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  • I'll let wikipedia give the description: Brewster Rockit is the Captain of the R.U. Sirius (a spoof of the phrase "are you serious?"), a space station orbiting earth that acts as both an embassy for visiting aliens as well as a first line of defense against hostile aliens.

    Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! 2007

  • + 'Rockit' [ 'Herbie Hancock'/'Hancock, Herbie'] [ 'Herbert Jeffrey Hancock'/'Hancock, Herbert Jeffrey'] [ 'Friday, Apr twelve 1940'] + ~cl.

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  • + 'Rockit' [ 'Herbie Hancock'/'Hancock, Herbie'] [ 'Herbert Jeffrey Hancock'/'Hancock, Herbert Jeffrey'] [ 'Friday, Apr twelve 1940'] + ~cl.

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  • I think that dog was in the Herbie Hancock "Rockit" video.

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!! 2008

  • Herbie Hancock "Rockit" around 1:30, came out in 1984...

    Frog in the Throat: Diagnosing Your Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Photo: AP / Alex Brandon Musician and composer Herbie Hancock's career has careened from straight jazz to experimental electronic music over the decades, with his surprise 1983 break-dancing hit, "Rockit," helping set the stage for hip-hop.

    Herbie Hancock Talks Math, Music and Mastering the Tech Toolbox 2007

  • WN: When I was growing up in Manhattan, and the whole break-dancing thing started happening, "Rockit" was the only song any of us would ever dance to.

    Herbie Hancock Talks Math, Music and Mastering the Tech Toolbox 2007

  • Plying my trade as a moonlighting musician in upstate New York during the period "Rockit" was released, I remember waxing philosophical (at least publicly) about Hancock's inalienable right to "cash in" on the MTV phenomenon in order to receive greater financial rewards than he had reaped with his earlier and (at least in my mind) more artistically valid recording projects.

    PopMatters David Kammerer 2010

  • Future Shock project from which "Rockit" came, as it demonstrates how artists make informed choices concerning their employment of technology and how they strategically foreground certain cultural manifestations associated with that technology.

    PopMatters David Kammerer 2010

  • In a highly palpable way, advances in music technology during the early '80s influenced both the style and substance of black America's response to the nascent digital age, with innovative media presentations like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" serves as a vibrant example within the historical archive that chronicles such cultural responses.

    PopMatters David Kammerer 2010

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