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Doc Brown (real name Ben Smith) is an underground British rapper. British hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of Hip hop music made in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the London rap group Poisonous Poets. Poisonous Poets are a British Hip hop group The act was formed in 2002 and consists of London artists Reveal, Lowkey, He receives regular airplay on national radio stations such as BBC Radio 1^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4], 1Xtra^[5] and BBC Asian Network. ^[6]^[7],

In 2004 he released Donnie's Lament, a collaboration with fellow Poisonous Poet Lowkey, featuring the duo rapping over a sample of Gary Jules' hit, Mad World. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis 23rd of May 1986 is a Poet, Playwright, Political Activist and award winning Hip Hop Artist of mixed British and Gary Jules (born March 19 1969 in Fresno California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American Singer-songwriter, best " Mad World " is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. The song garnered major critical acclaim and especially heavy airplay for a UK hip hop track, arguably helping to increase the popularity of the genre as a whole. British hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of Hip hop music made in the United Kingdom.

On 5 May 2006 he was featured in the BBC Radio 4 show Do You Know What You Are Saying?, a programme on the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Melvyn Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939) is a British author and broadcaster The programme considered and analysed language in light of a recently developed computer system that analyses the language used by a person, and which offers percentages for its linguistic content and origins in such categories as "Everyday English," "Anglo-Saxon," "Norman," "Dutch", "Old Norse" and so forth. Norman is a Romance language and one of the Oïl languages. The northern Norman can be classified in the septentrional Oil languages with Picard and Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age Subjecting one of his songs to this analysis, Doc Brown was deemed to be using an extremely high percentage of Everyday English (over 92%), up in the realms normally only associated with "conventional" poets. His work also scored extremely high in Anglo-Saxon (82. 9%), which did surprise him, in view of his circles of association and domestic and cultural roots (South London father, Jamaican mother). He commented that a lot of rappers are "impossible to understand. " So, for him, the deliberate use of easily understood short words is very much to do with their rhythmic flexibility and musical potential. He describes using short words with impact as being like using a percussion instrument.

Doc Brown is the younger brother of bestselling writer Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith (born 25 October 1975 is an English Novelist. To date she has written three novels ^[8]

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