Baba Brinkman; not a hard name to remember, the point is…don’t forget it. Rap has unveiled a new era and its foundations are in the 1300s. Brinkman took centre stage a few years ago with his brainwave of rapping the Canterbury Tales; you heard me. Baba becomes inspired by Chaucer and raps the legend from here to England. Fast forward about four years and you have a bonafide rapper who goes by the name Baba Brinkman, spouting lyrics about social consciousness, copyrights in music, and his soul favourite – literature.



Brinkman’s music is no gimmick though; this West Coast native has a Masters in Medieval Literature and a penchant for rapping from the thriving music melting pot of Vancouver. Brinkman adds to the melting pot bringing musical peers from both B.C. and England together as phenomenal additions from Dizraeli to Jena Fair onto his newest adventure, Lit-Hop.



Like any good medieval literature, “Genesis”, the first track (where else would it be?) tells the story of Brinkman’s journey to literature and then to rap. He’s a skilled individual who is going places fast, garnering respect from both the rap community and those stuffed-shirt-post-secondary intellectuals as well.



Brinkman doesn’t seem to digress away from his Canterbury Tales rap with Lit-Hop, but prefers to avoid over-exhausting the idea; what occurs is a new version of storytelling with a thread of the Chaucer-infused rhymes on occasion, as well as other subtle Literature references. You’ll enjoy Lit-Hop if you enjoyed Swordplay or Canterbury Tales Rap, but you’ll also enjoy Lit-Hop if this is your first excursion into Babasword. Most importantly, don’t forget his name (like you could at this point) because whether you’re at a ‘relevancy of medieval literature on the modern day’ conference (you know you love going to those!) or at a SLAM Word Olympics or simply at a free verse rap competition, you’ll here Baba Brinkman’s name more and more.



Genesis

Step Inside

Blind Faith

Mad Style Disease

Social Contract

John Deere Green

Copyridin’

Mellow Drama

The Vortex

Seduction

Mindstate

Symptom

Oh No!

Lit-Hop