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Nerdcore hip hop, or geeksta rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that is performed by nerds, and is characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot coined the term in 2000 in the song "Nerdcore Hip-Hop". Frontalot, like most nerdcore artists, self-published his work.

Popular nerdcore subject matter includes Star Wars (Frontalot's "Yellow Lasers", 2 Skinnee J's "Mind Trick", mc chris's "Fett's Vette"), science (MC Hawking's "Entropy", 2 Skinnee J's "Pluto"), and computers. Many non-nerdcore hip hop compositions exist that focus on these and similar topics.

Nerdcore artists

Related artists

Although the following commercially-released albums and songs do not meet the necessary and sufficient conditions of nerdcore, they do feature themes typical of the genre:

Dream Warriors – "Twelve Sided Dice" (1991)
Dream Warriors – "Voyage Through the Multiverse" (1991)
"Weird Al" Yankovic – "It's All About The Pentiums" (1999)
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners – "L.O.L.- Loser On Line (Hate the Player, Hate the Game)" (2005)
Eric Schwartz - Wimp Pimp (2005)
The Lonely Island's fictional rap group Incredibad verges on nerdcore in several songs, such as Just 2 Guyz.

Media coverage

Scott, Toby. "Beware geeks bearing riffs." The Guardian June 17, 2002.
Andrews, Robert. "Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore." Wired June 23, 2005.
The Brian Lehrer Show. "(Not So) Hip-Hop." WNYC, New York. August 11, 2005.
- An audio interview with MC Frontalot (MP3 format)
Colgan, Jim. "Nerd Hip-Hop, Flowing Like Han Solo" NPR November 7, 2005.
Reed, Bryan. "Nerdcore Hip-Hop" The Daily Tarheel December 8, 2005.
Clendenin, Mike. "Geeksta Rappers Rhyme Tech Talk" EE Times February 13, 2006.

External links

Flocabulary Hip-hop for SAT prep and expanding your vocabulary.

Hip-hop

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Subgenres

General	Alternative Hipster hop Boom bap Bounce British Road rap Chipmunk soul Chopped and screwed Chopper Cloud rap Comedy Crunk Crunkcore East Coast Freestyle rap Hyphy Jerkin' Instrumental Latin Chicano rap Lofi Miami bass Mumble rap Nerdcore Chap hop Political Conscious Progressive rap Religious Christian Jewish Snap music Southern Turntablism Underground
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