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

[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

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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. ...

Wow....

[eggoeater]

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

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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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...

Geek rap

[savagedome]

/.ers have shown signs of rapping skills too!

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

MC Hawking's

[Rufus211]

is a fucking quake master.

that is all

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...

w00t

[tritox]

finally rap where eminem isnt the only white guy

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.)

Filking

[critter42b]

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

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...

[mbbac]

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

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.

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.

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

[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

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?

Weird Al

[MERVERNATOR]

its all about the pentiums baby....

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.

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.........

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?

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.

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!

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!

[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!

[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.

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

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)

whoa

[Philodoxx]

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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".

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!

Oral sex or video card

[VikingDBA]

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

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

[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: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

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?)

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. :)

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.