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
-
Offsetters – Baba Brinkman Music Video
When organizations go "carbon neutral", the hardest emissions to curb are generally 'offset' with carbon removal and pollution reduction projects where cuts can be made more affordably, leading to a massive 'carbon market' trading in credits of various kinds. Can we trust it? And does it actually make net emissions go down, or is it the ultimate greenwash?
Whatever you believe about the industry, the offsetters are not backing down.
Further reading:
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/are-carbon-offsets-joke-response-comedian-john-oliver
Made with support from Agendi:
https://agendi.co/
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/ -
Wizard of Odds – Baba Brinkman Lyric Video
The science of "predictive processing" reveals how our brains engaged in a constant cycle of prediction and error-correction, comparing the "expectations" generated by internal top-down mental models with the streams of bottom-up raw data coming in from the senses, the body, and surrounding environment.
In other words, perception is controlled hallucination.
How else could a blind lump of meat in a silent boney cage make sense of the world?
Scientific consultation by Anil Seth:
https://www.anilseth.com/
Learn more about book summary raps made on commission:
https://www.eventrap.com/book-summary/
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman
Music by Tom Caruana
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Ross
Keys by Simon Kendall
From the album "The Rap Guide to Consciousness":
https://music.bababrinkman.com/album/the-rap-guide-to-consciousness -
Control Systems – Baba Brinkman Music Video
Understanding mental health requires a clear view of how the brain was designed by natural selection, and what it was designed to accomplish.
Scientific Consultation by Randy Nesse
Further Reading:
https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/10/evolutionary-medicine-needs-engineering-expertise
Learn more about custom rap videos and book yours:
https://www.eventrap.com/
