| Hip Hop: Nerdcore |
[May. 2nd, 2008|11:00 am] |
Download Nerdcore! (zip of 4 mp3s)
The first nerdcore I ever heard was M.C. Hawking.
Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, known as MC Hawking, is a nerdcore hip hop artist who parodies gangster rap and theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking. MC Hawking gained some popularity in the early 2000s, largely due to the availability of his music on the Internet. Each of his raps are synthesized by the now defunct commercial text-to-speech program WillowTalk. The songs were originally released in MP3 format, but due to the popularity of the website, MC Hawking got a record deal with Brash Music to release a "greatest hits" album, known as A Brief History of Rhyme
I have included the track Crazy as Fuck from this compilation.
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982) is an American rapper, known by his stage name MC Lars. He is the self-proclaimed originator of "post-punk laptop rap". He has collaborated with many different artists, including Non-Phixion's Ill Bill and nerdcore rapper MC Chris, and was one of the first underground rappers to sample and reference post-punk and emo bands.
In 2006, he released the single "Download This Song" with it entering the Australian Singles Chart at number 29.
I have included "Internet Relationships" (featuring "A Scholar and a Physician") off his 2005 album, The Graduate (itself a parody of the Kanye West album College Dropout)
MC Paul Barman is a rapper from Ridgewood, New Jersey, who attended Brown University. "Enter Pan-Man," from his self-produced 7-inch Postgraduate Work (Househusband Records, 1998), attracted the attention of Prince Paul, and the two collaborated, releasing the It's Very Stimulating EP in 2000 on Wordsound. Paullelujah! followed in late 2002, with production by Prince Paul, MF DOOM, MikeTheMusicGuy and Phofo. He has appeared on records with Deltron 3030 and Masta Ace, and has toured with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Blackalicious. One of his most memorable works was the song “Housemate Troubles,” released on Matador Records, a scathing commentary on the modern social pressures of co-habitation. MC Paul Barman was the first to prominently feature palindromes in his rhymes, most notably the track "Bleeding Brain Grow" from 2002's Paullelujah!, produced by Prince Paul. Some palindromes from the entire Paullelujah! album include: "Rev. Love Evolver"; "Cormega, Cage, Mr. O.C."; "Kosovo's OK". His longest and most impressive palindrome is the following name check: "Mika, RZA, Evil JD. Nasir is Osiris and J-Live, AZ, Rakim".
I have included Salvation Barmy from the It's Very Stimulating EP.
Damian Hess (born December 3, 1973), known by stage name MC Frontalot, is a San Francisco hip hop musician and self-proclaimed "world's 579th greatest rapper." He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture, for naming the nerdcore subgenre, and performing at Penny Arcade's annual Expo. In 2000 he released the song "Nerdcore Hiphop". From the first words spoken ("initiating startup sequence") to the countless references to a proud geekish lifestyle and nerdly leanings ("pish posh, man, I come as wack as I like!"), the song became an immediate hit in the geek and nerd communities. The rap subgenre of nerdcore hip hop, which had been around though unnamed beforehand, embraced the title and has since been expanding rapidly.
Many consider Hess, if not the founder of nerdcore, certainly the man who shone the torch on it. The man himself however is quick to point out the many artists who came before him and those which he considers his peers, as illustrated on his information webpage. On March 18, 2002, popular webcomic Penny Arcade declared Frontalot their official rapper, directing fans to his website.[4] He has acknowledged that that single act made his popularity skyrocket. In appreciation, he wrote and recorded the "Penny Arcade Theme" a few months later, which was in his own (tongue-in-cheek) words: "an attempt to cash in on their huge and devoted audience."
I have included the song "Indier Than Thou" from the album Nerdcore Hiphop. You can download all kinds of Frontalot at this link.
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