MC Hawking "F#@k the Creationists"

MC Hawking A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits CD (Brash Music, 2004)

Everyone needs a hobby, right? Even famous people need, and have, them. Alice Cooper is an avid golfer, for example. Ted Nugent collects Precious Moments™ figurines. Pat Robertson is a scrapbooker; his delightful photo essays of the biannual 700 Club* orgies he hosts are the envy of the other evangelicals. And theoretical physicist/mathematician Stephen Hawking? Why, he's a gangsta rapper, bustin' dope rhymes when not putting caps in black holes and/or enraging the Pope. Today's song originally appeared on his third EP, E = mchawking, but all I have is the best of compilation, so that's what you get. By the way, the title is spelled "F#@k the Creationists" on the CD cover; it's not just me censoring it. You can probably guess the filthy Anglo-Saxon word, as my dear mother used to call them, he actually uses in the song. *Why do you think they call it the "700 Club?"

KnowMassive "Fly by Night (Third Movement)"

KnowMassive MoodSwingSet CD (Moodswing Records, 2003)

The now defunct magazine Southeast Performer featured some of the poorest writing about music I have ever read. Every once in a while, though, an artist I didn't know would be featured and would sound worth investigating. KnowMassive (birth name Jason Atkins) was the featured artist in the July 2004 issue, one of the few I've actually kept. He talked about "listening to a lot of Can, Chrome, Nurse with Wound, Current 93, and Psychic TV" and "trying to incorporate those sensibilities into hip-hop." That, coupled with the photo after the break, caught my eye. The only hip-hop I'd heard remotely along those lines was dälek, so the prospect of more was appealing.