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Ask mc chris
Many of you are no doubt familiar with the works of mc chris. He's probably most well known as the high pitched rapper on the track 'Fett's Vette' that you probably have an MP3 of somewhere. In addition to several highly entertaing albums, he's also the voice of MC Pee Pants (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and Hesh (Sealab 2021). He's now touring, but you better already have tickets since he sold out his first 8 shows (including my local venue. The wife is very unhappy with me for not getting tickets in time). He'll also be performing at the Penny Arcade Expo later this year. This is your chance to ask him those burning questions. Standard Slashdot interview rules apply: Ask here, and we'll pick from the best of them and then wait patiently for Chris to bless us with his words.
If you guys don't know who he is, why bother to reply to the story? I don't want to read about Linus, but I don't post replies like a jackass.
/.ers an even worse name. Just ignore the stories you don't care about.
Chris is good at what he does, and is getting even better. Go download some of his music, he has an album you can download for free called "Life's a Bitch and I'm her Pimp" it has a song on it about how Boba Fett bounty hunts so he can pay for his Corvette.
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Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
I recognize the same voice as both Hesh and on ATHF.
I'm not impressed by his character work or rapping at all. Maybe I'm a minority with this opinion, but there are thousands of really talented people out there in these fields - and he's not one of them.
No doubt >/sarcasm<
Not just a rapper, but a "high pitched" one. I would probably rather listen to finger-nails on a chalk board. Truthfully, I find very, very little of rap music even remotely tolerable. Somehow I have a hard time seeing a string of obsenities and verbal abuse as "art", which seems to be what most of the rappers are all about.
Uh, I have never heard of this song, but I am from Montana so...
Now what does this have to do with Slashdot again? Is Slashdot turning into an MTV forum or something? Is this someone I really should know about?
I believe in de-evolution. God made the world perfect, man fell, and its been going downhill ever since!
In the Aqua teen theme song, it says "Meatwad get the money, see. Meatwad get the honeys, G."
However, it has been proven time and again that Meatwad gets neither money nor honeys. Please explain this discrepancy.
I think I probably had more fun 'working' the fat off her (down 70lbs each so far) then you have when you spend a weekend alone trying to beat your Tekken score. Don't worry, little buddy, you'll get there!
I guess the difference is, we can work out and get skinny, but you'll always just be a dick.
so sad...
Geeks listen to rap?
:-)
Since when??
Bach, Zeppelin, Oasis, Meat Puppets, Tonio K, or even Abba, maybe... But at least that's music.
Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
That statement is absolute proof that rock n' roll is officially dead.
Well he is probably "keeping it real." My guess is he really is a geek so is rapping about what he knows.
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its funny because it expresses the sentiments of 99.9% of us that read that blurb.
as they say, it's funny because it's true.
I'd like to re-enforce it - and the honest question is who the fuck does care? who is showing up to these shows? my lord, I downloaded the MP3 and gave a listen. horrible. terrible. deleted.
Anyway, who is this goddam Mc Chris that I have never heard about? And why is he so special for us techies that he is eligible to appear in a story on Slashdot?
I am trully puzzled.
Hatredman
As soon as your mate's shitty band gets played nightly in bumps, shows, and theme songs on something like, AdultSwim or somesuch.
The whole idea of being "geek" is that you don't fit in. If we needed membership to be geek, then those of us who are truly geek would never be let in the club to begin with.
Talk about missing the point...
Sometimes I don't know who Joe Fuck that wrote 5 words in the license agreement for some open source software that 5 people use is, but you don't see me bitching about it.
In other words, don't spout your opinions unless they happen to agree with mine.
Since the 'Happy Birthday' song is copyrighted, would you consider open-sourcing Hesh's Birthday Song under something like the Creative Commons License? I'd rather hear it than the cheezy home-brew birthday songs that restaurants are forced to devise.
Slashdot: come for the pedantry, stay for the condescension.
the one geek to out-geek them all. mc is one of the greats of nerdcore. listen to some of his free tracks at his website. "geek" isn't all about linux, guy.
> He's truly awful. His beats are terrible, his rhyming is
> sloppy. He's not a good lyricist.
I will concead this point, sir, the day you can come up with a more completely awesome rhyme for "Robitussin" than "Reganomic Repercussion."
The fact you lump a bunch of manufactured has-beens in with someone who isn't even with a major label (and probably never will be) shows more of the hollowness of your hate. As a side note, it's funny you mentioned Vanilla Ice, he sampled Vanilla Ice's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle song partly because Vanilla Ice's TMNT song is silly and MC Chris' audience will catch the reference.
It's interesting how everyone you compared him with, except for possibly Combs, isn't black. Apparently MC Chris being white is a strike against him? I'm not going to call you a racist, but you're a racist.
His beats, far from being awful are an integral part of the melodies. You know, melody? The part of music that CAN accompany the beat loops?
His lyrics are funny as hell without ever being lame. Shame on him for not making all his lyrics revolve around inner city tragedy and/or women. And who gives a shit if his rhyming isn't top notch? Music doesn't need to be Mother Fucking Goose if it sounds good.
If you said his voice is terrible, that's the only thing I'd give you, it sometimes borders on grating. But he works it into his composition so that it works in the end.
I just hate people who think their opinion is gospel. I hope you get punched in the head on your way home today.
Gladly. I'm not a nerd. I'm a geek. I couldn't fucking care less about you Star Wars/Star Trek retards that make the rest of us look bad. Just because you collect with dolls ("action figures"), stand in line for weeks to see a lame ass movie and listen to really shitty music by a really shitty "musician" about a really shitty movie and you live in your parents house at 40 doesn't mean the rest of us want your shit ass stink on us.
The blurb doesn't answer a god damn question. In fact, it raises more. I have never heard of this douche bag OR any of the other things referenced in the blurb. Reading it was like trying to figure out the synopsis of an episode of dawson's creek, written in chinese.
i can't fucking believe all the negative comments in here. if you don't know who mc chris is, or you don't like him, stay the fuck away!
Wrong attitude. The article, and you, start with the misguided premise that everyone should know this guy. Rather than inviting those of us without a clue to learn more, you're getting antagonist and pushing people away who might otherwise give it a listen. I like some rap, but I certainly do not like the self-important bullshit that surrounds it. Someone saying I should already be a fan essentially results in me never being a fan, and that is the camp Slashdot, and you, have put "mc chris". Bang-up job, boys . . .