Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 17 Feb 2006 7:20 am |
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From EE Times (02/13/2006 9:00 AM EST)
The worlds of computer science and rap don't often mix, and that's probably a good thing. But since the tech industry was built on innovation, we think Armand Navabi and Dan Maynes-Aminzade are a couple of guys who deserve a look--and a listen. Their innovation blends the world of PhD candidate in computer science with the rough and raunchy world of hard-core rap. The result is a sweetly groovin', code-rich, sometimes very non-PC music genre known as CS Gangsta Rap, aka
Geeksta Rap. Never heard of it? That's not surprising. According to one of its practitioners, it appeals to about 1 percent of 1 percent of the tech community. Hear it, and you'll love it for its clever twining of tech terms with our lingua franca--or be reviled by its over-the-top usage of R- and X-rated lyrics.
******Sample lyrics:*****
DWORD to your moms, I came to drop bombs;
I've got more rhymes than San Jose's
got dot-coms.
I rep the Farm like 50 reps Queens,
With more power than multitape
Turing Machines.
Blowin' up the rap scene faster than
factorial functions,
I'm dope like PNP transistors and I'll
saturate your junctions.
By the time you've rhymed one line,
I've already busted ten;
You rap in exponential time and I'm
big-O of log(n).
******More Sample lyrics:*****
There is so much drama in the phd,
and now monzy you tryin' to rap
like me
but as much as you try fool, you cant
be me
that's like a poly-time algorithm for TSP,
your sorry half-____ ass wants
some beef,
I'm the root node kid and you're
just a leaf,
so show me respect before i remove
you in log n time,
cause you know my trees are balanced
all the time,
man, ill eliminate you like
dead code,
I don't discriminate; I'll delete
your node
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