Nerdcore Manifest Destiny
When Bryce Case, Jr. aka YT Cracker called the GETV team to say he was in San Francisco to record an album with MC Lars, Irina had an idea. “Let’s make a rap video!” she said to the two pillars of nerdcore, who emailed her a song immediately. A few days later, Irina and producer Nick the Dude rudely interrupted the musicians, threw them in a car and drove to the mission, where they filmed a video to go along with “Manifest Destiny.” Here is what Bryce wrote about the song:
“Manifest Destiny” is a song loosely about humans’ need to conquer and assimilate by metaphorically alluding to the eponymous period in the American Old West. Chiefly, human nature hasn’t changed, and the attitude of manifest destiny strongly relates to the modern day, specifically the Internet. In people selfishly following their own interests, naturally good and bad consequences arise. The Rondo Brothers produced the beat for us one night and the next day when we went back to their studio, Brandon played the instrumental and immediately thought manifest destiny would be a great topic for asong. Lars and I wrote the lyrics on the spot and a hit song was born.
Episode links: YTCracker, MC Lars, digital gangster, The Way of the West (footage), user Stomp (crowd sounds)
MC Frontalot is the Nerdcorest
MC Frontalot, pioneer in the realm of the lyrically nerdcore, sits down with Irina to share some thoughts on life, movies and music.
Episode links: MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising, Doctor Popular, ytcracker
Nerdcore in Vegas – Part 2
Here’s the second part of our nerdcore series from Vegas during CES 2007. In this one we’ve got some throw downs from YTCracker, Doc Popular, MC Plus+ and Monzy. Nerdcore has taken over Las Vegas, your town is next.
Episode links: YTCracker. Doc Popular, MC Plus+, Monzy, DivX Stage6
Nerdcore Brings It To Vegas
A major highlight of CES for the GETV crew was getting immersed in nerdcore life. Nerdcore hiphop is a global phenomenon that showed Las Vegas that it’s for real and not to be trifled with. Two big shows of nerdtastic artistry went down that week. An epic night at the Beauty Bar and again two nights later at the DivX Stage6 stage at CES. In this first of two episodes, we highlight four of nerdcore’s hardest.
Episode links: Nerdcore hip hop, Nursehella, ultraklystron, ZeaLouS1, MCeeP, DivX Stage6
Xmas Special Music Video
After seeing Justin Timberlake’s brilliant gift idea on SNL last week, MC Slutsky didn’t want to leave the fella’s out in the cold. So, despite a horrific tone deafness, here is her rendition of this very special Christmas song. The track was laid down by Drown Radio aka Doc, a San Francisco electronic music artist and Nerdcore MC, who also directed the video for MC Slutsky’s musical debut. Look out for more collaborations from these two, a la Timbaland/Missy. Additional presents provided by Molly Ditmore. And all the fancy gadgets are belong to Ryan Block. Big ups to Jay Dedman for the camera & editing work on this one.
Episode links: SNL: A Special Christmas Box, Drown Radio, Nerdcore, Molly Ditmore, Ryan Block, Jay Dedman, Step-by-step Instructions, digg it!