The Rap Guide to Evolution
©Baba Brinkman 2009
www.babasword.com
Performance, Feedback, Revision
The first version of this rap was pretty primitive
It was like, "Yo,
yo, the origin of species
Ain't no feces, dawg, believe me..."
And
that's all I could think of
So then I thought, this needs to be
re-written
And sometimes people ask: "How does your show get written?"
Like
this: performance, feedback, revision
And how do I generally develop
my lyricism?
Like this: performance, feedback, revision
And how do
human beings ever learn to do anything?
Like this: performance,
feedback, revision
And evolution is really an algorithm that goes
Like
this: performance, feedback, revision
So the genetic code of every
living creature was written
Like this: performance, feedback, revision
See,
the genes are like a text with a thousand pages
And revision occurs
in the random changes
That come from mutations, and when they see the
light
That's the performance, that's the phenotype
And
natural selection is the feedback side
That's about who survives and
whose genes catch rides
In the next generation, yes, what I'm saying
Is
that a rap performance like this is the best illustration
Of the way descent
with modification works
'Cause the performance is necessary to
change the words
To decide which have an impact and which to send back
To
the drawing board, in fact I just did that
When you failed to react,
'cause any line can change
And mutations occur when I improvise on
stage
'Cause up until this moment, everything I said was off the page
But…
(Freestyle improvised rhyme)
And that's how my show gets written and
re-written
Like this: performance, feedback, revision
And anyone
can use this algorithm to learn anything
Like this: performance,
feedback, revision
But remember, you get the feedback, and you make
the decision
Like this: performance, feedback, revision
You wanna
know about evolution? This is the definition
Like this: performance,
feedback, revision
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