Rapper Baba Brinkman Releases World's Most Conscious Hip-Hop Album

Canadian hip-hop artist and playwright Baba Brinkman has officially announced the release of his new album, The Rap Guide to Consciousness, due October 13th . Over the course of thirteen mind-bending tracks, this album takes you on a journey through the modern science of human experience, the link between your physical brain and what it's like to be you.

Brinkman recently performed The Rap Guide to Consciousness at London's 2 Northdown Comedy Club following a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The live show combines songs from the album with projected video and stand-up comedy routines. Baba's upcoming studio album takes all the excitement of this critically-acclaimed show, and condenses it into fifty four minutes of provocative (and scientifically peer-reviewed) hip-hop.

The result is a collection of songs that is as artful as it is intelligent, less a musical textbook than a heartfelt look at who we are and how we perceive the world around us.

Baba Brinkman has been using hip-hop to educate the masses since his 2009 production, The Rap Guide to Evolution, which was hailed as "astonishing and brilliant" by the New York Times, and has earned co-signs and features from some of the country's brightest scientific minds, from Bill Nye to Steven Pinker. Baba's latest album features production from UK hip-hop super-producer Tom Caruana, with scientific input from neuroscientist and TED Talks star Dr. Anil Seth. Over the course of his music career, Baba has given the hip-hop treatment to a wide array of topics, from climate change to religion, from medicine to wilderness. Now, in The Rap Guide to Consciousness, Baba turns to the foundations of all human experience, from suffering to joy. How does it all come together in your brain? Listen and find out.

Stream it here!