Nerdcore Could and Did Rise Up

Last night I went to this nerdcore hip-hop show in Brooklyn. Nerdcore differs from conventional hip-hop in two ways: a) it’s about video games and computers and Star Wars and other nerdy stuff, and b) in place of hip-hop’s traditional boasting/self-aggrandizing rhetoric it substitutes weird self-deprecating/self-loathing rhetoric. It’s funny, but not so funny that it [...]