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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.
Word.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Taco, don't be such a cheapskate, go buy tickets from a scalper.
I had it good when I lived in Michigan, I could buy tickets, actual tickets over the phone or internet for shows in Detroit, Pine Knob, etc without much trouble. If I had to pay a scalper it was only a 100% markup.
Now I live in Santa Cruz and tickets to even the drunks on Pacific avenue sell out in seconds. Scalpers will happily take $500 for a ticket that cost them $30 and they'll get it.
I rely on local bands now. Support your local musicians before they're replaced by DJ's and Karoke.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
my mates shitty band that no-one's heard of on Slashdot too? He doesn't read Slashdot, though he can do if it will help.
have an Mp3 of this anywhere I assure you..
Who the fuck are you, and why do I care?
How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
I'm looking for a website that is similar to slashdot but doesn't report "high pitched rapper" news.
Can anyone recommend anything else?
Thanks.
I know some voice actors, for example, use their natural voices for cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, etc.). When you rapped, as MC Pee Pants (or Sir Loin) for ATHF, was that your natural voice? If not, can you post a clip of your real voice?
How did you start your act? also When and how did you get into voice acting? Sorry, just trying to ask a real question.
Why is it that MC Pee Pants gets absolutely no respect from Satan, whereas the WisdomCube/Dubmassahedron does? To me, MC Pee Pants, while not as intelligent as the aforementioned geometric characters, is vastly more entertaining than that lot.
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
"I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say
I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!
The bedrock yellow orange purple lime and red
But to get that fruity taste, I gotta trick Fred!"
I'm a big tall mofo.
Ok heres an on-topic question;
Is Master Shake hard to work with?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
It says on your website that you have a meeting about preserving your voice, is this a joke? Are you really having problems or foreseeing problems with your voice? Am I going to see an SNL Ashlee Simpson type ordeal happen at your show at the Blind Pig?
How hard was it to get back on your feet after parting company with Simon and Theodore? In retrospect, was it wise to change your name from Alvin to MC Chris? Didn't that alienate alot of fans or perhaps just left them searching for their favorite chipmunk? How's Dave?
'Same speed C but faster'
mc, love your stuff!
:)
How about some more computer raps? "Ratz" and "Boy's dont cry" are the closest I've heard of your work to a computer-related song, any chance of getting some Linux-related rhymes?
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could you play it? /., so you've made money (is there another metric?): will you do anything unexpected? Challenging? The first rap symphony?
Do you feel that your work edifies your audience? How so?
In your opinion, how does hip-hop differentiate between characterizing a problem, with an eye towards debugging, and glorifying the problem?
Now, you're clearly a big star, or you wouldn't be on
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Oh my, you're right. Posting this story is taking up space on a website that you read for news. Holy crap, that's horrible. Where were the people complaining when the guys from Penny-Arcade were interviewed?
/. breaks into your home and holds a gun to your head forcing you to read stories you don't care about, don't complain. You can just skip over the stuff you don't care about.
mc chris is a nerdcore rapper, he raps about things we would find amusing. Unless someone from
And you argued against yourself, you know. "This story is a silly thing to post." followed by "Taco can post whatever he wants"
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
If you're unfamiliar with MC Chris, then I kindly ask that you place your nerd membership in this waste receptacle for immediate processing.
With pride.
Ordinarily, I'd play you off as a troll, but since so many others are expressing difficulty in understanding the worthiness of this, I'll try and sum up a few points:
1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are oft-watched shows by geeks (at least the ones I know, self included); MC Chris has roles in each. 1 Geek point.
2) MC Chris' rap is, in now way, anything like the rap you hear on the radio. While I happen to like it, I have no idea why. You're either going to like it, or extremely dislike it I assume, but it's definitely worth a listen. No geek points.
3) MC Chris' music contains many things or topics geeks find appealing. If Star Wars is considered geeky, then a rap by Boba Fett about working for Jabba Hut to pay the bills on his corvette is doubly geek. 2 geek points.
4) MC Chris gives his music away free on his website. Free as in beer. 10 geek points.
Someone else mentioned that the DJing is done on an Apple Powerbook or iBook or something, but I consider that a tool of the trade moreso than anything. Were it a Linux laptop, then I'd award points, but can't award for an industry standard.
-9mm-
His work is in a sub-genre of rap known as "Nerdcore" along with other artists such as MC Frontalot and Optimus Rhyme.
He (along with the other artists I mentioned) will be playing at PAX this year.
His most famous track is about Star Wars. One of his songs uses music samples from the arcade game Gauntlet. A lot of his other stuff covers fairly geeky subject matter.
So, you might not like his work. That's understandable. But he's still as relevent to Slashdot as anything else posted today.
That said, in addition to mc chris, we also have returning guests from last year:
MC Frontalot
Optimus Rhyme
and the Minibosses
Lastly, a couple of questions from me.
1)My girlfriend is a *huge* fan of the Brak Show, Sealab, etc... have you really left for good?
2)Making music for the Nerdcore seems problematic to me. Namely, I don't think that one would be able to put forth a bunch of intellectual property on the internet and expect this group to actually pay for it. Are you 'making it' on the take from the door at your gigs alone? (Hat's off on leaving your day job and giving it a go in either case).
3)Do you feel pressured to put forth a conventional full-length CD for your fans, or will you continue to offer up shorter, sweeter groups of songs for free on your website?
Thanks, and see you at PAX!
Stormy
Storm Shadow "The Hook Up" http://www.pe
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...
Those are your opinions, and you're welcome to them, but I have no idea how you could say he's not a good lyricist. Everyone here who likes to jump on the bandwagon of "I never heard of him, therefore he must suck" and "The only rap songs I hear are the ones shoved down my throat by popular radio, therefore all rap sucks" should just look up the lyrics to Fette's Vette somewhere and read them. Now imagine yourself trying to write a goofy song with the same complexity of rhythm, rhyme scheme, story-telling and humor.
This verse alone is pure genius...
Call me master, 'cause I'm faster than Pryor on fire
I no longer have to hot-wire
I'm a hunter for hire with no plans to retire
And all you sucker MCs can call me sire.
Just because something sounds goofy doesn't mean it's not complex, creative or even good.
Happy people make bad consumers.
Your work on the Adult Swim lineup is much appreciated in our household. But I wondered whose voice work you enjoyed (not necessarily restricted to Williams Street). Who's fun to listen to? Who's fun to work with?
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
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.
Find the British rap group The Streets. Rap for people who don't really like rap. Seriously, it's good stuff.
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