MC Frontalot

As Chuck D of Open public Enemy memorably place it, “Hip-hop may be the CNN from the ghetto.” Although it acts that purpose, hip-hop began being a very much broader genre and finally, after emerging from your wasteland of gangsta, regained component of this potential. Hip-hop could be about anything, as confirmed and embodied by MC Frontalot, a happy nerd who requires the stage in eyeglasses, connect, and pocket protector to rap about webcomics, video games, sites, and picking right up ladies at Celebrity Wars conventions. MC Frontalot was created Damian Hess in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. He was raised in Berkeley where, like a teenage rap wannabe, he secretly four-tracked his personal tunes on tape. While operating like a website design company in 1999, he resurrected his rap hobby by developing a site for MP3s of his homemade music, the beats acknowledged towards the imaginary DJ CPU. Inside a song from the same name he coined the term “nerdcore hip-hop” to spell it out his music about the geeky subject material closest to his center. Other performers like Desire Warriors, MF Doom, and Deltron 3030 experienced explored geek-related styles previously within their music, but by naming it, MC Frontalot managed to get a subgenre of its. Additional nerdcore rappers would later on follow in his footsteps, including MC Lars, Optimus Rhyme, MC Hawking, and YTCracker. Many of his early tunes had been entries in the every week Song Fight! contests at songfight.org, where amateur music artists would write tunes using the same name and listeners would after that vote to discover the best of them. Every time he moved into as MC Frontalot, he earned. In 2002 the popular webcomic Cent Arcade also provided him their press, declaring MC Frontalot to become their standard rapper and offering his popularity a lift. He documented the tune “Cent Arcade Theme” being a tribute to them, which afterwards made an appearance in the gaming In the Groove. After shifting to NY, in which a musical he previously created for Emerald Rainfall Productions called Little Zombies in Like was featured on the International Fringe Celebration in 2004, he documented his initial MC Frontalot record. Nerdcore Rising premiered separately — ascribed to Level Up Information & Tapes — in 2005 on the Cent Arcade Expo. The post-album concerts had been his initial tour, an event captured on film by Negin Farsad. Product sales of CDs and products aswell as guest looks like his part as TP Manufacturing plant Rapper around the Elmo’s Toilet Time DVD allowed Hess to keep his day work behind and concentrate on creating music, including his 2007 recording, Secrets from the near future. Negin Farsad’s documentary Nerdcore Increasing: The Film, which also presented MC Chris, Prince Paul, J-Live, Jello Biafra, and Strange Al Yankovic, premiered in the SXSW event in 2008.