If you think rap is all about banging hoes, crack, ****ing mother****ers up, and bragging, you obviously haven’t seen Kate McAlpine’s YouTube sensation, “Large Hadron Rap.” McAlpine, a 23-year-old Michigan State University grad student, wrote the physics rap about the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator in the Swiss CERN Lab. It has already garnered about 500,000 hits on YouTube, and the most violent lyrics in the song involve the collision of protons.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation on Sept. 10, "the things that it discovers will rock you in the head."

 

… "Rap and physics are culturally miles apart," McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, "and I find it amusing to try and throw them together."

Others, including physicists, also find it amusing.

 

 

"We love the rap, and the science is spot on," said CERN spokesman James Gillies.

McAlpine’s got some pretty sick rhymes for a white girl. Now, if only she would write some study guide raps for bio and chemistry too…