The Dueling Nerdcore Documentaries 164
Colin Reuter writes "There are not one but two feature-length documentary films in the works about the burgeoning nerdcore hip-hop scene. Nerdcore Rising from indie company Vaguely Qualified Productions in NY focuses on the founder of the "movement," MC Frontalot, and features MC Hawking, mc chris, Weird Al Yankovic, Brian Posehn, Daily Show personnel, and dozens of aspiring nerdcore rappers from around the country. The competing movie, Nerdcore For Life from Chicago's Crapbot Productions covers many of the same personalities, getting the backstory on more than twenty young nerd rappers including ytcracker, MC++, and Lords of the Rhymes. With two movies duking it out, the print edition of Wired profiling the rappers, and the Associated Press getting onboard, is nerdcore going to turn into a legitimate subgenre? Or will this always be our dirty little secret?"
Anyone else remember... (Score:2, Informative)
Founder?!?? (Score:2, Informative)
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Actually, Al and his wife Suzanne have a daughter named Nina [weirdal.com].
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But nerdcore, to some extent, has been around for a while. There was a band called Commodore 64 that released a "nerdcore" album in 1999 called The K-Minus Initiative that had titles like "Straight Outta CompUSA" and "Proof of the Reimann Mapping Theorem." I think the bandmembers included a mathematician and an economist.
The height of nerdcore, both in obtuse, intelligent/stupid rhymes and actual skill(?) in delivery, has to be MC Paul Barman. It's hard to describe his music: it's equally really funny bawdy sex jokes with very intelligent references. For example, when a woman refuses him sex, he sings, "My pissed of Jabrowski turned three colors like Krzysztof Kieslowski."
There's many others too, so this genre may have been coined recently, but that does not indicate its arrival.
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So there.