Artist Info: Mc Hawking

MC Hawking is a fictional nerdcore artist who gained some popularity in the early 2000s, largely due to the availability of his music on the Internet. It may actually be a stretch to consider the music rap, as the lyrics are not spoken, but rather synthesized by a commercial text-to-speech program.

Although MC Hawking's entire body of work and his imaginary rapper personality were created almost entirely by American web developer Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, MC Hawking is purported to be an alter-ego for theoretical physicist Stephen W. [read more...]