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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."
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.
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finally rap where eminem isnt the only white guy
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> You can page through the lyrics using 'less'.
I'm bustin' dope lyrics on the server room floor, /usr/bin/more.
Truly hardcore, down with
(Aaw yeah. Nothin' for you to see here. Move the fuck along, n00b.)
Nerdcore has to be the lamest thing that I have ever heard of and it makes me ashamed to be a geek.
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.
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.
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You mean to tell me that isn't entertaining?
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)
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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.
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.
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There are 2 things I hate in this world: People who are intolerant of others' musical taste, and Country music.
Either your sense of irony is non-existent or far more developed than average. Given your username, I bet the former ;p
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.
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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.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
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?)
...why doesn't Led Zep get labeled "Nerd Rock" for "The Battle For Evermore".
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Because it's fucking Led Zeppelin, man.
Labeling Led Zeppelin as anything other than "Led Zeppelin" is just not right.
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