Making History off-Broadway For the first time ever, I will be performing an off-Broadway production that consists of five (5!) different shows in rotation. In fact, I’m pretty sure I…

I recently heard Mayor Pete Buttigieg on the Pod Save America podcast arguing that Democrats should reclaim the word “freedom” because of the freedoms afforded by government support, civil rights,…

Show-Score.com is often described as the Rotten Tomatoes of New York Theater, and when they recently published their “Trending Shows off-Broadway List” I was proud to see three of the…

View on YouTube | View on Facebook | Download from Bandcamp For those of you who follow my video releases, you will know that I worked with Wesleyan University Environmental…

Starting on December 27th 2018 the Soho Playhouse is launching a new off-Broadway encore series featuring three of my Rap Guide shows in rotation for an initial run of nine weeks. Check out…

I BELIEVE IN THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD… Watch “Confessions of a Skeptic” on: YouTube  |  Facebook The timing of this release might seem odd since it isn’t explicitly about the most important election…

Bill Nye’s Hot Take on Rap Guide to Consciousness After fifty-five off-Broadway performances in New York since March 1st, I took a short break over the past few weeks for some…

Deepak Chopra and Freestyle Battles… Oh My! Broadway World just announced a one-month extension for Rap Guide to Consciousness at the Soho Playhouse, with off-Broadway shows added until May 31st. If you have a…

Consciousness in New York Two weeks ago I performed my favourite gig since moving to NYC in 2011. The venue was BAM, a 2,200 seat concert hall in Brooklyn, and…

Three performances into my off-Broadway run of Rap Guide to Consciousness and the crowds have been a blast, with over 100 people in the house last night for my Saturday…

I’m currently hard at work on the script, music, visuals, and stagecraft for Rap Guide to Consciousness, which opens at the Soho Playhouse on March 1st for a two month off-Broadway…

Baba Brinkman tour dates

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos is the seventh instalment in my “Rap Guide” series, exploring big ideas from science and human behaviour. This one dives…

Initially scheduled for an eight week run at the Soho Playhouse, Rap Guide to Climate Chaos is now extended until June 11th. Tickets and showtimes here. For more about the…

Good things are happening with “Rap Guide to Climate Chaos”. After successes in Edinburgh and at the Paris conference, the show will soon be starting an off-Broadway run, opening exactly one month…

Religion Evolves I just released a new music video which I’m very excited to share with you. The digital animation is by Steven Fahey, who is a full time animator…

Click here to read my latest blog from the COP21 conference in Paris: https://www.patreon.com/posts/3893828

Click here to read my new blog from the COP21 conference in Paris: https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-from-paris-3882429

Every year or so since 2010 I’ve reached out to my friends and fans asking for help with a Kickstarter or IndieGogo campaign to fund my latest album or video project. Well…

RELEASED OCT 23, 2015 iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon The Rap Guide to Religion is a hip-hop concept album about the evolution of religious instincts, featuring production from Mr. Simmonds, Soulful Spider,…

Upcoming Concert: Sept 9th 2015 @ The China Cloud, 524 Main Street, Vancouver Doors 7:30pm, showtime 8pm, $15 cover Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/384580741739215/ Baba Brinkman & Heather Berlin just finished a critically-acclaimed…

My new show “Rap Guide to Climate Chaos” is now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe. For those of you who can’t come see it live, here’s a music video for…

I’m excited to announce that Rap Guide to Religion was recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award in the category of “Unique Theatrical Experience.” Director/Producer Darren Lee Cole and myself…

ASU CENTER FOR EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE COMMISSIONS A “PEER REVIEWED” RAP ALBUM TO COMMUNICATE SCIENCE April 30, 2015 (New York, NY) – The Center for Evolutionary Medicine (CEM) at Arizona…

Rap Guide to Religion continues its successful run at the Soho Playhouse, with an awesome new review and “critics’ pick” designation by the New York Times. The show is now…

  My latest off-Broadway production, “Rap Guide to Religion,” begins its extended run this week, with shows confirmed until the end of February. Check out the brand new website for the show, with…

My new album, The Rap Guide to Wilderness, is about to drop, and my off-Broadway play, The Rap Guide to Religion, continues its off-Broadway run here in New York, so…

Here’s an exclusive sneak preview of my new album: The Rap Guide to Wilderness. The project is a celebration of wild nature and its impact on human wellbeing, commissioned by the Wild…

Support The Rap Guide to Wilderness on IndieGogo I’ve been working full-tilt on my new record, The Rap Guide to Wilderness, which will premiere at the World Parks Congress in less than…

The WILD Foundation is commissioning a new hip-hop album entitled “The Rap Guide to Wilderness” which I’m in the process of producing now! The songs are about how we relate to wild…

The Rap Guide to Religion Premieres off-Broadway   Announcing a new off-Broadway theatre production, written and performed by Baba Brinkman, directed by Darren Lee Cole, and produced by Soho Playhouse…

My Kickstarter campaign only has 58 hours left and it’s tantalizingly close! In the past week we’ve had more than 60 new backers and we’re now well over the 2/3 mark, 217 backers…

Here’s my recent Scotsman blog outlining the five rap songs that capture something distinctive about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In early May I gave a talk at TEDxNavesink in New Jersey, entitled “A Brief History of Rhyme,” detailing the emergence of polysyllabic rhyme patterns in both hip-hop and traditional…

Yesterday Jamie and I performed at the Octagon Theatre in Perth, the third stop on our nine-city Rap Guide to Evolution Down Under tour, including the Sydney Opera House June…

I get emails from creationists occasionally, mostly good-natured ones rather than hate mail, but always disputatious in nature (of course). Recently I engaged in a dialogue with a family friend…

A rap tribute to the countless biology teachers in the trenches of science literacy, teaching evolution to millions of students even in the face of religious objections. Nothing in biology…

We’re Making a Movie! You heard it here first: we’re making a feature documentary about the Rap Guide to Evolution. The film, provisionally titled “Darwin’s America,” will be produced by Creative Chaos Ventures, a New York company whose most…

What a year 2013 was! With your help we completed two crowdfunding campaigns, funding the first-ever three show hip-hop theatre cycle off-Broadway and a music video for the Darwin-inspired peace-anthem “Don’t Sleep…

In two and a half weeks I’ll be performing my first-ever public theatre run in my hometown of Vancouver, BC, and the first run of any kind there since the…

Back in 2005 while I was performing at the Brighton Fringe Festival I met and made friends with a network of ridiculously talented UK rappers. Several of them were in…

This post has one request and one request only: please join my thunderclap! Link to join: http://thndr.it/14qcq7C Thunderclap is a social media amplifier that will blast out a message via Twitter…

From a gene’s eye view, is it better to be in the body of a machiavellian psychopath or in the body of a socially-responsible nice guy? The answer to that…

In his recent blog post, evolutionary biologist and sleeping-with-mean-people advocate Jeremy Yoder tries his best to win an argument by shoplifting the conclusion rather than paying for it with good…

In a recent blog post, U of M biology post-doc Jeremy Yoder takes a hatchet to my campaign to promote “Don’t Sleep With Mean People” as the new Golden Rule…

When I posted the crowdfunding video for Don’t Sleep With Mean People last week, the first comment on it was: “What is this, eugenics?” The answer is yes, in a…

Performances in London | Sept 17 – 29 2013 The Wellcome Trust is currently considering a funding application to bring The Rap Guide to Evolution to a West End theatre in…

Evolutionary Tales Starts Friday Greetings from the Player’s Theatre! We’ve spent the past two days setting up not one but three shows here, preparing for the world’s first-ever hip-hop theatre…

I’m excited to announce the world’s first-ever hip-hop theatre cycle, running off-Broadway May 31st to June 23rd. “Evolutionary Tales” combines three original shows that each celebrate the evolutionary view of…

Soho Playhouse Inc in Association with Thinking Animals Inc The Science of Rhyme: An Evening of Neuro-Lyricism April 16th, 7-9pm 218 E 25th Street RSVP: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/29885/donate/21805 In an exciting merging…

Darwin Was Right Only seven days left to help me spread the word! I wrote the Rap Guide to Evolution to help people achieve a better understanding of Darwin’s theory, including how…

Here are five reasons to support Joyce Murray for Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada: She is the only candidate with a strong track record of success across multiple…

Tree planting skeptics really get under my skin. In general I’m in favour of skepticism, but only the well-informed, intellectually curious kind, not the knee-jerk “it doesn’t sound intuitively realistic…

I recently recorded a rap song for my mother Joyce Murray’s campaign for Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. If you don’t know what she’s about, go to her…

I’m writing this from a tour bus, en route from Williamstown, MA to Providence, RI, sloughing through Nemo’s wake on a national tour of the Rap Guide to Evolution. In a few…

I normally use this blog to talk about my own projects and events, but this one isn’t about me, it’s about my mother, Joyce Murray. She’s running for leader of…

Yes, I’ve been focussing on science a lot lately, but I’m still a Chaucerian. Two days ago Jamie and I performed The Canterbury Tales Remixed for a group of Juniors…

Ingenious Nature’s Final Weekend NY Times Publishes a Review and Video Ingenious Nature moves into its final weekend tonight, with only three shows left in our run, and things have…

After eight previews over the past two weeks, Ingenious Nature is set to officially open its five-week off-Broadway run tonight. This means the critics have already been in to see…

The Infomatic EP has arrived! Click here to stream or download it. This album began during our one-month songwriters-in-residency position at NIMBioS in Knoxville, Tennesee back in April/May of this year, and took shape over…

Here’s a recent segment on the Public Radio International show “Living on Earth”, featuring songs and a wide-ranging interview about the project. What do hip hop and Darwin have in…

David Rothenberg is a friend and fellow appreciator of the evolved beauty of nature, and in February he hosted an amazing event called the Survival of the Beautiful Wonder Cabinet…

Rock Beyond Belief Last weekend Mr. Simmonds and I traveled to Fort Bragg, NC for Rock Beyond Belief, the historical first on-base rock concert for military non-believers. The day got off…

About a week and a half ago I got an email from an editor at the New York Times with an intriguing request: “I wondered if I might interest you…

Happy Darwin Day! Okay, so I’m a bit late. Darwin Day was last Sunday, which found me and Mr. Simmonds and the rest of the off-Broadway team in Iowa City…

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman has the best concept of all time for a talk show, and in the coming Nerd-topian future he will be bigger than Oprah. To prepare, he…

The Canterbury Tales Remixed is now up and running off-Broadway after a very frenetic period of writing and re-writing and rehearsing, and ten days of previews concluded with our official opening…

Happy Halloween to All My People! We now have only one week left of the Rap Guide to Evolution off-Broadway, after nearly five months of performing the show six nights…

The Wellcome Trust Music Video Project continues to bear fruit, if perhaps a bit behind schedule. Earlier this year we completed a Crowdfunder.co.uk drive to fund the post-production phase of…

Those of you who pay attention to my online presence will have noticed a sea-change over the past six months, so this is a quick post to acknowledge the creative…

First thing’s first, I have a new CD out! The Rap Guide to Evolution: Revised is a brand new 14-track album produced by Mr. Simmonds. It started out as a…

Greetings from New York! Jamie (Mr. Simmonds) and I arrived two weeks ago, and after a weekend of performing at the World Science Festival we got settled into our new…

Here’s a moment of hilarity to take the edge off. My last Canadian performance before I depart for New York and London and beyond is on Thursday night at the…

Here’s a quick update about my recent goings-on for your amusement. Upcoming Gigs and Tours In about two and half weeks I’ll be leaving for New York (six days), London…

Press Release: “Don’t Vote For Mean People” Sums Up the Election in Rap April 11 2011 Vancouver rap artist Baba Brinkman, the son of a Liberal candidate, has released a…

I don’t usually do headings, but this is a heady update. Each headline could have been its own email. I didn’t want to carpet bomb you though, so here goes….

Calling all Homo sapiens! I’m currently working with a video production team in London on a series of music videos for my album The Rap Guide to Evolution, funded by…

> Some of you will have heard via Twitter and Facebook and other sources, but the concert that was due to be held at Fort Bragg, NC on April 2nd…

> I’m just writing to give you a quick update, share a new music video, and put the word out about some upcoming gigs and tours, including Vancouver, California, and…

> Happy New Year! It’s the final two weeks of the Rap Guide to Evolution DVD Crowdfunder drive and we’re only at 81%, which is much better than I had…

>On Friday we filmed an epic breakdance battle with Darwin facing down his detractors, Michel Foucault (representing social constructivism), Sarah Palin (representing the christian right), and God (representing Himself, of…

>The crowdfunding drive I started just over two weeks ago to increase the production value of our Rap Guide to Evolution DVD project is going gangbusters, with 143 individual funders…

>Friends, As many of you know, the Wellcome Trust awarded me a grant earlier this year to make a series of music videos for the Rap Guide to Evolution, a…

>Friends New and Old, Well, the Edinburgh Fringe 2010 is concluded and I’m back in London, back on my grind, back on tour, reading and writing and gigging and muddling…

>Back in London post-Fringe, feeling dizzy with the shock of not performing multiple times every day. So quiet, so calm. Cabin fever now contends with relief and exhaustion. The nuts…

>On Friday I went back to the flat for a quick nap after Human Nature, feeling like a zombie after doing three shows a day all week, and managed to…

>Keep calm and carry on. The fringe has an odd way of subtly adjusting my threshold of what is and isn’t worth reporting, so hopefully this blog isn’t miscalibrated. On…

>I’ve seen some shows I really didn’t enjoy over the past few days, but I’m not going to write about them. As far as I’m concerned, ostracism from all discourse…

>Today’s Human Nature gig was the best yet by far, despite technical glitches and an aborted ending. Sometimes the laughs just flow like wine, other times they just coagulate. Yesterday’s…

Stephen J. Gould was fond of pointing out that if you were to rewind the tape of evolution and play it again, there is little chance that humans would make…

In early April I woke up from a familiar nightmare. I’ve been having the same recurring dream pretty much since Fringe registration closed back in March, a dream with varying…

Greetings from Edinburgh! It’s 2am on the eve of the world’s biggest arts festival, and I can’t sleep. Actually for the past three consecutive nights it has been the same,…

From my whatsonstage.com blog “Darwin on the Fringe”:Riding the train up to Edinburgh and the only way I can think to describe the mounting sense of anticipation I feel right…

From my whatsonstage.com blog “Darwin on the Fringe”: In four days the Edinburgh Fringe previews commence and I’m not ready! A few hours ago I did my first full rehearsal…

Friends, I’d like to introduce you to my newest offspring: “Rapconteur“. The album follows on from the Rap Canterbury Tales, and includes five new rap adaptations of great literature, oral…

That’s the title of a review article in the current issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), the highest-cited peer-reviewed science journal in evolutionary biology. The review was written…

Whew, So when the review by Olivia Judson came out a few weeks ago in the New York Times, one of the main points of contention in the comments section…

New York, New York, big city of dreams… Well, the day before yesterday I returned from my first off-Broadway run, landed in Vancouver, and promptly came down with a wretched…

Dear Friends with Friends in New York, Because let’s face it, everyone knows someone who lives or recently lived in New York. In less than two weeks The Rap Guide…

Continued from Part 1 We arrived in Cairo a few days before our show and took some time to check out the city and go over our material. We were…

Salaam/Shalom, Two weeks ago I touched down in the UK after twelve days in the Middle East, including Rebel Cell performances in Egypt and Palestine, and a visit to Tel…

>Hey y’all – my new rationalist anthem “Off That” is a blatant rip-off of my favorite song on Jay-Z’s latest album, but since I’m not selling it or profiting from…

>Friends, Two pieces of news, both exciting, but I’ll start with the really incendiary one. A few months ago I was approached by a science-themed UK music festival called Geek…

>I’m often asked, what’s the difference between a spoken word poet and a rapper? Or, to put it differently, why did you choose to be a rapper instead of a…

>Fellow Bipeds, Last week I did my first tour of the Southern USA with the Rap Guide to Evolution, performing in Houston, Texas and Springfield, Missouri. Brace yourselves. Controversy was…

> Val•e•dic•tion from the Latin words for “farewell” and “speech”. And who or what am I saying goodbye to? My home city of Vancouver, for one, and my friends and…

>Neo-simians, In the final hours of 2009, let us take a moment to reflect on this: up until 150 years ago, no one had the faintest idea why we look…

>November 16 2009 Bio-Brethren, This USA tour has recently provided me with some great reminders of why the Rap Guide to Evolution is a worthy project, even if I do…

>November 6 2009 Science Fans, Greetings from York Haven, Pennsylvania (about six miles from Dover). The title of this message is also the title of a book by Lauri Lebo,…

>October 15 2009 Tree People, Many of you have heard about the phenomenon of Canadian tree planting culture, but for some of you it will be a completely alien concept….

>August 21 2009 Friends, Today I won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for the Rap Guide to Evolution, which is a prize given each year to the best new writing…

>August 15 2009 Meme Pools, The launch of the Edinburgh Fringe was one week ago, and I just finished performing my 25th show of the festival. Yes, with previews last…

>August 1 2009 Human Tribespeople, Tomorrow I depart for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and possibly the greatest creative adventure of my life to date (I know, I always say that)….

>July 13 2009 Reciprocal Altruists, Yesterday I returned from the Cambridge Darwin Festival, after six days of evolutionary bliss. Every day consisted of morning and afternoon sessions featuring top evolutionary…

>June 16 2009 … in the Western Wilderness is where I’ve been for the past month, living in a tent and planting trees near Merritt, BC. And “Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams…

>March 24 2009 Open Letter to Gary Goodyear, Canada’s Minister for Science and Technology Dear Minister Goodyear, I will be performing a show called “The Rap Guide to Evolution” as…

>March 7 2009 Symbionts, Greetings from the Fresno Rogue Festival. I have now performed “The Rap Guide to Evolution” a total of nine times, and the results are in: people…

>February 7 2009 H. Sapiens, Hello from Cambridge! I’ve just returned from the Sanger Institute, and one of the most inspiring conferences I’ve ever been privileged to attend, so I…

>January 20 2009 The Perfect Storm A Fond Farewell to the 43rd President of the United States This is truth and reconciliation dayI got up to watch the inauguration at…

>January 8 2009 Friends and Naysayers, New year’s resolutions are the personal equivalent of financial projections and business plans for companies, forever subject to the unpredictable crashes and booms of…

>Aaron Nazrul just released his first video, “When the Night” from the album Butterfly Man, which is out on my Lit Fuse Records label. This is the quintessential East Vancouver…

>October 1 2008 Friends – how strongly can I possibly urge you to become engaged citizens and strategic voters? I find the current antipathy towards strategic voting completely baffling. Human…

>September 6 2008 Friends and Voyeurs, Back from Holland, back from Ireland, back from Scotland, back in England with the rain on the cobblestones outside the (free Wi-Fi) pub window,…

>August 18 2008 Punters and Quarterbacks, Greetings from the Edinburgh Fringe! As of today we have performed the Rebel Cell 19 times and we have just 8 shows left before…

>July 28 2008 Hello People, Thanks for all the great feedback on my Fly on the Wall episode, and now this one is about the next chapter. Yesterday Dizraeli and…

>July 23 2008 Hi Lights, In the midst of all of the intended fanfare around “The Rebel Cell”, which premiers in Edinburgh in one week, with the corresponding album release…

>July 17 2008 Two weeks is an unforgivable hiatus when it comes to blogging, not in a moral sense, but just for the fact that anyone who might have been…

>July 3 2008 1. What is your 2008 show all about? It’s about politics, civil rights, capitalism, freedom of speech, democracy, tyranny, civil disobedience, revolution, terrorism, activism, dissidence, and everything…

>June 24 2008 Attention Seekers, Name dropping is so tawdry, but so are most things that instantly capture our complete attention. Twenty minutes ago I bid goodnight to my dinner…

>June 17 2008 Email to me from Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby: Hi Baba – If this sounds like you, please let me know: * – You’ve had a…

This is my favorite time. Last night Dizraeli and I finished the script for the Rebel Cell, the first draft at least, and gave it our first test-reading to clock…

Ironies abound. Back in treeplanting camp in Merritt, the river was rising throughout May with the spring runoff and some planters had to move their tents because the ground flooded….