Stumbled into ‘Nerdcore Rising’ on Netflix last night, and it was a really enjoyable little documentary. If you have a little nerd in you, which most of my generation does, you’ll find at least a bit of entertainment in this doc.
It follows M.C. Frontalot, a “Nerdcore” rapper, on his first tour. Nerdcore Hip Hop, if you have never heard of it, is basically the same as regular hip-hop except that the artists rap about well, nerd stuff. Video games, the internet, magic the gathering, etc. You get the idea. Obviously the music is limited in it’s audience, but to the audience it does capture it’s the beginning of something big.
The documentary is more about nerdcore as a whole, but shows the different scales and the attitudes of both the artists and the fans who are involved. Sure, the raps aren’t top 40 material, but it definitely plays right to the nerds who are involved. And the tour (and documentary) ends with M.C. Frontalot performing at a massive video game convention, and his biggest crowd of the tour.
The trailer is linked below, and the full movie is on Netflix Instant. It’s 1 hour 20 minutes long, and full of quirky characters and nerdness galore.
