Nerdcore hip hop



         


Nerdcore hip hop is a musical genre. The name is derived from "nerd" and the "-core" suffix in genre names like "hardcore". The name was first used in 2000 by 2 Skinnee J's (especially on their album $upermercado)

  1. MC Chmod
  2. MC Chris
  3. MC Hawking
  4. MC Paul Barman
  5. Lords of the Rhymes
  6. Optimus Rhyme

The uniting feature of the genre is that it is by and for nerds. Common song themes include Star Wars (Frontalot's "Yellow Lasers", 2 Skinnee J's "Mind Trick", MC Chris's "Fett's Vette"), science (most of MC Hawking's work, like "Entropy" and "E=MC Hawking", 2 Skinnee J's "Pluto"), and similar topics, but in truth the range is very wide.

Note that the 1999 song It's All About The Pentiums by "Weird Al" Yankovic, a parody of It's All About The Benjamins by P. Diddy, features use of Internet terminology with hip hop music. Though unintentional, it could be considered an early form of Nerdcore.

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