Nerdcore I

Nerdcore for Life Trailer

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I'm not actually sure what order I should have done today's and tomorrow's posts in, so I asked both of my roommates whether they thought I should go general to specific or specific to general. One said the first choice, and one wouldn't say.

Okay, now that I've got the meta-blogging out of the way, today and tomorrow I'm going to talk about Nerdcore Hiphop, or Geeksta Rap. I have found trailers for not one, but two trailers for completely different, yet oddly similar, documentaries on the subject due out this summer.

I have always self-identified as a nerd, or geek, primarily based on my roots. Sometime not long after it was determined that there might actually be money in this Internet Thingie, it actually became socially acceptable to do so. But perhaps the truest expression of the arrival of the Chic Geek was the rising popularity of our own genres of music.

Nerdcore Hiphop is rap music for nerds. It's just like regular hiphop, but instead of rapping about pimps, ho's and glocks, you rap about otaku, j-girls, and 9-sided dice. As a genre of music it's a relatively recent phenomonon (the term was coined in 2000). Nerdcore for Life is a documentary about the culture growing up around this undrground genre (almost all Nerdcore music is 'Net only - very few CD's have been released) and the artists that perform it. According to a recent article on Canada.com:

Dan Lamoureux, an audio-visual technician in Chicago, was inspired to make the 90-minute film Nerdcore for Life after he and a friend ended up in a nerdcore audience last year "almost as a joke."

"It was the most insane thing you could imagine, it was so bizarre," he says. "We were at a pretty hip Chicago club and the place was filled with nerds! All the fans were nerds, they were doing nerdy dances. It was not a group I've ever seen at a club before."

So far all we have to go on for this film is the trailer (the site does not even mention a release date, unfortunately), but as a Nerdcore fanboy I'll have to see it when it's out (assuming it does - there's a donation page on the site, but see yesterday's post for why I have no money to donate).

Tomorrow I'll be posting about the other Nerdcore doc, and the artist who got me hooked. Stay tuned.