Released in May 2021, Bright Future is Baba’s 12th full-length solo rap album, a collection of ten songs about science and society and the many hopeful paths towards improving the human condition through greater understanding of the natural world, medicine, and technology. Each of the album’s songs and music videos was commissioned by a scientist or an organization with science at its core, for the purpose of communicating an important and complex idea to the general public. This makes Bright Future not only a unique record, but also a blueprint for a new approach to the rap music industry, which Event Rap is now pioneering with other artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hod20AzYB4o
THE STORY
From planting a million trees in Canada to internationally-known rapper and science communicator.
Baba Brinkman has won multiple awards and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway. He performed live on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show”, appears regularly at science, technology, business, and environmental conferences, opened for Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson, and has released more than a dozen solo albums. Before launching his rap career, Baba earned a Masters in English Literature (writing his thesis on The Canterbury Tales) and worked in the forests of Western Canada for ten years, personally planting more than one million trees.
Latest Videos
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Real Recognize Real – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The neuroscience of consciousness faces a singular challenge: explain human subjective experience as a product of material processes in the brain, just physical stuff pushing physical stuff. Is that a hard problem? No problem.
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness" available now:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness
Scientific consultation by Prof Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/being-you/
Made with support from the University of Sussex
Learn more about Event Rap and book a custom rap video:
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Stirling Engine – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The humble Stirling Engine was invented in 1816 by Scottish Engineer Sir Robert Stirling and for almost 200 years it failed to find widespread commercial applications. Now, this "little engine that could" is having a renaissance, like a slept-on rapper with an improbable path to stardom.
From the 2021 album "Bright Future", available on vinyl, CD, and digital:
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/bright-future
Made with support from Qnergy:
https://www.qnergy.com/
Learn more about Baba Brinkman and custom rap videos:
https://www.eventrap.com/
Learn more about Stirling Engines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Track Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds
Video by Anna C. Gilmore -
This or That – Baba Brinkman Music Video
The world faces a stark choice, rapidly phase out fossil fuel use, or suffer the ecological, economic, and human consequences of catastrophic climate change. What's it going to be, this or that?
Endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty:
https://fossilfueltreaty.org/
Baba Brinkman live at COP26 November 9, 2021:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/baba-brinkman-live-at-cop26-tickets-189761671267
From the album The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos (2016):
https://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-climate-chaos
Inspired by the original song "The Choice is Yours" by Black Sheep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU
Credits:
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Cuts by Corey J fka Illspokinn
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall
Vocal Mix & Master by Mr. Simmonds
Instrumental Mix by Tom Caruana
Instrumental Master by Mozu Mastering
Video Edited by Buck Bowen
