Ask mc chris 646
Many of you are no doubt familiar with the works of mc chris. He's probably most well known as the high pitched rapper on the track 'Fett's Vette' that you probably have an MP3 of somewhere. In addition to several highly entertaing albums, he's also the voice of MC Pee Pants (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and Hesh (Sealab 2021). He's now touring, but you better already have tickets since he sold out his first 8 shows (including my local venue. The wife is very unhappy with me for not getting tickets in time). He'll also be performing at the Penny Arcade Expo later this year. This is your chance to ask him those burning questions. Standard Slashdot interview rules apply: Ask here, and we'll pick from the best of them and then wait patiently for Chris to bless us with his words.
Who? (Score:3, Informative)
Taco, don't be such a cheapskate, go buy tickets from a scalper.
I had it good when I lived in Michigan, I could buy tickets, actual tickets over the phone or internet for shows in Detroit, Pine Knob, etc without much trouble. If I had to pay a scalper it was only a 100% markup.
Now I live in Santa Cruz and tickets to even the drunks on Pacific avenue sell out in seconds. Scalpers will happily take $500 for a ticket that cost them $30 and they'll get it.
I rely on local bands now. Support your local musicians before they're replaced by DJ's and Karoke.
Re:referring to the article.... (Score:2, Informative)
See here [slashdot.org]
Please place your nerd membership in the garbage (Score:2, Informative)
Fett's Vette, for example, is a song where Bobba Fett describes how the only reason he bounty hunts is to pay for his sweet Corvette.
Mere seconds in Google could help you avoid making such embarrassing geek faux pas in the future.
Gets some of his LEGAL mp3s here (Score:2, Informative)
Re:All I can say is (Score:3, Informative)
Geez!
Why nerds like MC Chris.. (Score:3, Informative)
Much of MC Chris music has a geek theme to it, including one named "geek" and another named "ratz" that talks about being a loner/geek at college
His DJ, John, does all the beats and samples from a 12" Apple Powerbook
I actually hadn't heard of him until last month, when one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go to his show at Baltimore's Ottobar (the first stop on his tour). I went, and liked what I heard.
He's not typical gangasta rap. It's sort of rap for thinking people.
Re:Pressures of Touring (Score:2, Informative)
http://snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.htm
"So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening."
Re:Who? (Score:2, Informative)
Here's a quick description.
MC Chris is a combination of Puff Daddy, Vanilla Ice, Snow, Eminem and William Hung.
But just the worst parts of them.
He's truly awful. His beats are terrible, his rhyming is sloppy. He's not a good lyricist.
He is to Rap music what Pat Boone was to 50's Rock and Roll. Mc Chris makes Rap music for people who don't like Rap music.
His role of Mc Pee Pants on Aquateen Hunger Force was pretty funny. In fact, it was very funny. Do yourself a favor, unless you enjoy horrible music. Stay away from Mc Chris.
NTITE
Re:Pressures of Touring (Score:3, Informative)
My guess, though, is that MC Pee Pants doesn't quite have the negotiating power of a Van Halen, probably not even that of a Wang Chung.
As long as I'm posting, could someone with points please mod up this guy [slashdot.org]? I literally L'd OL.
Re:What in the World? (Score:5, Informative)
1) Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are oft-watched shows by geeks (at least the ones I know, self included); MC Chris has roles in each. 1 Geek point.
2) MC Chris' rap is, in now way, anything like the rap you hear on the radio. While I happen to like it, I have no idea why. You're either going to like it, or extremely dislike it I assume, but it's definitely worth a listen. No geek points.
3) MC Chris' music contains many things or topics geeks find appealing. If Star Wars is considered geeky, then a rap by Boba Fett about working for Jabba Hut to pay the bills on his corvette is doubly geek. 2 geek points.
4) MC Chris gives his music away free on his website. Free as in beer. 10 geek points.
Someone else mentioned that the DJing is done on an Apple Powerbook or iBook or something, but I consider that a tool of the trade moreso than anything. Were it a Linux laptop, then I'd award points, but can't award for an industry standard.
-9mm-
Re:Dear MC Chris... (Score:5, Informative)
He (along with the other artists I mentioned) will be playing at PAX [penny-arcade.com] this year.
His most famous track is about Star Wars. One of his songs uses music samples from the arcade game Gauntlet. A lot of his other stuff covers fairly geeky subject matter.
So, you might not like his work. That's understandable. But he's still as relevent to Slashdot as anything else posted today.
Life's A Bitch And I'm Her Pimp Download (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wow... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Who? (Score:3, Informative)
Fortunately Frontalot will also be at the Penny Arcade Expo, so you can decide for yourselves.