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Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, known as MC Hawking, is a nerdcore hip hop artist
who parodies gangster rap and theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking. MC
Hawking gained some popularity in the early 2000s, largely due to the
availability of his music on the Internet. Each of his rap are synthesized
by the now defunct commercial text-to-speech program WillowTalk. The songs
were originally released in MP3 format, but due to the popularity of the
website, MC Hawking got a record deal with Brash Music to release a
"greatest hits" album.
Background MC Hawking's entire body of work and his rapper persona were
created by American web developer Ken Leavitt-Lawrence. The official MC
Hawking website (created and maintained by Leavitt-Lawrence) is set to look
like a personal fan site for the MC. From the mchawking.com home page:
"While there are dozens of other sites on the web devoted to Stephen
Hawking's scientific achievements, I
