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Nerdcore hip hop could reign supreme! - MC Frontalot, "Nerdcore Hiphop"

Besides Frontalot, other musicians sometimes described as "nerdcore" include:

1. 2 Skinnee J's (especially on their album $upermercado )
2. MC Chmod
3. mc chris
4. MC Hawking
5. MC Paul Barman
6. Lords of the Rhymes
7. Optimus Rhyme
8. MC Oral B

The uniting feature of the genre is that it is hip hop 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. An emerging trend is for artists to focus on one particular topic; the Lords of the Rhymes, for example, confine themselves to the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. Nerdcore is often but not always released over the internet rather than through record labels.

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External links

• "Beware Geeks Bearing Riffs" (Guardian)