NASA Transmits Hip Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time

[Big Blue]

Just grateful it wasn’t Sexxy Redd

They would have invaded immediately. Too easy an opportunity

 

[KBtheKey]

Should've played them space age pimpin. Have our overlords coming down with mouths full of golds

 

[Lord Beasley]

Hopefully it was hit em up

 

[Afrodroid]

Good thing they didn't send any current mainstream hip hop

Imagine beings light years away listening to faint signals of "my choppa hates nikkas", "wap" or some other crap like that

 

[Mowgli]

First and only time I'm dapping you bro.

Stop acting like you have a problem with me.🫠

 

[The Dust King]

low key missy fashion sense is bout to go hard in other star systems

 

[get these nets]

11/20/25

This MIT Professor Wants to Gather Hip-Hop’s Greatest Hits — And Send Them Into Space​

On the WMBR Nightly News on Monday, November 24, Laura Martin Agudelo reported on the Hip-Hop Deep-Space Monument / Mission, a project to engrave hip-hop’s greatest hits onto an analog record and send them into deep space, headed by MIT visiting professor Harry Allen

The Hip-Hop Deep-Space Monument / Mission (HHDSM) is a planned time capsule consisting of 50-100 of the culture's musical masterworks; the recordings with which, if the world was destroyed, one could perhaps start the culture over again.

Our objective, in 2029 — the 50th anniversary of "Rapper's Delight"'s release — is to launch this archive on an interstellar journey toward a nearby exoplanet.