Nerdcore Rap In The Press 409
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."
Y2Khai (Score:5, Informative)
If you're gonna talk about rap, don't forget Y2Khai. [y2khai.com] ^_^
Who cares about dat with Da Monster in the hizzy? (Score:3, Funny)
Harder than (a) Hammer
I'm a mean SOB and a bad mama-jamma!
Say I'm insensitive
Crude and ruth-
less; pullin' no punches
Nothin's harder than TRUTH!
When I see fools
I'm a straight shooter
I mo(w)-dem down
On my computer.
Word to yo' mama. Peace out.
Da Monsta gots to get back to the Benjamins, a-aight boyeee?
Re:Y2Khai (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Y2Khai (Score:2)
Is Kid Koala nerdcore?
Re:Y2Khai (Score:3, Informative)
He raps about 419 scams, starwars, and other hillarious stuff. I really wish I could go to one of his concerts in NY. He has them occasionally.
Here's the "yellow lasers" sound about starwars fans with a eh, kinky ending Listen to it here: http://www.frontalot.com/mp3/mc_frontalot_-_yellow _lasers.mp3 [frontalot.com]
Re:Y2Khai (Score:3, Interesting)
...and of course, every Slashdotter must like MCHawking :-)
Re:Y2Khai (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Y2Khai (Score:5, Informative)
Deltron 3030 is the shit!
Deltron 3030 - Virus Lyrics
* a.k.a. Del the Funky Homosapien
I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straits to your environment
Crush your corporations with a mild touch
Trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I want to make a super virus
Strong enough to cause blackouts in every single metropolis
Cuz they dont wanna unify us
So f**k it total anarchy
Can't nobody stop us
You see late in the evening
F**ked up on my computer and my mind starts roaming
I create like a heathen
The first cycles of this virus I can send through a modem
Infiltration hits your station
No microsoft or enhanced dos will impede
Society thinks thier safe when
Bingo! harddrive crashes from the rendering
Alot of hackers tryed virus's before
Vaporize your text like so much white out
I want it where a file replication is a chore
Lights out shut down the entire whitehouse
I dont want just a bug that could be corrected
Im erecting immaculate design
Break the nation down section by section
Even to the greatest minds its impossible to find
I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I want to develop a super virus
Better by far then that old y 2 k
This 3030 the time of global unification break right through
they
terminals, burn em all
Slaves to silicon
Curupt politicians with leaders and thier keywords
F.B.I and spys stealin bombs
Decipitate thier plans in thier face and catch the fever
Everybody loot the stores get your caned goods
Even space stations are having a hard time
Beast keeepers seek to take our manhood
Which results in the form of global aparthied
Ghettos are trash dumps with gas pumps
Exploding and burnt out since before the great union
The last punks walk around like masked monks
Ready to manipulate the data base and break through em
Human rights come in a hudreth place
Mass production has always been number one
New Earth has become a repungnent place
So its time to spread the fear and the thunder some
I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
I wanna devise a virus
to bring dire straits to your environment
crush your corporations with a mild touch
trash your whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
If you want some GOOD rap (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Please, for your own sake, forget all of them (Score:2, Funny)
Bang on. Singing about the internet will only be cool when Motorhead does it.
Just plain sad. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:5, Funny)
And I suppose that we'll have "gangsta" nerds running around "capping" PHBs and rival systems admins...
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:3)
East vs. West
Emacs vs. VI
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:2)
You joking? (Score:3, Insightful)
DMCA (Score:2)
I mean come on, not only can the crypto in WASTE and other systems not be cracked at all if it could be, it wouldn't be a violation. Only crypto used to prevent copying is protected, and only then as a copy protection mechanism, not in general.
You can't be yackin' about your columbi
Oral sex or video card (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but a nerd is going to have to pay a few hundred to get either.
Drive By Shooting over OS choice? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Just plain sad. (Score:5, Insightful)
That's the sound of all this going straight over your head.
Pro tip: they don't take themselves seriously.
No way! (Score:5, Insightful)
No, what worries me are "gangsta" rappers taking themselves seriously. I appreciate that these kids are doing amusing crap like this in college instead of focusing solely on date rape (the more popular collegiate male past-time)
It's all about the Pentiums! (Score:3, Funny)
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y
Re:It's all about the Pentiums! (Score:5, Informative)
For those few who may not know, this song can be found on Weird Al's album "Running With Scissors" which was released in 1999. Does that make him the "Godfather of Geeksta Rap"?
Wow.... (Score:5, Funny)
oh goody (Score:4, Funny)
Re:oh goody (Score:2)
How many rhymes are there for '0' and '1'?
Re:oh goody (Score:2)
The real head-scratcher of this story is: Since when did Wired magazine count as "the press"???
If there's a story here, it's that Wired hasn't done a story on MC Frontalot before now. This nerdcore stuff has been floating around "tha Internets" for years, and this kind of thing is what the folks at Wired live for!
Call me when MC Cris is on the cover of Time or Newsweek. A Wired story about nerds doing anything is nothing to get exci
Re:oh goody (Score:2)
Re:oh goody (Score:2)
You're just pathetic if you dismiss rap/hiphop wholesale because it "doesn't have a melody."
Re:oh goody (Score:5, Interesting)
Em, no. Yes, it's spoken word, but if the words are tied to the beat or the melody (as any decent stuff would, nothing you'd find in the charts), then it is music. It has rythym. It has flow. Just lacks melody in the lead vocal. You can't say that Michael Franti is not a musician (Spearhead, worth checking out, inteligent stuff).
If it's just a guy spewing garbage over an old record with a breakbeat sample, then yes, I agree, NOT music. But neither is most of the stuff coming from these sources.
Out of interest, would you say Gill Scott Heron wasn't a musician? It's a touch call, I'd say he borders on it, but also veers more to the poetry side than his more modern counterparts.
Re:oh goody (Score:3, Informative)
you may only be familiar with mainstream hip-hop, which DOES suck. check out some Aesop Rock, Old Atmosphere, or Sole. Or for more on the spoken word end of things, Saul Williams. there's some good stuff out there that will make you think and shake yo' azz, if you bother to loo
Re:oh goody (Score:3, Insightful)
Dear old people,
Rap music has had melodies and harmony for many years. Please stop pretending like it's still 1985. I know a lot of you listen to "soft rock" radio, and they're still exclusively playing music from back then, but the rest of the world has moved on.
Some recommended listening:
"Crunk Muzik" - Jim Jones
"Move Bitch" - Lil Jon, The Triple-Six Mafia, etc.
"Get Some Crunk In Yo System" - Trillville
"Get Back" - Ludacris
Jim Jones
Re:oh goody (Score:3, Funny)
There is a good reason for this.
GEEKS CAN'T SING!
The best we have to offer is William Hung for Christ's sake!
WILLIAM FREAKING HUNG!!
Do you really want more of that? Do you want to be responsible for the next William Hung? DO YA?!?!
Let 'em rap, says I. Just let 'em rap...
rather ignorant... (Score:3, Insightful)
Geek rap (Score:5, Funny)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118242&cid=99
MC Hawking's (Score:5, Funny)
that is all [mchawking.com]
Re:MC Hawking's (Score:2)
Re:MC Hawking's (Score:3, Interesting)
that is all"
I remember seeing *MC Hawking* on TechTV's *Unscrewed with Martin Sargent* last year. Made me laugh a great deal.
Unfortunately, while its creator is skilled, he has not taken advantage of the CD Baby agreement in place with iTunes and thus the *greatest hits* album is not available at the iTunes Music Store. I would have loved purchasing the tracks with my Pepsi/Mountain Dew or 7-Eleven Slurpee iTunes codes...
w00t (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:w00t (Score:2)
Filking (Score:2, Funny)
This makes Disco look cool (Score:2, Funny)
Reminds me of... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reminds me of... (Score:3, Interesting)
Unifying rap popularity theorey (Score:4, Interesting)
Geeks are cool. Why? Because their services are in demand and they can get good jobs.
Gangsta rap glorifies drug dealing. Why is it popular? Because drug dealing is seen as a means of social mobility for young poor black men. No wonder they're interested in it.
In both cases, rap celebrates social mobility.
Flame away, friends.
Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey (Score:2)
The girls at my high school must have missed the memo.
Re:Unifying rap popularity theorey (Score:2)
Wrong. Gangsta rap is indeed about social mobility, but it works this way:
1 - some rap "artist" (white or black, doesn't matter. Cf. Eminem) rises above the fray, usually because money-hungry label exec latches on him
2 - "artist"'s album sells well to dumb teens (rich, poor, black or white, doesn't matter either. It's just a matter
no sh* (Score:2)
MC Hawking (Score:2)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/233937 [newgrounds.com]
I am glad (Score:2, Insightful)
Ahh, now we know (Score:2)
Those lyrics sound suspiciously machine generated : )
Oh now :( (Score:2)
If you want to get used to crackers pretending to do ghetto music, you can start here [about.com]. Warning: psychological councelling may be needed after 2 or 3 listenings.
Gee, what next? Snoop Dogg playing Sounds of Slashdot [8dimensional.com]?
Re:Oh now :( (Score:2)
Terriable name (Score:3, Interesting)
It's like a country/western singer calling their music 'Redneck rock' or pop calling it's self 'teen drivel'
Terriable spelling (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Terriable name (Score:2)
Re:Terriable name (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Terriable name (Score:2, Funny)
Weird Al (Score:2, Funny)
Nerdcore: Putting a whole new spin... (Score:2)
Weird Al (Score:3, Insightful)
Does Weird Al Yankovic's "All About the Pentiums" count? It's a parody of course, of Puff Daddy's "All About the Benjamins." Still, Yankovic is actually a fairly decent rapper and the content is geeky to the core.
Always at my PC, double clickin on my miz-ouse
Upgrade my system twice a day
I'm strictly Plug and Play
I ain't afraid of Y2K, &c.
Still like to listen to it occasionally.
LOTR? (Score:2)
Nerdcore now refers to artists waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings.
Now there is truly no purpose left for heavy metal...
LoTR Rap (Score:2)
As we walk through the Misty mountains we realize there's not much left, coz we've been keelin' orcses and squishing fishes so long, that even my precious thinks my mind is gone (gollum).
But we ain't never crossed a hobbitses who didn't wants it, my precious, we be treated so bad by fat hobbit you know that's unheard of.
You better watch (gollum) how you're talkin' and where us is walkin' or hobbitses fall down and make candles in
Slashdot rap (Score:5, Funny)
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!
whoever came up with "geeksta" ... (Score:2)
Ever.
Re:whoever came up with "geeksta" ... (Score:2)
Monzy and MC Plus+ (Score:2)
Re:Monzy and MC Plus+ (Score:2)
My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.
I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I'm an unsigned long int and you're an 8-bit char.
Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servici
It's all about the pentiums! (Score:5, Funny)
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The lameness filter is really freaking annoying. Your comment still has too few characters per line. Try altering your rhyme scheme to one with more feet. This is your lameness filter. This is your lameness filter on drugs. At this rate, there is no way your comment will ever be posted. At least, not until the story is long past the front page.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah
What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286? Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got 'em printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others? I dissed 'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor forty inches wide wide
I believe that your says "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-b
Re:It's all about the pentiums! (Score:4, Informative)
I suppose the latter is more likely.
Instead of EastCoast vs. WestCoast in hipHop ... (Score:2, Funny)
nrrrds (Score:2)
C-64 daze (Score:2)
whoa (Score:2, Interesting)
Does N.E.R.D qualify? (Score:2)
No, we *really* need to get back to nerd rap roots (Score:2)
I believe yours says 'Etch-a-Sketch' on the side
Play me online, well you know that I'll beat you.
If I ever meet you, I'll control-alt-delete you!
It's all about the Pentiums, baby!
Chris Mattern
Nerdcore comic (Score:2)
zerg (Score:2)
"I don't think this new subculture will really stick, though," Mr. Ryan is an idiot. Nerdcore shows used to have less than a dozen people show up only a couple of years ago, now they're packed wall to wall.
declined to give his real name Mr. Andrews needs to get his reporter credentials checked.
"Geek" (Score:2)
Desperate (Score:2)
Originally read that as "desperate" then realized it could probably go either way...
Weird Al, the original geeksta rapper (Score:3, Informative)
Here's a link to the lyrics.
http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/itsallaboutthepent
Old News (Score:2)
This line from the article says it all: (Score:2)
"50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."
Dude, that's so pathetic I think Mom's gonna kick you out of the basement. Word.
Baldur's Gate Rappin' (Score:2)
Me and a friend used to, for a short period of time, exchange 'raps' about our Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale CRPG parties. Stuff like:
oh-oh-oh-OH!
Revin' it up for
this party of five,
listen up boy,
think our team's for hire?
well, I guess we might be,
that's left to see,
but you've better be in
for a BIG fuckin' killing spree!
Now, listen up
yeah, yeah, YEAH!
Ling's gonna rap
a little tune for you,
'bout fist in the hand
and the master plan.
Think a blade is best?
Yeah, me too,
but Ling's g
Actually (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.akrobatik.com/audio/real/akrobatik-int
Pretty much sums up my whole feeling on this "phenomena" or "hiphop segment".
Have to contribute my $0.02 (Score:5, Funny)
(chorus)
It's time to hear the voodoo
of the UNIX guru,
from alpha to zulu,
chillin' with Captain Sulu,
it's MC Sudo! (Echo Sudo)
(end chorus)
Some say a portscan lacks a lot of class,
pull that shit and i'll bust an ettercap in your ass.
Whether you use nessus, saint, or acid and snort,
strace and shellcode skills will make you abort.
A wide open kernel is the reason you fall,
shoulda installed that shit by project Openwall!
Oh noes! My honeypot has a rootkit!
Cp
Hop to your kiddie botnet to start a DDoS,
I've got more pipe than a plumbers whole house.
I watch the syn packets reach up to a million,
Dodged with mad bgp skills version 2-fucking-billion.
You think having 0-day sploits make you leet?
Got a big eDick to show your friends at 2600 meets?
Wet yourself at "Hackers" thought Wargames was a big feat?
I been hacking before I saw tits on Acidburn's sheets!
(insert chorus)
Whether coding in C/PERL/PYTHON or PL/I,
You know I do that shit in a thing called vi.
Using borland scheme that's pleasing to the eye.
Until I meet that great sysadmin in the sky.
All you quoting Dade Murphy as your hero,
I rofl my ass off when your 'sploit devides by zero!
MC Stephen Hawking (Score:5, Funny)
Instead they mention (ex-CS major) Canibus, who has an obvious interest in math but is spectacularly bad at it: on one song [lyricscrawler.com] he makes the embarrassing claim that he is "your worst nightmare squared/that's double, for niggas who ain't mathematically aware"; on another another [lyricscrawler.com] he gives us the story problem, "if a bitch sucks yo' dick/for five dollars per square inch/and gets forty dollars including a five dollar tip/how big was the dick she just sucked?" - which can't be solved without making some assumptions about dick shape, but I'd say that the dick in question was about three inches long, which probably wasn't what Canibus had in mind.
Re:MC Stephen Hawking (Score:5, Funny)
An average penis of about 6" length and 1.5" diameter would have a surface area of 25 or 30 square inches, and the cost for servicing would be more like $140, not including the "tip". For a more precise estimate you might want to model the shape as a cylinder surmounted by a hemisphere.
Re:Ok, shoot me. (Score:5, Insightful)
>
> You can page through the lyrics using 'less'.
I'm bustin' dope lyrics on the server room floor, /usr/bin/more.
Truly hardcore, down with
(Aaw yeah. Nothin' for you to see here. Move the fuck along, n00b.)
Re:Ok, shoot me. (Score:3, Funny)
Get off the stage
"Peace out, Middleton!"
(yeah, that's just dumb. I agree that they are now taking themselves too seriously. See: rap, everyone else)
Re:Ok, shoot me. (Score:2, Funny)
So back HUP bitch or it's 'kill -9'.
shutdown -h now.........
Re:Instead of... (Score:2)
Well, I've always wanted to make a necklace from hard drive platters (the gold-colored ones) but the dead drive I was going to do it with only had one platter. As you can imagine, I was very disappointed.
Ob. Futurama (Score:2)
Re:Scripts compiling?! Beware of fake geeks! (Score:2)
While C can be interpreted, it's usually compiled. a true scripting language, such as SH or CSH is one which is interpreted, line by line, as tho one were reading a script ( thus... scripting ).
The term has been expanded to include such languages as Perl which are compiled at run time.
What about intermediate code (p-code)? (Score:2)
Some are "compiled" into p-code and that p-code is then interpreted later on.
Some are compiled into machine code and run directly by the hardware.
I consider the first two to be "scripting languages" in most cases.
Re:white males.. (Score:2)
Oh, wait, did you mean Eminem? Oh, I'm sorry 'homey'. My bad, 'dogg'.
Re:Well, uh.. (Score:2)
Re:Just Gotta Say It (Score:2)
uh..... nevermind
not Microsoft vs. Linux (Score:2)