Nerdcore rap. Have you heard of it? And what do you think of it?

I’m 50, I think most rap is crap. lol
But, I do like Shaggy. I’ll have to ask my daughter who is 23 to fill me in on nerdcore.

I’m okay with this.

Nerdcore rap is pretttty funny.

I just saw MC Frontalot last week at a variety show in Brooklyn. His flow was OK. I liked the beats, but something felt off about the performance. Maybe he was nervous or something. I got bored with listening about a ¼ of the way through his first song.

I figure if I was checking out his body rather than listening to him and being excited about what he was doing, then it just wasn’t working musically for me.

Mc Lars sounds annoying to me. I’m sticking to my Wu-tang, AoTP, Nujabes, Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.

Is Baba Brinkman nerdcore rap? The natural selection rap isn’t bad, but I think Above the Law’s rap about the first amendment works better as a song. But something tells me people wouldn’t consider ATL nerdcore.

@fundevogel

“Is Baba Brinkman nerdcore rap?”

Wow, someone else has heard of Baba Brinkman!

But, as to your question, I don’t think so. Geek rap, maybe (he did do the spectacular headline song “Off That” for Geek Pop 3). Nerdcore- no. There’s no Star Wars or video games in Baba’s stuff, and he has some very serious songs (ever listened to Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams in the Western Wilderness?)

@crisw I’ll fail as a nerd as well if video games and Star Wars fandom is required. I thought the term nerd could be applied to anyone who took interest in any subject or what-have-you in greater depth than the norm.

I’m not exactly sure what differentiates geeks from nerds. I suspect these geeks you speak of have greater technical prowess when it comes to these newfangled difference engines. Poppycock I say! Who needs such infernal devices when the good lord has given you all the fingers and toes you could want to count on.

But to answer your question I haven’t heard that particular song. I’ll have to track it down.

It’s cool, but it isn’t exactly catchy. Though, I don’t find much rap all that catchy, for that matter..

@fundevogel

I run with a crowd that has spent much time defining the difference between geeks and nerds. Here’s the best thing we have found.

Rare concert footage….......bless ;¬}

I find most of it entertaining. But I only really like it if its in an area that I know well AND the puns are done very well. Here is my favorite one and the only one I’ve gone back to several times.

@crisw with a diagram no less!

@fundevogel You might be the first person, ever, to consider Above The Law to be nerdcore rap.

@roundsquare I don’t, but I appreciate the educational bent to that song and that might make it somewhat nerdy. I don’t think I actually know what nerdcore rap sounds like.

@fundevogel I was just joking around anyway. Click on my link for CS nerdcore rap. When I was in college all of us CS majors passed this song around.

@roundsquare ah, I missed that.