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I'm Human

5

Hip-Hop/Rap

I'm Human was released on May 15, 2023 by Lit Fuse Records as a part of the album Rapsode

Song Details

Release DateMay 15, 2023

LabelLit Fuse Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM89

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Baba Brinkman

Performer

Isaiah Dunkley

Guitar, Background Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Tom Caruana

Songwriter

Isaiah Dunkley

Songwriter

Dirk Brinkman

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Tom Caruana

Producer

Lyrics

I’m human, alive on this planet rock

Chip off the old block, primate, mammal stock

Natural-born chatterbox, lookin’ back at our

Path to the top, it started in Africa

Home of our bonobo and chimpanzee cousins

Where OG fossil hominins keep being discovered

Seven million years is a lean budget

From knuckle-draggin' to supreme niche-construction

But we did it, bipedalism, we leaned in

Naturally-selected the genes in

Increased the cerebrum

Human Accelerated Regions

And yes I confess, some interbreeding

Bringin’ dead hominins back to life

I’m at least 3% Neanderthal, ask my wife

She knows, got the genomes to bring it home

Plus Denisovan from a tooth and a finger bone

And that’s enough to see populations today with

8% Denisovan sequences in their bases

Homo sapiens, the last representatives

No mo’ erectuses or floresiensises

Poor little Hobbits, never made it out the Shire

So why did we thrive while the rest expired?

Was it tools or babysitters or language or fire?

Anthropogeny testify!

How does a human originate?

I mean our form and our shape

And also how we behave

What’s a human?

Just an altered ape

With some new adaptations

A few novel traits

And solutions

We can pass innovations

From brain to brain

We can stand up and say

I’m human…

I’m human, I can run an impala down

Marathon-style, heat stroke stall it out

Home base, lock it down on solid ground

Every time I range I got a new saga to talk about

He said, she said, food up in the creek bed

Ambush, he’s dead, killer had three friends

Reputation in pieces needs redress

Pay the blood price and hit the reset

Every thesis tries to explain it all away

Technological ape, stoned ape, aquatic ape

As if it all came from one small trait

Instead of generations of selection on lots of traits

Controlling fire, shrunken-down molar size

Brain capacity explodes at the same time

Social dynamic leaps, novel calories

Gracilization leaves bones atrophied

No longer fighting for mates like wild horses

Sexually dimorphic in decreasing proportions

Co-evolutionary culture-gene forces

On the walls of a cave, paint a portrait

Of a human

And how we originate

I mean our form and our shape

And also how we behave

What’s a human?

Just an altered ape

With some new adaptations

A few novel traits

And solutions

We can pass innovations

From brain to brain

We can stand up and say

I’m human…

I’m human, prone to teleology

"Everything has a purpose" default psychology

But Anthropogeny is a field, not a faith

So it’s got a base in biology

All you need is mutation and selection

Blind watchmaker-style

Evolution of the only upright ape in town

Scientific method, hypothesize, test it

And if the evidence finds different then take it down

No magic leaps allowed, just different threads

From the genes in our cells to the brain in our heads

From the ways we get fed to the mates in our beds

To the threats that we face, we can make it make sense

Charles Darwin said it: “Light will be thrown"

On human origins and despite what we know

The list of what we don’t is quite formidable

So launch the scientific probes

Into the roots of humans

And how we originate

I mean our form and our shape

And also how we behave

What’s a human?

Just an altered ape

With some new adaptations

A few novel traits

And solutions, we can pass

Innovations from brain to brain

We can stand up and say

I’m human

Written by: Dirk Brinkman, Isaiah Dunkley, Tom Caruana

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