Nerdcore Rap In The Press

hammeredpeon writes "MC Plus+ and others talk about their nerdcore rap skills with Wired magazine." From the article: "While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, 'geeksta' rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating coding skills and school grades. Also dubbed 'nerdcore,' this branch of hip-hop is for geeks, by geeks. Geeksta rappers adopt the same combative verbal-assault stylings of their forerunners, but bust rhymes about elite script compiling and dope machine code. The term was first coined in 2000 by nerdy New York rapper MC Frontalot in a track of the same name. Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings."

Comments

Y2Khai

[TripMaster Monkey]

If you're gonna talk about rap, don't forget Y2Khai. ^_^

Re:Y2Khai

[Pxtl]

Don't forget Prefuse 73. While I doubt his stuff would count as "Nerdcore" - the electronic sound in his beats is seriously remniscient of 80's C64 games, obviously plucking at the gamer/nostalgia nerves (similar to The Postal Service). "Plastic" off of One Word Extinguisher is a great example of this.

Re:Y2Khai

[pcmanjon]

My favorite nerdcore rapper is MC Frontalot. (http://www.frontalot.com/)

He raps about 419 scams, starwars, and other hillarious stuff. I really wish I could go to one of his concerts in NY. He has them occasionally.

Here's the "yellow lasers" sound about starwars fans with a eh, kinky ending Listen to it here: http://www.frontalot.com/mp3/mc_frontalot_-_yellow _lasers.mp3

Re:Y2Khai

[Jhan]

...and of course, every Slashdotter must like MCHawking :-)

Verse 1
Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don't believe.
I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say,
all I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.

Chorus
Fuck, fuck, fuck,
fuck the Creationists.

Site, downloads.

Re:Y2Khai

[BewireNomali]

Yeah, he's a beast. I actually have him in heavy rotation now - the "Surrounded by Silence" cd.

Is Kid Koala nerdcore?

Re:Y2Khai

[d34thm0nk3y]

Gotta give some respect to the originators of nerdcore hiphop, Deltron Zero and Dr. Octagon!

Re:Y2Khai

[Shant3030]

YES!
Deltron 3030 is the shit!

Deltron 3030 - Virus Lyrics

* a.k.a. Del the Funky Homosapien

I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straits to your environment
Crush your corporations with a mild touch
Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis
Cuz they dont wanna unify us
So f**k it total anarchy
Can't nobody stop us

You see late in the evening
F**ked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus I can send through a modem
Infiltration hits your station
No microsoft or enhanced dos will impede
Society thinks thier safe when
Bingo! harddrive crashes from the rendering
Alot of hackers tryed virus's before
Vaporize your text like so much white out
I want it where a file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down the entire whitehouse
I dont want just a bug that could be corrected
Im erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds its impossible to find

I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

I want to develop a super virus

Better by far then that old y 2 k
This 3030 the time of global unification break right through
they
terminals, burn em all
Slaves to silicon
Curupt politicians with leaders and thier keywords
F.B.I and spys stealin bombs
Decipitate thier plans in thier face and catch the fever
Everybody loot the stores get your caned goods
Even space stations are having a hard time
Beast keeepers seek to take our manhood
Which results in the form of global aparthied
Ghettos are trash dumps with gas pumps
Exploding and burnt out since before the great union
The last punks walk around like masked monks
Ready to manipulate the data base and break through em
Human rights come in a hudreth place
Mass production has always been number one
New Earth has become a repungnent place
So its time to spread the fear and the thunder some

I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

Re:Y2Khai

[mmkkbb]

I saw him live back in 2001.

His first record was the theme from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He also worked in the Sesame Street counting song.

Probably around 45 records in a half hour set. Awesome.

Re:Y2Khai

[databyss]

If you sign up as a VSP on his site, you can get access to the live recordings. I've seen most of his shows in NYC and they are all quite good.

Supposedly video will be coming out from the show at "The Bitter End".

Re:Y2Khai

[Mr2001]

Those of us with Sirius Satellite Radio can hear MC Hawking on channel 61, Boombox. "All My Shootings Be Drive Bys" is on there a lot.

Re:Y2Khai

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, didn't know that was del tha funky homosapien :)

Just plain sad.

[XorNand]

Really not all that suprising, I suppose. We originally had frustrated, economically depressed minorities who felt that they had to prove something to each other. Now we have frustrated, socially depressed nerds who also feel they have something to prove in their own circles. ::sigh:: They're already staking out supposed rivalries and flaunting overinflated egos. (Threatening with DDOS attacks instead guns? WTF?) Talk about wannabees--this isn't cool or amusing, it's just sad. It could have been entertaining, but these people are taking themselves way too seriously.

Re:Just plain sad.

[lucabrasi999]

Talk about wannabees--this isn't cool or amusing, it's just sad. It could have been entertaining, but these people are taking themselves way too seriously.

You are correct. This entire submission makes me think of the star of the "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" Video. THAT is nerdcore.

Re:Just plain sad.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Really not all that suprising, I suppose.

And I suppose that we'll have "gangsta" nerds running around "capping" PHBs and rival systems admins...

Re:Just plain sad.

[stephencrane]

The stuff you're referring to sounds pretty stupid, I definitely agree. But that' shardly where the entertainment and value lies. MC Frontalot puts out some quality lyrics and his game during a show is coming along nicely. Stuff from MC Chris and MC Hawking varies but still speaks to some of my experiences and those I share with my friends. I don't have to explain to them what he's trying to say. They get it. And it's funny stuff. Songs about Nigeria 419 scams and watersports at a Star Wars convention, along with mentions of +1 bags of hiphop go a long way, and even someone who has a lot of personality tied up into hating the whole hip hop 'scene' should be able to acknowledge how music plays only to those who perceive it to be relevant. Re: DDOS threats - Smack talk in earnest is stupid no matter where or who, but smack talk done ironically still works as entertainment. All that said, I think we can all come together on an opinion as to the talents of the Lords of the Rhymes...hobbit rap. Ick.

Re:Just plain sad.

[slashrogue]

How do you know they're taking themselves way too seriously? It seems to me that they must know how ridiculous it all is, and it's that much funnier. If you RTFA you'll see that the "rivalries" mentioned in the article were created to generate more exposure for each other, not because of any real animosity.

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like 50 Cent and the Game. Exposure.

Re:Just plain sad.

[wankledot]

*whoosh*

That's the sound of all this going straight over your head.

Pro tip: they don't take themselves seriously.

Re:Just plain sad.

[rm999]

You know they are taking themselves seriously because there is no hint of self-parody. And in this case, any seriousness is too serious

Re:Just plain sad.

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Threatening with DDOS attacks instead guns? WTF?

Oh Puhleeese.
How many drive-by Slashdottings have you been a party to?

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

can I use my mod points to mod down an entire *story*? sheesh

Re:Just plain sad.

[reflective recursion]

Nah. "gangsta" is never about sticking it to the man... it's all about the turf war.

East vs. West
Emacs vs. VI

Re:Just plain sad.

[rmdir -r *]

You thought it was sad? Odd, I laughed all through the article. How can you tell that it's more of a joke than a serious thing? How about the final line:

"I think CS graduates have a better chance than most rappers at calculating and devising hitherto unheard rhyme pairings," he said. "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know what's more frightening, the existence of hip-hop culture revolving around geekdoom, or the fact that said culture has been given a name.

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

i got you stuck off the ping of death
we be the mitnick-like suburbanous
uber linux box murderers
the mail comes attached with warfare
beware of my spambot army with nuff pipe to spare
for all those
to click and download
rock you in your .ini crash your OS before load
you're unprotected on the net 'n bluffin
ain't patched in time so your system i be runnin'
with syn packets gunnin'
i thought i told you
don't believe i'm 1337, them i'ma show you
you can see it on your desktop space
a goatse anus pic, noobs like you get their whole drive laced up
with rootkits and such
one post on /. will get you fucked up
i'll work your whole IT team overnight
and defeat 'em when i deploy a 0-day 'sploit right
your antivirus can't remove me
i'm admin
you're user
you're all up on the keys but don't deserve a computer
don't make me have to post your IP
or hit your webspace
while the sysadmin meditates
i'm only 13 but my scripts are older
when i get your CC i'ma download some porno
and hit your ebay too, with fraud orders
it ain't nothin' to me, i run all IRC
i disconnect peers with a flood of fingers
take him offline 'cause my beowulf's bigger
meanwhile on your drive there's a trojan
i placed it
should you find, it copies to another location
when the worm penetrates to erase configuration
i'll delete all your files from the safety of my basement
so check the text file and read it through
or the next time you surf i'll be port-scannin YOU

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

Geeksta rappers adopt the same combative verbal-assault stylings of their forerunners, but bust rhymes about elite script compiling and dope machine code.

Yah... since when can you compile a script? Wouldn't that make it NOT a script!? What kind of nerd rappers are these? Must have about as much brains as the gangsta rappers, it seems.

Re:Just plain sad.

[Vermifax]

Its exactly as serious as the black rappers rapping about how hard they had it growing up in an Ivy League school and how hard they now have it as millionaires.

Re:Just plain sad.

[object88]

You know they are taking themselves seriously because there is no hint of self-parody.

First, a lack of self-parody does not equate to seriousness.

Second, I strongly encourage you to listen to some MC Frontalot, whose very name belies any ego. (To front, you see, is to bullshit.)

And in this case, any seriousness is too serious

Wrong again. I'll refer back to MC Frontalot, and his track Special Delivery

Re:Just plain sad.

[phriedom]

YHBT YHL HAND

The article even points out that the Nerdcore rivalry is like the LL Cool J/Canibus rivalry, which was fabricated by Canibus for...wait for it...publicity. Go listen to Indier Than Thou by Frontalot or something by MC Hawking and tell me they take themselves too seriously.

Re:Just plain sad.

[MasterSLATE]

Well said. To be blunt, I think they should all be castrated, and then executed.

Re:Just plain sad.

[Anonymous Coward]

So that's who whacked that Russian guy.

Re:Just plain sad.

[zkn]

So? Neither does the ganstar rappers, they just drive the sarcasme further. British style j00.

Re:Just plain sad.

[pete-classic]

"Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground."

-Peter

Re:Just plain sad.

[elliotCarte]

From one of my originals: ...
now i ain't all about being liked by the masses.
don't give a fuck if i got pimples and glasses.
i get straight As and skip all of my classes.
got an IQ that's as big as your ass is. ...

Re:Just plain sad.

[shut_up_man]

Or Russian spammers... oooooh!!

Re:Just plain sad.

[msensay]

I like it... 'Here's one I just pulled out of my ass: "you don't ping my IP anymore" We used to be so close, babe Shit, I don't know what happened Seems like just yesterday the time I caught your netstat mappin' scannin' and plannin' all sorts of dasterdly deeds fuckin' with my RSS feeds To tell the truth i loved the attention, even though the intention was to reek havoc on my invention That's right my system, my baby, my environment It's not for sale, hire or for rent, but I sure am flattered that you think it mattered enough to try and break it but you know and I know you didn't make it. Lately, though you don't come knocking or picking at the wall that's blocking ya It was fun while it lasted, but you must of got bored cause you don't ping my IP anymore

Ok, shoot me.

[ucahg]

Nerdcore rap in the press
You can page through the lyrics using 'less'.

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[Tackhead]

> > Nerdcore rap in the press
>
> You can page through the lyrics using 'less'.

I'm bustin' dope lyrics on the server room floor,
Truly hardcore, down with /usr/bin/more.

(Aaw yeah. Nothin' for you to see here. Move the fuck along, n00b.)

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[fair_n_hite_451]

Your rhymes are lame, yo, truly dull
Get off the stage ... and straight to /dev/null

"Peace out, Middleton!"

(yeah, that's just dumb. I agree that they are now taking themselves too seriously. See: rap, everyone else)

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[JargonScott]

Binary sort takes a lot of time.
So back HUP bitch or it's 'kill -9'.

shutdown -h now.........

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[Anonymous Coward]

Your rhymes be all like VB.NET, basically you ain't learnt a language yet.
My codes smooth ( see I got a ( scheme ) ), dig this lambda if y'all know what I mean!

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[Anonymous Coward]

get ready, cuz this aint funny
i wont mod you up unless you paypal me cash money
i got more algorithms than pooh bear got honey
i cant stand these windows labs, yeah i sure prefer SunEE

i once heard a rap came from a slashbot
thought he was shit hot, but down he got shot
his intelligence is artificial, his ryhmes was all robbed
so i replaced his whole style with an itty bitty cron job

i write this shit for real straight out of U waterloo
this schools a pen for geeks, and my parole is nearly through
so many code assignments due this week, i started hacking in my sleep
my stack is too deep, using cycles like they cheap
my timing starts to creep as my DSP beeps
aint no comments, no indenting, man this C looks like butt
one last term then I'm through with being a fucking compeng code slut

-r

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[dubbreak]

whatever you say you windows running fools
I've got more lyrics than CPAN has modules
even if you hacked my database and learned how to grep
I'd still bust yo *ss like luke vs boba fett

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[databyss]

to the music of Beastie Boys' Paul Revere?

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[northcat]

Oh my god.

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[Tackhead]

> Oh my god.

Had a little server that I called revere.
Chillin' on the rack like a case of beer,
Saturate the LAN,
Pringling can,
MPAA on my tail, .torrents in demand...

Re:Ok, shoot me.

[northcat]

Dude.

Wow....

[eggoeater]

If this isn't news for nerds I don't know what is.....

Re:Wow....

[goldspider]

How true! In fact, this is so nerdy I feel obligated to kick my own ass!

Re:Wow....

[solive1]

Too bad it's not stuff that matters.

Re:Wow....

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm embarrased to have even read the summary to this story.

oh goody

[rubycodez]

one more kind of rap music to hate. here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a melody & some harmony.

Re:oh goody

[Iriel]

"rhymes about elite script compiling and dope machine code"

How many rhymes are there for '0' and '1'?

Re:oh goody

[Golias]

I'm not going to rip on nerdcore... whatever makes them happy, I guess.

The real head-scratcher of this story is: Since when did Wired magazine count as "the press"???

If there's a story here, it's that Wired hasn't done a story on MC Frontalot before now. This nerdcore stuff has been floating around "tha Internets" for years, and this kind of thing is what the folks at Wired live for!

Call me when MC Cris is on the cover of Time or Newsweek. A Wired story about nerds doing anything is nothing to get excited over.

Re:oh goody

[Nasarius]

Ha, you assume these people can sing. Not a chance. William Shatner is a better singer.

Re:oh goody

[hobbesx]

here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a meldody & some harmony.

And here's a stick and a bucket, get yourself some rythm... ;)

Re:oh goody

[wankledot]

Haha, I get it! Because for any music and/or poetry to have artistic merit, it has to have melody!

You're just pathetic if you dismiss rap/hiphop wholesale because it "doesn't have a melody."

Re:oh goody

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll take your two quarters
as money well spent
an get In Da Club
by my homey fifty cent

i use my mad skillz
coz hacking is a felony
then get down wit ghetto chicks
named harmony and melody

shanice and shaniqua
like my pentium IV
when i frag wit my gat
and get down on the floor

and i can't help it
if rap is somethin' you hate
but it gets me fly honeys
and you just masturbate.

peace

Re:oh goody

[rubycodez]

naw, I dismiss it because I don't like the sound of it. I don't give a crap about whether it's art or not, or if it has insightful message or not.

Re:oh goody

[rubycodez]

there's a comercial where Shatner does rap, it's even worse than his singing.

Re:oh goody

[Elminst]

GP is complaining that "rap music" is NOT MUSIC.
Which by definition is completely correct.

Rap is not music. It's spoken word/poetry.
Dropping a breakbeat track behind it does NOT make it music.

I totally concede that it is a form of art.

But I'm still free to dismiss it as crap, melody or not.

Re:oh goody

[rubycodez]

funny you mention women, I've yet to *ever* see a woman in a car listening to rap, it's mostly appealing to young men. Maybe you should give the gals a chance to choose what's on the stereo, bet most would prefer some romantic pop or R&B outside of the dance floor

Re:oh goody

[jdbo]

I'm not sure if "rubycodez" is joking or not, but in either case I love the idea of someone who calls themself "rubycodez" and doesn't realize the debt they owe to hip-hop culture.

Anyone else reminded of the scene in "Ghost Dog" where the (old, Italian) gangsters are complaining about how silly "Ghost Dog" and other hip-hop names sound , and how they sounds like old "Indian" (Native American) names... and then Big Angie, Handsome Frank and Sammy the Snake are named as they leave with their orders.

Re:oh goody

[Rude Turnip]

/me slaps your face. I'm sorry, but Bill Shatner's "The Transformed Man" is one of the greatest concept albums of the 1960s. Picture dramatic readings of Shakespeare contrasted with readings of pop standards of the 1950s and 1960s, while Mancini-esque music is playing in the background.

Re:oh goody

[rubycodez]

sure, there's plenty of things good from hiphop culture, I just don't like rap, is all. I do like many forms of jazz & R&B, which also are tied in with hiphop culture.

Re:oh goody

[glesga_kiss]

Rap is not music. It's spoken word/poetry. Dropping a breakbeat track behind it does NOT make it music.

Em, no. Yes, it's spoken word, but if the words are tied to the beat or the melody (as any decent stuff would, nothing you'd find in the charts), then it is music. It has rythym. It has flow. Just lacks melody in the lead vocal. You can't say that Michael Franti is not a musician (Spearhead, worth checking out, inteligent stuff).

If it's just a guy spewing garbage over an old record with a breakbeat sample, then yes, I agree, NOT music. But neither is most of the stuff coming from these sources.

Out of interest, would you say Gill Scott Heron wasn't a musician? It's a touch call, I'd say he borders on it, but also veers more to the poetry side than his more modern counterparts.

Re:oh goody

[stanleypane]

And you live where? I'm guessing some midwestern suburbanite nightmare.

Seriously. I don't neccesarily favor rap, but I think I'd be worried if some chick didn't cruise past me doing 50 in a 25 thumping the latest hip-hop tracks to hit the shelves. I'd be REALLY freaked. Like, invasion of the body snatchers freaked.

Re:oh goody

[utexaspunk]

music melody, dawg. are drummers not musicians? besides, most rap artists do more than just speak rhythmically. there is a certain amount of tonal variation in the way they speak, and it wouldn't sound the same if it didn't have it.

you may only be familiar with mainstream hip-hop, which DOES suck. check out some Aesop Rock, Old Atmosphere, or Sole. Or for more on the spoken word end of things, Saul Williams. there's some good stuff out there that will make you think and shake yo' azz, if you bother to look for it.

Re:oh goody

[utexaspunk]

lol... shoulda previewed! can't use less than/greater than for != doh!

MUSIC != MELODY! That's what I meant to say

Re:oh goody

[blincoln]

here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a melody & some harmony.

Dear old people,

Rap music has had melodies and harmony for many years. Please stop pretending like it's still 1985. I know a lot of you listen to "soft rock" radio, and they're still exclusively playing music from back then, but the rest of the world has moved on.

Some recommended listening:

"Crunk Muzik" - Jim Jones
"Move Bitch" - Lil Jon, The Triple-Six Mafia, etc.
"Get Some Crunk In Yo System" - Trillville
"Get Back" - Ludacris

Jim Jones even has another track ("Get From Round Me") that sounds like he was playing a lot of Metroid Prime at the time.

Someone who is more of a rap fan could probably provide a better list. I'm into industrial music, but I heard that stuff on the 24-hour evil gangsta radio station when I visited Memphis and thought it was great.

Re:oh goody

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, get off my lawn!

Re:oh goody

[object88]

Rap is not music. It's spoken word/poetry.

I'd wager that the original comment was referring to rap as the whole deal-- words, beats, etc.

Dropping a breakbeat track behind it does NOT make it music.

One definition of music (at least, acording to Princeton University) is "an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner". By that manner, you could ignore the drums, bass, etc. entirely and call it music, as the vocals are delivered in a structured manner (i.e., following a rythem).

The written lyrics themselves may be poetry, but the delivery makes it music. Were the lyrics simply spoken alout, ala Charlton Heston's delivery of Ice-T / Body Count's "Cop Killer", I'd agree. The fact that there is (usually) a instrumental facet reenforces the music aspect of rap.

I'll not argue your tastes, but I will say that it is music.

Re:oh goody

[Dread_ed]

Give them a break man.

There is a good reason for this.

GEEKS CAN'T SING!

The best we have to offer is William Hung for Christ's sake!

WILLIAM FREAKING HUNG!!

Do you really want more of that? Do you want to be responsible for the next William Hung? DO YA?!?!

Let 'em rap, says I. Just let 'em rap...

Re:oh goody

[gstoddart]

Em, no. Yes, it's spoken word, but if the words are tied to the beat or the melody (as any decent stuff would, nothing you'd find in the charts), then it is music. It has rythym. It has flow. Just lacks melody in the lead vocal. You can't say that Michael Franti is not a musician (Spearhead, worth checking out, inteligent stuff).

Well, in my experience, the vast majority of stuff by Spearhead actually does have the words tied to the beat and melody, and isn't just spoken word.

Maybe I don't understand the terms well enough, but I'd definitely say having bought 3 albums by Spearhead, it's definitely music. =)

Re:oh goody

[Creepy]

An old roomie of mine (a New York rapper, incidentally, but not a terribly good one) claimed rap is an acronym for "Rhythm And Poetry." Don't know if that's true or not, but supposedly it was used by artists in the mid-1970s to describe the a cappella form.

You could argue that the guy spewing garbage over an old record is music and old rap isn't - but then again, you could just say it's all a bunch of noise, which would be technically correct, too. But every genre has some noise - try listening to Free Jazz sometime (like a good percentage of what Sun Ra put out)... eugh.

Re:oh goody

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it ironic that you use Lil Jon to defend rap music.

Re:oh goody

[plastik55]

Er, rap does use melody in the lead vocal. Else why would big studios go to so much expense to use pitch-correction to fix up mediocre talent like 50 Cent?

Go listen to, say, "Rebirth of Slick" by Digable Planets and then tell me they're not being very careful about vocal tone.

Re:oh goody

[Anonymous Coward]

In 50 cent's case, they just set autotune to C and be done with it. ;)

Ludacris's latest single "Blueberry Yum Yum" is a good example of rap harmonizing. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's first few albums are also good.

Re:oh goody

[Lehk228]

they got ripped off, 50 Cent still sounds like crap

Re:oh goody

[droptone]

I do like many forms of jazz & R&B, which also are tied in with hiphop culture.

You're going to have to explain that one to me. If we were taking a purely historical perspective then no, Jazz or R&B owe absolutely nothing to Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop is the late-comer to the music scene in comparison to those other two types of genres. Now if you mean hip-hop is tied in with Jazz and R&B because their performers are mostly of color...well then you may be correct, but not politically so.

But in response to all those Slashdotters who think rap or hip-hop is not a form of music...I understand you project your judgments for the genre from your experiences in pop culture, but you are just wrong. You are wrong like non-geeks who think all geeks live with their parents and play D&D/DDR/etc all the time. It may be understandable why you have come to these thoughts about the entire genre of music, but it does not mean those thoughts have any justification. Are the members of the Roots not musicians? If you grant that, then do you mean people who do not make their own music are not musicians (and thus the sound they produce not music)? If not make, then maybe musicians ought to play their own instruments? Is not a turntable an instrument? What about a MPC? So if just speaking to a beat does not count, then does that mean rock lead singers are out and the music they produce?

I thought the point of music was to use the medium of sound to express yourself...

Re:oh goody

[TapeCutter]

"are drummers not musicians?"

Reminds me of the old joke....

Q. What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?

A. A Drummer.

Re:oh goody

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're into "nerdcore" rap, you might want to check into some MF DOOM and his many personas (Viktor Vaughn, Madvillain, King Geedorah, and the upcoming DangerDoom collaboration with Dangermouse).

Some good quotes:

"I keep a liter of vodka inside my locker
use it like a book, on a Grey Goose Scenario"

"Ensign, you should've asked your upperclassmen
before started blastin, never trust no Cardasians"

"Offsides like how Wharf rides with Starfleet"

He's big on referencing science fiction and old comics. As far as some good hip-hop albums to check out, here's a short list of some classics and some new stuff:

Nas - Illmatic (a classic)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Little Brother - The Listening
Edan - Beauty And The Beat (pyschedelic rock + hip hop = a good thing)
RJD2 - Deadringer (listen to "June" and tell me that hip-hop beatmakers aren't talented)
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (thewse guy play their own instruments)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (MF DOOM + Madlib = excellent)
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain (DOOM's best, lyrics-wise)

Oh, and please, at least give hip-hop a chance. I mean, I'm not fond of country but there are a handful of songs that I do like... and that goes for pretty much any genre of music that exists out there. Not all hip-hop is gangsta this and pop-a-cap that.

Re:oh goody

[MetaPhyzx]

Well good thing I don't have to depend on your judgement.

*flashback sequence*

1855, Georgia
"Boy I don't know what song those negroes are butchering in the field, but whatever it is, it's not music!"

*fade out*
*fade in*

1915, New Orleans

"Boy, I don't know what that noise coming out of the club there is... Who's playing? Who's 'King' Oliver? Well whatever it is, It's not music!"

*fade out*
*fade in*

1955 Chicago
"Boy, what's on the radio these days! Today I heard some song by a guy named Chuck Berry called 'Maybelline'... whatever it is, it's not music!"

*fade out*
*fade in*

1961 New York City

"Man this Bob Dylan... The white boy can write, but he sure cant sing, whatever it it is...it's not music..."

*fade out*
*fade in*

You get the point. I remember pulling in my daughter's day care listening to The Chairman and this woman saying "I'm glad someone listens to REAL music, all my kids listen to is RAP." I felt compelled to frisbee my Talib Kweli CD at her as I have a love for music, not its' genres. There's music I may not like, but i don't begrudge it as not music.

What's funny is that eventually all the examples listed eventually got thier respect, most of which once white artists got in the market and performed the music. With hip hop, 30 years down and that's still not the case. Well, not in numbers of artists, but the guy that moves the most units is white. 20 years from now, it'll be something else That we'll stratify as not music.

Re:oh goody

[rubycodez]

I was speaking as one very interested in the history of music, hip hop is derived from (amoung many other things) jazz & R&B. It IS a form of music. You know, suppose I said I didn't like polka & mentioned it was partially derived from waltz, seems I would get posters complaining I look down on central european culture and shame on me for not thinking it's real music....

Re:oh goody

[Gaia]

I believe rap stands for "Rhythmic American Poetry" and, yeah, as far as I know it began in NYC.

Let the jokes begin...

[pickyouupatnine]

Yow... I'm a programma rappa from South Central Ontario... Oh oh.. I don't know what I'd do without my key board.. OH SHIT... I'm sorry.. I can't do this anymore.. why can't people leave rap alone :(.

Instead of...

[mkw87]

Instead of wearing clocks around their necks like true rappers did in the early 90's they wear mice around their necks.

Re:Instead of...

[Compholio]

Instead of wearing clocks around their necks like true rappers did in the early 90's they wear mice around their necks.

Well, I've always wanted to make a necklace from hard drive platters (the gold-colored ones) but the dead drive I was going to do it with only had one platter. As you can imagine, I was very disappointed.

MC Pee-Pants!

[Anonymous Coward]

Meatwad: Shoot, I don't listen to that kiddy crap anymore. I'm kickin the adult jams now. See, check it, MC Pee-Pants doesn't just want candy now--that's childish. He needs it, and when you need something, that's a responsibility that only an adult of my maturity--(see boxes of chocolate bunnies behind Carl) Bunnies!!

Geek rap

[savagedome]

/.ers have shown signs of rapping skills too!

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118242&cid=999 1695

Re:Geek rap

[Anonymous Coward]

Here was a geeky parody of Eminem's Stan as previously posted on Slashdot: Dan

Re:Geek rap

[Anonymous Coward]

Eberlin's Slashbot Rhyme is the bomb!

Eberlin, I tried to find, unsuccessfully, how to contact you. I have a website called HumorDatabase. I inserted Slashbot Rhyme HERE.

Please contact me, if you want to create an account so proper credit is due, or it's ok to stay AC, or if you want it deleted. Thanks again, and I apologize for not ask you first.

Paulleluja

[tuelpo]

Where on the nerdcore scale fits the MC Paul B.?

Re:Paulleluja

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't know:

http://www.mcpaulbarman.com/

According to his bio he's toured with Del the Funkee Homosapien, Blackalicious, and Dalek.

Scripts compiling?! Beware of fake geeks!

[the0ther]

At some point, a script does compile, but generally speaking when you say "scripting" it means one of two things: code that is written procedurally (like C) or code that does not need to be compiled. These so-called-geeks need to get back to the books and out of their Hipsterville recording studios.

Re:Scripts compiling?! Beware of fake geeks!

[ignorant_newbie]

umm... close.

While C can be interpreted, it's usually compiled. a true scripting language, such as SH or CSH is one which is interpreted, line by line, as tho one were reading a script ( thus... scripting ).

The term has been expanded to include such languages as Perl which are compiled at run time.

Re:Scripts compiling?! Beware of fake geeks!

[the0ther]

Ok Mr. I'm-So-Old-I-Created-Unix, I think the spirit of my comment still stands. Scripting languages are not compiled.

retarded

[joemawlma]

just retarded...

MC Hawking's

[Rufus211]

is a fucking quake master.

that is all

Re:MC Hawking's

[Nasarius]

Ah, thank you. MC Hawking is the only rap I have ever enjoyed. Definitely geeky. Fuck the creationists!

Re:MC Hawking's

[The Lynxpro]

"is a fucking quake master.
that is all"

I remember seeing *MC Hawking* on TechTV's *Unscrewed with Martin Sargent* last year. Made me laugh a great deal.

Unfortunately, while its creator is skilled, he has not taken advantage of the CD Baby agreement in place with iTunes and thus the *greatest hits* album is not available at the iTunes Music Store. I would have loved purchasing the tracks with my Pepsi/Mountain Dew or 7-Eleven Slurpee iTunes codes...

Re:MC Hawking's

[Anonymous Coward]

> Ah, thank you. MC Hawking is the only rap I have ever enjoyed. Definitely geeky. Fuck the creationists!

The Hawkman be busting more shit than an incontinent man at a chili cookoff!

Re:MC Hawking's

[The Wicked Priest]

MC Hawking is teh r0x0r!

Re:MC Hawking's

[quadcity]

>MC Hawking is the only rap I have ever enjoyed
Then you probable haven't heard MC Chris. He raps about
stuff like Star Wars and drinking Robotussin.

In a car on the street, in my mouth, Swisher Sweet.
Down that shit at my crib in a one gulp feat.
-The Tussin

Slice you open like a tauntaun, faster than the Autobahn,
Or a motorbike in Tron, do the deed and then I'm gone.
-Fett's Vette

He has free downloads here:
http://67.18.79.2/lab/mp3/?C=M;O=D

(He's also the rapping spider mc pee-pants on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.)

w00t

[tritox]

finally rap where eminem isnt the only white guy

Re:w00t

[ettlz]

With a wink to the original poster, I've found this...

Just Gotta Say It

[MightyMartian]

Dumbest... Slashdot... story... ever...

Re:Just Gotta Say It

[Angry Toad]

I think I'm embarrassed just to be aware of this story.

Re:Just Gotta Say It

[Ian Wolf]

And you should be even more embarrassed you posted in it. What a loser.

uh..... nevermind

Too far

[DigitaLunatiC]

It was funny as parody, it really didn't need to go anywhere after the first few jokes were cracked and we all had a chuckle.

Filking

[critter42b]

Regardless of the musical genre, us REAL nerds still call that filking.

Amazing

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm studying at Purdue and MC+Plus is a TA. The guy who spins for him taught one of my CS classes last semester. Despite their rough lyrics and violent lifestyle, they really take time out to gently guide students through the ghetto fabulous life that is undergrad CS.

white males..

[minus_273]

they make the worst real rappers, now we have this..

Re:white males..

[Marc2k]

W r o n g

Oh, wait, did you mean Eminem? Oh, I'm sorry 'homey'. My bad, 'dogg'.

Re:white males..

[Anonymous Coward]

MC++ is Persian; stop hating fool.

This makes Disco look cool

[ReidMaynard]

wow, is this what happens when you just say no?

Reminds me of...

[op12]

Anyone else picturing Revenge of the Nerds, when they're performing on stage? :)

Re:Reminds me of...

[Anonymous Coward]

OH man.. I HAVE seen MC++. He goes to school here. it is funny.

all of you guys that are taking these guys serious are idiots. The guys that are here, MC+ plus and his group are grad students just blowing off steam. it's funny. they get a kick out of it. They actually tried to get a story on /. about 3 or 4 months ago but it got rejected.

Re:Reminds me of...

[mbbac]

A remix of one of Frontalot's songs uses a loop of that ROTN song.

Re:Reminds me of...

[Mr. Bad Example]

> A remix of one of Frontalot's songs uses a loop of that ROTN song.

Specifically, "Nerdcore Hiphop", which comes in two versions.

Unifying rap popularity theorey

[ArmorFiend]

Rap is always about social mobility.

Geeks are cool. Why? Because their services are in demand and they can get good jobs.

Gangsta rap glorifies drug dealing. Why is it popular? Because drug dealing is seen as a means of social mobility for young poor black men. No wonder they're interested in it.

In both cases, rap celebrates social mobility.

Flame away, friends.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Ian Wolf]

[i]Geeks are cool. Why? Because their services are in demand and they can get good jobs.[/i]

The girls at my high school must have missed the memo.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Gangsta rap glorifies drug dealing. Why is it popular? Because drug dealing is seen as a means of social mobility for young poor black men. No wonder they're interested in it.

Wrong. Gangsta rap is indeed about social mobility, but it works this way:

1 - some rap "artist" (white or black, doesn't matter. Cf. Eminem) rises above the fray, usually because money-hungry label exec latches on him

2 - "artist"'s album sells well to dumb teens (rich, poor, black or white, doesn't matter either. It's just a matter of taste, or lack thereof)

3 - "artist" becomes filthy rich on listeners' back, but continues to spew out music about life in the ghetto, and for some reason listeners keep on believing him

4 - Poor kids see former poor "artist" became rich, get into rap themselves. etc etc...

Rap music is a social mobility tool in itself. A few poor guys get to be pulled out of poverty at the whim of the music industry, while all the others stay poor and feed the few nouveau-riches by purchasing their albums. It has nothing to do with drugs, and everything to do with the music industry milking the poor populace by making them pay for its own "music".

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Anonymous Coward]

Rap is always about social mobility.

No way, I thought it was about bitches and blunts. Man, am I out of the loop. :(

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Anonymous Coward]

Flame away, friends.

Your quasi physcho analysis of an already ghey topic so is far off the ghey-o-meter my asshole just pucked in self defense as I was reading your post.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[AndreyF]

That's because it isn't true. "Geeks", as used most commonly now are people who lack social skills. They go on to become programmers and various specialists that don't need social skills. They are good at this, and yes, they can make a 6-digit salary, but the girls at your high school will still find them dry, boring, and unattractive.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Cloud 9]

Your life won't even begin until after high school. Trust me.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Ian Wolf]

I'm in my mid 30's, I know.

The statement was reflective and sarcastic. I forgot the tags.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[Jace of Fuse!]

the girls at your high school will still find them dry, boring, and unattractive.

Only if those geeks happen to be dorks, most of which, of course, are.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[AndreyF]

Good call. It's a pretty important (although rare) distinction I should have made. I stand corrected.

Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey

[doublem]

"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan

Because it's the only way to fight ACs

no sh*

[l3v1]

When I first heard about this, the only thing I could say was: no sh*t. After some time has passed, now the only thing that pops in about this has changed to something like: sh*t, now come on !

Nerdcore rap has memory leaks

[Anonymous Coward]

Their naïve rejection of destructors means that without intelligent heap management, your memory is going to get frittered away. Nothing wrong with keeping the gangsta in rap. You can bet NWA would never leave unreferenced objects hanging around breathing.

MC Hawking

[slashrogue]

I don't listen to a lot of nerdcore, and I have to say that I don't really listen to it to enjoy the music so much as to enjoy the lyrics and humor. I do have some MC Hawking that I listen to every now and then, he has a flash video of one of his songs that's pretty funny.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233937

Re:MC Hawking

[nickrooster]

packing bitches in my Chevy and a clip in my 'gat.

Please stop... This is pathetic...

[Anonymous Coward]

Nerdcore has to be the lamest thing that I have ever heard of and it makes me ashamed to be a geek.

Re:Please stop... This is pathetic...

[typical]

Yeah, what we need is some nerdternative rock, or maybe some nerd age music.

Re:Please stop... This is pathetic...

[boredofthesane]

It's called emo man.

I am glad

[Bryansix]

I for one am glad that this new genre of rap has come out. I am tired of the silly repetitive topics of the popular rap and R&B artists out there who just serve to talk about women as sex slaves and say they are gonna blow something up. I'd rather hear about people having conversations with AOL service reps and totally confusing them and conversations people had on the latest MMORPG. I think the subculture would make the music interesting.

Re:I am glad

[Anonymous Coward]

i dunno ... from the lyrics i read they talk about women as sex slaves and say they are gonna ddos something. same memes, different vocabulary.

Ahh, now we know

[gunpowda]

MC Plus+ rattles off lines like: "I'm encrypting shit like every single day; sending it across a network in a safe way; protecting messages to make my pay; if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA."

Those lyrics sound suspiciously machine generated : )

Oh now :(

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Some things just don't mix. But...

If you want to get used to crackers pretending to do ghetto music, you can start here. Warning: psychological councelling may be needed after 2 or 3 listenings.

Gee, what next? Snoop Dogg playing Sounds of Slashdot?

Re:Oh now :(

[ZosX]

Goddamnit! I was all psyched to hear the sounds of slashdot but the only available download I could find was on the site you linked to and of course the link from the message board has long since been dead. Anyone want to make an ISO and a torrent? I'm sure more than a few geeks have copies of this considering that they were giving it out at linuxworld or wherever the one poster said.

Re:Oh now :(

[ZosX]

Also, I might add that psychological help is needed for anyone that produces Xtian music. Xtian rappers? Pshaw! How blasphemous! Are the bitches and hoes not sacred anymore?

Terriable name

[SlayerofGods]

Why would you call your music Nerdcore or geeksta rap? I mean that just begs to be not taken seriously.
It's like a country/western singer calling their music 'Redneck rock' or pop calling it's self 'teen drivel'

Re:Terriable name

[Jackboot]

The term "nerdcore" comes from MC Frontalot's Nerdcore Hip Hop. I doubt most "artists" in this genre are not really concerned about begin taken seriously as most of the m rap self effacingly about their social inneptitude and general outcast status. See mc chris's "Geek" and Frontalot's "Indier Than Thou" as examples.

Re:Terriable name

[Anonymous Coward]

M A T T D A M O N

Re:Terriable name

[op12]

Why would you call your music Nerdcore or geeksta rap? I mean that just begs to be not taken seriously.

You seem to have answered your own question :)

Re:Terriable name

[Anonymous Coward]

Not that a guy who can't spell "terrible" isn't embarrassing in and of itself, but let's leave that point for the moment. What exactly is it about the story that makes you think they take it seriously? They don't. They're just doing it for fun, and optionally money if someone's actually stupid enough to pick them up.

In all your confusion you overlooked the simple fact that maybe, just maybe, they don't want to be taken too seriously.

Re:Terriable name

[the_rev_matt]

Note that one of the most popular country songs of the last year was "Redneck Woman", a song proclaiming her pride in being a redneck. If you are not a part of the target audience, you will laugh at the nomenclature. If you are apart of it, you will likely revel in it.

Re:Terriable name

[03Cobra]

Im deeply disturbed by teh lack of an available .ogg format to download. If he was really nerdcore, this wouldve been made available.

Re:Terriable name

[freality]

Either your sense of irony is non-existent or far more developed than average. Given your username, I bet the former ;p

Re:Terriable name

[Anonymous Coward]

Why would you call your music Nerdcore or geeksta rap? I mean that just begs to be not taken seriously. It's like a country/western singer calling their music 'Redneck rock' or pop calling it's self 'teen drivel'

asks SlayerofGods, poster on Slashdot (tagline "News for nerds, Stuff that matters".)

Re:Terriable name

[FidelCatsro]

You be ds'ing my /home/ies Bios , I LS going to kill -kill yoass .
That is word(value) ,cos i Sed

Re:Terriable name

[westneat]

Weezer is called geek rock, yet they are taken pretty seriously, or at least they make a lot of money.

Re:Terriable name

[Anonymous Coward]

can we, as a community, agree to kill the use of the terms "nerdcore" and "geeksta" before the media catches on? I estimate that the butchery and abuse will equal or exceed that of the term "blog"

Who cares about dat with Da Monster in the hizzy?

[The Monster]

The call me The Monster
Harder than (a) Hammer
I'm a mean SOB and a bad mama-jamma!

Say I'm insensitive
Crude and ruth-
less; pullin' no punches
Nothin's harder than TRUTH!

When I see fools
I'm a straight shooter
I mo(w)-dem down
On my computer.

Word to yo' mama. Peace out.
Da Monsta gots to get back to the Benjamins, a-aight boyeee?

normal rap

[akhomerun]

i'm sorry, i'll take snoop dogg, thank you very much.

and it's Microsoft vs. Linux

[zerojoker]

instead of Eastcoast vs. Westcoast. I wonder when first casualties occur...

My Backpack's got Jets...

[Conception]

www.mcchris.com

Saw him in concert in LA, so great to see the mix of geeks and underground club goers in the same room. But nothing quite like watching the room jump as they sing, "I'm boba, the fett." I'm not quite sure if its art, but I like it.

Re:My Backpack's got Jets...

[Anonymous Coward]

HESH!

Well, uh..

[OmgTEHMATRICKS]

That's cute, but in the end it's still rap.

I mean, unless it's really, really, REALLY good rap that transcends the genre.

Re:Well, uh..

[typical]

I've yet to hear any rap that I thought was listenable either, but Blind Guardian does metal music featuring Tolkien. I first ran across them as a recommendation of what to listen to while playing Angband.

MC Chris

[stone2020]

Shout out to my boy MC Chris!

Thought choice ?

[morcego]

"50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

Yeah. Uhum. Which one to pick ... which one to pick ...

Weird Al

[MERVERNATOR]

its all about the pentiums baby....

Re:Weird Al

[solive1]

Weird Al should then be known as the creator of the subgenre. I bet MC Plus+ and others can relate to these lines from "It's All About the Pentiums."

Hey fella I bet you're still livin in your parents' cellar Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And posting "me too!" like some brain-dead AOLer I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller

Re:Weird Al

[TheoMurpse]

Should Al gets -3 Flamebait for:
I'm down will Bill Gates
I call him "Money" for short
I call him up at home
And make him do my tech support

I have to admit, one of the best rhymes I've ever heard was
Hey I bet you're still living in your parents cellar
Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And posting, "Me too!" like some braindead AOLer
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller

Nerdcore: Putting a whole new spin...

[ettlz]

..on that drive-by installation business.

and yet...

[syrinx]

...rap still sucks, whatever the topic of the lyrics.

Though I admit that MC Hawking was pretty amusing for a (short) while.

Weird Al

[pharwell]

Does Weird Al Yankovic's "All About the Pentiums" count? It's a parody of course, of Puff Daddy's "All About the Benjamins." Still, Yankovic is actually a fairly decent rapper and the content is geeky to the core.

Always at my PC, double clickin on my miz-ouse
Upgrade my system twice a day
I'm strictly Plug and Play
I ain't afraid of Y2K, &c.

Still like to listen to it occasionally.

Does MC Chris count as nerdcore

[Anonymous Coward]

He did "Fett's Vette." http://www.mcchris.com/

Quote of the decade!

[nathan s]

That quote is the funniest geek shit I have heard in at least a decade!

I guess the latest ATI or Nvidia offering is better than no sex at all, though, which is what these guys are obviously getting.

133t Cred

[Lord Marlborough]

Ain't noone gonna front wit' me,
Talk sh_t 'bout C,
O' HTTP.
Just gonna process bitches parallely.

I can't wait for the music video

[AutopsyReport]

You know, toting NES Duck Hunt guns while jingling chrome USB cables from their neck and sexy ASIMO's shaking ass with thermal paste dripping from their chest.

I am dying in anticipation.

LOTR

[Sandbox Conspiracy]

Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings.

Please, let's leave the LOTR songs to true musicians like Leonard Nimoy.

Re:LOTR

[Professr3]

Bilbo! (children) Bilbo! (spock) Bilbo! (all) Baggins!

Ah, the good old days of wax disks with displacement-encoded audio data...

LOTR?

[seanellis]

Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings.

Now there is truly no purpose left for heavy metal...

You joking?

[youknowmewell]

"The stigma that was once attached to computer geeks and role-playing nerds is diminishing incredibly fast," said "digital gangster" Bryce Case Jr., aka ytcracker. "It has almost become trendy to have skills on a computer. Rather than guns and 'hos, I speak about DDOS attacks and camgirls."
The self-proclaimed "#1 greatest computer science gangsta rapper ever" is MC Plus+, a geeksta leading light whose moniker comes from the C++ programming language.

The Purdue University, Indiana, Ph.D. candidate and "CS pimp," whose album Algorhythms was recorded with pirated software, calls himself "the Tupac of the computer science world."

MC Plus+ rattles off lines like: "I'm encrypting shit like every single day; sending it across a network in a safe way; protecting messages to make my pay; if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA."

....

"I don't think this new subculture will really stick, though," Ryan added. "If the genre is to succeed, you're going to need some females."

....

"I think CS graduates have a better chance than most rappers at calculating and devising hitherto unheard rhyme pairings," he said. "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

You mean to tell me that isn't entertaining?

Re:You joking?

[Anonymous Coward]

>>"50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

I'd rather have the oral sex, thanks.

LoTR Rap

[Himring]

Gollum's Rap rather: [Sung to the music of Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise"]

As we walk through the Misty mountains we realize there's not much left, coz we've been keelin' orcses and squishing fishes so long, that even my precious thinks my mind is gone (gollum).

But we ain't never crossed a hobbitses who didn't wants it, my precious, we be treated so bad by fat hobbit you know that's unheard of.

You better watch (gollum) how you're talkin' and where us is walkin' or hobbitses fall down and make candles in the swamp too! (gollum)

We really hates it, to trip, but we gotta you know. We sees ourselves in the precious, fool! (gollum)

We're the kinda G [Gollum] the little hobbitses wanna be cuz they wants our precious, PRECIOUSSS!!!

Been spending most our lives, living in the ring wielder's paradise.

Keep spending most our lives, living in the precious's paradise

I must deeply apologize for this post and deserve all bad mods. I apologize as well to the great professor and his family....

Re:LoTR Rap

[chriskenrick]

Umm, how can one mention LoTR Rap without mentioning the Lords of the Rhymes. Funny, funny stuff.

Drive By Shooting over OS choice?

[doublem]

Top Stories:

Linux gang gunned down by MS user group in library turf war.

BSD gang fingered in Evercrack PK ring

OS X gang "Pretty Boys" and BSD Gang "Orc Chicks" declare cease fire

Violence erupts at middle school install fest

Quake Clans and Unreal Tournament Clans face off in massive Silicon Valley turf war.

Re:Drive By Shooting over OS choice?

[Anonymous Coward]

"...MS user group in library..."

ha ha ha... right.

wtf?

[emidln]

I'd just like to say wtf? Now I'll go back to being a 420 Geek /lbc rules

Slashdot rap

[Spy der Mann]

(i have the slight feeling i'll burn in karma hell for this...)

Yo, live in slashdot, keep competing for the first post,
where ya never tire of trolling 'bout our welcomed overlords,
and the soviet russia jokes,that make readers gag and choke,
And remember saying "dupe!", no matter the karma cost.

Then new gadgets bright and shiny,
get all showed off in here,
till the bandwidth grows so tiny
that the 'masters run in ph34r

News for nerds, News for nerds,
all the news are stuff that matters,
but it's really all the chatter
that amuses our geek herds.

And I end this geeksta rap,
cuz it's my job where I'm trollin',
so before i get your claps,
I demand ya: Mod me funny!

Re:Slashdot rap

[Anonymous Coward]

Wish I could, geek brotha.

Re:Slashdot rap

[shadowmatter]

scrollin down the page, and what did i see?
a story bout code and the right to be free
i was about to lay in, dish some troll to the slash
but then 'explorer' locked up and the PC went crash

now g, listen up, cuz i know what you thinkin
firefox rules, it's explorer that's sinkin
but that's logic son, i don't run on that
i don't touch debian, gentoo, or even red hat

the reason i hate free and put up with this shit
isn't cuz i love macs, or set the evil bit
it's cuz i live my life, every cheetoh-filled day
on the checks i get from one microsoft way

hail to the g, the bill g
hail to the g, the bill g

(I don't really work at Microsoft. I'm just bored. Back to work...)

- sm

What about intermediate code (p-code)?

[Richard Steiner]

Some languages are interpreted at the source level.

Some are "compiled" into p-code and that p-code is then interpreted later on.

Some are compiled into machine code and run directly by the hardware.

I consider the first two to be "scripting languages" in most cases.

This is not something to be proud of.

[proteonic]

Enough said.

whoever came up with "geeksta" ...

[doormat]

needs to get shot. That is the dumbest word I've seen invented.

Ever.

Re:whoever came up with "geeksta" ...

[hondo77]

Dumber than "synergize"?

Optimus Rhyme!

[nuknuk]

i bought the optimus rhyme cd, and I like it a lot. It's got old school flavor while they rap about their databases and websites...it's funny, it's cool, and they got a good beat!

The point of music is to entertain, and there is a huge market of these 'socially inept' computer geeks out there, many of which seem to be slamming themselves in this very thread. I agree with stephen that hobbit rap is probably something that shouldn't be touched, but why the hate on geeks like you and me making money combining the things they love : music and geekdom!

wakka wakka bang splat

[d_54321]

Yo this is so fresh dope. Maybe now they can put this to some g funk happening beat, foo.

Ugh this is stupid.

[enjoilax]

This is not nerdcore hip-hop. Nerdcore hip-hop is the Definitive Jux Label (El-P, Aesop Rock) and Anticon label (Dose One, 13&God, cLOUDDEAD). This is just gangsta rap with stereotypical "nerd" subject matter.

Doctor Theopolis

[drenehtsral]

An example of this (although it's more geek Funk than geek Rap) is Dr. Theopolis, from Portland. I was exposed to these crazy geeks on a recent trip out west, and will never be the same again.
http://www.drtheopolis.com/

Monzy and MC Plus+

[cpeikert]

Monzy and MC Plus+ are two computer science geekstas who started a rap feud with each other, ala Eminem and Cannabis or whatever... Monzy's "Drama in the PhD" is hilarious!

Re:Monzy and MC Plus+

[Anonymous Coward]

Best lines from Monzy's rap:

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD.

Lyrics here

Re:Monzy and MC Plus+

[humankind]

That is some funny shiznat:

My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.
I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null.
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I'm an unsigned long int and you're an 8-bit char.

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD.

Re:Monzy and MC Plus+

[Anonymous Coward]

Best lines from Monzy's rap:

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD.

http://monzy.com/intro/drama_lyrics.html

It's all about the pentiums!

[MostlyHarmless]

Hmm, ignore the following text and scroll down?

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The lameness filter is really freaking annoying. Your comment still has too few characters per line. Try altering your rhyme scheme to one with more feet. This is your lameness filter. This is your lameness filter on drugs. At this rate, there is no way your comment will ever be posted. At least, not until the story is long past the front page.

It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah

What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)

Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?

Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-b

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[kindbud]

That was lame.

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[Anonymous Coward]

No, that was Weird Al.

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[jangobongo]

At least give Weird Al the credit for this...

For those few who may not know, this song can be found on Weird Al's album "Running With Scissors" which was released in 1999. Does that make him the "Godfather of Geeksta Rap"?

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[isomeme]

You should give props to the brilliant Weird Al Yankovic, who wrote and performed this masterpiece. (Which is now going through my head on permanent loop, thanks a ton.)

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[Anonymous Coward]

Woohoo!

You know, we don't get nearly enough blatant copyrhight violations here...thanks for doing your part!

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[Guysmiley777]

Hmmm, are you trying to take credit for that song, or are you assuming everyone who reads Slashdot owns Weird Al's Running With Scissors album?

I suppose the latter is more likely.

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[MostlyHarmless]

I was reasoning that anyone who wasn't familiar with that song would assume that I lifted it from somewhere rather than flowing forth two lengthy verses of lyrical genius in pretty much the amount of time it would have taken to type it by hand.

On a related note, is it sad if I have the song memorized? :-p

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[angusmci]

Another 'early adopter' can be found at www.mola.org.

I can't remember when I first saw this, but they might well have pre-dated Weird Al. The site hasn't changed in all that time either: I guess they take their "evolutionary stasis" seriously. Pity - the Netmaster rap shows talent.

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[Fred_A]

The video that went with the song, of a COMDEX concert in front of foaming PHBs and assorted suits was pretty good as well.

It still floats on P2P nets every now and then. Worth keeping on a corner of your disk.

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[Splintax]

Is it really necessary to mod everyone who Googles computer-related song lyrics and CTRL-Vs them into a comment +5 Funny?

Re:It's all about the Pentiums!

[TheoMurpse]

*sigh* The last great album of Al. He got married and then released Poodle Hat, which licks chocolate salty balls. I can't figure out how Party at the Leper Colony is supposed to be anywhere near "funny". And with Genius in France, was he trying to capitalize on the US "hatred" of France? Because it sure isn't a funny song.

I'll admit that Hardware Store was an impressive song (but no fun to sing along with ;) and Angry White Boy Polka was excellent (as all his polkas are), but aside from that...it was just...bleh.

This is the first Weird Al CD that I refused to buy, it was so horrible. I hope he bounces back and creates an excellent 12th (including UHF soundtrack) album.

Let's hope for some gangsta polka. Would this double as nerdcore?

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[doublem]

assuming everyone who reads Slashdot owns Weird Al's Running With Scissors album

You mean there are some who DON'T????

Re:It's all about the pentiums!

[Guysmiley777]

Not at all. After reading that, the damn thing was in my head all day. Weird Al IS the godfather of nerdcore.

Instead of EastCoast vs. WestCoast in hipHop ...

[supergwiz]

we will soon hear Diss Records generated by the U.S. Coast Geeks vs. India Coast Geeks rivalry

nrrrds

[justforaday]

Reminds me a bit of the riot nrrrd movement from 10 or 15 years ago...

No way!

[bmajik]

it sounds like you take them too seriously. The lyrics i've read are hillarious, not to mention the songs themselves. This stuff cracks me up. I wouldn't say these guys are socially depressed - i mean, what original music of _yours_ are people all over the internet listening to and enjoying?

No, what worries me are "gangsta" rappers taking themselves seriously. I appreciate that these kids are doing amusing crap like this in college instead of focusing solely on date rape (the more popular collegiate male past-time)

Re:No way!

[Anonymous Coward]

I appreciate that these kids are doing amusing crap like this in college instead of focusing solely on date rape (the more popular collegiate male past-time)

Is it date rape? Really? Even when the girls are sluts that just blew the whole fucking freshman class?

Re:No way!

[glesga_kiss]

No, what worries me are "gangsta" rappers taking themselves seriously.

Three words: "Goldie Looking Chain". Welsh rappers that just take the piss out of white-boy rap culture. Funny shit. I actually thought that high-pitched loop crap "so lonely" that's in the charts was one of theirs. Sounds like a piss take...

The lyrics i've read are hillarious, not to mention the songs themselves.

Are they meant to be humourous, or do they just come off that way...? ;-)

Re:No way!

[object88]

Are [the lyrics] meant to be humourous, or do they just come off that way...? ;-)

Oh yes, they're meant that way. :)

C-64 daze

[krbvroc1]

At one time I 'wrote' a BBS 'rap-song' that I used to joke around with a fellow Sysop around 1985. I don't recall the song, but I remember the chorus of something like 'Goo-Goo Ack-Ack. When I am all alone, I take out my computer and I hook it to the phone'. It was called the Punter Rap. It was kinda styled after Dear Yvette by L.L. Cool J.

MC Lars

[BlurredWeasel]

MC Lars is awesome, he's not quite as nerdy as some of what is in the article, but he's still an english major at Stanford. He's on itunes, go check him out, My favorites are UK Visa Versa and Straight out of Stockholm.

whoa

[Philodoxx]

Who would have thought that MC Hawking could have spawned an entire genre?

Re:whoa

[object88]

Who would have thought that MC Hawking could have spawned an entire genre?

You misspelled "MC Frontalot".

Re:whoa

[Philodoxx]

I don't pretend to know where Nerdcore orginated, it was a joke. Even if MC Hawking didn't invent Nerdcore, he (it?) has got some good tracks.

Entropy
Trash Talk
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.

Verse 1
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.

You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.

That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.

Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!

Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.

You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.

Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.

Chorus

Trash Talk
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!

reminds me of a street comedian....

[bobcave]

I once saw a guy doing standup on the sidewalk in NYC. One of his bits was that there are no Jewish rappers. He then breaks into:

I'm a real Jewish guy
And my name is Bernie
My father just died
And left me Power-of-Attorney

Re:reminds me of a street comedian....

[cens0r]

there actually is a jewish rapper. He's a hasidic jew in fact. His name is Matisyahu.

Nothing for me

[gunix]

I stick with the OpenBSD songs.

Terriable spelling

[jfengel]

It's not meant to be taken seriously. It's all in-jokes deliberately contrasting the white-bread image of the geek coder with the ultra-violent image of gangsta rap. The geeks have their own art form that they practice seriously; it's called "writing code". This is what they do to relax.

Re:Terriable spelling

[SlayerofGods]

I realize that the words are joking but I was referring to the whole 'art' form.
Comics aren't meant to be taken seriously either, but they don't go around calling their work 'geeky doodles'.
To me, to call the whole form a self deprecating name like "Nerdcore Rap" says I don't care about what I'm doing, why should you.

Re:Terriable spelling

[woah]

I think neither of these "art forms" any good, with one being an engineering disciplene and the other... well, a joke.

This just proves the generic lack of artistic tendencies among geeks/thinking types.

Re:Terriable spelling

[databyss]

"To me, to call the whole form a self deprecating name like "Nerdcore Rap" says I don't care about what I'm doing, why should you."

Now you're getting it!

This is why alot of them give it away for free and don't promote themselves too much. It's something they do in their spare time, and if somebody finds some enjoyment from it, so be it.

Re:Terriable spelling

[jfengel]

Actually, comics are taken extremely seriously by their fans, and it's why they're often called "graphic novels" or "books" (short for "comic books", as opposed to the thicker objects we ordinarily call books.)

Calling them "comics" often doesn't cut it any more because they're no longer very comic. Some fans still use the term as a historical artifact, like the nonexistent "dial" on your cell phone.

Nerdcore rap, on the other hand, is a self-deprecating name for a self-deprecating art form.

Does N.E.R.D qualify?

[autopr0n]

If so, nerdcore is pretty big. But I don't know if it does. Oh well, great music anyway :P.

camgirls is my life

[WillAffleckUW]

don't be hatin cos they's friends

Seattle geeksta represent!

I'm down with the Fremont tech scene, yo ...

[well, that was fun for about three nanoseconds ...]

No, we *really* need to get back to nerd rap roots

[Chris Mattern]

Got a flat-screen monitor, forty inches wide
I believe yours says 'Etch-a-Sketch' on the side

Play me online, well you know that I'll beat you.
If I ever meet you, I'll control-alt-delete you!

It's all about the Pentiums, baby!

Chris Mattern

It's Like A Dream Come True....

[Slugster]

Nerdcore Rap Battle 2005: the concerts that nobody has to worry about not bringing a date to.....

Ob. Futurama

[starwed]

Joey Mousepad might come after you for stealing his style, though.

I think I understand.

[proteonic]

There's been some sort of dimensional disturbance, and it's actually April 1st.
Phew.. I was getting nervous. I thought this was serious.

Nerdcore comic

[ottffssent]

The comic is at piratejesus.com. It's drawn by a friend of mine, so go check it out. Full of delightfully geeky puns.

zerg

[Lord Omlette]

MC Frontalot is from San Francisco, as is clearly stated in I Heart Fags. The fact that he's currently in New York means nothing since he's moving to Boston after his last show in NYC @ the end of the month.

"I don't think this new subculture will really stick, though," Mr. Ryan is an idiot. Nerdcore shows used to have less than a dozen people show up only a couple of years ago, now they're packed wall to wall.

declined to give his real name Mr. Andrews needs to get his reporter credentials checked.

"Geek"

[EEBaum]

It's been a long time coming, but the word "geek" is now officially ruined. Time to find another social-outcast-and-proud-of-it moniker.

Please don't mod me troll.

[coolGuyZak]

What a way to be a close-minded ass. While I am sure that rap may not compare to your own musical taste, some of the best messages in "popular music" can only be found within the rap/hip-hop scene.

Do you also hate poetry? It's much the same thing. You have to listen rather closely to grab the literary devices that go into it, and certain styles of rap (particularly syllable matching) are absolutely amazing.

--
There are 2 things I hate in this world: People who are intolerant of others' musical taste, and Country music.

DMCA

[autopr0n]

What is with this common misconception that breaking any crypto is a violation of the DMCA. It's not. I had a guy sware that WASTE was safe because if the record companies cracked the crypto, they'd be breaking the DMCA.

I mean come on, not only can the crypto in WASTE and other systems not be cracked at all if it could be, it wouldn't be a violation. Only crypto used to prevent copying is protected, and only then as a copy protection mechanism, not in general.

You can't be yackin' about your columbian drug ring with home-brew crypto software and then cry "But the DMCA" when you get busted. Duh.

Desperate

[The Angry Mick]

Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings.

Originally read that as "desperate" then realized it could probably go either way...

Weird Al, the original geeksta rapper

[JoshWurzel]

If you aren't familiar with Weird Al's "It's all about the Pentiums, baby!" then I suggest you pick up a copy of his album, Running With Scissors.

Here's a link to the lyrics.

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/itsallaboutthepenti ums.html

we's hurtin in the tech slums

[WillAffleckUW]

the man's on our desktop cases
we're sore with outsourcin'
we're bored with safe surfin'
and our LAN parties get busted by the man cause we mod our GTA ...

like a silicon jungle out there
sometimes i's humble out there
but my tribe's low on karma out there
so my hood's down at the five and bean
where the wireless is so clean
and the Java's up to steam

just call me 50 credit, yo!

It's all about the Pentiums!

[boisepunk]

What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller

It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)

Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?

Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user
You've got your own newsgroup, "alt.total-loser"
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you
If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you
What? What? What? What? What?

It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?

MC Plus + needs...

[GojiraDeMonstah]

..DJ VM

Old News

[snookerdoodle]

The article is over a month old.

This line from the article says it all:

[PeeAitchPee]

"50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

Dude, that's so pathetic I think Mom's gonna kick you out of the basement. Word.

Re:This line from the article says it all:

[vze3try7]

"I'm gonna kick you out (HUUUH!!!)
Mama said kick you out (HUUUH!!!)"

not Microsoft vs. Linux

[The Monster]

you got it all wrong. The true geeksta wars go WAY back further than that:

The only real editor is named 'vee eye'
all those EMACS pretenders can fsck off and die!

And you'd better be using a true Bourne shell
'cause if it's csh you can go to hell!

That GNOME desktop is no way to be
I'm hard-core representin' KDE!

these new guys are lame, what about del?

[rotagivan]

I'll never stop listening to del.

I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis
Cause they dont wanna unify us
So fuck it total anarchy and can't nobody stop us
You see late in the evening
Fucked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus I can send through a modem
Infiltration hits your station
No Microsoft or enhanced DOS will impede
Society thinks thier safe when
Bingo! Hard drive crashes from the rending
A lot of hackers tried viruses before
Vaporize your text like so much white out
I want it where a file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down entire White House
I don't want just a bug that could be corrected
I'm erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds it's impossible to find

Top 10 Nerdcore Songs of All Time

[mikes.song]

Top 10 Nerdcore Songs of All Time

1. Goto Boys - My Mac's Playin' Tricks On Me
2. Snoop Mod - It's a Moddy Moddy World
3. Notorious E.O.F. - Going Back to Cache
4. Sir Code-A-Lot - Baby's got BASIC
5. Cypress HTML - How I Could Just Reboot A Mac
6. BSD Boys - Fight For Your Rack
7. Public Encryption - Fight The Powersurge
8. Sugar Hill Game - Coders Delight
9. Grandmemory Flash & The File Allocation Table - The Message
10. Dr. DRM - The Cache

Baldur's Gate Rappin'

[eddy]

Me and a friend used to, for a short period of time, exchange 'raps' about our Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale CRPG parties. Stuff like:

oh-oh-oh-OH!
Revin' it up for
this party of five,
listen up boy,
think our team's for hire?

well, I guess we might be,
that's left to see,
but you've better be in
for a BIG fuckin' killing spree!

Now, listen up
yeah, yeah, YEAH!

Ling's gonna rap
a little tune for you,
'bout fist in the hand
and the master plan.

Think a blade is best?
Yeah, me too,
but Ling's got a
might fine palm for _you_
if you feel a shiver,
oh-oh -- *too late*
time for 'lil you to
dis-integrate.

Yeah joining up the front
is the man ah-ha,
strong silent kind
of vorpal fright.
Tebat is his name
and his game's this
a fighters kiss
shit, I'm sure you'll
be missed.

Ooookay. So that's out... I think those are mine, his was much better (not a big feat, I know).

Just for fun, m'kay?

+1 insightful??

[coolGuyZak]

Ok, the mods are truly on crack today... How could the above obvious troll be modded +1 insightful?

Re:+1 insightful??

[Kethinov]

The mods aren't the only ones on crack, but the editors too. I submitted this story weeks ago and it got rejected for some odd reason, even though my submission pointed to the exact same article that this story did. Seems the editors can't make up their mind regarding what an acceptable story is. Or maybe when I submitted it the article was too fresh. They had to wait a few weeks before accepting the story so it was nice and old! ;)

Re:+1 insightful??

[hurfy]

No, that means it will be in the daily paper tomorrow.

hehe, that seems to be the story basis lately. I swear 3/4 of this stuff is in the paper same/next day. Maybe we have a better paper for this than most?

i figure the editor is sitting here watching us right now trying to squeeze out a couple more column inches.... :)

Coming soon: GTA Bay Area

[Hurricane78]

From the creators of the wordwide megaseller GTA San Andreas comes a new game that lets your console tremble: GTA Bay Area Featuring: - surf-by-DDOSing - full linux environement - realitisc extreme high resolution computer and server rooms. you can even manipulate 'em - original thinkgeek cloting stores. dress real geeky! - try to get women (emphasized on "TRY") - post dumb comments on sites as slashdot - run a internet company and try to survive the next hyped bubble of a killer app. - get applause for shooting linus or eric s. raymond with your cubicle toys on a convention. - much much more...

Re:Please, for your own sake, forget all of them

[grub]

Bang on. Singing about the internet will only be cool when Motorhead does it.

Shameless Plug for the J's

[jtwJGuevara]

If we are going to have an article on nerdcore rap, I'm going to pimp the best nerdcore rap group alive: The 2 Skinnee J's.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Skinnee_J's
Home page: http://www.2sj.com/home.html.

Re:Shameless Plug for the J's

[tweek]

I can only say one thing:

Smack that ass, Stump.

I was lucky enough to have a roomate who was pretty good friends with the band and that got me hooked on em. I wonder if I still have some old board bootlegs lying around the house.

Re:Shameless Plug for the J's

[jtwJGuevara]

I had the pleasure of going to J's concert before they retired last year. It was truly awesome. My roomate has met them before as well after a couple of shows.

They just had a reunion tour as well, which I was not able to go see.

The great thing about the J's is that their song topics are very geek'ish but musically they have great rhythm, great flow, creative lyrics, and a truly wonderful fun sound.

Check out http://www.2sj.com/downloads/mp3s.html for a sample of their music. Star wars fans should like the live version of Irresistable Force.

You're an idiot.

[autopr0n]

Lighten up.

Umm..

[jav1231]

I think Greg Allman put it best when he said, "RAP is short for CRAP."

Equality NOW

[Doc Ruby]

I'm the mc squared - at the speed of light
My rhythm is loose, but my rhymes are tight
From the heart of the sun, into your eye
Call me irrational - I'm easy: as pi!

(C) MC^2

It does not compute

[bryanp]

You have the wrong logo up for this story. You're using the "music" logo in relation to rap.

That and I assume, dear God I pray, this is a joke and you should have used the "It's funny, laugh" icon.

Liquid X anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

reminds me of RIoT Rich
http://mbsrules.com/RIT.htm

Re:Liquid X anyone?

[dirwin]

I'm glad someone mentioned it =)

Actually

[I_redwolf]

Akrobatik - Internet MC's

http://www.akrobatik.com/audio/real/akrobatik-inte rnetmcs.ra

Pretty much sums up my whole feeling on this "phenomena" or "hiphop segment".

Coming even sooner: GTA Ecotopia

[WillAffleckUW]

from the Silicon Forest, in Sunny Seattle, where Rust is the natural color and Green is the killer app.

With a soundtrack by MC Hamsta and the Technogeek Alliance, available at any fine Radio Shakalakaboomba.

Jump on a hybrid diesel bus and go to Redmond on a floating bridge, or hack the controls of one of the ferries as you escape to Vashon ... or cruise in your Dodge Dart to the nearest LAN party ...

Have to contribute my $0.02

[bagel2ooo]

Courtesy of M.C. Sudo (http://www.sudoscrew.com/

(chorus)

It's time to hear the voodoo
of the UNIX guru,
from alpha to zulu,
chillin' with Captain Sulu,
it's MC Sudo! (Echo Sudo)

(end chorus)

Some say a portscan lacks a lot of class,
pull that shit and i'll bust an ettercap in your ass.

Whether you use nessus, saint, or acid and snort,
strace and shellcode skills will make you abort.

A wide open kernel is the reason you fall,
shoulda installed that shit by project Openwall!

Oh noes! My honeypot has a rootkit!
Cp /bin/sh to /tmp just ain't shit!

Hop to your kiddie botnet to start a DDoS,
I've got more pipe than a plumbers whole house.

I watch the syn packets reach up to a million,
Dodged with mad bgp skills version 2-fucking-billion.

You think having 0-day sploits make you leet?
Got a big eDick to show your friends at 2600 meets?
Wet yourself at "Hackers" thought Wargames was a big feat?
I been hacking before I saw tits on Acidburn's sheets!

(insert chorus)

Whether coding in C/PERL/PYTHON or PL/I,
You know I do that shit in a thing called vi.
Using borland scheme that's pleasing to the eye.
Until I meet that great sysadmin in the sky.

All you quoting Dade Murphy as your hero,
I rofl my ass off when your 'sploit devides by zero!

Re:Have to contribute my $0.02

[dthx1138]

nice debut on /., bravo, tres impressive
but here's a free lesson i'm givin cause i'm perceptive
your two-line style is classic but oppressive
don't be messin to assimilate me into your collective

yeah my stare's reflective, your mad dog ineffective
the last to glare like that, well bitch i straight decked him
did it affect him? yeah bitch he straight checked in
to get his linux pda removed from his rectum

MC CONVECTION was here BITCH

Re:Have to contribute my $0.02

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, you managed to fit in a lot of technical terms, along with a leavening of profanity, and you made the end words rhyme. That's probably enough, which is good since you're otherwise right up there with the very worst of the gangstas.

That's what I hate about most gangsta rap, and I guess geeksta rap is the same; the simplest possible rhyme scheme and the rhythmic sense of a centipede stumbling into a roach motel. At least I can't hear the half-assed drum machine programming.

The Problem With Nerdcore...

[pazu13]

...is that it's not actually doing much that's different. There isn't anything inherently wrong with rap, in the same way that there isn't anything wrong with rock or electronic; all genres have their fans and detractors. But if Nerdcore just means whipping out Lord of The Rings references, why doesn't Led Zep get labeled "Nerd Rock" for "The Battle For Evermore". The best rappers are famous for their cleverness and humor (consider the pop-culture references of The Beastie Boys or Eminem, and the host of comic rappers like Kool Keith and Public Enemy's Flava Flav), but generally have other factors going for them as well (the world-class production of Paul's Boutique, or the more substantive comments of PE's other members such as frontman Chuck D.) Nerdcore can be fun - and M.C. Frontalot's "Which M.C. Was That?" is a good few minutes, but it doesn't seem to have any substance with which to retain interest. Maybe with a major label thy could be some kind of "Vox Nerdi", but otherwise I doubt it. And until someone tops the ridiculous science references of "Sounds of Science", I continue to give the crown to the Beastie Boys.

Re:The Problem With Nerdcore...

[loqi]

It's about verbal style, which is why I enjoy Frontalot a lot more than most of the nerdcore "reference-droppers". I have yet to hear anything resembling cleverness or humor from mainstream rap (for that matter, talent is pretty damn scarce in that domain too). It's all about being tongue-in-cheek without crossing over into annoying pretension (sorry Chris).

Re:Instead of EastCoast vs. WestCoast in hipHop ..

[Anonymous Coward]

US cost you betta ph34r, your ass will be outsourced in a year.

Anyone remember...

[wulfhound]

... the Radium Rap? Must have been from 1998 or so, celebrating the exploits of software crackers Radium. If anybody's still got an mp3 of that...

Quit my day job?

[Sierpinski]

Let's see how I fare in this industry...

Let me tell ya 'bout a little piece of CODE.
That made me so sick it sent me to da ka-MODE.
Infinite loops can get kinda HAIRY.
Just ask Mr. Wall, some call him LARRY.

*misc beatbox sounds*

Re:Coming soon: GTA Bay Area (UPDATE)

[Hurricane78]

A I heard now, Rockstar is accepting feature requests. Start now!

Because 'nerdcore' is a funny word

[sczimme]

Why would you call your music Nerdcore or geeksta rap? I mean that just begs to be not taken seriously.

Umm, I think that's the point. Besides, 'nerdcore' is an absolutely hilarious word. I picture the Unix guys and Windows guys having a multi-year beef, rather like the East Coast and West Coast rap contingents, complete with Run-DMC-style poses. (The old farts^W fogeys in the audience should feel free to substitute 'Sharks' and 'Jets' - pretty much the same thing.)

It's like a country/western singer calling their music 'Redneck rock' or pop calling it's self 'teen drivel'

Terms like that are reserved for those outside the genre, i.e. everyone with musical taste. :-)

Oral sex or video card

[VikingDBA]

Yeah, but a nerd is going to have to pay a few hundred to get either.

Awesome song

[mnemonic_]

He mentions things about Usenet, CPU's, motherboards and even "feeding trolls." I have to wonder whether Weird Al was familiar with those terms before he wrote it, or if he actually conducted research to ensure the geekiness of the song.

Re:Awesome song

[pharwell]

Weird Al seems to me to be the kind of guy who'd be very computer literate. But maybe that's just my interpretation of his public persona. He's definitely spot-on with his parody though.

Re:Awesome song

[bscott]

He didn't research the song; he's owned computers for many years. A buddy of mine knows him pretty well - he's a very bright guy, unsurprisingly. It's a pity only his mainstream parodies ever get airplay, when his original stuff is often far more impressive.

The Pentiums song used to have a website where you could see the (hilarious) video, but I guess 6 years is a long time to expect it to still be around...

"You're using a 286? Don't make me laugh -
your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?"

MC Stephen Hawking

[Kafir]

Interesting article - but how could they leave out the godfather of nerdcore, MC Stephen Hawking?

Instead they mention (ex-CS major) Canibus, who has an obvious interest in math but is spectacularly bad at it: on one song he makes the embarrassing claim that he is "your worst nightmare squared/that's double, for niggas who ain't mathematically aware"; on another another he gives us the story problem, "if a bitch sucks yo' dick/for five dollars per square inch/and gets forty dollars including a five dollar tip/how big was the dick she just sucked?" - which can't be solved without making some assumptions about dick shape, but I'd say that the dick in question was about three inches long, which probably wasn't what Canibus had in mind.

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[I_redwolf]

If a bitch sucks your dick for 5 dollars per sq inch..

If we guestimate at the avg penis size being 5.5 inches, when erect that would be about $27.50 US dollars for most men. This; if we take into account that a penis in general has the same shape.

If she gets 40 dollars including the 5 dollar tip.

That would mean she received 35 dollars for the actual act of fellatio. Which would mean, going by the guestimates and assumptions above. The penis she was sucking had to be about 7 inches give or take. All these guestimates are seemingly inline for avg pricing of such an act nowadays. So i'll run with those numbers.

Canibus is now in the military; apart of a recon unit. He still does underground stuff.

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[I_redwolf]

As always is poor form. I must amend my earlier comment. It seems Canibus is now out of the army and has released an album.

I guess we can forward the above thread to his email for clarification purposes :)

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[Kafir]

But Canibus doesn't say "per (linear) inch", he says "$5 per square inch". So yes, (40-5)/5=7, but that means we're dealing with a penis with seven inches of surface area, not one that's seven inches long.

An average penis of about 6" length and 1.5" diameter would have a surface area of 25 or 30 square inches, and the cost for servicing would be more like $140, not including the "tip". For a more precise estimate you might want to model the shape as a cylinder surmounted by a hemisphere.

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[I_redwolf]

Its been a while but lets see.

If we take the surface area of the avg penis which would be 2(pi*.75^2)+(2*pi*.75)*4.5 (4.5 because we subtract the head from the cylindrical area as you've suggested).

Goddamn where's my calculator

Yes you are correct.. Technically, yes; its incorrect but why has this gotten this far? :-)

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[the_weasel]

I have been on these here internets for a LOOOOONG time. I am pretty sure this thread wins.

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[TapeCutter]

-including the "tip"- funniest line I've seen all day.

Re:MC Stephen Hawking

[ki4iib]

Wait, wait; you have to pay them AND tip them?!

MOD PARENT UP!

[Spy der Mann]

Weird Al's song is a gem. You'll laugh a lot.

Great job, guys

[Anonymous Coward]

This is great:

"The stigma that was once attached to computer geeks and role-playing nerds is diminishing incredibly fast," said "digital gangster" Bryce Case Jr., aka ytcracker.

Uh huh. And later, "ytcracker" was quoted as saying:

"But we're doing our best to bring the stigma back, by rapping about DDOS attacks and using stage names like MC plus plus and calling ourselves 'digital gangsters.' Word to your mother."

how about the Bloodhound Gang?

[The Lynxpro]

Seems to me that a lot of their [The Bloodhound Gang] rap songs would qualify as this so-called *nerdcore* sub-genre.

For that matter, what about the Beasties?

Re:how about the Bloodhound Gang?

[stephencrane]

Interesting that you mention those two groups. Those are -exactly- the two I named a few months ago when someone asked me to describe MC Frontalot.

Frontalot at least is excellent nerdcore

[Jtheletter]

Most of the posts I see modded up thus far are people lamenting yet another rap genre coming into being, or complaining about how stupid it is and can't be taken seriously. To those poseters and those who are nodding their heads to them I say go take a listen to MC Frontalot, considered by many (including the /. summary) to be one of the founders of this genre. His stuff is funny, hip, geeky, and tight. You don't even have to like rap (he's more hiphop anyway). His musicality, lyrics, rythms, everything is at a high level.

As to what some of these other artists are putting out I'll have to go take a listen, but Frontalot I think represents some of the best right now and if you're reading /. everyday you owe it to yourself to at least listen to some of his stuff.

A lot of his stuff is free for download, check out the following, I guarantee you'll like it:

Floating Bridge a 90 second song that explains everything you ever wanted to know about bridge engineering, warning: this will get stuck in your head and you will love it

Yellow Lasers An obscure sexual encounter at a Star Wars convention

Gonna Be Your Man Frontalot donates his lungs to his biggest fan

Penny Arcade Theme a song for the Penny Arcade crowd

Crime Spree Front is not excatly a criminal mastermind, a tale of his not-so-deadly crimes

Which MC Was That Excellent rundown of improbable internet MCs

Nerdcore Hiphop Title track that named the genre

This is just a small sampling of some of my favorites that I think will definitely hook people.

Re:Frontalot at least is excellent nerdcore

[JoshDM]

I am surprised this is not the FIRST and GREATEST post. First one to mention Frontalot in any intelligenct sense.

Take it eeeeeeasy

[jfengel]

Greg Allman's gotta chill. There's a lot to be said for rap. It's got an incredibly engaging beat and when it's done well the rhymes are clever. At it's best it's playing with language, a very nerdly thing to do.

Yeah, it's 99% crap. This is different from every other genre how?

Re:Take it eeeeeeasy

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly, 99% of all pop music- the music most represented by the media- is crap.

There is incredibly good rap music to be found and there's good R&B to be found. There's also good rock and good jazz. You just have to put the time in to find them. Generalizing/stereotyping a whole genre of music is the crutch of a lazy-minded person, basically.

Whenever something about music or art is posted on slashdot I always roll my eyes, because I know a bunch of pretentious linux hackers are gonna start bashing each other's tastes to make themselves feel better. It's sadder than gangsta rap, because at least those rappers are gettin paid for their trash.

Oh man...

[Shant3030]

Download Blunt Code from Algorhythms website:
http://www.mcplusplus.com/downloads/

He doesn't write good rhymes and can't rap, two essential skills to becoming a rapper.

This is funny

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't need no bling if I get the lo'ping

geeksta sleeping

[comicnerd]

geeksta sleeping == "napsta"

Punk or Thrash for me

[no_pets]

Mass Nerder The Descendents

Must be hard

[LordSkippy]

Must be hard to be taken as a serious music form when you're:

A) Invented by Weird Al (http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/Y/Yankovic, _Weird_Al/Discography/Running_with_Scissors/)
B) Have artist saying: "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

Every day...

[mc900ftjesus]

I die a little more inside. Usually while reading the news. Good luck making lots of money off of this. As we're all painfully aware that's the only reason for this. They're just trying to see if it will make money or not. Please don't pay any money to this crap.

If you want non-gansta rap that's not completely fake but still fairly geek:
Deltron 3030
It's a project by the band that is now the Gorillaz. Deltron is a rapper from 3030 explaining what the future is like. Very, very good and very unforced.

Re:Every day...

[Formula420]

First off, it's not about money, clearly, as most nerdcore rappers are already just suburban white kids whose parents pay for everything anyway. Secondly, neither Del or Dan the Automator are technically members of Gorillaz. Only Damon Alburn and the guy who animates the characters are. For instance, on the new CD, Demon Days, Del doesn't rap on a single song, and DJ Dangermouse is the producer for most of it...

If you like Nerdcore hip-hop... try funky49

[funky49]

http://www.funky49.com/music.html#hh If you like nerdcore.. give a listen to my songs "Never Going Back (to dialup" and "TCPIP Ho"! -funky49

All thanks to Weird Al

[0xdeaddead]

'cause its' all about the Pentiums baby!

Revenge of the Nerds Part II

[WickedClean]

Does anybody remember the party at the HOTel cORAL esSEX? The nerds rapped a tune there, and that movie is like 20 years old.

"Vote NO on fifteen!!" (or is it sixteen?)

MOD PARENT UP

[Anonymous Coward]

Those rhymes are dope!

Net Master 10 base T

[guinsu]

Net Master 10 base T still takes the cake

http://www.mola.org/mola/10baset.html

Re:Net Master 10 base T

[scatters]

No question about it. I remember reading that years ago and LMAO. I'm just annoyed that you posted it before I could find the link in my old bookmarks :)

Still, there's always Dr Seuss...

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/www/seuss-technical-writ ing.html

There's no such thing as hardcore geek rap...

[suitepotato]

...have you ever tried to rhyme with only ones and zeros?

Ganon Slayer

[PaladinX]

nothing owns more than rapping about boning zelda and killing ganon http://www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=95394

Like this?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://bash.org/?487298

-!- Spudnewt [MacroKILLA@S01060004e2286ac3.wp.shawcable.net] has
joined #nanog
These goddamn trolls interrupting my flow. These niggas
don't respek us with a +o. They gotta color spam and fake
invite, bombing with asciis in yellow on white. Shit
yeah. it's bright, you 12 year old kiddie. You ain't got
pubes and you ain't seen titty. I'll jupe your chans and
ban your ass. Don't message me with plz unban, your chance
has passed! Other opers crappin up our relay net.
Why haven't you delinked your 386 yet? ircd needs xeons and
dual cpus. When it comes to irc hardware, you can't be a
jew. Shit, nobody knows the trouble I've seen. On invites
for websites with naked teens. Begs for ops and packet
attacks. Shit from users who use vi, not emacs. Another
long day of patrolling the IRC. Eating my doritos, and
having a jerk, I chat with TheWalrus and #nanog faggots.
All this niggas do is complain "the lag it's-- bad, chat
is slow, and we're getting harassed." Shit, trolls, this
k-line is your last. Once more and it's "G" and you're
gone for good. Banned from the internet chatting
neighbourhood. It's lonely at the top. Just me and
CHANFIX. Day in and day out. Banning trolls with my linux.
We give safe harbor to chatters world wide.
From pedophiles to hacker thieves. Yeah, I won't lie: IRC
is a cesspool of e-misfits. EazyCheezes and bagel-cutters
like that nigga BitS. But at least we're the best.
Disagree and you're gone. BRB, mom just told me gotta mow
the lawn.
-!- Spudnewt [MacroKILLA@S01060004e2286ac3.wp.shawcable.net] has left
#nanog []
-!- mode/#nanog [+b spudnewt!*@*] by nar
someone give that guy a record deal

Amen, "Nerdcore" is a parody.

[DoctaWatson]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Your skin color doesn't decide whether or not you're hip hop, your dignity does.

Real MC's DO take themselves seriously, because the music and the culture requires it. It's disrespectful to all who came before to get on stage and think you're hip hop because you found 20 new rhymes for "testicles" or "pentium".

What these guys are doing is no different than what Weird Al does, only less funny. They're about as hip hop as Weird Al is rock and roll.

Hip hop is not rap, but rap is usually hip hop. But not when it's this.

tv says donuts are high in fat, kazoo

[Anonymous Coward]

151forever.swf

hey you, sit down and listen don't be flippant and don't be dismissin' think you're a flash encyclopedia eating, breathing macromedia? think you're cool saying "all of your base"? get that xiao xiao outta my face you gotta be kidding me with that crap animutation's where it's at!

nine out of ten sociopaths agree you gotta see hyakugojyuuchi from the moch- to the -rie to the pee- to the -wee just take it from me, mc nc you won't believe your eyes you'll go insane i mean, what's up with that plastic plane? you're an idiot if you disagree you gotta see hyakugojyuuichi!

if you got the time, go grab a pen and watch that thing again and again try to figure it out, what does it mean? what's the significance of mr bean? does anybody know of any takers? what's up with all the broken pacemakers? this world is full of speculation but nobody cracks this animutation!

nine out of ten sociopaths agree you gotta see hyakugojyuuchi from the moch- to the -rie to the pee- to the -wee just take it from the mc, nc you won't believe your eyes you'll go insane i mean, what's up with that plastic plane? you're an idiot if you disagree you gotta see hyakugojyuuichi!!

wakeman is biased like a household appliance hello kitty and macruff have an unholy alliance science is brutal and it cuts like a knife not even obi-wan can save the yodel of life your name is bob, you're my heart-throb i lost my job when i got fired by a guy named farchie, he was full of starch, he smelled like an orangutan's old apartment! found a hobo in my room, what do i do? he looks dead, he's full of lead bleeding red onto my bedspread and he also seems to be missing his head?! why am i holding this gun and axe? do exploding pacemakers cause heart attacks? will mr bean ever get his fill or will he just keep on telling me to kill? hey don't you gimme that look you never had what it took i took the beef and i beefed it up you sat and whined while i took the cup of gold! you're getting old! when you see this face you'd better fold take this mop and shove it, boy 'coz it's the only way you'll be employed!

i'm known as the beef bastard everyone knows i'm the ultimate master i'm known as the beef bastard everyone else is a walking disaster i'm known as the beef bastard think you're fast? i know i'm faster! i'm known as the beef bastard everyone knows i'm the ultimate master

wellll... i'm shmorky! eating porky! whitey rapping sure sounds dorky! oo, got a girl! she's a double-d! i slap her butt, dressed as a bumblebee! i eat paste all damn day. i was in shakespeare play. i sit down on a lazy suzan spin around like tommy cruisin'! bong, bong, bing, bing i get paid to play with my thing. i zip out, zip in, zip up, begin room with a moose! jay leno's chin! ambulance, enron, pee-wee, pokemon bulbasaur, pikachu, jigglypuff, they choose you! and, i, can't, think, of, any, more, to, say.

tv says donuts are high in fat, kazoo found a hobo in my room it's princess leia, the yodel of life give me my sweater back or i'll play the guitar!

one - fity - one pokemon on the run suzukisan is the formation of a bun and a veggie-burger with tsukemono jay-jay has gone away with sonny bono to the afterlife, to visit barney fife and to see pero's screenshots of his wife, named chris benoit, wearing a pretty dress, saying "watashi wa animutation ga suki desu!" do the mario! itsy bitsy hockey! lipsnot is not magic like a monkey! captain lou bodyslams a rubber duckie just like in the match of earth versus funky! "lucky lucky nice to mewtwo" i need tea for two, how about you mr cold heart? or should i say professor? it looks like lesko got revenge on my dresser! props

I feel ill.

[oldwolf13]

This "nerdcore" could be the sickest thing I've seen in months.

and yes... I've seen the horse videos!

Don't forget Pimp Tea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget the master!

http://www.pimptea.com/

Snippet of lyrics from one of his songs, "Can I get a CS" where he laments about finding porn on the CS lab PCs:

I'm learnin' O.O.P, but not in C.
I'm learnin' O.O.P, but not in C.
I'm learnin' O.O.P., in this faculty, in this faculty, in this faculty

Pimp Tea verse:
Got an assignment to do
Trying to avoid the crew
Cause we never get any work done
Cause we're havin' so much fun
Like the rabbit exe
And the monkey mini movie
So I seek out the secret lab
Discover they've replaced the keypad
With an ID card swipe
Takes a few times to get it right
This technique I do rehearse
Gain access as the magnets reverse
I sit down, try to logon
Two times I get my password wrong
Third time, I finally get in
Checkin' my email, so gotta enter my PIN
Opening Netscape, but every time it doth crash
So I decide to check the cache.
Oh please say it ain't so!
Someone was lookin' at some P - oh No!
I quickly dispose of the evidence
Guy beside me getting suspicious
So I decide to leave
Before he emails CSD.
Guy at the door pullin' with all his force
Must have just gained access via his course
Cause he's a complete idiot
There's a reason for the big red button that says exit
You gotta press it!

Heh...

[JustNiz]

Rappers all just sound like retards to me. They can't even master basic English, so why should I believe that they have enough intelligence to develop software worthy of praise?

For shame!

[th3space]

Rap isn't the only refuge of nerds...nor is it the first choice. Punk rock has been home to some of musics more learned individuals for quite some time. Here are some prime examples:

Adam Goren//Atom & His Package - Goren holds a Masters in Education and is certified to teach various sciences; notable songs include '(Lord It's Hard to Be Happy When You're Not) Using the Metric System' and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lib
Greg Graffin//Bad Religion - Graffin holds a Masters in Geology and a PhD in Zoology, many find they often need a dictionary to fully grasp the meaning of some of the lyrics penned by Graffin.
Milo Aukerman//The Descendents - Aukerman has a PhD in Biochemistry and is so involved in his day to day job that The Descendents hadn't recorded an album from 1996 to 2004...they still haven't properly toured, owing to Aukerman's schedule.

There are others in the community who hold masters and doctorates, but I've just been slammed at work and need to divert my attention toward getting paid...good for Nerdcore rap finally getting some respect, but don't forget to toss a little to those who've been doing it longer in a different genre.

Like BASF?

[Intellectual Elitist]

"We don't make the crappy music genre -- we make it crappier..."

my GetFirefox.com rap song!

[Fox_E_Mama]

I actually recorded my nerd rap song

Ooo can ya hear me now?

Firefox in ya house

No more popups now

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Hey, Blake's in the House!

What up? Asa Now!

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

We ain't stoppin now

50 mill downloads how

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Awww we got tab browsin' yo

an' Mitchell in volcanoes

We spread firefox like a dirty ho

Don' f'get t' use protection, tho

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Hollah!!! Stop.

Oh, you got it now

Fox_E_Mama in the house

You know it ain't stoppin now

Spreadin Firefox with 'er mouth

Unh, Unh, Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Still waiting on ya, MC Chris.

[ThreeToe]

MC Chris didn't take up my challenge the last time nerdcore rap came up; perhaps he was paralyzed by my prodigious skill. Nevertheless, I repost here in the hopes that he eventually steps.

MC Chris? -- maan, it's just too easy to diss ya
ima shut your site down with my shell scripts
so best insist upon that extra strength firewall
lest your bits end up splattered on my tires y'all
watch you back, cause you know i stack racks
that can DOS your ass till your screen goes black
so don't try to rap back cause it's just too late
check - your system went dark like it's 2038

it's the start of a new epoch, yo your time is done
with your washed-up rhymes back from 2021
just two of my lines and your mind starts thrashing
tables stop hashing your cerebellum crashing
your DJ got embarrased and faded out on a backspin
cntrl-alt-del tryin' to bring you back into action
but after 12 hours of hacking it's like you just won't start
guess we best break you down and sell you off for the parts

Sheesh!

Haven't you heard?

[Infonaut]

Consensus is out. Conflict is in.

Discussion is passe; drive-by verbal attacks are the way to go. It's rampant in our politics, our sports, our music. In order to get noticed, you have to go with the shocking, the titilating, or the just plain aggressive.

It's the triumph of limited thinking and the obliteration of nuance. All kneel before the altar of unrestrained self-promotion!

Of course you can't forget

[slummy]

The pioneer of NerdRap:
ytcracker.

Re:Of course you can't forget

[Anonymous Coward]

ytcracker rocks

love his music

just like..

[solosaint]

this is as cool as wierd al ...

Bad examples...

[databyss]

Wired, of course, picked the worst examples of nerdcore music, and didn't bother checking any "facts" in their article. MC Frontalot found it amusing on the lines the chose to quote and the context they used it in.

cracker-guy and that ++ kid are hardly representative of the nerdcore genre.

If you're seriously interested use MC Frontalot, mc chris and MC Hawking as your base and expand from there. They're the better established of the nerdcore.

Re:Bad examples...

[Anonymous Coward]

ytcracker is awesome when not rapping about spam and I prefer his "realistic" raps over most of the others.

His N.E.S - Nerd Entertainment System album is really good and probably better than anything I've heard from Frontalot, Hawking, and Chris.

Hawking doesn't seem to even exist anymore, Frontalot has some good songs and has a great style, Chris doesn't have a lot of material and is Frontalot and ytcracker.

Yes. Yes he does.

[TheLittleJetson]

In fact I was looking for his name in the blurb.

Insightful? That there's a Troll!

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously though, anything that strikes a blow to make rap LESS COOL is ok in my book!

And with a name like XorNand ::rolls eyes:: and that post ::cough:: who exactly are you calling ::does air-quotes:: "nerds [with] something to prove in their own circles"? ::sigh:: Takes one to know one maybe? ::razz::

my favorites nerd rap

[Anonymous Coward]

Deltron 3030 is a great nerd rap colaborative with Del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator.

8-Bit is a rap group with Robots and Nintendo music
http://www.ninjastarrecords.com/audio.htm

nothing nerdier than emo hip hop

[RyanLauck]

Shameless self promotion from a long time lurker - Introducing The Sensitivity Boosters http://www.sensitivityboosters.com/

More on topic, we had the pleasure of opening for MC Chris earlier this year, and that man has got to be the poster child for this genre. http://www.mcchris.com/

The Funky Homosapien Was First

[protocoldroid]

It's not new folks... Del was the first, he's been busting out rhymes that appeal to the geekier hip-hop listener before the rest.

Protoculture, From the album Both Sides Of The Brain (2000):
"Play games by Capcom with a power glove strapped on On any platform, I don't spend my dough on Phat Farm"

Virus, from the album Deltron 3030 (2000):
"I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straits to your environment
Crush your corporations with a mild touch
Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis"

...Too bad wired had no mention of MC Chris, Del, or even Ugly Duckling

rather ignorant...

[TheLittleJetson]

Some rap has a melody. In any case, since when does music need a melody to be music? Your statement discounts the music of several cultures (ever heard tahitian music?)

revised hooks

[strongface]

Geeksta Geeksta
Fuck are they yellin
its not about a casualty
its all about reality....

Damn it feels good to be a Geeksta....

Back then they didnt want me
now im certified they all on me.... I said.. (repeat)

Them programming boyz do anything for profit
5 in the morning, credit card robbin...

Im a hacka, Im a, Im a, hacka homie,
Im a hacka, Im a, Im a, hacka homie,
ask about me, ask about me

Im a look at ya code just a lil bit
scroll down, look around just a lil bit
im only gonna compile just a lil bit
i can show how i'd a did it in a lil bit

We doing big hacking stealing G's
we doing big hacking on C A R D's
we doing big hacking across the seas

Swollen Members...

[basic0]

...is probably the best Canadian Hip-hop group. Although not stricly "nerd-hop" or whatever stupid label we're talking about here, they do mention elements from AD&D in several songs. Surprisingly enough, they still have commercial appeal and sell records pretty well :P

youmustbenewhere

[Anonymous Coward]

welcome to /.

Oh dear...

[geekster]

I feel so violated

Eminem's Superman Ain't Sh*t Compared to China Man

[Anonymous Coward]

It's bout damn time they recognized these skillz. This is MC Mark.NET breakin' it down for ya'all...

China Man

Oooooh, You going hardcore baby, Yeah
Ya', Talk to me, You want me to program you something?, Uh-huh
I know what software to code...

Cause, I know I designed you baby, I think I'll code you too,
"i think i love you baby", i think there's only you
I'm here to code your modules, come in my solution space
I want to develop software, then unit-test every case
You know I designed you baby, you know I'll code you too
They call me China man, i'm here to program you.
I want to code your modules, come in my solution space
"Ooooh that functionality is hot", shit, fuck this place

They call me China man, leap mountains of code in a single bound,
I'm employed now, got no debt with my dollars now
I'd never let another project bring me down, mission critical shit...
Save it bitch, implement this? you make me sick.
China man ain't codin' shit, bitch you can debug my nuts and dick
Straight from my code, right to the data, I'll tell the fuckin' managers, i'll program it later
Play no games, won't be on AIM, my coding that's non-work-related has never been greater
I'm a different man, coding this, coding that, bitch don't ask
Code my shit, get my cash, i'd rather have you whip my ass
Not open source, i'll open your ass, won't get out, i'll release your ass
Code flew out, poppin' shit, wouldn't back up data cuz i never corrupt it
Am I too nice, china man likes his rice? bitch if you crashed, I wouldn't even end your task
What you tryin' to be my only life, my whole day, then I gotta increase my price...

But I do know one thing though... PROJECTS THEY COME, THEY GO
Saturday thru sunday monday, monday thru sunday, YO
Maybe I'll program you one day, maybe my code will grow
Till then I won't release your stupid ass, ho

Cause I can't be your China man, Can't be your China man, I can't be your China man, Can't be your China man, Can't be your China man, Your China man, your China man...

Don't get me wrong I love to code,
it's no secret, my bloated work load
Yeah you compile, so what bitch, you'll never run, i'll stay in edit mode
We'll be friends, i'll code you again, maintain your shit until the end
Never know what IDE I'll be in, we'll see how compatible a port is then
You don't want that, neither do I.
I don't want to flip if managers say this project dies
Too much pride, your code and I
A reasonable man, but I don't have time
But I guess that's just what apps do, how could I code just u
I'd never pass cool projects that are new, we just met and I implemented you

Cause, I know I designed you baby...

But I do know one thing though... PROJECTS THEY COME, THEY GO
Saturday thru sunday monday, monday thru sunday, YO
Maybe I'll program you one day, maybe my code will grow
Till then I won't release your stupid ass, ho

Cause I can't be your China man, your China man, your China man...

First thing you say, "I'm not fazed, clients use my code everyday"
"More functionality, what's the big deal anyways?"
"Maybe you're just being lazy today"

Oh yeah program, run that game
Multimedia Analysis, love that name, love the desktop, what's that say?
Disassembly hustler... uhh that's great.

First off you don't know Mark.NET, my hands are covered in

Filk is music

[Anonymous Coward]

and rap is not.

Futuristic Sex Robotz

[CellBlock]

I don't think anyone else mentioned them yet, so I thought I'd point out the Futuristic Sex Robotz. Click on the little pi symbol in the upper right to get to the site content.

They take shots at John Romero and Stevie Case in "1000hp Penis Extension," talk about their Halo skills in "Don't Make Us Kick Your Ass," and just generally rap about tech while making fun of LiveJournal in "Welcome to the Internet."

Nerdcore Rap, hah?

[Zx-man]

That might be impressive just becouse you've never hear of NERD ROCK! An Intel 386-DX with a buggy Win3.11 installation as the lead MIDI performer and a TEXT-TO-SPEACH vocalist?! Isn't that what you've always dreamed about?

Re:Please, for your own sake, forget all of them

[chucks86]

I wonder if I'd be modded +4 Insightful if I called Motorhead fags...

Lets not forget MC Chris

[Cthulu23]

I'm surprised that MC Chris wasn't mentioned here at all, what with his self proclaimed geekdom. Admittedly he's not rapping about coding, but I certainly think he's way outside the typical rap scene.

With his appearances on ATHF (as MC Pee Pants, SirLoin and the worm) and Sealab 2021 (Hesh) I think he at least deserves an honorable mention.

Unless I miss my guess...

[Anonymous Coward]

this article will summon forth more pathetic clamoring trenchcoat mafia geekery than Katz's Hellmouth series.

Pathetic

[Mensa Babe]

Please let me be the first woman to explain few key issues here (or perhaps the first woman to even talk to some of those jokers). Gangsters and other bad boys are sexy. Nerds and other wussies are not. Period. It is not about violence vs. science. It is all about characters and a geeky nerd is the very antithesis of manhood and sexual attractiveness. As every woman will tell you, we hate "nice guys" (read: wussies) and we love bad boys (read: alpha males) not without a reason. If you can't understand those reasons then I can only feel sorry for you every time when I hear another pathetic idea of showing to the whole world how not sexy you are. And this is just sad. Really sad. Do you still wonder why there are so few women (and almost no hot women) in the IT industry? The Nerdcore Rap is your answer.

Re:Pathetic

[Master of Transhuman]

How about a nerd that robbed a bank? Two banks?

Does that help?

As for no hot women in IT, well, I STILL like Kim Polese. And she does jazz dance as well as being smart, so she's hot.

Otherwise, of course, you're entirely correct. Nerdcore rap is just pathetic. And women who like bad boys are equally pathetic.

Of course, nigger rap is pathetic, too, as you'd know if you'd seen all these guys in Leavenworth as I have. Which is where it originated by the way - in prison. If you babes knew how niggers (and white rednecks, not to leave anyone out) talk about women amongst themselves, you'd kick their fucking asses out of your life in a heartbeat. Never mind what they tell YOU - in reality, to any street nigger, you're a bitch, a ho, and a way to get some money on their books.

And that, babe, is not exactly what women are looking for from men. Not in this evolutionary sequence, anyway.

The boys on the net

[CaffeineAddict2001]

woke up quick at about noon
knew I had to be on slashdot soon

I gotta drink jolt before the day begins
before my mother starts bitchin' about the cans

'bout to post and damn near went blind
Man I tried get goatse out of my mind

ran to a thread 'bout nat portman
I get some hot grits, I start pourin'

Look, Another post from Wil Wheaton
got an idea for a fan fiction:

picard takes wesley from the behind
post it to alt.wesley.die.die.die

Then I throw my points awaaaaaay
moddin up posts about RMS bein' gay
It was lamer, lamer at the top of the list
then I made my own post it went somethin' like this:

Surfin' round the net on AMD six-fo'
flamin' the noobies, callin' 'em Mo's
went to a chat to get the scoop
knuckleheads out there bored, nothing to do
Some guy joins on, who can it be?
Warez Kiddie running wu-ftp
he sent out his message and it was sure to say:
It's all about getting that 0-day

coz the boys on the net are always tards
they come talkin that trash and never leave their yards
ain't nothin' in life cept to be a dick
don't quote me boy I ain't said shit.

Re:Please, for your own sake, forget all of them

[Anonymous Coward]

Heretic!

Ahem...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not when you've spent most your life living in an Amish paradise.

Because...

[Otto]

...why doesn't Led Zep get labeled "Nerd Rock" for "The Battle For Evermore".

Because it's fucking Led Zeppelin, man.

Labeling Led Zeppelin as anything other than "Led Zeppelin" is just not right. :)

Link to the best

[mudbogger]

This is the best by far I have heard. Demands a couple listenings: you will laugh.

If you want some GOOD rap

[Solonas]

check this out http://www.mcchris.com/ This MC is original and comical and if you watch Adult Swim you might recognize him.

Re:If you want some GOOD rap

[Anonymous Coward]

> Click here to get the flash player

Wow, yeah, really cool site ! There goes his credibility as a 'nerd' rapper right from page 1.

Re:If you want some GOOD rap

[marvy666]

Its all about MC Lars!

And people tried to put us down, when iTunes bumped a post-Cold War sound.
My generation sat the mecca of malls, Times Square, I'm there, Viacom installs.
So we hit the net while the Trade Center fell, New York met Hollywood, we ran like hell.
No Vietnam for us, yo, Iraq it's on. So who agree upon this cowboy Genghis Khan?
The choice made, baby. Hey we'd take it back, logged in dropped out, MTV took track.
They sold it back to us and claimed no correlation. The iMac, iPod, iGeneration.
And I'm waiting for the day we can get out. The world is ours, that's the story no doubt.
Want to be more info super highway traffic, want to be more than a walking demographic!

CHORUS
"Hey! You're part of it." Talking about the iGeneration.
"Yeah! You're part of it." Talking about my iGeneration.

See the iGeneration knew organization meant optimization and unification,
When imagination gave participation in creation of culture a manifestation.
The Berlin Wall fell and out we came, the post-Cold War kids laid claim to AIM.
LOL, OMG, yo, BRB. Space, colon, dash, closed parenthesis.
We sat at our laptops and typed away, and found that we each had something to say.
Web-logged our fears, our hopes and dreams. Individuated by digital means.
Fiber optic lenses, DVD, Coca Cola, Disney and Mickey D's.
Flat mass culture, the norm that took holdÉ I hope I die before I get sold.

REPEAT CHORUS

This is the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T ge-na-ra-tion, see?
This is the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T ge-na-ra-tion, see?

REPEAT CHORUS

And if you still don't get it...

[Mensa Babe]

Here's an exercise:

A. bad boys
B. nice guys

Which is sexy: A or B?
Which makes more sense as hip-hop stars: A or B?

I hope it helps.

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

...That makes a greate song!

Shout out props to the A to the L!

[TiggertheMad]

Nah, it makes him 'Old Skool'.

Peace between MS an tha 'NIX, YO.

Parent is Right with a capital Front.

[loqi]

I basically abhor rap, but Frontalot is undeniable.

Anyway, the parent left out the two tracks that should not be overlooked:
Indier Than Thou
Braggadocio
Also, for those of us that aren't fond of Bush, Special Delivery

Re:Parent is Right with a capital Front.

[Jtheletter]

Indeed, thanks for posting some others. Honestly I love pretty much every one of his songs, but once I linked 7 I figured I had to stop lest I just relist them all. ;)

Also, forgot to mention he's doing one last NY show this weekend. Here's the flyer for it.

What about Deltron's 'Virus'

[Anonymous Coward]

Ain't nothing better than Del and some Hieroglyphics, who I get to see live here in Portland tonight!

I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straits to your environment
Crush your corporations with a mild touch
Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis
Cuz they dont wanna unify us
So f**k it total anarchy
Can't nobody stop us

You see late in the evening
F**ked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus I can send through a modem
Infiltration hits your station
No microsoft or enhanced dos will impede
Society thinks thier safe when
Bingo! harddrive crashes from the rendering
Alot of hackers tryed virus's before
Vaporize your text like so much white out
I want it where a file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down the entire whitehouse
I dont want just a bug that could be corrected
Im erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds its impossible to find

I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus

I want to develop a super virus

Better by far then that old y 2 k
This 3030 the time of global unification break right through
they
terminals, burn em all
Slaves to silicon
Curupt politicians with leaders and thier keywords
F.B.I and spys stealin bombs
Decipitate thier plans in thier face and catch the fever
Everybody loot the stores get your caned goods
Even space stations are having a hard time
Beast keeepers seek to take our manhood
Which results in the form of global aparthied
Ghettos are trash dumps with gas pumps
Exploding and burnt out since before the great union
The last punks walk around like masked monks
Ready to manipulate the data base and break through em
Human rights come in a hudreth place
Mass production has always been number one
New Earth has become a repungnent place
So its time to spread the fear and the thunder some

When nerds get medieval on your ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't make me pipe a grep in your bash fool!

Re:When nerds get medieval on your ass.

[Master of Transhuman]

Where are my mod points?

MOD THIS +5, Funny!

Wait a minute, shouldn't that be:

Don't make me bash a pipe in your grep, fool!

OR:

Don't make me bash a pipe in your fork, fool!

OR:

Fork this, muthafucka!

Debian rap.

[ISayWeOnlyToBePolite]

Link goes to "We Be Hackin'" by Erinn Clark (loosely based on Ice Cube's "We Be Clubbin'). http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2005/04/msg00 006.html

Been there, done that

[anglozaxxon]

Check it, foo': http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://slashdot.org

gamerz delight

[pronobozo]

Lock and load, I'm bout to explode
Dead up your whole team 'fore I need to reload
Skills so ill you'd think I was in God mode
Make you scream "Yo, he be using a cheat code!"


But nah, I'm so good ain't no need to hack, son
I got the game that you seem to lack, son
Don't even try to repel my attack, son
Last thing you'll see when the screen fades to black


Is me, I'm elite, yeah I run the system
Kill a boy dead, yo I never miss em
Put on my headset so I can dis em
Trash talk a bitch when my bullets kiss em


Shot to the head, yeah newb you got dead
Submachine gun, fill you full of lead
Blow a whole clip and you dun got bled
I'ma pierce your plate and paint the town red


Ain't no stoppin' my killing spree.
Ain't no toppin' my BFG
Cause I'm in stealth mode no you can't see me
But I got you in my sights and I won't kill you softly


Pistol whip you, yeah I'ma crip you
Crush you like a bug when my death grip grips you
Make you say wha!? with my online kung fu
And give you a display of mad skills to trip to


When I grab a controller, I'm bad to the bone
I'll take on your whole damn squad alone
You ain't at my level, you ain't in my zone
Punk assed bitch, You just got owned

A couple of years ago I joked with colleagues...

[Retired Replicant]

about rapping a scientific presentation at an academic conference. It was good for a laugh among friends, but of course I never actually did it BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID. Whatever floats your boat, I guess, but I'm not a fan of either gangsta or "geeksta" rap.

if you feelin like a hacker...

[atizle]

if you feeling like a hacker go and dust your keyboard off
ladies is hackers 2, go and dust your keyboard off
crackers is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you
GET, THAT, dust off your keyboard

Dick, Mashed Potatoes, Thanksgiving

[Anonymous Coward]

I have discovered a great use for Hawking's "Fuck the Creationists."

In the afternoon before Thanksgiving dinner, I like to play it for the people with whom I will be having the Thanksgiving meal. Inevitably, they laugh at the line, "I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes" but they don't give it much thought.

Then, when dinner rolls around, and one timeless starchy Thanksgiving staple is served, it's great fun watching the giggles, titters and uncomfortable glances into the bowl.

Bogus MCs

[Anonymous Coward]

Those cats are wack. Only MC Frontalot is a real MC.

Try:
Meter Versus Yard, Old Scratch, Nerd X, MC Chris, Dr. Octagon, 5-Headed Retard, Governor Bolts, Buck 65, Commodore 64, MC Hawking and more for sometimes geek-related stuff that's actually listenable.

Yes, Del is Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

But who can forget MC Paul Barman?

STC is the Greatest

[eGod]

Ytcracker predates the other nerdcore rappers in the planet. Although all of the emcee's have a unique twist, I think Ytcracker dominates them in every aspect that could be related to computers.

iTunes?

[Anonymous Coward]

A real nerd would probably sell it via some good, non-evil, non-DRM-infested outlet instead...

Re:iTunes?

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus iTunes are for faggots!

Faggot name with a faggot spelling from a faggot company which make one look like faggots.

cut chemist

[Anonymous Coward]

cut chemist not sure if he is nerdcore, but has a nerdy flavor.

Beefy -- Free Nerdcore MP3s

[Anonymous Coward]

My friend, Beefy, is a self-described "nerdcore rapper." You can download his entire first album here (for free):
http://beefyness.com/whitesican.php

He's got another album coming out fairly soon called "Nerd." If you like this nerdcore stuff, check him out. Personally, it's not really my thing... I like the Beatles and ABBA.

wow

[grahagre]

this story is stupid.

MOD PARENT UP!

[Spy der Mann]

Man, you better keep that song, I have the feeling it'll get famous later (Too bad you posted it without coral cache). Will you submit it to P2P networks?

Well, rap it out then:

[mcraw]

Rap City! Your chance to be a geekster rapper.

MC CONVECTION

[dthx1138]

aight bitch i'll appropriate them quarters
bring on a new world order from disorder
cause i'm the importer of rap 'cross the border
feel the thunder from my alphanumeric mortars

MC CONVECTION waz here BITCH

Godfather

[Gwyn_232]

No, the godfather is Kool Keith (aka Del tha funky homosapien, Dr Octagon, Deltron Z, etc...)

Re:Godfather

[pjp6259]

Kool Keith is Dr. Octagon, Dr. Doom, etc. But that is not the same person as Del tha Funky Homosapien

Re:Godfather

[Gwyn_232]

After checking my facts, I can see that you're right. Easy mistake to make, though.

MC Chris

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

MC Chris rules!

Just listen to the Tussin, it is way funny.

The mp3 can be downloaded legally.

No, I won't give you a link, use a search engine.

OK, here's your link: http://www.google.com/

Back in the early 90s...

[xPsi]

...I saw rapper MC\Delta T perform. He was an engineering student. I guess this was pre-modern-gangsta-rap physics-chemistry-geeksta-rap.

Electro

[Anonymous Coward]

Rap music came from Electro in the 80's which was pretty geeky.

There's a huge culture of breakbeat / futuristic / nerdy / technology obsessed dance music out there if anyone ever cares to look.

It's just that it was never picked up by mainstream record companies because they thought it had no mass market appeal.

I mean Dr. Dre started out virtually doing Kraftwerk covers in drag, in a group called the World Class Wreckin Cru'

And then there was that classic electro record from LA at around that time by the "X-men" called "professor X"

There's always been cultural cross-over between geeks and hip-hop / dance culture. It's just that it's always been underground.

AUX 88 anyone?

The tall poppy syndrome.

[TapeCutter]

There is a name for the attitude you display towards success, it's called the "The tall poppy syndrome". How did you get so cynical? Success in rap (or indeed any success measured in dollars) is similar to getting rich via the drug trade. It all comes under the heading of Capitalisim, the two sub-categories are legal and illeagal.

My (now adult) kids pursuaded me to listen to Emminem years ago. Eminem became successfull because he has talent. I think his lyrics are excellent, he does not sing about "life in the ghetto" nor have I heard him "glorify drug dealing". He is similar to many great song writers of the past, he sings about his life. The talented part is that he does it in such a way that it doesn't matter if you are a "gangsta" in LA or a "comfortable-class" old fart living in a nice unit on the beach in Austrailia, both can relate to what he is saying (the old fart's ears must first be re-tuned to be compatible with the new language). Having said all that, I don't actually buy or play his stuff, but I do like it when it comes on the radio.

People like me (and my kids) hear him in Australia because a record company put him on a CD and radio stations played it, ie: they "marketed" him over here. You need to clam down and take music marketing in it's true perspective. I don't doubt there are alot of scumbags in the record industry, but they are just regular corprate scumbags, they are no match for the scumbags found in say...arms or oil (I'll put a missle in yo ass, mofo!).

"while all the others stay poor and feed the few nouveau-riches by purchasing their albums."

I have been "poor", you don't feed your music "habit" when the kids need food, clothing and a warm bed. That my friend is the basic difference between the two products on offer (Drugs vs Music).

My favorite

[megabulk3000]

Inspired spew from Dr. Octagon's "Biology 101":

Yeah
At 40,000 kelvin, it's Dr. Octagon, with the Emperor General
drop down to 40 g's
can science achieve the unified theory of complex systems
permenantly skeptical of friends of the institute
external faculty, a routine exerts selected pressure by
killing less-fit programs life evolves, in cyber space
green and blue objects of self-replicating lightning represents
random mutation complete with chaotic systems such as turbular fluids
heated gasses are formless fully complex, amino entree disappear the order in which you
ordered the poetry the torsist liquid terms compiled among a list of 31 ways to define
grammatical the degree of universiality in a language required to
describe a style
effective the degree of regular rather than random information
for instance complexity equals the capacity of an un expecting
observer thermo dynamic deaf of the amount of resource to put back a system
together from scratch
pioneering, engineering, cybernetic, cellular, calculus
co-operating flatly contradicting predictable circumstances including uranium 235 is obtained from bombs fission
can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems?
maybe so
can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems?
maybe so
can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems?
maybe so
can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems?
like carbon dioxide you messing with the chemicals, warfare different stars
in the atmospheres like haley's comet computers that will make you vomit
change the earth south saliva run in your mouth gastric juice more beyond
since mother goose created shapes the first man was hairy apes
7, 35 PPTD over powering spray crops like DDT
the first around apollo 13 beaming down through rain drops white pieces hit the scene
atomic formats complex playin on silver DATs
guarded by sonic steel and taken off by thundercats
you on the avenue wishin you could see me my force field shuts in two eyes seein three of me
illusions fusions particle gas confusions i run space shuttles in EM you the solution
takin off from boe meet me at the black hole in times four your mind seems
to move in tider showin you the spectrums
the past in fabric liner you in my future now
is h2o a gas or a liquid?
perhaps concepts could not explain
is h2o a gas or a liquid?
perhaps concepts could not explain
is h2o a gas or a liquid?
perhaps concepts could not explain
is h2o a gas or a liquid?
psychology is not applied biology nor is biology applied chemistry
level independant some degrade the levels above and below captive intricancies after their friends give interest
theories collapse, perhaps concepts cannot explain irreversible concrete philosophical developments
such analysis indicate emergence naturally, in a simple society
the pale matrix summarizes the scorming affluent software 30 arc seconds
strategy like drops of water floating in a void unstable atoms orbit this new cloud nuclear having excess neutrinos or protons teeter on the edges of
nuclear stability nor and drip lines under the stress some develop a halo
bale radioactivity isotopes exotic
depending on their velocity their charges narrow momentum distribution
force is directly reflected electric magnetic c 22 l i 11 escape particle bombardment
properties of the nucleus
v8 in the sun it produces easily detected
neutrinos much less to predict the standards can be designed if you end it and it provide for continuing evolution of technology by remaining compatible with existing applications in programming language
psychology is not applied biology nor is biology applied chemistry
whats the issue?
psychology is not applied biology nor is biology applied chemistry
whats the issue?
psychology is not applied biology nor is biology applied chemistry
whats the issue?
psychology is not applied biology nor is biology applied chemis

Yeah, But Where Do The Corrs Fit In Here?

[Master of Transhuman]

Do these nerdcore boys LOOK GOOD?

(To someone other than another /. nerdboy, that is?)

Are there any nerdcore rap BABES?

(Who can actually play instruments, write songs AND lyrics?)

Hah! I pass! Except for comic relief, of course.

Mc Chris is a geek rapper!

[barcodeplane]

Mc Chris (www.mcchris.com) rules me.

ytcracker

[5n3ak3rp1mp]

I actually got a good kick out of ytcracker's free album. It is set to 8-bit-esque melody (which is actually catchy, at times, if you can get past the geekiness of it) and the lyrics are funny. here's a sample:

off "the legend"
we finished contra with only one life
finished metal gear 2 with only a knife ...
my rhymes flow, just like my code
even though my source is owned by sko (SCO) ...
I'm a legend everywhere that I go, every distro, every craigslist' home pumpin they fists, yo
can't get enough of ytcracker's jams, and they can't get enough of ytcracker's spams ...
i've been caught slippin like the starwars kid
when I'm on ebay snipin a bid
catch me on the webcam like Numa Numa
see me at the club and i'm rockin puma (?) ...
then off "n.e.s."
up up down down left right left right
then B, A, start, the screen goes white
it's the cracker, ytcracker, the game genie
8 bits with a 8 inch weenie ...
and off "view source"
(Actually, every lyric in this entire song would have relevance to any person who's ever had any kind of coding gig ;) )

I TOTALLY take this all tongue-in-cheek, but I still thought it was pretty funny because of all the in-jokes. Check it out, it's free and you might get a chuckle. ...
my SQL, knows no equal (lol)

"Terriable" attitude

[TapeCutter]

Have a look into the history of why the Irish proudly wear the colour green. Refusing to be intimidated by a label that someone else pinned on you is an excellent tatic if you actually do want to be taken seriously.

Re: Deltron 3030

[FauxReal]

Ahh yes! A brilliant concept album set in the year 3030. I got this album about 2 months before it hit the stores cause I'm involved in the underground rap scene and it flipped me out when I first heard it! Produced by one of the greatest producers of all time Dan (The Automator) Nakamura. Everything these guys get into is brilliant. Del has been rapping about comic books and all kinds of wierd things for a long time. Also, he's Ice Cube's cousin.

I suggest the people out there look into Dose 1 & Sole of Anticon and MC Chris (Adult Swim art director voice of many characters). I've also heard Buku One talk about comic books and playstation in his raps... MF Doom had a comic book theme to one of his albums as well (MetalFace a Dr. Doom clone).

Men...

[Mensa Babe]

And that, babe, is not exactly what women are looking for from men. Not in this evolutionary sequence, anyway.

You just don't get it, do you? From the evolutionary point of view women want men. And by men I mean masculine males, hot studs, bad boys. In this "evolutionary sequence" women want alpha males for lovers and nice guys for providers.

Don't fool yourself if you think that any intelligent woman seriously considers an overly confident, almost arogant bad boy a good husband material. Is James Bond a good long-term relationship material?

No. But neither is a super hot woman. A supermodel probably won't be a good wife, she may not be able to cook, but she is still sexy and a lot of men can't help but feel attracted to her. You have to realize that for women certain traits of character and personality are more important than looks and when a man poseses them then we can't help but feel sexually attracted to him on the most basic level.

Ever wondered why women fall in love in jerks and then cry and complain about them in front of their nice-guys just-friends who are great but they still prefer to have sex with the jerks? You have to make a decision in your life whether you want to be a nice guy whom everyone likes as a friend or an alpha male whom women love as a lover, men hate for that but still respect. Take it as a good advice.

And yes, Kim Polese is hot. But do you seriously think that she melts with sexual attraction when a "nice guy" kisses up to her? Do you think that when a man says "What is your favourite restaurant? What do you want to do? Where do you want to go? Can I buy you a dinner? Do you like those 20 roses I bought on this first date? You are so beautiful! Do you like me? I'll do everything for you to like me! I'll change! I am so needy and insecure!" then she thinks "Dear God, he's so sexy!"? Again, I doubt it.

But these are all things that are counterintuitive to most of men until they take some time to learn and understand the process of sexual attraction and how it works for women.

Bad news: most of men never get it. Good news: it can be learned.

Re:Men...

[Master of Transhuman]

I'm perfectly well aware that NEEDY guys don't get any action.

What I'm saying is that while women want strong males, they don't want assholes who only want to live off them. Which is exactly what you're saying.

What you don't get is that rap singers ARE that kind of guy. I guarantee you that nearly every bozo you showed in that Google list treats women like dirt.

Which is why women end up crying on the good guys shoulders.

In other words, women need to wake up and smell the shit instead of the roses before they make their sexual decisions.

Not that I expect that to happen - hasn't happened in forty thousand years and won't happen this year. Humans take absolutely no rational responsibility for their actions because they CAN'T - their primate nature is genetically ingrained.

The same women who bitch about good guys and date bad guys bitch about lack of monogamy in men and yearn for marriage. Guess what? There IS no such thing in bonobo chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives.

If you like bad guys, learn to take the bad with the good about them - which means, sure, you can get children out of them - but you won't get the white picket fence around the house in the suburbs.

You have to make a decision in your life whether you want a relationship or you want kids, money and a man to take care of you - because you won't get all three of the latter.

Women...you just don't get it, do you?

Re:Men...

[Savantissimo]

Amen, sister. But it seems ironic that your self-description has the typo: "I hate sexiest men..." ;)

Political Nerdcore

[felonius maximus]

You can't say that Michael Franti is not a musician (Spearhead, worth checking out, inteligent stuff).

Y'now, I was I big fan of Michael Franti back in the day, but now I am not so sure how I feel about his music. When he and Rino Tse released (as Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy) "Hipocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury", I loved the idea behind it, the melding of clever rap backbeats with politics. But I later came to feel it was kind of like a "Dead Kennedys" for rap fans - clever political messages barely hidden inside a popular style of music. It was CLEVER rap, but I think too clever for the time, and the audience. I saw Franti perform live with Spearhead some time ago (I won't give away my age by saying when), and the show was good, but I feel he has perhaps taken the route of music-over-message, in a sense overcorrecting from the message-over-music of "Hiphoprisy".

Just my two copper pieces.

BTW, I would have to agree that Franti is up there with the smarter examples of the genre (fo'get Cube, y0 8itch a55 n166a2)

Is anyone else...

[gadders]

..picturing the leader of the Mathletes in Mean Girls?

Re: Deltron 3030

[Shant3030]

Considering that I'm not a modern rap fan, I still dig Deltron3030 (Hence my handle: Shant3030). It's just good music. Well written, produced and delivered. Del's monotone voice makes his lyrics very understandable and on Deltron3030, the words are poetry.

Dan the Automator has an album w/ Kool Keith (I believe its called "A Much Better Tomorrow"). It's awesome. He's got some instrumentals on it as well as great tunes with Kool Keith. One song is a rap about cartoons called " Cartoon Capers".
Check it out if you haven't already.

Send me an email at shantm@gmail.com. I've got some info I want to pass along to you.