Physics may not be the most obvious subject of a rap song (in fact, it’s probably the least), but that’s exactly what inspired Katherine McAlpine over at the CERN (the acronym in French for the European Organization for Nuclear Research) press office.

In a, well frankly, hilarious video (courtesy of the New Scientist) the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider can be seen doing their best rapper impressions as they put together the parts of the enormous particle accelerator.

While the rapping isn’t exactly up to P. Diddy’s (or whatever he’s calling himself these days) standards, it’s certainly a pretty entertaining explanation of what some of the LHC’s components will be doing once it switches on this month: namely, smashing together very tiny particles at very high speeds to see what happens. Its experiments could yield insights into some of the big mysteries of the universe, perhaps providing a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson or answering the question of just what exactly dark matter is made up of.