Table of Contents
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.
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
See Nerdcore and Computer science
Copyright
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.
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).
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.
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.
Funky Drummer
"Funky Drummer" is a single released by James Brown in 1970.
See Nerdcore and Funky Drummer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MC Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American record producer, rapper, cartoonist, podcaster and educator.
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.
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.
Nerd
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted, or lacking social skills.
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.
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.
See Nerdcore and Nerdcore Rising (film)
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.
See Nerdcore and Nintendo Entertainment System
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.
Optimus Rhyme
Optimus Rhyme was a hip hop group from Seattle, Washington.
See Nerdcore and Optimus Rhyme
PAX (event)
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming.
Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.
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.
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.
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.
Supervillain
A supervillain or supercriminal is a variant of the villainous stock character.
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.
See Nerdcore and Underground hip hop
Vanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.
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.
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
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