MC Wicked Drops the Beat at Woodstock (ft. Nick Horseman)

Woodstock, 1969. Four hundred thousand flower children, Jimi Hendrix finishing his legendary set, and one man backstage who literally cannot stop beatboxing. Tan has been sent back to Max Yasgur's farm as MC Wicked, a hip-hop pioneer arriving roughly a decade too early, with a mission to get on the main stage and blow the counterculture's collective mind. There's a problem: Tan knows almost nothing about hip-hop. His strategy is relentless beatboxing, robot dancing, and a vocal rendition of Daft Punk's "Human After All" performed for an audience who won't hear electronic music for another thirty years. The festival organiser's response to MC Wicked's act is a question that perfectly captures the confusion of everyone present: "Are you broken? Are you stuck in some kind of loop?" MC Wicked responds with more beatboxing. Whether this counts as inventing hip-hop, inventing electronic music, or inventing a new category of public disturbance is a question for the ages. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ran from August 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Three days that defined a generation's relationship with music, mud, and what Claude diplomatically calls "herbal creativity." Now imagine dropping a man doing call-and-response Daft Punk chants and mechanical robot dancing into the middle of it. The hippies don't know what they're witnessing. Neither does MC Wicked. If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered. Era: Modern | 1969 CE | Bethel, United States Featuring: Nick Horseman — comedian (The Rhyme Scheme, Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Awards nom) Part 1 of 2 EPISODE LINKS Follow Tan's adventure on the PastMaster Interactive Map 👉 https://map.pastmasterpod.com Nick Horseman: X @rociouspun | opencomedy.com/nickhorseman GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 www.pastmasterpod.com Instagram 👉 @pastmasterpod TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 @pastmasterAI Email us 👉 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices