Baba Brinkman - Fame In The Brain lyrics

So many theories of human
Nature to choose from
So many competing agendas spinning illusions
So many incentives not to let the truth come
Six million ways to lie, choose one

Humans aren’t just culture-bearing
Blank slates
Our psychology has an innate landscape
So don’t treat a mountain
Range like a pancake
That’s like tryin’ to stop a
Bleeder with a band-aid
As a rapper I’m just tryin’ to get a fan base
And it won’t happen if I suck like a lamprey
I’m not a scientist, baby, I just translate
So don’t trust me ‘cause I’m
On a fame campaign so how does it feel to
Be classed with other species
Of mammals, and find yourself
With an order, family, and genus


Like bats and rhesus monkeys? If
Your reaction is squeamish
Remember, just ‘cause I said it
You don’t have to believe it
I said "Xenophobia can be
Traced back to diseases" you could say "But
I hate immigrants for good rational reasons"
Perhaps then we’ve reached
An impassable disagreement
But that’s why the scientific
Method is genius ooh the scientific method
It’s the scientific method
You can try to just reject it
And deny that it’s impressive
But, you’ll find that it’s an excellent
Device to get your message into minds
If you consent to have your hypothesis tested
So if you find evolutionary
Psych just offensive
You can whine and just try to say "oh
It’s violent and it’s sexist"
And accuse evolutionists of
Biasing their efforts
That’s called "non-compliance with
The scientific method"
You can say my information is wrong
Or maybe not maybe my interpretation of
Information is wrong but c’mon
All I’m really tryin’ to do
Is make some songs
I’m just tryin’ to get a whole
Lot of people singin’ along why? ‘Cause
I find that when I’m thinkin’ my thoughts
And verbalizin’ them
When I say it just right they get caught
Up in your mind just like a virus
And since I was the source
You recognize me and that’s how I
Get the things that I want

Humans aren’t just culture-bearing
Blank slates
Our psychology has an innate landscape
So don’t treat a mountain
Range like a pancake
That’s like tryin’ to stop a
Bleeder with a band-aid
As a rapper I’m just tryin’ to get a fan base
And it won’t happen if I suck like a lamprey
I’m not a scientist, baby, I just translate
So don’t trust me ‘cause I’m
On a fame campaign
For me the manipulation of words
Is just a game
But it’s a game that’s influential
In some interesting ways
‘Cause when I listen to lyricists and
Hear just what they’re saying
It’s like their aim is to infiltrate
The filters in my brain
In a way you could say
That’s the definition of "fame"
Not a physical state
Just an impression that remains
Encoded as information in the
Conscious mental plane a repetition of a
Repetition that proliferates
But the pattern of
Proliferation isn’t arbitrary
It’s an honorary version of
Charles Darwin’s theory
Of differential replication
But with your thoughts and queries
‘Cause when people talk
Notice how the uptake varies
So Hip-Hop songs are
Domesticated commentaries
That evolve by solving problems
In conflict areas
They carry us along, kinda like dromedaries
Domesticated by Arabs in response
To water scarcity
All these cultural variants reproduce
In our minds but our minds were designed by
Evolution to blind us
To the truth if lies help
Us reproduce and survive
That’s why falling out of love
Is always truly surprising
And that’s why I love rap
But I’m a student of science
‘Cause science is the only system
That humans have devised
That lets us step outside of
Our huge thick biases
And view the world as it is unfalsified

Humans aren’t just culture-bearing
Blank slates
Our psychology has an innate landscape
So don’t treat a mountain
Range like a pancake
That’s like tryin’ to stop a
Bleeder with a band-aid
As a rapper I’m just tryin’ to get a fan base
And it won’t happen if I suck like a lamprey
I’m not a scientist, baby, I just translate
So don’t trust me ‘cause I’m
On a fame campaign