The most hotly awaited science song of they year, nay, the decade, has arrived. Buzz Aldrin has released his rap!
Recently the New York Times reported that Aldrin had been in a rap session with Snoop Dogg. It transpires that Aldrin and Mr Dogg do not actually rap together, rather the latter has produced the former’s song.
You can see the full video on the Funny or Die website.
While this is unlikely to go down as a classic, the making of video that accompanies it has some choice moments. “I have only two passions, space exploration and hip hop,” declares Buzz ‘Doc Rendezvous’ Aldrin.
Perhaps the best part though is where Aldrin discusses Gill Scott-Heron’s seminal ‘Whitey On the Moon’, a tirade against spending money on spaceflight when there is so much poverty on Earth.
“Me and Gill are cool now,” says Doc Rendezvous. “I explained to him we came in peace for all mankind and he backed off.”
Below the fold: Previously on Songs about Science
Songs about science part III: geology
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
Songs about science VII: ‘It’s a long way from Amphioxus’
Songs about science part VIII: the astrobiology rap
Songs about science IX: Rollin’ to the Future
Songs about science X: drilling’s killer songs
Songs about science XI: Charlie Darwin
Songs about science XII: Shubin’s song
Songs about science XIII: ‘This stuff is far!’
Songs about Science XIV – Nano vs Fire
Songs about Science XV: You can’t fool the children of evolution
Songs about science XVI: return of the giant isopod
Songs about science XVII: gene regulators mount up
Songs about science XVIII: ‘What up Einstein, you as smart as people think you are.’
Songs about science XIX: back to our roots
Songs about science XX: Isotopes, isotopes, baby
Songs about science XXI: imitation is flattery, right?
Image: still from video on Funny or Die website.