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Nerdcore

Index Nerdcore

Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music characterized by subject matter considered of interest to nerds and geeks. [1]

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  1. 73 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Alternative hip hop, Anime, ARIA Charts, Beastie Boys, Blackalicious, Boing Boing, Braggadocio (rap), Break (music), Chap hop, Chiptune, Clyde Stubblefield, Company Flow, Computer science, Copyright, Dan Maynes-Aminzade, Deltron 3030, Do it yourself, Download This Song, EE Times, Filk music, Funky Drummer, Gangsta rap, Geek, Geek rock, Genre, Hello Nasty, High fantasy, Hip hop music, HipHopDX, Intergalactic (song), It's All About the Pentiums, Kimmy Gatewood, Kool Keith, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, MC Frontalot, MC Lars, MC Paul Barman, MF Doom, Musical composition, Negin Farsad, Nerd, Nerdapalooza, Nerdcore for Life, Nerdcore Rising, Nerdcore Rising (film), Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendocore, Optimus Rhyme, ... Expand index (23 more) »

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

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Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap and experimental hip hop) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. Nerdcore and alternative hip hop are 1990s in music, 2000s in music, 2010s in music and hip hop genres.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.

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Blackalicious

Blackalicious was an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel.

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Boing Boing

Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.

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Braggadocio (rap)

When rapping, MCs use braggadocio to boast—to speak about themselves with great pride.

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Break (music)

In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.

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Chap hop

Chap hop is music originating from England that mixes the hip hop genre with elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures and stereotypical English obsessions such as cricket, tea, and the weather. Nerdcore and Chap hop are hip hop genres.

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Chiptune

Chiptune is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. Nerdcore and Chiptune are 1990s in music, 2000s in music and 2010s in music.

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Clyde Stubblefield

Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown, with whom he recorded and toured for six years (1965-70).

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Company Flow

Company Flow was an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Bigg Jus, El-P and Mr. Len.

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Computer science

Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.

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A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Dan Maynes-Aminzade

Dan Maynes-Aminzade (born in 1979), mononymously known as Monzy, is a nerdcore hip hop artist and software engineer at Facebook.

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Deltron 3030

Deltron 3030 is an American hip hop trio composed of producer Dan the Automator (as the Cantankerous Captain Aptos), rapper Del the Funky Homosapien (as Deltron Zero/Deltron Osiris), and DJ Kid Koala (as Skiznod the Boy Wonder).

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Do it yourself

"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.

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Download This Song

"Download This Song" is the second single from MC Lars' first studio album, The Graduate, and features Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup.

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EE Times

EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an electronics industry magazine published in the United States since 1972.

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Filk music

Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor.

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Funky Drummer

"Funky Drummer" is a single released by James Brown in 1970.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers. Nerdcore and gangsta rap are 1990s in music, 2000s in music, 2010s in music and hip hop genres.

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Geek

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit.

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Geek rock

Geek rock is a musical subgenre derived from pop rock and alternative rock within the nerd music group. Nerdcore and Geek rock are 1990s in music, 2000s in music and 2010s in music.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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Hello Nasty

Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on July 14, 1998, by Grand Royal and Capitol Records.

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High fantasy

High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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HipHopDX

HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.

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Intergalactic (song)

"Intergalactic" is a song by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys.

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It's All About the Pentiums

"It's All About the Pentiums" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Kimmy Gatewood

Kimmy Gatewood is an American actress, director, writer and singer.

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Kool Keith

Keith Matthew Thornton (born October 7, 1963), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, known for his surreal, abstract and often profane or incomprehensible lyrics.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Mark Thomas Griffin (born 1957), better known as MC 900 Ft.

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MC Frontalot

Damian Alexander Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer.

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MC Lars

Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American record producer, rapper, cartoonist, podcaster and educator.

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MC Paul Barman

Paul Nathaniel Barman (born October 30, 1974), better known by his stage name MC Paul Barman, is an American rapper and illustrator.

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MF Doom

Daniel Dumile (born Dumile Daniel Thompson;; July 13, 1971October 31, 2020), also known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom (both stylized in all caps), was a British-American rapper and record producer.

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Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.

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Negin Farsad

Negin Farsad (نگین فرساد; born March 24, 1978) is an Iranian-American comedian, actress, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City.

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Nerd

A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted, or lacking social skills.

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Nerdapalooza

Nerdapalooza was an annual nerd music and arts festival in Orlando, Florida, United States, the first of its kind to invite all genres of the nerd music movement under one roof, including geek rock, nerdcore, chiptune, and video game music.

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Nerdcore for Life

Nerdcore for Life is a 2008 documentary film about the world of nerdcore hip-hop directed by Dan Lamoureux and produced by Crapbot Productions.

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Nerdcore Rising

Nerdcore Rising is the official debut album by nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot.

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Nerdcore Rising (film)

Nerdcore Rising is a documentary/concert film starring MC Frontalot and other nerdcore hip hop artists such as MC Chris, Wheelie Cyberman of Optimus Rhyme and MC Lars, with contributors from artists such as "Weird Al" Yankovic, Prince Paul, and Brian Posehn.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nintendocore

Nintendocore is a broadly defined style of music that most commonly fuses chiptune with various hardcore punk and/or heavy metal subgenres, most often metalcore and post-hardcore.

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Optimus Rhyme

Optimus Rhyme was a hip hop group from Seattle, Washington.

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PAX (event)

PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming.

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Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.

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Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Raheem Jarbo

Raheem Jarbo (born September 3, 1977), also known by his stage names Mega Ran and Random, is an American underground nerdcore rapper, chiptune DJ, author and record producer.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Remix

A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Sampling (music)

In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Supervillain

A supervillain or supercriminal is a variant of the villainous stock character.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants, often abbreviated as TMBG, is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Underground hip hop

Underground hip-hop (also commonly known as indie hip-hop or underground rap) is an umbrella term for hip hop music that is outside the general commercial canon. Nerdcore and underground hip hop are hip hop genres.

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Vanilla Ice

Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.

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White & Nerdy

"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wisconsin Film Festival

The Wisconsin Film Festival is an annual film festival, founded in 1999.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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YTCracker

Bryce Case Jr. (born August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced "whitey cracker"), is an American rapper from La Mirada, California.

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8-bit computing

In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdcore

Also known as Geek Core, Geek rap, Geeksta, Geeksta rap, List of obscure nerdcore artists, Nerd Core, Nerd rap, Nerdcore (Genre), Nerdcore Hip Hop, Nerdcore hip-hop, Nerdcore hiphop (genre), Nerdcore rap, Riot nrrd.

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