A Nerdcore Sampler

Posted on February 11th, 2007 by April.
Categories: Music, Nerdcore.

What, you’ve never heard of nerdcore music before?  That’s OK, almost no one has.

Nerdcore hip-hop has been mostly a underground and word-of-mouth thing. 

A nerdcore artist is generally: a musician that’s also a nerd, self-published, self-produced, and writes songs about subjects traditionally outside the traditional hip hop culture: obscure psychotropic substances, politics, computers, video games, science, and science fiction.
 
Ignored by the music industry and ridiculed by many in the hip-hop music world, nerdcore has only been seen as a parody, gimmick, a one-off flash in Internet time, and not to taken seriously. 

While nerdcore has found a growing and dedicated fan base on the Internet, a majority of the listening public have no or only little exposure to this new sound.

Maybe that’s all about to change…

After the better part of a decade, nerdcore has started to attract attention from music critics, the industry, fellow artists, and is slowly finding an audience beyond it’s core of underground fans.  I’ve seen what appears to be a growing "buzz" surrounding the nerdcore seen.

The evidence… Nerdcore is the subject of two upcoming films, a growing number of musical collaborations between nerdcore and established artists, the nerdcore lifestyle was the inspiration behind Al Yankovic’s hit "White & Nerdy", and the gaining notoriety of nerdcor’s first true "stars" - MC Frontalot & mc chris.  Both musicians have found enough commercial success to make nerdcore a full-time gig.

A nerdcore musical sampler.

I selected tracks from several musicians that, hopefully, will demonstrate some of the musical styles within the nerdcore genre.  If you find that one track is just not your thing, please try another.. you might find something new to tell your friends about.  Remember, this is just a sample. 

Most nerdcore music is distributed for free (as in beer). 

Explore. Let me know if you find anything.

Nerdcore Sampler Tracks

Beefy

  • Nerd - be proud… yeah I’m a nerd.
  • Internet Celebrity - what would Andy Warhol think about YouTube, Mahir, Lonelygirl15, Dancing Baby, the list goes on…?  Who cares, I just want to be an…

Karl Olson

  • Nerdcore Life - livin’ the nerdcore life is not easy.
  • Start The Pwnage - you’ve been pwned.. bow to your sensi.

mc chris

  • Fett’s Vett - Boba Fett, a bad-ass just tryin’ to make the payments on his car.
  • The Tussin - adventures in dextromethorphan (a.k.a. Robitussin DXM)

MC Frontalot

  • Goth Girls - Suicide Girls got him trippin’
  • Floating Bridge - holdin’ it down on the engineering tip
  • Yellow Lasers - playa’s got game until…
  • Livin’ At The Corner Of Dude & Catastrophe - a fine line…

MC Hawking

  • Entropy - drops thermodynamic knowledge
  • Jesse Helms - a difference of opinion

n00b Killaz

  • Waitin’ 4 tha "V" - dreamin’ of Microsoft Vista

Optimus Rhyme 

  • Ford vs. Chevy - calling out the playa haters and demanding respect for nerdcore 
  • Fuzzy Dice - a taxicab confession

Nerdcore Links

Artist: Beefy
Artist: Karl Olson
Artist: mc chris
Artist: MC Frontalot
Artist: MC Hawking
Artist: n00b Killaz
Artist: Optimus Rhyme

Film: Nerdcore Rising
Film: Nerdcore For Life

Technorati: Blog Search "nerdcore"

Music: nerdcorehiphop.org
Music: songfight.org
Music: dangerously.ca
Music: futuristicsexrobotz.com
Music: nerdysouthrecords.com
Music: garageband.com

Wikipedia: Nerdcore hip hop
Wikipedia: Dextromethorphan
Wikipedia: Lonelygirl15
Wikipedia: Internet Phenomenon
Wikipedia: Mahir (I Kiss You)
Wikipedia: Suicide Girls
Wikipedia: Andy Warhol
Wikipedia: Al Yankovic

YouTube: Weird Al - White & Nerdy

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