Nerd Arts

Mc Chris is a getting a cool response from many nerdcore fans because of his on again off again relationship with being called a nerd and his association with nerdcore hip hop. Well, one of the most prominent nerdcore mcs Optimus Rhyme has taken matters into his own hands and created this seething dis track entitled Mc Chipmunk. Check it out

Download Optimus Rhyme’s Dis track of MC Chris

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From the man who brought us MC Pee Pants and Bobbafette’s vette (possibly the first nerdcore song to reach a wide audience) comes his first album “Life’s a bitch and I’m her pimp”. Mc Chris has mainstream appeal because he’s simply a great Mc. As you may have noticed I am scouring the web for sites containing free nerdcore hip hop. I think this would serve as a great introduction to those interested in nerdcore and hopefully a perentage will go on to buy some albums as well. Let me know of any other pages I should know about via the “submit a link” button in the right hand column.

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According to the Washington Post Americas is in the throes of a Nerdy revolution. Writing articles with titles such as “Geek Pride Blooms Into a Real World Subculture”. The trend of reporting about the rise of nerdcore is nothing new. The early adopters which are so saught after by marketing focus groups gave up the goods. And they told MTV, H and M, and Coca Cola that being nerdy is cool. The most difficult step is making the transition between visionaries (early adopters) and pragmatists (early majority). And currently the nerdcore revolution is hitting the early majority hard. In her latest article from the Washington Post, Ann Hornaday wrote

“This summer, teens ruled, especially teen boys. And not just teen boys, but teen boys at their pimpliest, stutteringest and downright geekiest. As Post reporter Anthony Faiola fearlessly reported from the pen-protected trenches in July, America is in the throes of a “nerdcore” movement, catered to in gearhead fetish fests like “Transformers,” celebrated in hit comedies like “Knocked Up” and “Superbad” and tenderly evoked in such modest sleepers as “Rocket Science.”

So the question is that since the mainstream has now embraced nerdiness, and in many instances cast beautiful actors and actresses in nerdy glasses, have the jocks become the new nerds ? These days everyone you talk to was “the biggest geek in high school” with people try to out geek each other talking about how they “used to play Dungeons and Dragons all the time” and were a total nerd because they took a few AP classes. Maybe they will stress their athletic inability as a gauge of their nerdiness. But I’m here to tell most of you who have stumbled onto this blog. you weren’t Nerds in high school, and you know it. Here’s why.

I never made the basketball team when I was in eighth grade, I played Dungeons and Dragons, I didn’t have a girlfriend (or even french kiss one) until I was 17, I loved art history, and I read Dragonlance novels in school, and guess what. I wasn’t a nerd. I was fairly popular, and this was 13 years ago in an ultraconservative midwestern town where being the football quarterback also meant that you would be homecoming king. Today as the internet begins to replace television, and alternative media begins to replace mainstream media. I’m saying to myself. Should I feel happy that the mainstream media is beginning to embrace nerdiness? As Douglas Rushkoff points out in his latest lecture “Why johnny Can’t Program” if these nerds posed any threat to the status quo, then they would never let them free.

This is one reason that here at Nerdarts.com I have always strove to highlight the individual, rather than the company. I’m more interested in a guy who made a garden which you can control via a robotic arm through the internet than a new game for the Wii (even though I think it’s a great console:). Nintendo is going to be ok without an extra shout out from my little blog. As nerdcore soaks farther and farther into mainstream culture, us early adopters and visionaries have to make sure that we highlight the culture and not the company, highlight insight and reflection of our own personal stories instead of doing the bidding of major corporations who want that extra free link to make their product go viral. It’s only a matter of time before we see space invader motifs on sweaters at Abercrombie and Fitch, and just as studded belts and punk has now become safe enough for christian fundies to use to promote Christ, Nerdcore will be used to sell seemingly iniquous products to make the same people rich. The beast has been unleashed and its only a matter of time before the popular girl from the rich suburbs starts talking about how she was a “total nerd”.

Let’s tell our own stories, and if those personal stories involve Atari Games and Dungeons and Dragons dice then they are ours to use! They are as much a part of us as the air we have breathed throughout the years. These corporation have rammed advertising down our throats for years, and then they are going to sue people for using imagery, or songs which they collectively tried to get us to remember? Fuck em. Fair Use has a Posse. Nerdcore is Dead - Long Live Nerdcore! From this point on I will never again publicize a company, or a movie, only individual artists who are reinterpreting the world around them and telling their own stories. If those stories involve nintendo games or star wars characters then these artists have the right to use these images.

Nerd pride
BY SONYA SORICH - Staff Writer –

NERD ALERT: Nerds have gone from reviled to revered in today’s culture, and one group at CSU is seizing the moment

Nerds are the new rock stars.

Or at least they’re treated like rock stars, maintains 21-year-old Samantha Lee Wallace of Columbus, whose boyfriend Matt Ballard is the founder and president of Campus Nerds at Columbus State University.

“People like the underdog because they are enjoyable to watch and nerds are by their very definition the underdogs,” Wallace said.

She added, “They (nerds) aren’t often the beautiful people or the ones with the most social graces, but they are who they are. They don’t hide.”

In Ballard’s company, Wallace has watched Campus Nerds grow from its beginning stages last September to a 100-member club that recently was named CSU’s organization of the year.

Ballard said a growing emphasis on nerd power has changed his social life dramatically. In March, his group hosted the first-ever NerdaCon, a local event that drew 1,300 attendees.

“I never grew up being popular and now my reputation precedes me,” Ballard, 22, said.
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Jun 22 2007 8:00P
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ Spitz LONDON, England
Jun 23 2007 8:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ ELFER MUSIC CLUB Frankfurt, Germany
Jun 24 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ Spasibar Oslo, Norway
Jun 26 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ MICRODISKO - K2 Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 28 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ occii Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jun 29 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ ATAK Enschede, Netherlands
Jun 30 2007 9:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ De Bakkerij Castricum, Netherlands
Jul 14 2007 6:00P
The NERDCORE International TOUR @ OTIS COLLEGE EA the SIMS event FREE ALL AGES SHOW w/ FREE DRINKZ!! Los Angeles, California
Jul 28 2007 9:00A
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ The Classic Gaming Expo Las Vegas, Nevada
Jul 29 2007 10:00A
The NERDCORE International Tour 2007 @ The Classic Gaming Expo Las Vegas, Nevada

From 8 Bit Weapon’s Myspace Page
8 Bit Weapon is Naughtyboy, ComputeHer, and MelBot. 8 Bit Weapon has performed across 2 continents with an arsenal of 8 bit weapons, which include a Commodore 64 and 128, a couple Nintendo Gameboy classics, a Nintendo N.E.S., an Intellivision synthesizer, an Atari 2600, A Speak n Spell & Speak n Music, some hybrid lo-fi acoustic-electric drums, and an assortment of other vintage and toy synthesizers.

Inspired by classic videogame soundtracks and electronic music from the 70s and 80s, 8 Bit Weapon delivers a sound that is as unique as it is original. Clever melodies, nostalgic atmosphere, and energetic beats create a decidedly modern sound while maintaining a fun, lo-tech aesthetic.

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - President Teddy Roosevelt
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I’ve been searching forever to download an mp3 of I want candy by Mc Pee Pants (MC Chris) and I finally found it! Now I’m going to put it on a loop and see how long it takes to make my girlfriend go insane:)
Download Mc Pee Pants I want Candy

Newsweek had a good article about nerdcore hip hop. Surprisingly it focused more on the exploits and story of YTCracker (a man I believe to be at the forefront of the Nerdcore hip hop Genre) than MC Cris and his Bobba fett? bobafet? bobbafette’s? vette ( You can still download it in mp3 form from his mysace page) which will go down in history as the nerdcore anthem.

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Over at HipsterPlease.com is a nice wrap up of the events, and changes which happened to nerdcore hip hop throught 2006.

For better or worse, I came of age during the grunge era. It was a period of great cultural upheaval, a time when popular music in America was undergoing a transformation of sorts, and an era generally devoid of both fashion sense and self-awareness.

When I was 16, I watched Dave Markey’s seminal 1991: The Year Punk Broke at a house party. It was cool, getting to see all that tour footage of Sonic Youth and Nirvana, but the title bothered me. Even with the inclusion of old school punkers The Ramones, the film was hardly about punk rock, a movement that was birthed in earnest at approximately the same time as me.
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Northwest Nerdcore was founded in December 2006 by Nerdcore Hip Hop Artists MC Tanuki & TG_2005.

Our Mission is to promote Nerdcore artists from or in the Pacific Northwest through our podcast, shows, and evil things we dare not speak of, lest a genetically modified monkey try to kidnap our children as payment for unsaid evil deeds.

We have, since inception, managed to hold at least one show a month, with a goal of one show a week. Also covered by us have been shows by Optimus Rhyme, Beefy, The Goondocks, and even MC Frontalot. Harnessing the power of the internet we have managed to offer nerdcore related content when we arent bookin/promoting/performing shows.

Feel free to contact us by leaving a comment with your name and email address, or hit us up on myspace.

Umm, why are you still reading this.

Oh, contact us via our myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nwnerdcore/

You good now? NO CANOLA OIL FOR YOU, now leave me be. I have class in 5 hours.
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