lemming's Journal: Nerdcore hip-hop

Wait, what? It's a whole genre of music that's just nerds rapping, and typically poorly at that.

One of the leading artists, MC Frontalot, actually has some talent. I just peeped over to his website, and lo and behold, he's got a few new tracks up. There's one that I think everyone (especially AG -- he got a bonus email notification) needs to listen to, called Rhyme of the Nibelung.

Get your musical hookups here.

Another artist, MC Chris, has a funny skit about Kingdom Hearts II versus Resident Evil 4.
It's probably not very funny if you haven't played Kingdom Hearts, via VGCats.

Re:

[lemming]

Both "hip-hop" and "rap" are used plenty -- the important part is "nerdcore", coined by Front himself.

If you want to know the difference between rap and hip-hop, good fucking luck. The two dominant opinions are:

First, hip-hop is a lifestyle, and rap is just one part of it.
Second, hip-hop is a particular style of rap.

So we have A is a member of B versus B is a member of A. Whatfuckingever.

Here's a final point: iTMS lists the genre as "Hip-Hop/Rap".

Re:That's not at all the point I was trying to mak

[lemming]

My bad, in two ways:

First, I scanned your post as correcting me when I first read it, incorrectly on my part.

Second, I meant to use harsh language, but I use thereof was very poor, making exactly what I was harshing on unclear.

Allow me to explain -- when someone corrects me online, my response is to first go and do my research. I spent a while looking around online, reading plenty of articles on the "rap vs. hip-hop" debate. I learned enough to know that a) many people take this seriously and b) they're a