Forty years ago this month, Buzz Aldrin was among the astronauts who landed on the moon. To commemorate that amazing event, Aldrin has released a hip-hop track. Yup, that's right: "Rocket Experience" features the musical/rap stylings of none other than Buzz Aldrin himself (Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Talib Qweli and Quincy Jones helped produce the track).

While "Rocket Experience" is more novelty than bust-a-move, dance party single, it got us thinking that odd pairings can result in entertaining music (or at least some really weird videos).  Here's our recipe for music mash-ups of the Aldrin/Snoop variety:

In The Friday Awards a few weeks ago, we asked Sparkler tawly31 to send us her protein synthesis rap. tawly31 came through, and we're excited to share this little gem with all of you! —SparkNotes Editors

Hi, I just want to say that I wrote this rap in memory of my friend, Daniel Sherman, who passed away recently. He had just turned 17. I'm more of a logical thinker—he was the creative one who was always writing raps. He inspired me to write this when I couldn't understand protein synthesis using traditional study methods. Thank you.