Yo Rap Fans! Long time no E-!
Time for a much-awaited update on the goings-on of The Rapping Professor! Here's some cool stuf that's happening:
1) www.rappingprofessor.com website updated! You can now join The Rapping Professor monthly online newsletter, which will update you on Rapping Professor events & activities, sample a couple raps, and provide lots o' useful tidbits for all! There's also a link to Rapping Professor merchandise such as baseball caps, t-shirts and hoodies, canvas carrying bags and more, at http://rappingprofessor.com/merchandise.php, provided by www.mto123.com. You can also download the Rapping Professor intro, hear his Iraq peace song My Home Is Basra at http://rappingprofessor.com/avi/basra.mp3 and his Earth Day environmental rap animation video Go With Da Fro at http://gowithdafro.com/gwdf/gowithdafro.zip. You can also see and hear many other Rapping Professor demos, pics etc. Thanks for visiting www.rappingprofessor.com! And for letting me know how you like it and how we can improve!
2) July 2, 2007 (07-07-07!) is International Earth Day, and to celebrate, there'll be concerts and other big events held all over the world, including in Shanghai. To do my part, The Rapping Professor, in collaboration with The Plant A Tree Today Foundation (PATT) at www.plant-a-tree-today.org, produced an animated rap video (at http://gowithdafro.com/gwdf/gowithdafro.zip) to bring attention to the dangers of global warming and provide concrete steps you can take to reduce your own and your company's 'carbon footprints'. You know, many years ago, the Earth, with its thick canopy of trees, must have looked like it had an 'Afro' hairstyle. But as the result of too much clear-cutting and deforestation, our planet's hairstyle has come to closer resemble a 'buzz cut'. Let's re-grow The Earth's Afro! Yo! Yo! Go With Da Fro!
3) In recent months, The Rapping Professor has provided his MC (Master of Ceremonies) and special event entertainment services to such clients as Ford China, Dow Corning, TycoFlow, Colliers, The British Council and many more. You can see The Rapping Professor in action at the Ford China Annual Party 2007 at http://rappingprofessor.com/hear_fordchina.php. The Rapping Professor gathers information on an event, then composes, studio-records and performs an original song or rap live at the event, getting the audience really involved and rapping along! It's great fun, and something really different which will leave people talking--totally unique!
4) Rapping Professor on TV
. Recently, I went down to HengDian, China's answer to Universal Studios, to shoot a couple episodes of the HongKong TV series adapted from the Jackie Chan movie Plan A (A计划). It's supposed to air later in the summer. The Rapping Professor was also recently the first foreigner to act in the popular Shanghai situation comedy ('sit-com') Happy Apartment (开心公寓)。Many people still recognize me on the street from my reaching the final round of the 'PK' humor competition TV show Who's A Comedian? (一小城名) and from my rap and Chinese erhu performances on OK Xintiandi.
That's enough for now, but there's a lot more going on, so thanks for checking this blog from time to time for updates, supporting TalkdaTalk, and visiting The Rapping Professor at www.rappingprofessor.com.
You Da Man!
All the Best, Matthew Bloomfield
The Rapping Professor