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Nerdcore Rap In The Press

Posted by Zonk on from the nerdcore-makes-a-good-comic-too dept.

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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  1. Y2Khai by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 5, Informative


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

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  2. Wow.... by eggoeater · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. MC Hawking's by Rufus211 · · Score: 5, Funny

    is a fucking quake master.

    that is all

  4. Drive By Shooting over OS choice? by doublem · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Slashdot rap by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    (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!