I came upon this interesting article on Wired today about a new subgenre of hip-hop called ‘Nerdcore’. Coined by Damian Hess aka MC Frontalot from San Francisco, nerdcore is about rapping about, you might have guessed it, nerd stuff. From math, coding skills, to Star Wars and Mozilla Firefox plugins! This scope of topics are indeed refreshing and welcoming(to me at least) giving hip-hop abit of fresh air from the sell out mainstream topics of blings, gangsta and girls.
Damian started rapping 9 years ago and came up with the term after performing in front of his Boba Fett action figures. It’s geeky alright, and people might laugh, but today he’s been touring The States and made appearances at many video game, anime, music and film conventions, There’s also a documentary made about him and the movement called Nerdcore Rising: The Movie taken from the title of his 2005 debut album. Noam Chomsky, the famous MIT linguistics professor even quoted saying this about Damian;
“Never has a little boy sat so alone at his computer and busted out such in- conceivably thick rhymes. MC Frontalot has tapped the zeitgeist. It is with good reason that he is so very famous and rich.”
Nerds indeed have the last laughs. Look at Bill Gates!
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