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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."
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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.)
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.
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.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. -- Michel de Montaigne
You mean to tell me that isn't entertaining?
That's the sound of all this going straight over your head.
Pro tip: they don't take themselves seriously.
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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.
Either your sense of irony is non-existent or far more developed than average. Given your username, I bet the former ;p