ...

He is also involved with a heavy metal group called Dark Matter--an obvious parody of Ice T's Body Count--with whom he has performed such songs as "Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up and Die," "UFT for the MC" (a parody of the Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK") and "The Big Bizang". He is also an occasional Song Fight! participant. Heavy metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ... In cosmology, dark matter refers to hypothetical matter particles, of unknown composition, that do not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be detected directly, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter such as stars and galaxies. ... Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known as Ice T or Ice-T, is an American rapper, singer and actor. ... Body Count is a crossover band, best known for being fronted by Ice-T and causing a furor with the release of Cop Killer from their debut album, Body Count. ... Jesse Helms Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. ... The Sex Pistols are, despite their short existence, one of the most influential English punk bands. ... Anarchy in the U.K. (B-side I Wanna Be Me) was the first single by the punk band the Sex Pistols released on November 26, 1976, and is thus frequently considered to be the first punk single (although The Ramones released Blitzkrieg Bop a year earlier). ... According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in an infinitely dense and physically paradoxical singularity. ... Song Fight! is an online songwriting competition that has run, with brief interruptions, from 2000 to the present. ...

His greatest hits album is called A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits, a parody of Hawking's book A Brief History of Time. Greatest Hits is a common name for a compilation album of an artists most popular songs. ... Wizard reading A Brief History of Time in third Harry Potter film. ...

The origin of MC Hawking's lyrics is officially unknown, but upon examination they reflect an insight in to many aspects of current scientific thought and a surprising lyrical flow:

• "I explode like a bomb. No one is spared. My power is my mass times the speed of light squared." - From "E = MC Hawking"
• "Hoes on my tip, 15 bullets in my clip, my hand rests heavy on my pistol grip." - From "E = MC Hawking"
• "They (the creationists) want to have their bullshit taught in public class. Stephen Jay Gould should put his foot right up their ass." - From "Fuck the Creationists"
• "Look I ain't Thomas Dolby, science doesn't blind me. Think you're smart? Form a line behind me." - From "What We Need More of is Science"

The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, produced in the United States. ... In physics, power (symbol: P) is the amount of work done per unit of time. ... Mass is a property of a physical object that quantifies the amount of matter it contains. ... Cherenkov effect in a swimming pool nuclear reactor. ... The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré. In Abrahamic religions, creationism or creation theology is the origin belief that humans, life, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deitys supernatural intervention. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Fuck is an English word which, when used literally, refers to having sexual intercourse and is generally considered extremely vulgar. ... Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson October 14, 1958) is a British musician. ...

Songs

The release dates provided are based on what is given on the MC Hawking's Crib Web site.

• The Hawkman Cometh EP (1992)
  1. The Hawkman Cometh
  2. Big Biz-ang
  3. The Dozens
• Fear Of A Black Hole (1994)
  1. Crazy as F*ck
  2. The Mighty Stephen Hawking
  3. Nanomachine
  4. Black Holes
  5. Faster Than Light
  6. Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up and Die?
  7. Big Biz-ang (Remix)
  8. Doomsday Device
  9. Cut It Up
  10. Bitch Slap
  11. Entropy
  12. F*cking Sh*t Up Old-school
  13. F.Y.M.
  14. Bring the Noize
• E = MC Hawking (1997)
  1. A Brief Dissertation on Gravitational Entropy, Quantum Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle.
  2. F*ck the Creationists
  3. Event Horizon
  4. All My Shootin's Be Drive-bys
  5. Space Time
  6. Wrong Again Albert
  7. What we need more of is science
  8. Bitch Slap
  9. F.Y.M.A.S.M.D.
  10. Dark Matter
  11. TKO
  12. Paradox
  13. E=MC Hawking
  14. Kick That Sh*t!
  15. The Girl Is Mine (duet with Richard Cheese)

• "GTA3"
• "Led Zepplin Medley" (no longer available)
• "QuakeMaster"
• "UFT for the MC"

External links

• Official website