Nerdcore Rising

[Tydeus]

Nerdcore Rising.

It's a documentary about the nerdcore rap scene, which, up until fifteen minutes ago, I had no idea actually existed. Still, the movie looks to be quite entertaining -- in fact, I might go so far as to hope for a "rollicking good time." Anyway, it looks funny, nerdy, and generally entertaining. Are any of you actually familiar with any of these nerdcore rappers/excited for this movie?

[notasfatasmike]

I'm a big fan of MC Chris (who's probably best known as MC Pee Pants/Sir Loin/whatever the 3rd one was on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and more recently for the youtube video of him making fun of Kingdom hearts II), and I've heard of MC Frontalot (mostly from Song Fight!). The movie looks like it might be interesting.

[Marn of Mayhem]

Nerdcore? What is that? Seriously. I haven't heard of any of these artists (well, Weird Al is the exception... but didn't know until 5 minutes ago that he's a nerdcore representative). I might just look into some of these MC's just for the fun of it.

I'll quote notasfatasmike on my impression regarding the movie:

The movie looks like it might be interesting.

[notasfatasmike]

Originally Posted by Marn of Mayhem

Nerdcore? What is that? Seriously. I haven't heard of any of these artists (well, Weird Al is the exception... but didn't know until 5 minutes ago that he's a nerdcore representative). I might just look into some of these MC's just for the fun of it.

That's probably because he isn't a representative of it. He was probably influential as an artist who made it "cool" (to some degree) to be nerdy, but he doesn't primarily rap, so he wouldn't be representative of the genre. It seems like they have some people who are related to nerd culture and subcultures, such as Brian Posehn (who actually has more ties to metal, musically) and Jello Biafra (a god of punk rock, but who definitely doesn't have a *thing* to do with rap music).

[Chipper173]

I was at at least one of the concerts in that trailer.

So you can understand why I'm excited.

[Mike McC]

This might go along well with this thread. I especially like this track.

[Noodlesis]

Darn I can't see it....

[Demetrius]

MC Chris is nerdcore? Wow I am a nerd. Movie looks interesting.

[Phlegyas]

Jello Biafra (a god of punk rock, but who definitely doesn't have a *thing* to do with rap music)

Punk had risen with Rap and that they often played in the same clubs and so on. It was only until later that punk got their elitism kick and started hating rappers, something Jello Biafra has always adamantly opposed. So, my point is rap has a lot to do with punk.

Anyways, I am pretty giddy about this project. The only two I have admittedly heard of are Frontalot and MC Chris. The former because he does the PA theme song and I actually heard about this documentary through PA also, and the latter because of Aqua Teen and things related. The thing is I am somewhat opposed to them defining themselves as Nerdcore instead of joining with the rest of the underground rap scene (which is not to be confused with pop rap. Look up Quannum and you will be pleasantly surprised. Rap has started to come back to it's roots of social awareness), but I can understand the difference, since it is really two separate movements merging into one. I'm just waiting for the stage when Nerdcore rappers start collaborating with rappers like Lyrics Born or KRS-One.

[notasfatasmike]

Originally Posted by Phlegyas

Punk had risen with Rap and that they often played in the same clubs and so on. It was only until later that punk got their elitism kick and started hating rappers, something Jello Biafra has always adamantly opposed. So, my point is rap has a lot to do with punk.

Did I say it didn't? My point was the Jello Biafra has never been a rap musician, and is not a part of the "nerdcore" movement. It was in response to someone's confusion about Weird Al being classified as a nerdcore artist.

Seriously. I have the Onion book with the interview from him where he talks about how modern rap probably has more to do with the punk movement than modern punk does. Don't even *try* to mess with my knowledge of Jello Biafra.