You knew it was just a matter of time before Fermilab — the American counterpart to CERN — provided a rap riposte to the Large Hadron Rap, the first particle accelerator rap (and, we were kinda hoping, the last). But on Tuesday, Funky49 dropped his ‘Particle Business’ rap for the first time, extolling the virtues of Fermilab’s Tevatron with lyrical gems like “quarks, bottom to the top, they don’t stop” and the catchy refrain, “Where the Higgs at?” I was hoping for some more trash talk between the two particle accelerator facilities, but Funky49 had his own nice-guy take on situation: “This be competitive collaboration baby.” Nothing on YouTube yet, so you’ll just have to imagine what his performance was like.
Below the fold: Previous 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?
Songs about science XXII: Aldrin raps his Rocket Experience
Image: Fermilab